joe zaarour

Joe [Joseph] Zaarour, PMP 

• Recent roles:
  • Partner business advisory at seleKt - project management advisory & think-tank
  • Overall program manager supervisory office UIS Phase-1 for a major ICT initiative in the region for a government, higher education (40,000 students) & healthcare (500 beds) authority involving more than 12 specialized large scale applications (ERP, SIS, ECM, BPM,…) Hardware, Infrastructure, technical and business management services (vendor & system integrator). Over 20 resources, with a Total contract value in excess of USD 20M
  • Founding partner at Orange Consulting Inc Canada - an & ICT Advisory firm
  • Facilitator at Cisco - AMIDEAST Entrepreneur Institute in collaboration with Cornell and Stanford Universities
  • Councilman at CHAB municipalities (Elected in 2010)
• • Previous roles:
    • Principle Independent Consultant at City of Toronto & Region of Peel Municipality, Ontario Canada
    • Principle Consultant, Program Manager and Industry Leader at IBM Global Services (formerlyPriceWaterhouseCoopers consulting) Americas & Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
    • Consultant at Fujitsu Consulting Services Americas / DMR Conseil
  • Projects portfolio
  • Expertise: Management consulting & ICT Advisory Services:
    • ICT & Business Strategy,  ICT planning-sourcing-transformation-governance, eGovernment, Business process management & re engineering, Project & program management, PMO set up, Change management, Risk management, Training, Organizational Restructuring, Evaluations & contracts management,  IT implementations (infrastructure, Middleware, Hardware & applications) and Strategic outsourcing (BTO,BPO).
  • Publications & public events:
    • Business management articles in business magazines.
    • Editor in chief of Steps Municipal Newsletter & New Media author (distributed both online & in print to 6000 households). Municipal publications in the news.
    • Presenter and panel member at the InfoPro Lebanon Opportunities Business Forum ‘A new generation of economic leadership’ on Process reengineering
  • Industry experience: financial services, retail, logistics, manufacturing, travel & transportation, higher education, healthcare, public sector (local & federal Governments) in Canada, UAE, Middle East and Lebanon.
  • Professional certifications and memberships: PMP certified and member (pmi.org), IPMF certified and guest speaker (ciscoinstitute.net), IBM PM Certified (ibm.com), ContributorgreaterIBM,
  • Professional contributions: Business Exchange @ Bloomberg Business Week
  • Education: High School: Saint Joseph School, Bachelor in Commerce: Notre Dame University, Grad program in Project Management: McGill University. Currently enrolled in Conflict Resolution executing training: P2PU
  • Lived & worked: Lebanon, Dubai, Riyadh, Montreal, Toronto
  • Valid enhanced security reliability clearance by Government of Canada
  • Other languages: English, French, Spanish (un poco)

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