MUSTAFA ASSAQQAF (engineer)

 167 JAMESTOWN CRESCENT, TORONTO, ONTARIO M9V 3M7, CANADA

Tel: 001 (416) 743 2105, fax: 001 (661) 999 7789

mustafa.assaqqaf@gmail.com

Alternative site: http://electrosite.wordpress.com

1. General Certificate of Education, 1974, University of London
2. Advanced course in telecommunication and electronic systems, 1978, AEG-Telefunken, Germany
3. B.Sc. degree, 1979, grade “VERY GOOD”, University of Tripoli

Project management engineer: 2001 – date: 

Self-employed, occupied in managing medium to large projects, applying Primavera Suretrak sofware. 

Special Systems Engineer: 1995 – 2001 

Electric House Est., (largest electrical supplier in Saudi Arabia):

designed, advocated and delivered low current systems to the oil and gas industry as follows:

• Supplied up to 850 KVA power factor correction equipment to industrial plants
• Supplied ozone detection and carbon dioxide sensing systems to food plants
• Replaced the conventional fire alarm system. 2240 devices, of the largest refinery in Saudi Arabia, with a cutting edge-technology addressable system, aided by a transitional addressable wireless RF fire alarm system.
• Installed and commissioned a modern addressable fire alarm system at the new airport of Aden, Yemen.
• Supplied all the electrical and electronic commodities for a World-Bank aided hospital in Hadhramaut (South Yemen)

Special Systems Engineer: 1990 – 1995:  

SBG Construction Group, largest construction firm in Saudi Arabia:

Duties were: design, procurement and installation of the below systems at an underground parking facility of 4600 cars capacity, armed by a crew of 283 work force:

• Telecommunication system (Norstar, Canada)
• Car Parking Control system at 22 parking lots, each lot 185 cars capacity (Federal APD, U.S.A.)
• Public address system, 2800 speakers (Altec Lansing and JBL, U.S.A.)
• Fire alarm system, 1700 devices (Notifier, U.S.A.)
• Facility management system, 9200 sensors (Landis and Gyr, Switzerland)
• Carbon monoxide detection system, 560 sensors, reporting to 37 control panels (IGD, UK)
• CCTV system, 207 cameras (Thomson-Surveillance, France)

Project Manager, delegated by the ITU (the International Telecommunication Union, Geneva): 1979 – 1989:

42 million project (the national and international microwave and TV network of South Yemen, deployed over 41 sites)

Handled all phases of design, project management and installation in the following order:

• feasibility and design studies under ITU experts at the ITU quarters in Geneva, Athens and Oslo (achieved the widest coverage within the budget, applying analog and digital RF systems in the 2 GHz, 6 GHz, and 13 GHz bands)
• Field verification and revision of the design, aided by helicopter surveys and topographic maps
• Analysis of bids and award of contracts to 13 bidders, each in his discipline
• Management of the project logistics including lifting material exclusively by helicopters to 23 solar powered mountain-top sites
• Commissioning of the national/international networks to ITU and EBU standards
• Creation of  four maintenance centres and training of 11 engineers/technicians to operate and maintain the networks
• Establishment of the first international exchange in Aden (C.G.C.T. France)

Other skills, plus academic and professional documents

• High I.T. skills, Primavera Project Management and Planning Software, and HP40GS graphing handheld computer
• Impeccable command of English and Arabic

To view the academic certificates (13 pages), please click on this link Academic Certificates of Mustafa Assaqqaf

To view the professional testimonials from Norway, the UK, the U.S.A., Germany, etc. (12 pages), please click on this link Experience Certificates of Mustafa Assaqqaf

To view any of the five research and experience essays submitted by by Mustafa Assaqqaf to the Engineering Requirements Committee of the “Professional Engineers Ontario” please click on any of the following links:

Paper-1 : Resolving telephone traffic congestion between two telephone exchanges

Paper-2 : A wideband telephone and TV 2-GHz analog microwave link over the unprecedented direct distance of 160km

Paper-3 : Design and implementation of a carbon monoxide sensing system within a very large underground parking facility of 4500 cars capacity (560 sensors, reporting to 37 control panels )

Paper-4 : Replacement of the analog fire alarm system of a large oil refinery by a modern digital system (2240 devices)

Paper-5 : Installation of ozone and carbon dioxide gas sensing systems at a large food plant