CV

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

January 2010

 

General Profile An able academic with a strong industrial and managerial experience of around 23 years.  Lectured extensively in the areas of instrumentation and process control.  Leading worldwide authority in the area of vertical transportation systems (lifts and escalators) with 36 published papers and three patents.  Delivered many courses in the areas of vertical transportation systems and instrumentation and process control.  Extensive research in the area of instrumentation especially LVDT.  Proven track record of running an engineering consultancy business for 7 years.

 Education

Oct. 1992	Control Systems Centre/ UMIST/ Manchester.  Ph.D. degree in the applications and use of simulation and neural networks in vertical transportation systems.  Title of thesis:  “Predictive Methods in Lift Traffic Analysis”.
October 1990	Control Systems Centre/ UMIST/ Manchester.  M.Sc. degree by research in “Remote Lift Monitoring” (Design of a real time control system based on 8086 microprocessor system using C++ and Assembler for Remote Lift Monitoring).
1988-1989	Study of 8 M.Sc. modules in Communication Systems, Jordan University, Amman Jordan (Advanced Engineering Analysis, Communication Signals and Systems, Random Theory, Data Transmission, Digital Signal Processing, Communication Transmission Systems, Statistical Communication Theory, Computer System Architecture).
June 1987	Jordan University, Amman / Jordan.  B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, with Communication System specialisation (Grade:  Very good 78%).  Graduation project involved the design and testing of a digital speed controller for an induction motor.
1998 - 1999	Post-Graduate Certificate in Data Communications, Brunel University
Oct. 1995	Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (D.B.A.) at the University of Westminster/ London.

 

Employment

Sep 2006 – Date	Assistant Professor, Head of Mechatronics Engineering Department, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan a) Delivered various courses in the area of instrumentation and process control, mechatronics system design and drives. b) Supervised various graduation projects in the area of instrumentation and process control as well as mechatronics and robotics. c) Research in the area of instrumentation especially transducers (extensive research in the area of linear variable differential transformers). d) Full responsibility for establishing and running the department, heading a team of lecturers and engineers. e) Department comprises around 650 undergraduate students.
Nov 2002 –  Sep 2006	Director, Al-Sharif Vertical Transportation Consultancy Limited. Running a Consultancy Business, providing consultancy services to clients in the railway and building industries in the United Kingdom, U.S.A., Germany, Denmark and India.  Projects include: ·         Oberoi Garden City, 50 storey residential Tower, Mumbai, India. ·         Oberoi Commerical 2 South Tower, high rise office Tower, Mumbai India. ·         Jordan Gate (Twin tower building Amman, Jordan) ·         Tower 1B, Abdali Amman, Jordan (50 storeys). ·         Kuwait Business City (50 storey office tower). ·         Moscow Federation Tower, 88 storey building using Twin lifts (two lifts in the same shaft), Moscow. ·         Burj Dubai, plots 37 and 38 Residential (55 Storeys):  Concept to Detailed Design. ·         Worli Tower, Mumbai, India (55 storey residential tower) ·         West India Quay, London, 35 Storey building including hotel and residential.  1 Harstmere Road, London, UK. ·         Larnaka Airport:  Concept and detailed design. ·         Copenhagen Concert Hall:  Pedestrian Flow Analysis. ·      Lift energy Consumption Modelling and Simulation for a Major U.S. lift company. ·      Escalator Braking Management System for Tyne & Wear Metro, Newcastle, UK. ·      Lift and Escalator Category 1 Standards for London Underground. ·      Home Office New Accommodation in Marsham Street, London, UK. ·      New York Metro Station Facility sizing analysis, New York Subway, U.S.A.
Sep 2001 – Oct 2002	Associate Director, Buildings Transportation, WSP Group. Vertical Transportation consultant, covering areas of traffic analysis, pedestrian circulation analysis, specification and tender documentation preparation and controller design.  Projects to date: ·         Busan Tower, Korea (120 storey tower). ·         New Arsenal Stadium, London, UK. ·         Craven Cottage Development, Fulham, London, UK. ·         Thameslink 2000 St. Pancras Underground Station, London, UK. ·         New Centre for Auditory Research, UCL, London, UK. ·         National Space Centre, Leicester, UK. ·         New Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Gogarburn, Scotland, UK. ·         Shires Shopping Centre (Due diligence survey), Leicester, UK. ·         Heathrow, Terminal 5 CIP Lounge lifts traffic analysis for BA. ·         Incident investigation for Tyne & Wear Metro, Newcastle, UK. ·         Queen Mary School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK ·         Electrical Controller design for Tottenham Court Road, London Underground, London, UK.
July 1998 – Aug 2001	Delivery Manager (Lifts & Escalators/ Electromechanical), Stations, London Underground. Heading a business unit of 60 engineers and administrators in the Station Systems Consultancy, who prepare specifications and manage replacement and refurbishment project on London Underground stations.  The section turnover £1,500,000 in professional fees.  Responsibilities included: ·      Full accountability for the running of business unit, including human resource and workload planning, training, licensing, health and safety and customer relations. ·      Carrying out feasibility studies, and business case analysis. ·      Ensuring compliance with British and European standards and HMRI requirements. ·      Achieving ISO 9001 compliance for the Lift & Escalator section.
June 1998 - June 1999	Senior Station Modeller, London Underground Ltd.:  Senior modeller for the Whole Life Asset (WLAP) Plans for stations.  This involved heading a team of spreadsheet modellers, building spreadsheet models for station assets in five areas:  Station Premises, Lifts and Escalators, M&E, Fire systems and Communication systems.  The work culminated in developing Whole Life Asset Plans for the five asset areas which went into the PPP data room for the bidders to use for the privatisation process.
June 1995- May 1998	Team Leader (Lift & Electrical Projects), London Underground Ltd.:  Heading a team of 5 engineers, who solve technical problems, write specifications and provide technical support to refurbishment and replacement projects for lifts and escalators.  Responsibility for setting targets, appraising performance, recruitment and resourcing the team.
Nov 1992-June 1995	Senior Electrical Engineer (Lifts & Escalators) in the Chief Engineer’s Department, London Underground Ltd.
Oct 1989-Oct 1992	C++ Real Time Software Programmer, Intelev Ltd., Bolton, U.K.
Jun 1985 - Sept 1989	Electronic design engineer and Head of Electrical Department, at the Jordan Lift & Crane Manufacturing, Madaba, Jordan.

