INDUSTRIAL / MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

NAJEEB SYED

2921 Fernor Street
Apt # B4
Allentown, PA 18103.
Tel: 610-709-8973 (evening)
610-712-6772 (day)

E - Mail: n_syed@excite.com

OBJECTIVE
To obtain a growth oriented and a challenging position utilizing my expertise in the field of Industrial and/or Manufacturing Engineering.

EDUCATION
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ.
Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering.
Date of Graduation: May 1997. G.P.A - 3.95

N.E.D. University of Engineering & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering,
Pakistan’s highest rated Technological University.
[Fifth merit position securing 82% marks in final year]
Date of Graduation : December 1995.

MAJOR COURSES
Computer Aided Design.
Cost Estimation for Capital Projects.
Analytical Engineering Statistics.
Manufacturing Engineering Systems.
Facilities Location and Plant Layout.
Facilities Maintenance.
Queuing Approach To Performance and Evaluation.
C++ Programming and Data Structures.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Operating Systems DOS, Windows, Sun OS, UNIX.

Platforms PC, SunSparc, Solaris.

Programming Languages Basic, FORTRAN, C, C++.

Engineering Packages AUTO-CAD, Pro/ENGINEER, MATLAB.

Software Knowledge MS-Office including MS-Access, Business Objects, linear programming software LINDO, plant layout software CRAFT.

PROJECTS
B.S. Project

Mechanical Design of Computer Numerical Control machine with a traveling column & no traversing table. The project also included study of C.N.C controls and the selection of appropriate controls used in industry.

Facility Location and Plant Layout Project

Design of a Facility with a forecasted demand of step stools. The project included establishing of flow lines with existing machinery which optimizes their utilization. It also included Layout Design in a new building.

Analytical Engineering Statistics Project

Statistical Analysis to find out any significant difference between the prices of major food chain stores. It involved field surveys to collect pricing data from the stores and the analysis of this data using statistical software.

Computer Aided Design Project

A solid model of a "Water Faucet" was made using Pro/ENGINEER.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Lucent Technologies,Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Providing Industrial Engineering support to the Manufacturing facilities in Lucent's Microelectronics Group. Some of the Projects I have been involved in are as follows.

Involved in Cycle Time reduction Project with an AREA I.E. team, employing I.E. tools like, better facility layout, new lot scheduling techniques, better resource allocation.
also involved in doing time studies on various equipment, the data thus collected will populate a new database called MEDB (Manufacturing Engineering Database).
doing capacity analysis for business cases, for planning wafer starts scenarios, and also capacity planning for different areas of manufacturing.
completing and implementing a new visual WIP Management Tool for a problematic area.
starting to work on a simulation model for a wafer fab, which will help in planning, analysis and evaluation of various scenarios of tool capacity, workforce requirements, dispatching rules, wafer starts, lot sizing, among other things.

DEC. 1998- PRESENT

TEFEN USA,Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Tefen is a Industrial Engineering and System Analysis Consultant Company. The consulting Projects I have worked are listed below;

SEPT. 1997 - PRESENT

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Machine Study of various tools used in Wafer Production. Making Speed, Capacity, and Availability Models. Creating an interface for a Database and also helping in gap analysis and improvement of this Database.

LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, Orlando, Florida.
Machine Study of various tools used in Wafer Production. Made Speed, Capacity, and Availability Models.

ANADIGICS, Warren, New Jersey.
Worked with group of Engineers doing a Multi Observation Study (MOS) in the Test Area.

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey.
Worked as a teaching assistant in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department and conducting research on Robotic Palletization and developing relationships between the variables involved in Palletization.

SEPT. 1996 - MAY 1997

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey.
Also worked as graduate assistant in Counseling Center and involved in writing C++ programs, creating MS EXCEL worksheets and developing a MS ACCESS database.

SEPT. 1996 - MAY 1997

Selling Precision Inc., West Milford, New Jersey.
Worked on a project that included Time Study. Results of this time study and MTM Standards were used to create Cost Estimation Formulas. These formulas are being used to prepare Quotes.

SUMMER’96

Metex Corporation, Edison, New Jersey .
Worked on a project that included computerized flow analysis. This analysis was used to create a relational department layout using CRAFT software. This relative layout was then adapted to the actual building dimensions.

SUMMER’96

Membrex, Fairfield, New Jersey.
Worked on a project that included workflow Analysis and removal of bottlenecks. The results of this analysis were used to create Process Sheets and a Production Schedule was made optimizing time and manpower utilization.

SUMMER’96

STRENGTHS
Excellent teamwork Capability, Good Communication Skills, Strong Analytical Skills, Problem Analysis and Solving Abilities.

ACTIVITIES &INTERESTS
Member of Pakistan Student Association (NJIT).
Member of Academic and Social Circle N.E.D. Organized debates , concerts.
Playing cricket, hockey, table tennis, badminton, reading books, listening to music, traveling.
References shall be furnished upon request.