Versatile manager and administrator with 19 year’s experience. Strong business acumen, demonstrated by 12-year ownership of successful engraving business. Approachable, mentoring leadership style builds team competence and maturity. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Detail-oriented and accurate in all aspects of accounting and administrative functions

Health and safety professional – consultant- works various industry sectors – construction, manufacturing, and recreational. Able to provide the tools and develop field safey management systems and link to regulatory compliance for full safety management program.

Marwan Alkarout has over 10 years of experience in the Education field both as an Instructor and administrator. He lived and worked in Asia for a number of years in addition to travelling extensively throughout the region. He has a great deal of experience teaching international students both in an educational institution and company setting. Marwan Alkarout has attained B.Ed and M.A degrees, a CITP designation for International trade, a DACUM Certificate-Levels 1&2, a Business certificate and he is a published author of 2 English language books for the Korean and Chinese markets. He worked at NAIT as coordinator of Student Life managing Student Services, Students Residences and The Recreation Centre. Most recently, he was part of a business start-up importing and selling health products, on-line.

I am working in different area of business for the last 12 years. I have also worked in teaching and learning, which includes training the staff. My previous assignment with a not for profit organization provided me opportunities to work in teachers’ training, curriculum designing, school management, and other relevant areas. I have also worked as an education consultant & counsellor and taught and trained the students of English language including ESL and business administration.

I am Certified LabVIEW Architect, and Specialize in Automation and Electronic Design, I have over 10 years experience as well in project Management.

Dr. Palza has more than 15 years of experience as a Consultant, Professor and Researcher. He has extensive experience in areas such as Business Management, Operations Management, MIS and Statistical Analysis.

As a consultant Dr. Palza has implemented Business and IT solutions for organisations as Nokia, Ericsson Research Canada, John Hancock (USA), NASA IV&V, World Bank, Bombardier (Canada), Cirque du Soleil (Canada), CGI Inc. (Canada), etc. Dr. Palza has taken in different roles and responsibilities: Director, Manager, Business Architect, and others.

He is Associate Professor at the Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology at « Université du Québec â�� Ã�cole de technologie supérieure ». Since 2009 Dr. Palza is working as Part Time professor at Telfer School of Management â�� University of Ottawa. Dr. Palza was also working as Part Time professor at « Ã�cole des sciences de la gestion â�� UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal) », « Faculté d’Administration – Université de Sherbrooke ». Dr. Palza currently is imparting online courses at «University of New Brunswick (Canada) ».

Dr. Palza current research activities covers Artificial Intelligence applied to Management (Health, Finance, and Marketing), Business Intelligence (Data-Mining/Data-Warehouse), Statistics in Management, Performance Management, Project Management, IT Governance and Business Strategies. He has published several Books, Book Chapters and Articles in Journals and International Conferences. He is Editor Board in the Journal �International Journal of Information, Business and Management� , reviewer and Chair for International Conferences in Business Management and IT (CITSA , CCCT , RMCI , etc).

Actually Dr. Palza is conducting a Multidisciplinary Research Project in Health Informatics/Health Management. It is an International Project composed by Researchers and Students from Canada and Peru. The project interest is to predict diseases in newborns based on Pregnant Woman behaviours patterns applying Artificial Intelligence Models.

Dr. Palza is also a member of the ISO committee Working Group 24 of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7-ISO 29110 � Software Lifecycle Profiles for Very Small Enterprises. He is leading projects relating of IT best practices for Small Enterprises in Canada and South America: Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, Colombia and Puerto Rico.

Dr. Palza completed his PhD Degree with a concentration in IT Operations Management from U. du Québec – Ã�cole de technologie supérieure – Ã�TS (Canada), he earned a Master Degree in Software Engineering with a concentration in Performance Management from UQAM-Ã�TS (Canada), a Bachelor Degree in Computer Information Systems. Dr. Palza has certifications in Finance, Human Resources, Operations Management, as well as studies in Innovation Management, Procurement, Project Management, Marketing and E-Business.