Mini Thomas
PO Box 2713, Qatar University
Doha, Qatar
Home+974 447-5989
Work +974-598-9851
mthomas@qu.edu.qa
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Experienced professional lecturer with over 16 years of diverse background as
Lecturer, Project coordinator and Teaching Assistant. Proven ability to conduct
lectures. Visiting faculty member of several technical colleges in Bombay, India.
Excellent in maintaining public relations with exceptional interpersonal and
communication skills.
CAREER HISTORY
University of Qatar, Qatar
Teaching Assistant, June 2003 - Present
Teaching:
 Assisted in several courses like Electric Circuits I & II, Electronics I & II, Signal &
Systems, Communication Engineering, Computer Programming, Object Oriented
Programming, Digital Systems, Selected Topics in Electronics, Selected Topics in
Communication, Wireless Engineering.
 Conducting Laboratories and Tutorials for the above mentioned courses.
 Development of customized Lab Manual for the Department for several courses such as
Electric Circuits I & II, Electronics I&II, Communication I, Digital Communication and
Selected Topics in Communication.
 Correcting Homework’s, Quizzes and Lab Reports.
 Helping the final year student’s in their Research Projects.
 Working as Research Assistant for the Research Projects of the Department
Committees:
 Representing the Schedule Committee from the Electrical Engineering Department.
 A member of the IEEE committee for the college of Engineering.
 Representing the Book Requisition committee from the Electrical Engineering
Department.
 An active member of the Lab and Facilities Committee for the Electrical Engineering
Department
 Helping the ABET committee for the accreditation of Electrical Engineering Program
Bin Omran Trading &Telecommunications, Qatar
Project Coordinator, February 2001 - May 2003 (part-time)
 Evaluating proposals, tenders and providing competive bids.
 Estimating costing, quote and report preparation
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 Development of product portfolio with all the features highlighted to reduce man-hours
for bid evaluation.
 Engineered design and trade off studies, supported base level contracting with technical
information.
Shah & Anchor Engineering College, Mumbai, India
Lecturer, August 1992 - December 2000
 Conducting lectures in over twenty courses some of which are Basic Electronics,
Integrated Electronics, System Design, Digital Communication and Digital Signal
Processing.
 Developing and improvising the Electronics, Digital and Communication laboratories.
 Conducted seminars and slide shows in various recent issues related to electronics and
communication.
 Received outstanding evaluations from superiors.
 Improved the method of teaching by emphasizing experimental learning, interactive
lectures and field trips.
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
M.Tech. Power Electronics, Aug. 2001, GPA: 8.04.
Thesis: Development, implementation, testing and programming a "Real Time
Management System" using DSP chip TMS320C51.Programmed further to incorporate
features like preemptive scheduling and nested context switching.
Mini Project I: A 32-channel DAS (data acquisition system) board designed and
interfaced with the DSP kit for real time calculations and analysis.
Mini Project II: Programming the digital signal processor for control and calculation of
variables and parameters related to a substation, contributing to the substation
automation.
PVPIT, Sangli, India
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics, Jan. 1992, First Class with honors’
Completed Four year Bachelor of Engineering program with Elective courses such as
Power Electronics, Electronic System Design, Electronic Instrumentation, Microwave
Engineering, Electronics Measurement, Optical Communication and Advanced
Microprocessors
Final year Project:.
Design, procurement and assembly of the motherboard for a Distributed Process Control
System for PID control
Training/Software
Certification: Level 1 Training in Digital Systems from BARC,India
Software/Packages: C, C++, Java, Matlab, Labview
Languages: Qualified the ibt TOEFL with a score of 103/120
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