text: GEORGE ZAKHARIA 26 Rue Cino del Duca, 92200 Neuilly s/Seine, France • Mobile: (+33) 6 19 60 42 28 / (617) 418 3660 • email@example.com VP of INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CTO PRINCIPAL IT CONSULTANT Summary Information Technology (IT) Professional with extensive experience in Applied Computing for organizations large & small, in both the public & private sector; combines in-depth experience with academically based business & technology optimization skills. Government Chief IT Advisor to Government • United Nations, World Bank: Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco • Creation of National IT Strategies • Consulting Organizations: • National IT Project technical viability assessment Lebanon, Iraq (pre-1991), Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco Large Organizations Chief Information Officer (CIO) / Chief Technology Officer (CTO) • A.P. Møller Maersk (Maersk Line) • Creating and driving organizational IT strategies and IT Security • CMA CGM Strategies that meet business objectives • Leading transformation through increased agility in application development, deployment and IT decision making. Going from reacting to leading while reducing overall costs. • Management and mentoring of technical teams. Bridging the divide between the technical and the non-technical. Small to Medium President / Chief Executive Officer (CEO)/ VP of Technology • M2C2 – Mini Micro Computer Technology Corporation Organizations • General Management in typically highly competitive software development and computer services markets • CSC- Computer Services & Consultants • Identification and capitalization on technology differentiators in order to constantly remain a step ahead of competitors • Managing for turnaround: bringing technology companies back to sustained profitability Startups President / Chief Executive Officer (CEO) • Bit31 Inc • Positioning of technology products in their commercial context for • CTO4U LLC negotiations with investors and venture capitalists • Ensuring product commercial viability and differentiation, managing quality towards launch. Managing the full startup lifecycle. Education Ph.D. in Computer Science & Operations Research (Management Science), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.Sc. in Physics – American University of Beirut Computer Security & Cryptography Course (2001) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Languages English, French George Zakharia, 2010 HISTORICAL RESUMÉ Employment Record 3/2007 CTO4U LLC Cambridge, Massachusetts to Present CTO4u is a web-based IT consulting organization that focuses on providing services and whitepapers through its website and performs market analysis for technology investors and IT professionals (www.cto4u.com). President, CEO & Lead Scientist CREATION OF A WEB-BASED PROFESSIONAL IT CONSULTING & RESEARCH ORGANIZATION • Contributed more than three dozen technical whitepapers on Enterprise Architecture and Technology and managed the establishment of the organization's intellectual assets. Identified areas in the IT space where customer requirements would likely focus over the first 18 months and ensured the development of supporting material and services. • Used the company website to experiment on concepts that extend traditional approaches to service delivery: an AJAX-based capability of delivering information with technical detail that can be varied dynamically, a scientific methodology for rating and positioning consumer computer systems, etc.. • Initiated and lead research into the novel concept of Architectural Efficiency as a metric for qualifying and comparing IT deployment architectures. Created the CTO4u Architectural Efficiency Short Course to disseminate the use of this concept in capacity planning, performance analysis and IT procurement. 1/2008 CMA CGM Marseille, France to Present CMA CGM is the world's third largest container shipping line but currently also by far the fastest growing. It has formed a joined venture with IBM (CMA CGM Systèmes - CCS) for the development and hosting of all its applications Principal IT Consultant IT AUDIT & STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT Givens: very rapid growth; a technical infrastructure not geared for scalability and high availability; a necessity to improve competitiveness through web-enablement of customer-facing services. • Performed an audit of the current IT function, in terms of Enterprise Architecture and processes, as handled by the technical organization (a joint venture with IBM) in order to determine the reasons for the lower than average application availability. Reoriented projects towards EA best practices with a clear migration plan towards modern technologies. • On a strategic level, defined the company's longer term IT Vision, the IT and Architecture Principles that have to be adopted to support it and the Technology Roadmap required to implement it. • Drove the revamping of the company's web applications towards Java. Enforced a policy of complexity reduction through standardization of architecture and development practices and more streamlined application integration. 