“Afzal is a capable individual with strong technical skills in Networking, System Administration and communication. Not only does Afzal accomplish his tasks on time, he works great with other team members and often takes a lead in presenting difficult topics with ease to all levels of an organization. Afzal is an intelligent individual with strong interests in continuous learning an self development.”
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I am passionate about creating innovative solutions that solve real-world problems and…
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I love reading student reviews from my courses. These are my daily rewards.
I love reading student reviews from my courses. These are my daily rewards.
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At the age of 15, my father gave me a harsh lesson that changed my life. Up until 8th grade, every day, from 6 to 9 pm, it was study time with…
At the age of 15, my father gave me a harsh lesson that changed my life. Up until 8th grade, every day, from 6 to 9 pm, it was study time with…
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Seema lost her job a year ago. Constant rejections, wrestling with stress, and parenting two girls—a whirlwind of challenges. My first assessment:…
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Education
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CodePath
iOS Bootcamp
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Activities and Societies: Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant, KUCIC - Graduate Chair, ITTC, KUCR
IEEE and ITC publications
Masters Dissertation title - "Comparison of Noncoherent Detectors for GMSK and SOQPSK in Phase Noise Channels"
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Activities and Societies: As chair for the IEEE student chapter organized annual inter-university engineering expos.
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Certified Product Manager
Pragmatic Marketing
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Volunteer Experience
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Volunteer
Breakthrough Silicon Valley
- Present 9 years 4 months
Education
Breakthrough Silicon Valley launches high potential, underserved middle school students on the path to college and inspires high school and college students to pursue careers in education.
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Youth leadership coordinator
Toastmasters International
- 1 year 1 month
Education
The Youth Leadership Program is a workshop consisting of eight one- to two-hour sessions that enable participants to develop communication and leadership skills through practical experience. The program is presented during or after school, or on weekends. Participants learn to:
Evaluate present speaking ability
Organize and give speeches
Give impromptu talks
Control voice, vocabulary and gestures
Give constructive feedback and more
Publications
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Coreloop - Neighborhood Shopping Application
Techcrucn SF Disrupt Hackathon 2014
See publicationI formed a team over the weekend and developed a neighborhood shopping mobile application: Coreloop @ Techcrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon 2014.
The idea is to tap into neighborhood local shoppers who are currently shopping at your favorite merchant store and request them do the shopping for you and deliver it to your house.
Hack-a-thon Team:
Myself - SAP - Contributed to the Idea, backend API Integration and andriod UI
Afzal Syed - SAP - Contributed backend API…I formed a team over the weekend and developed a neighborhood shopping mobile application: Coreloop @ Techcrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon 2014.
The idea is to tap into neighborhood local shoppers who are currently shopping at your favorite merchant store and request them do the shopping for you and deliver it to your house.
Hack-a-thon Team:
Myself - SAP - Contributed to the Idea, backend API Integration and andriod UI
Afzal Syed - SAP - Contributed backend API Integration
Prakash Joshi - Twitter - Contributed to android UI
Takashi Isibashi - Yahoo, Japan - Contributed backend API Integration.
We used the following sponsor API to demo our application @ the hackathon:
Clover (Cloud POS API)
EverNote (Note Storage in the Cloud)
Sinch (Provides APP-to-APP Messaging)
Weather Underground (Cloud Weather API)
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http://techcrunch.com/video/coreloop-presents-at-disrupt-hackathon/518403980/
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Comparison of Noncoherent detectors for GMSK and SOQPSK in Phase Noise Channels
International Telemetry Conference
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Effects of AntennaMaterial on the Performance of UHF RFID Tags
IEEE International Conference on RFID
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Courses
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Codepath iOS Bootcamp (https://codepath.com/iosbootcamp)
March 2015
Languages
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English
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Hindi
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