Born in Amman, the capital city of Jordan, which was originally known as Philadelphia or the city of brotherly love. My biggest passions (in no particular order) are:

• Communication with people through social gatherings, ham radio and email.
• Surfing the World Wide Web.
• Travelling to visit new countries and to expose myself to new cultures.
• Reading philosophy and new age books.
• Listening to a wide variety of music.
• Singing as a tenor member of the YWCA choir.
• Practice Yoga and relaxation exercises.

Budapest Technical University  (Budapest - Hungary) 1977-1983  

MSc EE received in June 1983

General Secondary Certificate in 1977

Andersen Consulting (Amman - Jordan) 1993/Now 

Senior Manager of the Technology Integration Services division to support projects across the Middle East. 

Established Amman Solution Centre and created a technical team (today 98 Staff, Seniors and Managers) with specialized skills in "Open Systems" and "Client /Server" technologies.  Managed IT projects in the areas of Strategy Definition, Process Review, Package Selection, Custom Systems Development with special emphasis on the Banking industry.

Started as a System Programmer in an IBM mainframe environment, then became responsible for the team to develop the bank WAN and branch LANs world-wide. This involved the development of a number of interfaces to other Open Systems and VANs such as Message Switching, ATM Transaction Switching, Phone Banking, Signature Verification, Reuters, S.W.I.F.T., CHIPS and FEDWIRE.

• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Member of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies since 1985 (USA)
• Jordanian Engineering Association - since 1983 (Jordan)
• The American Radio Relay League (USA)
• The Royal Radio Amateurs Society (Jordan)

Participated in a wide variety of seminars, courses and conferences in the areas of Technology, Strategy and Management.