I've got a friend in Russia. He is an electrical engineer, based on what I understand. What would be the best way for him to find a job abroad?
Since, I don't specialize in electrical engineering I even don't know how valuable his skills are on today's market.
I used his terminology. It'd be good if you correct his terms, so I can do some research using the right terminology.
Specialization: "Electric Drive and Industrial Automation".
He knows about electrical machinery, automatic control theory, control systems, power electronics, industrial automation. In brief it is what engineers need to design, create electric drive for automation of industrial equipment or technological process.
Communication protocol realization is what he is doing today. Next I will build program module for equipment automation with several drives.
Keywords can be: electrical drive, electromechanical systems, control systems, communication protocols, automation systems and robotics.
His currently working with electrical drive, which is being manufactured in Russia. He develops new features for this equipment.
I know that he is doing embedded programming. He writes software at the assembly or C level to control electrical drives. He programmed a device with modbus protocol:
MBAXP Modbus RTU/ASCII ActiveX Control