Education:

1998-1999- Master of Science Degree in Information - Systems Management.(by research)

Pacific Western University USA

1993 - Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science

The American Institute for Computer Sciences - Birmingham Alabama USA

The last two semesters were completed by correspondence due to a 2 years employment contract with Ardico Unisys in Saudi Arabia.

1993 - Diploma in Computers, Business & Management. Cambridge Tutorial College - Saudi Arabia.

1988 - TAFE College - Petersham

1. Business Communications 2. Word Processing Package 3. Computer Awareness 4. Computer Systems Hardware, software, graphics.

 (Youth Employment Scheme) during Concord Municipal Council's Employment.

1986 - Higher School Certificate

Professional Employment:

EMR Solutions Pty Ltd- 18May,1998-CR

Nature of Business: Windows NT's solutions provider

Location: Sydney -Australia

Job Title: Technical Systems Engineer

Work Details: installing Ms windows NT Server and Workstation/Win 95

Technical support,configuring Hardware and Software connectivity,Hub,Ethernet Card,Designing Network protocol and general computer systems,InstallingTCP/IP Protocol and Peer-to Peer Network.

Diacom Computer Systems - 20th January, 1997 - 14th April, 1998

Nature of Business: Authorized reseller for Adobe products, Multimedia software and PC hardware.

Location: Sydney - Australia

Job Title: Systems Engineer

Work Details: I was self employed and my business was to support clients Winframe software, client software for DOS, and all Windows platform, system configurations, PC support, Setup LAN, SNM, Multimedia, PC sales, memory upgrade, software and hardware installation, consultation and technical advice.

MAC Warehouse Australia Pty Ltd - February, 1995 - September, 1996

Nature of Business: MAC SYSTEMS, Sales, Graphic Design, Software, Systems Installation.

Location: Head Office in USA - NSW Branch at Baulkham Hills

Job Title: Graphics Account Manager

Work Details: I worked in the Pre-Press & Graphics market for Apple products supporting clients on a high level. I worked with both Apple hardware & software as well as in the graphic and pre-press area. Corporate/Some Government Departments. Consultation on graphics, supporting graphics software. Total solution for graphics business clients.

Reason for Leaving: Redundancy Program (Company closed their Australian operations and moved back to the USA.)

Arab Digital Computer Company (Ardico-Unisys) Saudi Arabia

18th September, 1992 - 17th September, 1994

Nature of Business: At the time of my employment the establishment was the sole distributor of Unisys Products in Saudi Arabia providing hardware & software support and maintenance for Unisys and other brand names such as Triumph Adler, German product. Unix also provided total solutions to support the sale of the Unisys & TA Systems.

Location: Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

Job Title: Analyst/Systems Sales Engineer

Work Details: I designed and implemented accounting modules on Unisys AT PC using DBASE III. The modules had to be rewritten years later in C using Unix development tools. I had to link the warehouse activities to Head Office and add inventory and pricing modules; for that AT & T 3B2 Unix System was used at Head Office. The communication was done in batch mode through Unix UUCP "smart" office package and was running on the 3B2.

At a later stage they employed another two people, one for transferring the data from dBase III to Unix, writing reports, learning and maintaining the system as backup in case I left the company. The second persons job was to maintain the system at the warehouse. In the meantime I was the Systems Sales Engineer responsible for Unisys Products from A to Z. Unisys realized that the trend on the computer market is no longer hardware sales but solutions sales. I was hired to work in Systems as Systems Sales Engineer and mainly because of newly launched products by Triumph Adler, I was responsible for this product as well and I had to know it inside out from all the technical and marketing aspects. I was trained on TA products. I had to develop demonstrations and show it to many potential customers at Seminars. I demonstrated TA Mini Computers on behalf of TA at the "Made in Germany" exhibition in Riyadh. Technical work included writing codes in C, Windows Development Kit. !

Designing buttons and scroll bars. I had to install the systems of many times especially when new version and upgrades arrived. I also supported the Sales Department in terms of pre sale support, sizing, pricing and configuring the overall system. I had five projects with the Saudi Government and I trained the users on the Unix environment and on the Unisys systems.

Reason for Leaving: Completion of two year contract.

St. George Lebanese Society - 28th April, 1988 - 29th April, 1989

Nature of Business: Public Services, Community Services & Management

Location: Head Office in Sydney, Australia

Job Title: Systems Analyst

Work Details: I was hired by Robinsons & Partners who are an employment agency in Australia to set the future strategies for the Information Technology Department and automate the business functions for the society of St. George. I maintained and managed the existing environment and carefully implemented changes, developed the business systems to support corporate and user requirements and its specifications. I designed Arabic software under dBase III for special requirements for the Society. I also designed the internal application under MS, in relation to Arabization. The Society had a Canon machine L770 which has the facility to connect to the computer. I also wrote a program by C language to the hardware which took 5 months to complete and it was fully operational. Some hardware cards and cables were purchased from computer suppliers.

Reason for Leaving: Contract of employment was only for 12 months.

Concord Municipal Council - 9th November, 1987 - 14th April, 1988

Nature of Business: Building Surveyor, Public Relations.

Location: Concord, Sydney, Australia

Job Title: Clerical Assistant Officer

Professional Training:

· - Triumph Adler (Germany)

· - Training Certificate

· - Ardico - Unisys - Saudi Arabia

· - Training Certificate - Unix Administration

- Practicing Computer Professional Certificate(PCP)

Australian Computer Society

Skills:

- typing 45 wpm

- enjoy hard work - ability to work in a group or team

- able to design layout for advertising on PhotoShop, Adobe, PageMakerNetworking and Telecommunications design.

Internet Skills:

Setting up the internet,design web page,surfing the web,install internet software drivers,configure Hardware &Software Connections.Surfing web,HTML,URL,protocol,using Java Script for Web Modifications.

RAS,Dialup Networking,Setting up the Proxy Server on Network.

Professional Memberships:

Member for International Association for Computer Systems (USA)

Australian Computer Society (Australia)

Organisations: Computer Consultant for AL Foadia

General Contracting: Saudi Arabia