 

Training courses given

Prepared the material and presented a number of training courses:

• Three day Introduction to Vertical Transportation Systems, Mauritius, 20^th to 22^nd May 2009.
• Five day course entitled “Practical Process Control for Engineers & Technicians”, 11^th to 15^th January 2009, Dubai, UAE.
• Two day escalator training course, London, United Kingdom, 17^th, 18^th, May 2005.
• Two day escalator training course, London, United Kingdom, 13^th, 14^th April 2005.
• One Day Elevate Training Course, Hong Kong 14^th October 2004.
• One day tutorial on vertical transportation systems, Hong Kong, 11^th October 2004.

 

Publications and Research

Author of electronic material for Measurements & Transducers course.

Author of textbook on variable speed drives in elevator systems for an MSc distance learning course.

Author of 36 technical papers in the areas of variable speed drives, real time control systems, electrical safety systems and risk assessment, energy consumption, elevator traffic analysis and intelligent braking systems [most of which have been translated from English into German, Italian and Chinese].

Author of three sections in the second and third editions of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Guide D on Vertical Transportation Systems, United Kindgom.

Developed a method for modelling DC motors from in-situ measurements

Developed the ISP method for predicting lift passenger traffic from calls registered.

Developed quantitative tools for measuring bunching in lift systems.

 

Committees and Standards

Member of European escalator standard (EN115) electrical risk assessment committee.

Member of panel redrafting Safe Working on Escalators standard (BS 7801).

Member of the British Standards Institution subcommittee on mechanical handling equipment, MHE4/3/2

Former Vice Chairman of the CIBSE lift group.

Member of the Executive Team of the Building Electrical Technology Professional Network of the IET (formerly IEE).

Corporate Member of the IET and Chartered Electrical Engineer.

External examiner for a Ph.D. viva at Brunel University, London, United Kingdom, January 1998.

 

Invited Speeches and Lectures

Invited lecturer at University of Northampton, “Passenger Behaviour, Accidents & Design”, United Kingdom, 28^th January 2005.

Invited keynote speaker at the first and second international conference on building electrical technology (Hong Kong 2004, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2006).

Invited speaker by the A/E Business Council on the topic of Vertical Transportation Systems, Amman, Jordan, 24^th March 2008.

 

AREAS OF TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

·      Practical experience in the use of the G5/4 standard in assessing drive compliance with harmonic distortion requirements especially in railway environments.

·      Analogue system design of lift variable speed controllers.  Digital system design using TTL and CMOS for industrial applications.  Microprocessor based system development, using in-line and source code debugging tools (8085, 8086, 8051, and 6809) for real time applications such as lift remote monitoring.

·      Sizing and selection of lift and escalator motors.

·      Traffic calculations for lifts and escalators in buildings.

·      Statutory inspections for lifts and escalators.

