Government Leader

• Advisor to the Prime Minister of Iraq (2023-Present)

Digital Transformation and Telecommunications 

• Named as candidate for Minister of Communications in Iraq April 2020
• Advisor to the Minister of Communications, Iraq (2019-2020)

Business Leader

• Microsoft Executive

Chief Architect – Windows Azure (2008 – 2011)

General Manager of Enterprise Networking (2007-2008) 

• Serial Entrepreneur

Founder, Managing Director of CQI, Dubai, UAE (2014-2017)

Founder, CEO and Chairman of IP Dynamics (1998-2007)

Founder, President of SSN Services (2007-Present)

Founder, CEO of TTC of Silicon Valley (1992-1998)

• Inventor 

74 worldwide patents (25 US and 49 international)

Networking; Network Security; and Cloud Computing

Academic Leader

• Professor of Information Systems, Santa Clara University, Silicon Valley, Calif. (2020-Present)
• Professor of Computer Engineering, Santa Clara University, Calif. (1981-1998)
• Author of 124 peer-reviewed scholarly papers.
• Co-author of “The IEEE/CS 2022 Report” in 2015, Project commissioned by the President of the Computer Society in 2014: Lead author with eight other computing leaders. https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/trends/2022-report

Community Leader

• Founder and President of Human Rights, Peace and Democracy for Iraq, USA. (1991-1996)
• Chair and keynote speaker of several IEEE international conferences.
• Head of the Digital Academy, Iraq (2023-Present)
• President of the Digital Transformation Club, Iraq (2024-Present)

Education

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Baghdad (1975)

M.S. Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. (1977)

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, USA. (1983)