Omar Tazi

Current

CEO at Omnidata

Past

Chief Open Source Evangelist & SOA Evangelist at Oracle
Member at W3C Advisory Committee
CEO at Orbeon, Inc.

Director of Technology at WebGain
Member at Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee
Software Engineer at Symantec

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Education

Polytech Montpellier & Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Omar Tazi’s Summary

Omar is currently CEO of Omnidata a leading systems integrator in Morocco. Omnidata has 400+ satisfied clients in North Africa and employs 200 high tech consultants.

Prior to joining Omnidata Omar was Chief Evangelist with Oracle where he was responsible for Open Source strategy and evangelism focusing on the areas of middleware/SOA and tools.

Prior to joining Oracle, Omar was the CEO of Orbeon where he successfully implemented a business model based on professional services using Open Source Software donated by Orbeon to the community. Omar closed key deals for Orbeon with prestigious clients such as Cisco, Wachovia, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Amnesty International, The city of San Diego, Volkswagen Financial Services and Teleflex.

Prior to stepping into the entrepreneurial world, Omar has held several senior management positions in high tech companies located in Silicon Valley including Symantec, Oracle, and WebGain. In 2001, Omar was an active member of the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee.

Omar is also a regular speaker at IT events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, Gartner Summit, Sun Tech Days, Oracle OpenWorld, BEA eWorld, EclipseWorld, OSCON and ApacheCon.

Before crossing the Atlantic, Omar has held several research and teaching positions at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Object Oriented Programming (OOP). He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Omar is perfectly trilingual, natively speaks: English, French and Arabic.

In November of 2004 Omar co-founded the Association of Moroccan Professionals in America. AMPA is a non-profit organization established to promote networking between experienced, successful, and active Moroccan professionals in the United States of America: www.amp-usa.org

Omar Tazi’s Specialties:

- Entrepreneurship: experience in starting/developing new companies/operations
- A track record of driving complicated projects both in the US and the MEA regions
- Leadership with strong ability to influence resources at all levels
- Strong experience in Enterprise Software and internet technologies
- Open Source communities, licensing, business models
- Technology (Java/J2EE, XML Web services, SOA, Ajax/Web2.0)

Omar Tazi’s Experience

CEO

Omnidata

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Omnidata is a leading systems integrator in North Africa since 1989
Chief Open Source Evangelist & SOA Evangelist

Oracle

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

August 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 5 months)

- Drive Open Source Strategy and Contributions
- Drive Evangelism for OSS and SOA
- Grow developer communities around Oracle OSS contributions
- Acting Oracle representative with the Eclipse Software Foundation
Member

W3C Advisory Committee

(Non-Profit; Internet industry)

March 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Representing Orbeon Inc in the W3C Advisory Committee
CEO

Orbeon, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

February 2002 — July 2005 (3 years 6 months)

As a CEO of Orbeon I was in charge of building the company by defining the strategy, building the products and generating revenue. I was able to successfully lead Orbeon through a major transition from a pure license based revenue to an OSS service-based revenue.

Orbeon focuses on providing form-based solutions for the Web. Orbeon favors open source products over commercial products, and uses modern technologies such as Ajax as well as agile methodologies that put each client in control.

As part of its commitment to this approach, Orbeon sponsors Orbeon Forms, a Web 2.0 open source project that helps its clients build form-based applications for the Web. For more information visit www.orbeon.com.

During his tenure at Orbeon, Omar closed key deals for Orbeon with prestigious clients such as Cisco, Wachovia, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Amnesty International, The city of San Diego, Volkswagen Financial Services and Teleflex.
Director of Technology

WebGain

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 2 months)

Responsible for Technology, Strategy and Standards (including JCP and OMG)
Member

Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee

(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 2 months)

Represented WebGain at the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee as well as a few JSRs focused on J2EE, XML, and Web Services.
Software Engineer

Symantec

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

March 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 10 months)

* Worked on the VisualCafe product line
* Built Demonstrations
* Business Development

Omar Tazi’s Education

Polytech Montpellier & Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Master of Science , EE and CS

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