4/1999 MAERSK LINE Copenhagen, Denmark to 3/2007 Maersk Line (a unit of privately-owned, Denmark-based A.P. Møller-Mærsk with revenues of $35 billion) is the world's leading container shipping company. It maintains a fleet of over 500 container ships and handles ground transportation of containerized freight. Chief Architect & Chief Technology Officer RESTRUCTURING FOR RAPID AND CONTROLLED GROWTH Givens: very rapid growth and an aggressive plan for major mergers and acquisitions; a mainframe based technical infrastructure; an awareness of e-commerce channels as the future of the shipping business and a realization that a major technological shift will be required to support it • Recruited at a time when the company was doubling its size through the acquisition of its US-based rival Sealand (end of 1999). Articulated the company's short and long term IT vision and -2- George Zakharia, 2010 strategy in alignment with the overall business objectives and technically directed a project towards the adoption of distributed architecture (Sun/Oracle technology) allowing the implementation of a scalable and highly available web application infrastructure. This culminated in 2005 in the consolidation of customer services through a web portal which now accounts for 80% of the customer load (Tuxedo, BEA WebLogic, MQ Series). • Simplified operations and deployment through the development of Operational Patterns, Enterprise Architecture Patterns, Architecture Principles and Security Architecture Patterns coupled with procedures that minimized the number of suppliers and products. Packaged technology issues in a manner that portfolio managers, project managers and architects alike could easily understand. • Developed the Data Warehouse Architecture and the framework for its integration within the overall Enterprise Architecture. Took responsibility for the architecture of all Data Marts serving the Marketing and Sales functions and led the process of selecting the appropriate ETL tools. Brought the central DWH strategy closer to that adopted by the regions (US and South Africa) which, though at a smaller scale, had embraced different technologies. • Developed and enforced the Enterprise Application Integration Framework which brought together distributed systems and mainframe systems (Solaris/Oracle to CICS/DB2 and back). The infrastructure, all based on asynchronous messaging, improved performance while maintaining availability independence. Defined the integration and security strategy that allowed external users access to internal data via the web portal. Laid the foundation of the company's SOA strategy and initiated a pilot towards its implementation on the company's SAP based financial system. • Managed and mentored a team of up to 28 Enterprise Architects and Technical Architects addressing project challenges. Undertook regular knowledge sharing exercises with both local and regional teams worldwide (to outsourcers and architects and portfolio managers in regional IT offices), from China to India, South Africa and the US, through presentations covering the technical as well as that relating to policy and procedure. • Developed the organization's IT Security Strategy which resulted in the implementation of an end-to-end security infrastructure that promoted externalization and re-use of security code. • Produced 10 major corporate vision, strategy and guideline documents to be followed by all projects, with highlights emphasized in 6 easy-reference brochures. In 8 years, produced over 200 technology and architecture position papers and gave presentations to a total of over 6,000 attendees. Results: Rules and standards for best practices, and strategies to support the quality of service and growth requirements are properly in place and the online business is operational. The establishment of standards facilitated the seamless acquisition of P&O, a major competitor, and guaranteed a customer facing web presence with an industry competitive uptime. 9/1997 UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (UNDP) to WORLD BANK 4/1999 Principal IT Advisor to the Minister IT STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT, NATIONAL IT PROJECT FOLLOW-UP Appointed Principal IT Advisor to the Minister of Administrative Reform of Lebanon, and equivalent ministers in Egypt and Morocco and given Program Directorship responsibility by the UNDP and the World Bank for: • Developing the National IT strategy for Lebanon: high visibility project requiring interfacing with all major national stakeholders including the Central Bank, the national airline, private banking, and major players in the industrial sector as well as then Prime Minister Hariri. • Managing the World Bank's Y2K initiatives in Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco. Measurable success through careful planning, awareness-raising, audit & follow-up in both private & public sectors. Organized and participated in a high profile Y2K Conference in Beirut. • Launching the first efforts for an effective e-gov program in Lebanon and Morocco: led the establishment of a common infrastructure to be used for the publication of e-gov services. Ministries of Administrative Reform and Ministries of Planning were the first to go on-line with information (because of their inherent openness to new technologies) in a scalable but easy to use -3- George Zakharia, 2010 web channel. The project has evolved today to embrace more government services accessible online. • Evaluating current proposals and recommending new ones to support public sector IT modernization projects and following-up their proper implementation through effective fund management and diligent prioritization: this included the Document Management and Archiving System for the Lebanese Port Authority, introduction of up-to-date IT infrastructures, modernization of billing systems for utilities sectors, etc… Drove the Unification of Architecture and Technology across the Public Sector in an environment where there was previously total autonomy within all ministries and government organizations. This allowed the introduction of centralized procurement, reduction of costs and technical cooperation between the various groups. 