Alex Jarrah

Who is he?

His Work

Alex Jarrah had a 35-year rich career developing technologies andbusinesses. In his long career as a technology executive he accomplished some major achievements.Here are a few of these accomplishments that are divided into four major groups:

• Software Industry• International: Countries Cultures and Business• Business Consulting / Startup Incubation• Educational Industry

• Proven leadership experience in both startups as well as corporate environments.

• Possess deep Knowledge of the software industry and its strengths, weaknesses as well as what works and what doesn’t.

• Personal acquaintance or friendship with several dozens of CEO’s, VP’s and directors throughout the software industry. • Witnessed the development of software industry from the early stages while holding some key positions at some of the most influential companies, Including : Symantec, Borland, Apple, Adobe/Aldus, Microsoft, HP and Xerox among others.

Software industry

• For the last 17 years, has been managing a small multi-national software company with offices in six countries and development teams in two.

• Founding Member of the Unicode Consortium

• Fluent in: English, French, Arabic, conversant in Mandarin, Spanish and German. Familiar with a dozen other languages.

• Deep experience in and intimate knowledge in the social cultures and business practices in China, India, Korea, Europe, South-America Middle-East as well as familiarity with many other locales.

• Possesses Strong business relationships in all the countries in which he had done business, as well as many other countries.

International: Countries Languages Cultures and Business

• Deep knowledge of integrated business management software and hardware systems, world-wide.

Offered Business Restructuring Services in China and India for five years . Signed two clients

• Extensive experience developing business as well as deep knowledge of the social and business cultures of the following countries/areas: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Korea, Europe and Middle-East.

• Has been doing international work, in both deep technical and business management areas for 35 years.

• Has lived and understand the business culture in eight countries.

Business Consulting /Startup Incubation

• Grew up in a family that dedicated its resources to the betterment of education and built many educational institutions.

• Signed a five year contract in 2005 with the government of Jiangsu Province in China, the result of which was acquiring control of all technology education in 479 universities. The contract was renewed for an additional five year term in Aug 2010.

• Created SOS (School Operating System)A total educational institution management software with facilities for management, registration, teachers, students, parents, accounting, HR etc...

Educational Industries

International Data Systems.The first multi-national Arabic software company. Sold $16million in the first year of operation. Sold to Apple, and adobe among many other companies.

OOPSystems Software,Inc.The leading provider of Total Business Management Solutions.

ITFORBIZprovides your company with comprehensive IT relatedservices, including infrastructure, maintenance, as well as 24-hour support .

Launched Many Successful Companies

Some of His Accomplishments

•Helped invent the True-Script technology which was licensed by Apple, Microsoft, HP , Bit-Stream and many other companies concerned with better font technologies.• Founding Member of The Unicode Consortium and ISO Standard.•Helped invent Desktop Presentation Technology.•Helped Introduce Microsoft, Symantec, Borland and Adobe into the Internet Realm.•Created the first Russian Software to hit the mass market (Aldus PageMaker)•Created the Edinburgh Engineering Center for Adobe and hired 460 engineers in 1991.•Lead the creation of a joint Apple-Symantec team to create development tools for the multi-platform market.•Introduced the technology which later became OLE and donated it to Microsoft.•Wrote the first technical specifications document for Arabic Windows and donated it to Microsoft.•Created “Paige” the first truly multi-lingual destop publishing engine which supported 173 human languages. •Invented “OOP’s” An NLP engine which solved the AI problem of combinatoric explosions. 1996.•Acquired FDA approval for Spacelabs ABP product.

Some Positions Held

•Director Of International Engineering @ Adobe 1988-1992•Chief-Architect Symantec 1992-1994•Principal Scientist and Team Lead Borland C++ product 1994-1996•Chief Architect Xerox (Consultant) 1996•Founder & Chief Architect Telocity(The first National DSL provider) later became DirecTV Broadband.•Chief Management Consultant Spacelabs Medical 2002-2003