·      The use of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) in preventative maintenance management.

·      Design of a variable voltage speed controller (AC phase controller design):  design still used today on more than 400 installations.

·      AC and DC motor modelling and testing (testing of motors for railway applications).

·      Development and delivery of training courses in the areas of lifts, escalator and maintenance.  Courses delivered in London and Hong Kong.

 

AREAS OF MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE

·      Developing an organisational structure and resourcing it by recruitment for a medium size business unit.

·      Business case analysis for projects and the ability to use the cost-benefit analysis methodology for public sector projects.

·      Internal verifier (D34) of an NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) centre for a maintenance unit within London Underground.

·      Development of a licensing system to demonstrate the on-going competence of consultant engineers.

 

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

Technical	Tested and evaluated the first ever intelligent braking systems (hydraulic and electrically based) for London Underground, UK.
	Developed the first and only generalised theory on Escalator Energy consumption, with full theoretical background, calculations and examples
	Conceived and developed the first ever Elevator Energy Consumption Model (Simulation and Analysis)
	Co-inventor of three patents of energy system products for elevator systems
	Designed and implemented a close loop DC field control system for escalators on the Central Line at London Underground to overcome the effect of the new regenerative rolling stock (system still in operation today).
	Design of vertical transportation systems for an 88 floor tower in Moscow and a 60 storey tower in Kuwait.
Managerial	Implemented ISO9001 quality system for a medium size consultancy business
	Conceived and implemented an asset management model for the M&E assets to allow privatisation of London Underground (used in the Data Due Diligence process in the privatisation of the engineering department).
	Established an engineering business consultancy and ran it for 3.5 years, with growth rates of around 50% per annum.
Academic	Developed and expanded the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Jordan as Head of Department.

 

Languages

 Fluency in Arabic & English.  Good command of French. Basic German.

PUBLISHED PAPERS (in chronological order)

 

[1] “Electrical Noise Control Techniques in Elevator Controllers”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevator Technology 3, Proceedings of the International Conference on Elevator Technology (Elevcon ’90), Rome, Italy, March 1990.

[2] “Applications of artificial intelligence in lift systems”, [in English & Italian], L. R. Al-Sharif, Elevatori, March/April 1990, page 45-49.

[3] “Memory Requirements in the Design of Remote Lift Monitoring Outstations”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, interlift ’91, Proceedings of the International Convention for Elevator Technology, 23-24 September 1991, Munich, Germany.

                Reprinted in:  Lift Report [in English & German], November/December 1991.

[4] “New Concepts in Lift Traffic Analysis:  The Inverse S-P (I-S-P) Method”, Dr. Lutfi R. Al-Sharif, Lift Report, Elevator Technology 4, Proceedings of the International Conference of Elevator Technology (Elevcon ’92), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 1992.

[5] “Bunching in Lift Systems”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevator Technology 5, Proceedings of the International Conference on Elevator Technology (Elevcon ‘93), November 1993, Vienna, Austria.

[6] “Topics in Escalator Electrical Design”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevator Technology 6, Proceedings of the International Conference on Elevator Technology (Elevcon ‘95), March 1995, Hong Kong.

[7] “Safety relays for interfacing escalator safety devices”, Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevation, Summer 1995.

[8] “Lift Power Consumption”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevation, Autumn 1995.

                Reprinted in:  Elevator World May 1996, with permission.

 [9] “Bunching in Lifts”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevation Winter 95/96.

                Reprinted in:  Elevator World, November 1996, with permission.

 [10] “The Use of Power Measurement to Calculate the Numbers of Passengers Travelling on an Escalator”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Lift Report [in English & German], January/February 1996.

[11] “An overview of AC induction motor testing in accordance with BS4999, part 143”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Lift Report [in English & German], March/April 1996.

[12] “Escalator Electronic speed detection unit”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevatori [in English & Italian], March/April 1996.

[13] “Electrical Safety Systems in Escalators”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Lift Report [in English & German], May/June 1996.

[14] “The Lift Directive and the Rope Brake”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevation, Summer 1996.

                Reprinted in:  Elevatori, [in English & Italian], May/June 1996 with permission.

[15] “Deriving DC motor parameters from in-situ testing” [in English & German], Dr. L.R. Al-Sharif, Lift Report, July/August 1996

Reprinted in:  Elevator World August 1997, with permission.

[16] “Escalator Handling Capacity”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, part I:  Elevatori July/August 1996; Part II:  Elevatori, September/October 1996, [in English & Italian].

                Reprinted in:  Elevator World, December 1996, with permission.