7/1992 MINI MICRO COMPUTER CORPORATION ("M2C2") Paris, France to Multinational bespoke software development and computer services company (for scientific and commercial 11/1997 applications) with projects in France, North Africa and the Middle East, $12 million revenues. President & Chief Executive Officer TURNAROUND, GROWTH AND EXPANSION • Refocused the company's technical direction, including technologies, platforms and development methodologies towards higher productivity and lower cost. • Established long-term partnerships with major clients in the academic, medical and retail sectors: American University of Beirut (Budgeting System, Genetic Data Entry and Manipulation System, training, etc..), the St George Hospital (Material Management and Financial systems), the Levant Distributors (distributors of books and periodicals: Inventory & Accounting), etc.. • Managed a complex high profile $4 million Egyptian National Census Project plagued by local technical obstacles delivering a system exceeding the target objectives of the Ministry of Planning by 50% Result: Having introduced a rapid application development capability (through a focused programming strategy of code re-use), was able to turn around the company; drove revenue from $4.5 million to $9 million annually in the first three years. 1/1991 BIT 31 INC. Los Angeles, CA to Developer of a combinatorial search engine focusing on identification of patterns, sequencing and the ability to 7/1992 match groups of records, typical of finance, intelligence or bioinformatics applications. CEO & VP of Technology STARTUP • Creation of the initial Business Plan that justified the creation of the company and the launch of its product in view of eventually attracting funds from seed investors and venture capitalists. Managed budget & expenditures through the initial launch and until deeper funding was secured. • Drove the Marketing effort through participation at key trade shows and conferences. • Defined the product scope and reduced development costs by balancing increased market reach and feature bloat. Directed implementation on the selected target platforms (Windows, Unix, Mac) Prior to 1991 COMPUTER SERVICES & CONSULTANTS London, UK Computer consulting & service outsourcing company Chief Executive Officer & Technical Director (and co-founder) • Established a long term relationship with Sperry (now Unisys) for special purpose development, including localization and device drivers for Unix systems and intelligent terminals. • Took on support contracts for Sperry mainframe installations in a number of countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. -4- George Zakharia, 2010 IRAQI MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION & SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, AL-HAZEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Baghdad, Iraq Program Director Responsible for a national technology transfer project that entailed the establishment of the Computer Science Department of a new Research Institute in Baghdad. Full program responsibility and empowerment for the selection of the geographical area, the building architecture, construction, computer room preparation, equipment and backup power supply, recruiting technical and academic personnel worldwide, research program scoping and training. Required negotiations with major vendors, selection and follow-up until successful completion. While pursuing Ph.D. thesis, worked at: SURVEY RESEARCH LAB, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department responsible for designing and implementing the university's Social and Political Science surveys including their data processing and statistical analysis • Started as a Research Assistant and eventually became Assistant Research Professor & Head of the Data Processing Department As well as part-time assignment at: SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Visiting Assistant Professor Publications Selected books, research, publications and patents: BOOKS Architecural Efficiency A technical book (projected to cover about 800 pages and planned for publication in late 2010) that addresses the problems of architecture The Whys and Hows of Availability, performance, scalability and availability through a queuing theory based Performance, Scalability and Other Non- approach that sheds light on the logic of the behavior of complex Functional Requirements in Enterprise enterprise architectures. Except for a short recap of the principles of Architecture queuing theory all the material is original and has never been published (in production) before. PATENTS On a Methodology for Instantaneous Translation of Computer Programming Languages Through Firmware Token Substitution. (1990-1992) -5-


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Open Compute Summit (Booth C7), 17 January 2013- HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC) today announced that it has joined the Open Compute Project, an initiative launched by Facebook in 2011, to increase technology efficiencies and reduce the environmental impacts of datacentres.
