Ing. Aafaq Azhar

HW-SW and HW-HW Integration Testing for High Power Inverters Development of the test setup for the functional block testing of power electronic circuits and their optimization Parametric testing of control unit functional blocks as over-voltage protection. Parametric testing of Power modules as IGBT functions, over current protection, flyback testing. Analysis of the Return Parts from customer due to failed testing standards. Development of an automated test setup using LabVIEW and NI Test Stand.

Development of a single phase full bridge for high switching currents with Optimization of the leakage inductance and characterization of parasitic capacitances  Optimization and design of the PCB for the full bridge on the low voltage side for high switching currents using Altium Designer  Reducing the switching loss during hard turn off stray inductance of switching cell also considering the thermal resistance of the switches

Test Bench Automation and Development of Test Cases for Power Electronic Circuits • Test Bench Automation for the testing of power electronic circuits using ECU-Testing Tool, CANoe and CANape Environment • Automated Test Engineering of Validation and robustness, Software Release Tests LV123 and LV124 standardized Test cases using Python language • Dynamic linking of the Post Processing Script using MATLAB and C# for the automated generation of plots and the reports

Applications of Power Electronics (Automation of Equipments) • LabVIEW hardware integration with the Digital Power Supplies and other third party tools as RS232 Serial Communication and Ethernet (TCP/IP) using Instrument Driver Network (IDNet) • Integrating the Programmable Power Supplies and signal generators using LabVIEW and National Instruments Test Stand • VISA API control for the reading and writing strings in serial communication

Renting the Power Products of Caterpillar (Engines and Gensets) under the platform of Allied Rental Modaraba (Managed by : Allied Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd.) to various industrial, commercial and techno-commercial sectors. Operating the automatic transfer systems for the automatic changing of supply mains from Inverters and Generators Operating the electrical characteristics of generators for industrial level

Worked under Senior Engineer Planning, GIS and ERP in Planning Department of PTCL H9 Sector Islamabad with responsibilities of Planning on Arc Geographical Information System for the development of PTCL introducing new Distribution Cabinets, MSAGs (Multi-Access Service Gateways) and most importantly FTTH/B/C (Fiber to the Home/Building/Curb) for installing new Gigabyte Passive Optical Networks and Ethernet Passive Optical Networks.

Worked as a Business Consultant in the Division of Point of Sales Acquiring Solutions in Everlink Payment Services with the tasks of reading and analyzing the financial and processing statements of the successful merchants in Canada . Also worked in the infrastructure development of their company in the IT sector including planning, documenting and testing and has given them good marketing strategies to increase their annual growth.

Worked as Management Trainee in their 225 MW IPP for the improvement of Power Factor and worked on Efficient Power Systems and Distributed Control Systems.

Operation and Maintenance of Common Auxiliaries, Analysis of signals on Control Software, Automatic Sensors for controlling of various textile machines.

Power Electronic Applications in Drive Systems, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, EMC in Power Installations, Control Engineering, Switching Technologies and Industrial Applications, Generators and Large drives, International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Energy Systems

Projects: MATLAB Simulation Based Impulse Testing of Distribution Transformers 1) Modeling of Five Stage Impulse Generator in Simulink MATLAB 2) Design of High Frequency Model of Distribution Transformer in Simulink GSM Based Security System using Proximity Sensors