[17]  “Lift & Escalator Energy Consumption”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Proceedings of the CIBSE/ASHRAE Joint National Conference, Harrogate, UK, 29 Sept. - 1 Oct. 1996, (pages 231-239, Volume I).

[18]  “Escalator Passenger Numbers from Energy Consumption”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevator Technology 7, Proceedings of the International Conference on Elevator Technology (Elevcon ‘96), October 1996, Barcelona, Spain.

[19]  “Escalator Stopping, Braking and Passenger Falls”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Lift Report [in English & German], November/December 1996.

[20]  “The General Theory of Escalator Energy Consumption with Calculations and Examples”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Lift Report [in English & German], May/June 1997.

                Reprinted in:

                Elevator World, May 1998 (page 74), with permission.

[21]  “Asset Management of Public Service Escalators”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevator Technology 9, Proceeding of the International Conference on Elevator Technology (Elevcon ’98) Zurich, Switzerland, October 1998.

                Reprinted in:  Elevator World, June 1999 (page 96), with permission.

[22]  “Lift & Escalator Motor sizing and selection with calculations and examples” [in English & German], Dr. Lutfi R. Al-Sharif, Lift Report, January/February 1999.

[23]  “Variable Voltage AC Drive Systems”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Lift Report [in English & German], November/December 1999.

[24]  “Topics in Escalator Step Design and Testing”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, presented at the Carlo Distaso Memorial Lectures, Milan, Italy, 23 November 2000.

                Reprinted in:  Elevatori [in English & Italian], January/February 2001.

[25]  “Introduction to Electric Shock Protection”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Elevator Technology 10, Proceedings of the International Conference on Elevator Technology (Elevcon 2000), May 2000, Berlin, Germany.

Reprinted in:  Lift Report [in English & German], March/April 2001 with permission & Elevator World, July 2001 (page 110-115) with permission.

[26]  “Variable Speed Drives in Lift Systems”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, published in Lift Report, Elevator World and Elevatori, 2001.

[27]  “Lift Safety Gear Testing without Weights:  a Critique and Overview”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Proceeding of the 12^th International Conference on Elevator Technologies, Elevcon 2002, Milan, Italy, June 2002.

                Reprinted in:  Lift Report and Elevator World with permission.

[28]  “Lift Energy Consumption:  Modelling and Simulation”, CIBSE Lift Group Annual Conference, November 2003, Balham, London, Lutfi Al-Sharif, Al-Sharif VTC, UK, Richard Peters, Peters Research, UK, Rory Smith, ThyssenKrupp Elevator, USA.

[29]  “Lift Energy Consumption:  General Overview (1974-2001)”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Proceedings of the International Conference on Elevator Technologies, Elevcon 2002, April 2004, Istanbul, Turkey.

                Reprinted in:  Elevator World October 2004 with permission.

[30]  “Elevator Energy Simulation Model”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Elevator Technologies, Elevcon 2004, April 2004, Istanbul, Turkey, Lutfi Al-Sharif, Al-Sharif VTC, UK, Richard Peters, Peters Research, UK, Rory Smith, ThyssenKrupp Elevator, USA.

                Reprinted in:  Elevator World November 2004 with permission.

[31] “Intelligent Braking Systems for Public Service Escalators”, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Proceedings of the 1^st International Conference Building Electrical Technology Professional Network (BETNET) Conference, BETNET 2004, October 2004, Hong Kong, China.

[32]  “Escalator Human Factors:  Passenger Behaviour, Accidents & Design”, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Building Electrical Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 2006.

[33] “Experimental Investigation into the Relationship between Passenger Comfort on a Stopping Escalator and the Kinematics of the Stop”, Proceedings of the 6th Jordanian International Mechanical Engineering Conference (JIMEC’6), 22 - 24 October 2007, Amman – Jordan.

[34] “Experimental Investigation into the Effect of Mechanical Design of an Escalator and Passenger Loading on its Energy Consumption”, Lutfi Al-Sharif, International Conference on Mechanical Engineering 2008 (ICME08) part of World Congress on Engineering 2008 (WCE08), 2^nd to 4^th July 2008, Imperial College, London.

[35] “Modelling & Design of a Linear Variable Differential Transformer”, Sinan Taifour, Lutfi Al-Sharif, Mohammad Kilani, presented at MS’08 Jordan, The INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODELLING AND SIMULATION, PETRA ( Jordan), 18-20 November, 2008.

[36] “Simulation and Experimental Verification of the Axial Force of a Tubular Electromagnet on a Concentric Cylindrical Permanent Magnet”, Lutfi Al-Sharif, Sinan Taifour, Mohammad Kilani, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO'09), Sharjah, U.A.E. January 20-22, 2009.