With the explosion of data resulting from mobile devices, Internet services, social media and business applications, corporate, cloud and big data customers are constantly looking for ways to improve their storage infrastructure costs and their bottom line. The Open Compute Project applies open-source software principles to the hardware industry to drive the development of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. HGST will contribute its expertise toward defining storage solutions that deliver the performance and density required while achieving low total cost of ownership (TCO) reflected in metrics such as cost-per-terabyte, watt-per-TB, TB-per-system weight and TB-per-square foot.
"Demand for storage is booming as IT managers strive to handle the avalanche of new data being generated by cloud datacentres, Big Data analytics, social networking, HD video and millions of mobile devices," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at HGST. "As a strategic drive supplier and consultant to Facebook and in collaboration with the Open Compute Project, we're defining best practices in the storage industry to afford end-users with greater capital savings, operational efficiencies and energy conservation in the datacentre."
The fourth Open Compute Summit is January 16-17, 2013, at the Santa Clara Convention Center - 5001 Great America Parkway in Santa Clara, Calif. As a Summit sponsor, HGST will be showcasing its Ultrastar™ 4TB enterprise-class HDD, the world's first 4TB enterprise-class hard drive, which provides space-efficient, high-performance, low-power storage for traditional enterprises as well as for the explosive big data and cloud/Internet markets where storage density, watt-per-gigabyte and cost-per-GB are critical parameters. The 4TB Ultrastar 7K4000 family raises the bar with a five-year limited warranty and a 2.0 million hours MTBF specification, resulting in a 40 percent lower annualised failure rate (AFR) than enterprise drives rated at 1.2 million hours MTBF. As a leader in enterprise-class SAS SSDs, HGST will also be showcasing its Ultrastar enterprise-class SSDs that meet the performance, capacity, endurance and reliability demands of today's Tier 0, mission-critical datacentre applications.
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The Spaniard improved his record at Roland Garros to 66-1 and stretched his winning streak at the clay-court major to 35 victories.
But it didn't look too good at the start for the top-seeded player as Djokovic won the first set and looked to be in control of nearly every point.
However Nadal found his form as the heat started to take its toll on the second-seeded Serb.
Both players used ice-filled towels to cool themselves during changeovers but Djokovic looked to have vomited as he was heading for the first changeover in the fourth set.
Djokovic also appeared out of sorts in the third set. Trailing 3-0, he wobbled as he went to take his seat on the bench for the changeover. And in the final set, with Nadal leading 5-4, Djokovic poured cold water on his head and on each forearm in an effort to cool off.
Nadal was broken once in the first set, and once again in the second. He was able to recover the second break as he started to find his range on Court Philippe Chatrier, the stadium Nadal calls his favorite place in the world to play.
Djokovic fades in heat
He ended up breaking Djokovic to win the second set, and then again to win the third and yet again to win the fourth.
On match point, Djokovic double-faulted for the third time. Nadal dropped to his knees before shaking hands with Djokovic and then climbing into the crowd to celebrate with his team.
Nadal, who will retain his place at the top of the rankings with the victory, has now won 14 Grand Slam titles, tied for second among the men with Pete Sampras. Only Roger Federer, with 17 majors, has more.
But Nadal is the only player to have won the same Grand Slam tournament nine times, and is the first to win five straight French Open titles.
He also won at Roland Garros from 2005-08, but lost for the only time in the fourth round of the 2009 tournament. Federer went on to win that year, completing a career Grand Slam.
Nadal is 23-19 against Djokovic overall, and 6-0 against him at Roland Garros. Djokovic took Nadal to five sets in last year's French Open semi-finals, and lost in four in the 2012 final.
Entering Sunday's match, however, Djokovic had won their previous four meetings, including winning the title in Rome on clay.
The six-time major champion still needs a victory at the French Open to complete a career Grand Slam.
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Woods, who has had four surgeries on his left knee, pulled out after hitting his drive on the 12th hole because of what he termed an injury to his left leg.
