Rizwan Mumtaz

Member of the Middle Management Team leading cross-functional, multi-site team of engineers, product managers, and specialists to develop IT and automation systems for intensive livestock husbandry sector. Project Manager for Optima Project for the development of Fancom One – the new state-of-the-art smart farm ecosystem for intensive livestock husbandry sector and other industrial farming applications. Responsible for Innovation Portfolio Planning, Product roadmaps, Reporting, and Stakeholder management.

Leading design, development and delivery of software and management solutions leveraging Sopheon’s Accolade for large enterprises in areas of Project, Product, Program and Portfolio management and Roadmapping Delivering Projects to a clientele in a variety of industries such as chemical, consumer goods, home appliances, automobile and high-tech Offering consultancy in deploying best practices in Innovation and governance to enable improved time-to-market for new product introductions and strategic planning

Providing innovation and business consulting expertise to customers in aligning company-wide processes and bring innovation under the focus. Help large-scale enterprises deploy tailor made project management, product development, product management, roadmapping and strategic initiative development processes to compete effectively in challenging/changing markets. Requirement gathering, analysis, Project planning, stakeholder management, project execution, monitoring and control.

Developed embedded machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions for Coldchain and Automotive industry. Worked as a Product owner following complete Product Development Life Cycle. Developed C++ code to provide support on Orbcomm product line for automotive protocols and standards e.g, CAN, LIN, J1939, CANopen. Coordinated firmware development by leading scrum meetings and reporting on progress. . Participated in meeting with clients, Requirement gathering, Requirement analysis and documenting specifications.

Developing software solutions for physicians and doctors to analyze and treat patients with dysphagia and several communication disorders. I have also worked with speech, audio and video processing and developed software solutions for electrical and optical palatography, surface electromyography and the integration of these different techniques to produce useful software solutions for clinical purposes.

Worked as Research Assistant/programmer in Embedded Systems Group with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) team. Responsibilities included implementation and testing of new routing protocols for WSN.

Worked at Microcontroller and Microprocessor Lab to implement modules for home security solutions and surveillance systems. Also assisted in teaching and research activities.

Worked as Research Assistant in Digital Signal and Image Processing lab. The job role included writing algorithms and their implementation for medical imaging industry. Also worked as teaching assistant in conducting labs for Microprocessor based systems. Member of the group responsible for establishing Brain Computer Interface laboratory at COMSATS Institute.

DSP Design and Methodologies, Embedded systems, Saftey and reliability of Embedded Systems, Signal and Systems, Real Time OS, Machine learning, Massively Distributed Systems, Mobile communication, Mobile Multimedia, Cognitive Radios, Adhoc Networks, Computational Complexity, Mathematical Logic

Electrical circuits, Electronics, OOP, Data Structures, OS, Data Communication, Software Engineering, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Probability and Statistics, AI, Microprocessor Based Systems, Digital Signal and Image Processing, Communication Systems, Information Theory.