AHMAD-RAMEZ  KASSOU
	PERSONAL DETAILS	Current location: St. Petersburg, Russia Mobile: +7 960 262 3561 E-mail: ramsess2@ramsess2.net
	PROFESSIONAL PROFILE	Management of "Inventing on Demand" projects as a part of Purchasing Chessboard^T^M strategies Expertise of innovation and improvement technologies in IT and industries 7 years  of consulting experience in problem identification, problem solving, forecasting technologies, patent analysis and design-to-cost analysis Engineering of computer networks security Industrial expertise: High-tech, Automotive, Construction, Process, Products Successfully delivered mid-to-long term projects for large enterprises (e.g. Siemens, Getrag, Alcoa, Chiquita, etc..) 6 published patents of inventions in IT and Information Security & 2 filed patents in Automotive Industry (WO, US, EU)
	KEY SKILLS	Leading and supporting short-to-long term projects Developing and applying systemic approaches in research/analysis Management of typical innovation projects (Problem-to-Solve, Design-to-Cost, Forecasting, Patent Strategies) Developing and deploying TRIZ-methodology toolbox Experience of integrating systemic innovation tools in high level methods and methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma) Applying optimization methods Designing project proposals/roadmaps/presentation of deliverables Delivering sustainable and scalable solutions "Management-to-engineering" collaboration skills “RFI” and “RFP” activities Communicating & negotiating fluently in English, Arabic and Russian
	MEMBERSHIPS	2009: Expert & Partner of IMP3rove platform in Russia and Middle East (Syria) 2007: Member of Supply Chain Management Network 2006: Member of TRIZ regional community (Russia, St. Petersburg) 2002: DMTF academic member
	EDUCATION
	St. Petersburg Polytechnic University St. Petersburg University  for Aerospace Instrumentation	2009-2010 PhD. Thesis: “Improving performance of innovation projects through standardization methods of control and estimation processes” (Standardization and Quality Control) 2001-2003 PhD. study. "Optimization Tasks of Network Intrusion Detecting Systems" (Information Security) 1999-2001 M.Sc. Thesis: "Java-Technology in Distant Education and Information Protection" (Information Security)
	St. Petersburg Technical University	1995-1999    B.Sc. Thesis: "Target Holding Model in Distributed System of JavaSpaces " (Computer Science)
	CERTIFICATES	December, 2007: Certified by International TRIZ Association (level 3). April, 2003: Certified by Scientific Center for Information Security "Confident Ltd.".
	CAREER HISTORY
	Project manager, Partner BLIZZARD LUFTTECHNIK Germany, St. Petersburg CEO, Partner I2M GROUP St. Petersburg, Damascus Project Leader A.T. KEARNEY (GmbH) Dusseldorf, Heilbronn	November 2009 – up now Implementing projects of “Eco House” systems. Management-to-Engineering support. May 2009 – up now IMP3rove platform consulting services for local SME’s (Assessmnet tools), Partnership programs, Selling projects, Training innovation approaches March 2008 - March 2009 Innovation Breakthrough project in Automotive (Transmissions), Design-to-Cost analysis, Developing concepts and building business cases
	Expert/Consultant A.T. KEARNEY (EE) Moscow, St. Petersburg	July 2007 - February 2008 Sales support (building proposals), House of innovation methodology development
	Project Leader/Consultant GEN3 PARTNERS (Algorithm) Boston, St. Petersburg	April 2004 - June 2007 Problem identification and solving, Implementing TRIZplus toolbox, Methodology research (G3:ID), Open Innovation practices, Trends analysis, Sales support (building proposals and case studies)
	Lecturer/Supervisor ADMIRAL MAKAROV STATE MARITIME ACADEMY St. Petersburg	February 2004 - June 2004 Creating and presenting topics on IT and IS as academic courses. Software testing laboratory
	Lecturer/Supervisor ELECTRO-TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY Information security department St. Petersburg	2003 - 2004 Creating and presenting lectures of M.Sc. study "Attacks and prevention in computer networks". Software testing laboratory
	Security Software Developer COMPUTER NETWORKS (ComSet) Internet service provider St. Petersburg	July 2001 - June 2003 Java technologies developing and deployment. Information Security problem solving. Embedding and testing software innovation
	INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES	Football. Classic guitar. Discovering.
	REFERENCES	Available on request.