Experienced Canadian/Jordanian professional with over 25 years’ experience in the public and private sectors; SITA, General Electric (GE) - airline industry, IATA (International Air Transport Association), US Agency for International Development (USAID) and European Union (EU) projects Business skills: project/program management, social, business, strategy formulation and planning. Excellent experience working with various cultures in a variety of global organizations
A USAID program for the Jordanian Ministry of Social Development.
Senior Information Technology Consultant.
Wrote the “National Strategy for Poverty Alleviation” – IT section that was adopted by the Jordanian government in 2002.
Designed the Poverty database, hosted at National Aid Fund (NAF), managing two full time programmers (Oracle, SQL, UNIX & Windows) that reduced the time of processing applications and reduced duplication.
Produced the first poverty maps utilizing GIS (Geographical Information Sampling) using ArcView 8.2, including analysis.
Project manager for the automation of NAF (500,000$ budget – with additional 500,000$ as standby);
o Re-design of NAF network, includes linking 50 offices in Jordan.
o Putting specification for PC & Servers, Tenders.
o Redesigning the application forms to go in hand with the adopted strategy.
Various studies (IT and non-IT) studies for Her/His Excellency, Minister of Social Development.
Participated in committees at the National Aid Fund; covering IT related and non-IT related issues.
Wrote TORs for staff, interviewing and selecting potential staff.
Wrote RFPs.
Carried out presentations at different levels for the project to the Cabinet, Minister(s), top level government and private sectors and staff.