Josef Assad

Current

• IT Architect at Rambøll Informatik
• Co-founder at Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group
• member at open source community

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Past

• MENA Regional IT Specialist at Grameen Foundation
• Assistant CEO at IT Synergy
• various at Ezz Industries

• Intern at Procter & Gamble

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Education

• Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport
• Li Po Chun United World College
• El Alsson

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Website

Josef Assad’s Summary

Strategic consultant with substantial IT experience. Special focus on open source technology and consultation around open culture strategy. Industry experience includes bilateral and multilateral development agencies (UNDP, Italian Cooperation, etc.) as well as the public sector (Ministries of Higher Education and of Social Affairs, etc) in addition to private sector (having been involved in open source strategic work with HP, EFG Hermes to bring VC funding for open source to the Middle East).

Broader consultation experience includes development of national long-range strategy for the Egyptian ceramic sector as part of an EU funded study.

Josef Assad’s Specialties:

Industry-level strategy development, enterprise strategic management consultancy, open source (from grass roots to public/private enterprise-class). Ceramic tile industry, production/sales/profitability planning.

Josef Assad’s Experience

• IT Architect

  Rambøll Informatik

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — Present (7 months)

• Co-founder

  Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group

  (Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — Present (8 years 10 months)

• member

  open source community

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 1999 — Present (9 years 1 month)

• MENA Regional IT Specialist

  Grameen Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  Responsible for providing high level IT consultancy and technical assistance to MENA microfinance institutions. Consultancy products include:
  
  - Long range IT strategy development
  - Systems assessment and selection (and advisory services on associated strategy)
  - Staffing assessment and recommendaion (including hiring support)
  - Open source systems selection and deployment including partnering with open source systems and customization services providers

• Assistant CEO

  IT Synergy

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Program Development industry)

  January 2005 — March 2006 (1 year 3 months)

  Co-founding the MENA region's first ICT4D open source consultancy serving bilateral and multilateral aid agencies.
  - Company initiation (staffing, business focus, strategy)
  - Project lifecycle supervision (proposal development, resource/budget estimation, management/oversight, reporting)
  - Client facing role, engineer supervision, company representation with project counterparts

• various

  Ezz Industries

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  July 2000 — January 2005 (4 years 7 months)

  Recruited on fast-track management program called "Leaders of the Future". Positions held in reverse chronological order:
  
  - Demand and Production Manager
  - Assistant Marketing Director
  - Marketing Intelligence Specialist
  
  A sampling of activities:
  
  - Design, implementation, execution of production and demand and corresponding demand work procedures, tools, and plans (incl. inventory management planning, control)
  - Price modeling and profitability planning and operational tuning
  - Product range analysis, planning, and decision making (accounting for profitability, associated item sales, operational constraints and objectives, etc.)

• Intern

  Procter & Gamble

  (Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

  1998 — 1998 (less than a year)

Josef Assad’s Education

• Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

  1995 — 1999

• Li Po Chun United World College

  1992 — 1995

• El Alsson

  1987 — 1992

Additional Information

Josef Assad’s Websites:

• My Website

Josef Assad’s Interests:

Open source, strategic information technology, ICT4D, writing

Josef Assad’s Groups:

asmallworld.net, openSUSE community

•    Linux Expert
•    United World College (UWC) Alumni
•    Linux Community

Josef Assad’s Contact Settings

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