A registered architect with over 18 years of experience, Ahmad's work over the past decade has focused on the design and construction of advanced technology facilities for private and public sector clients. His involvement in more than 80 different task orders for NIST earned him and HDR superior ratings from his clients.

He managed the NIST Advanced Measurement Laboratory, a 511,070-SF, $235-million state-of-the-art laboratory in Gaithersburg, MD. He is HDR's Project Principal for the 220,590-SF, $57-million Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center in West Lafayette, Indiana and served as technical consultant to the U.K.'s Department of Trade and Industry for the National Physical Laboratory project.
Ahmad is the Principal for HDR's nationwide contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and recently was co-chairman of the Buildings for Advanced Technology Workshop organized in part under the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in conjunction with NIST and the Naval Research Laboratory.