Palestinian American Society of Engineers (PASE), Founder- Board Member

Mr. Ziad Zatar (Ph.D. Candidate) has 13 years of Business Operations & management experience in Commercial Risk Consulting & Sales area, while also providing underlying systems technical operations planning & platform implementation.

Previously, served 25 years at various levels providing technology infrastructure platform design/build operations management in support of Academia, R&D, IT, and senior teams’ analysis & trending for infrastructure & bandwidth utilization while adhering to SLAs, and required systems security compliance programs in higher education, Software development, and Risk Solutions industries.

Positions/Achievements –

Principal – Chief Operations Officer – Consultant – IT Infrastructure Engineer/Team Lead, Former Computer Studies Faculty, Business Systems Analyst

Helped IIT achieve Yahoo’s “Top-Ten Most wired Universities in North America”

Known for leveraging existing business processes and technologies while adopting newer systems to integrate legacy and modern IT platforms

Served within two consecutive terms as board member at the Mosque Foundation Board of Directors

Credentials –

B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1989 – Illinois Institute of Technology

M.S. Computer Science, 1993 – Illinois Institute of Technology

Ph.D. Candidate Computer Science, 2001 – Illinois Institute of Technology

Areas of specialization – Data Communication Protocols, and Distributed Systems Architecture

Affiliations –

Member, IEEE Society of Engineers

Member, Association of Computing Machinery

Member, Trusted Choice/Independent Insurance Agents of Illinois

Awards/

1998 – Community Outreach Service Award – IIT/Dusable High-School

1999 – 10 -Year Service Award – Illinois Institute of Technology

2008 – 10-Year Service Award – NAVTEQ

2019 – Community Service Award – The Chicago Commission on Human Relations

Email: ziad.zatar@gmail.com