Woods indicated in a statement that the issue was with his left Achilles, the same one that grounded him last summer.
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Last May, Woods was forced to withdraw after nine holes from The Players in Ponte Vedra Beach and had to miss three months of the season to allow that same leg to heal.
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Magazine Issue: September 2011
The descent of woman
Did our ancestors climb down from the trees in order to walk upright? No, says Elaine Morgan. Humans evolved in water.
Jonathan Maas | September 2011 Issue
What do scientists do when they realize they're on the wrong track? For Elaine Morgan, that's a rhetorical question: "They carry on as if nothing had happened." Morgan said this a couple of years ago with great irony at the renowned TED conference series for thought leaders and activists. At 88 years old, she sat on a chair in front of an auditorium filled with visitors. Now 90, she's still the enfant terrible of the scientific world.
More than 40 years ago, she became fascinated by marine biologist Alister Hardy's "aquatic ape" theory, which posits that our ancestors did not climb down from the trees to walk upright across the African savanna, but began wading through water at some point. The evidence: We have more in common with aquatic mammals than with chimpanzees. We don't have fur; we have thick layers of fat under our skin; we can control our breathing; and we swim as though the reflex were innate, which it practically is. A human baby feels completely at home in water; a chimpanzee baby will drown. Man also has a streamlined shape, perfect for moving through water.
Marine biologist Hardy introduced his theory in 1930, but he waited until 1960 to publish it. He probably had an accurate premonition of the response his ideas would receive in the scientific world.
Absolute rubbish—that was the gist of the response. But the idea fascinated Morgan. Not afraid to get her feet wet, she dove into Hardy's theory, unhindered by a lack of academic training on the subject. Since 1972, she has written six books on the aquatic ape and popularized the hypothesis that man evolved in water. It has brought her international fame and scientific derision.
Morgan was born in the Welsh countryside at the start of the previous century's Roaring Twenties, to a family of mine workers. In the years that followed, those of the Great Depression, her family was ravaged by poverty, unemployment and alcoholism—reason enough for Morgan's mother to encourage her daughter to grasp the opportunity for higher education.
Morgan wrote prolifically as a child and studied English at Oxford University. In the 1940s, she became involved with socialism, but she passed up a political career in favor of starting a family. In 1945, she married a French teacher, and they had two children. The couple later adopted a third child. After the children were grown and Morgan once more had time for herself, she picked up her pen again.
She wrote short articles for newspapers and magazines and was discovered by the BBC, which hired her as a scriptwriter for drama series and documentaries. She worked for the BBC for 30 years, and not without merit: Her series won several prizes, including two BAFTAs (the British equivalent of the American Oscars).
The explanation for human evolution had always been an abomination to her—particularly from a feminist point of view. The claim that ape-people came down from the trees, started walking on two legs and lost their fur purely so they could hunt seemed ridiculous to her. Why on earth should women start walking on two legs and lose their fur if all they did was sit on their butts and nurse babies? In 1972, she wrote her first book on the aquatic ape, The Descent of Woman, out of irritation at the limited role the female played in human evolution. She became the principal flag-bearer for the idea that human beings developed in water.
Sitting passively isn't her strong suit, either. Despite her advanced age, she still works. She writes a weekly column for the Western Mail, a daily newspaper in Wales, and has ideas for a new book on why scientists have always ignored the aquatic ape theory. "But I don't know that I've got enough time or that there's enough material to write a whole book about that," she says. She was very ill last winter and lost her oldest son.
Here and there, prominent scientists such as paleoanthropologist Phillip Tobias are expressing cautious support for her ideas. She is very curious to see what develops in connection with the aquatic ape theory. There are three possible scenarios, she believes. Someone will show up with a new theory, different in every way from both the savanna and the aquatic ape theories; Morgan thinks this is unlikely. The scientific world may continue along the path familiar to Morgan: completely ignoring the aquatic ape hypothesis and investigating it no further. That, she feels, would be stupid. Then there's the third option: The theories of Darwin and Hardy merge. Aware that she can't wait around forever, she hopes this happens soon.
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