January, 2002 – todate                            Senior Research Engineer

                                                        Farm Machinery Institute, NARC, Islamabad, Pakistan

• Presently working on Post-Harvest Technologies.

• Leaded a team of professionals responsible for repair and maintaining of Laboratory Equipment/ Instruments at various Labs. on the campus.

August 1986- January, 2001                 Asstt. Agricultural Engineer

Worked as a team leader/member for:

- Development of Multicrop Seed-Cum-Fertilizer Drill.

- Development of a Portable Bucket Milking Machine.

- Development and promotion of Pneumatic Row Crop Planter for sunflower crop.

- Mechanization of Fodder Mower.

- Testing and popularization of Sunflower Thresher.

        - Installation of Cows Milking Parlor.

Following machines were performance evaluated/ tested :

1. Potato Digger           2. Potato Planter                  3. Aitchison Seed Drill

4. NARDI Seed Drill    5. Kubota Power Reaper    6. Self-Propelled Fodder Mower

                7. Bucket Milking Machine (for milking Water Buffaloes)

                8. Universal U-340 Tractor                 9. HEBEI-150 DA Tractor

                10.    YANMAR Combine Harvester (on Chickpea, Mung and Maize)

Following tractors were Haulage performance tested under Prime Minister's Awami Tractors Scheme :

                1. MTZ-50 (Bilo-Russia)        2. LTZ-60V (Russia)         3. STEYR- 8043 (Turkey)

                4. UNIVERSAL- 530 (Romania)                 5. JIANGSU JS-50 (China)

                6. JIANGSU JS-500 (China)                        7. SHANGHAI SH-50 (China)

                8. URSUS- 2812 (Poland)                           9. UMZ 6AKM (Russia)

Some other assignments were :

Worked as Head Information Dissemination section for two years and produced a number of technical documents.

Co-ordinated with RNAM member countries, GTZ Germany, SAIC Bangladesh, FBEAH Belgium, UNDP, CAAMS China, SRI UK, ASAE USA etc.

Developed PC-I and planned, evaluated and monitored a number of projects.

Organized agricultural machinery exhibitions.

February 1986- August 1986                    Project Incharge

                                                               FMI Testing Sub-Station, Tarnab, Peshawar, Pakistan

• Testing and demonstration of agricultural machines/ implements.

Liaison with Provincial organizations/ institutions etc. in introducing improved/quality machines/ implements.

Technical assistance to local machinery workshops.

November 1985 - January 1986                 Assistant Agricultural Engineer

                                               Pak-Swiss Agricultural Light Engineering Programme

                                               Mardan, NWFP, Pakistan

• Testing of farm machines/ implements and hand tools.
• Up-gradation of local workshops.

April- November, 1985                              Foreman, Workshop

               NWFP Agricultural Engineering Deptt. Tarnab

               Peshawar, Pakistan

• Over-hauling and maintenance of Bulldozers and Supervision of agricultural machinery workshop.