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“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: “I have to go to work — as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for — the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?” -Marcus Aurelius

Technology is my passion, helping others is my purpose. I have over 15+ years of experience working in the Information Technology field. From early beginnings at the age of 12 dissecting my family’s computer, I knew that there was something about computers that would spark my interest for a long time to come. The early years of my career started with web development which eventually opened the doors as a desktop support consultant for residential and small business. Outside of the private consulting world much of my career has been focused on school districts and healthcare.

AppSmart formerly CNSG has strong working relationships with the leading Local, National Carriers, Cloud and Hosted Telephony Providers — AppSmart knows their respective strengths — in costs, technology, installation, service and long-term support. AppSmart will get to know your company equally well and work with you to evaluate which carriers can deliver the best of breed design tailored to your company’s specific communications requirements. With AppSmart, you’ll have an unbiased, objective, and honest assessment of which solution will best meet your communications requirement with a support.

Boundless Digital helps IT teams to automate and simplify their networking tasks. We focus on providing guest access to wifi hotspots and automating tasks such as deployments, configuration, and monitoring. Our goal is to empower our users to easily manage computer networks as effectively as engineers with years of experience and advanced degrees, all without having specialized training.

Minority owned Business IT leaders, Abuukar and Zakariya talk about their journey to start their IT company (PID Enterprise) at 18 years old.

Business growth specialist, reputation and issues management, positioning, Marketing and Brand Communications, digital growth leader, Public Relations, Asia growth track record, specialist at new business pipeline and pitching, leadership development, inspiring speaker, and Professional Services industry leader. First 24 years of career in public relations, specialising in corporate PR and reputation management. In 10 years moved from intern to ANZ CEO of the then largest PR group in the region. Then lead more broadly as Asia Pacific Vice Chairman. Co-founded a financial PR firm and sold it to Ogilvy PR/WPP/STW. Founding CEO/employee and built Australia’s largest PR group, Ogilvy PR. Then Chief Operating Officer for 7 years of STW Group (now WPP aunz), southern hemisphere’s largest publicly listed marketing content and communications company. Board director/chairman of more than 40 of group’s 75 businesses specialising in digital communications, advertising, design and branding, public relations, government relations and lobbying, sports sponsorship, training, activation, and research. Resigned February 2015 to focus on helping leaders accelerate growth- of businesses, differentiation, momentum, careers.

My experience includes serving as a transformational leader with strong focus on business improvement, optimizing the customer service experience and implementing digital innovation strategies. As an innovator with deep grasp of technology, organizational change management and project management capabilities, I have delivered smart city and sustainability solutions that improved public safety, process management and accountability.

Technology Executive and Information Officer with the leadership of all aspects of Information Technology, Information Security, Project Management with extensive experience in strategic sourcing, vendor management, purchasing and procurement, financial management, process re-engineering, network operation center services, network architecture, and design, development of KPIs, incident management, IT asset management, engagement management, ITIL-based service management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and extensive large-scale project management.

Vice President of Information Security & Technology at Nascentia Health in Syracuse, NY & CTO at Inizio Technology Consulting Awarded the 2016 CNY Business Journal Finance and Business Executive of the Year award in Technology for my efforts as an IT professional and educator at the Utica School of Commerce. MBA in Technology Management BS in Business Administration Featured on “Dissecting Popular IT Nerds”