Samer M. Taha
CICTR
Department of Electrical Engineering
The Pennsylvania State
University
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Dr.
Samer Taha
CEO
& Chairman of the Board
Waseela for Integrated
Telecommunications Solutions
Samer Taha
received his Ph.D. degree from the Pennsylvania
State University
in Electrical Engineering in 2001 with distinguished performance. Between 1999
and 2001 he was a member of the Center for Information and Communication
Technology Research, Pennsylvania,
USA where his
research work focused on QoS issues in next
generation wireless networks. In 2001 he joined Intel Corporation R&D
department (www.intel.com)
in Oregon, USA
and he stayed with Intel till beginning of 2006. While at Intel he was involved
in architecting solutions for advanced telecommunications R&D initiatives
including wireless mesh, high-throughput WiFi,
cross-layer optimization over wireless systems, and QoS
enhancements for Mobile WiMAX. He was also involved
in the WiMAX Industry Enabling Program that included
driving the WiMAX certification specifications at the
WiMAX Forum, joint research collaboration with other WiMAX vendors, and supporting WiMAX
trials with leading operators. At the beginning of 2006 he joined the startup
team of du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications
Company, www.du.ae)
in Dubai-UAE to establish the Broadband Wireless department and lead du’s broadband wireless strategy and roadmap. While
heading the broadband wireless department at du he
designed and managed the implementation of du’s
Public WiFi Network (most feature-rich in the
region), du’s Pre-WiMAX
Network, and three WiMAX Trial Networks. In addition,
he designed du’s planned Nationwide WiMAX Network and architected its broadband wireless
strategy. In October 2007, he was elected by the board members of Waseela for Integrated Telecommunications Company to take
the position of the CEO; Waseela (www.waseela-net.com)
is a regional system integrator specialized in advanced wireless technologies
based in Amman – Jordan.
As the CEO of Waseela, Dr. Taha
was able to expand the operations of the company to Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia and United
Arab Emirates. In about 3-year period, Waseela under Dr. Taha’s
leadership established itself as a leading system integrator and managed
services provider specialized in advanced broadband wireless solutions in the Middle
East region. The turnover of the company in 2010 exceeded USD 10
million; during the last few years the company’s operations included
major achievements like providing end-to-end managed engineering services for
the operation of Mobily’s WiMAX
network (KSA) which is one of the largest mobile-WiMAX
deployments in the world, operating Dubai’s Metro wireless solution (UAE)
which received a global award from Cisco for being one of the most advanced
seamless broadband mobility solutions as it combined mobile-WiMAX
and WiFi solutions to provide seamless connectivity
above the ground and underground for the Dubai-metro passengers, mobile-WiMAX and 3G optimization projects for several operators in
the ME region, turnkey network services to operators mainly in Jordan and Iraq
in addition to various advanced engineering services to global vendors in the
field of broadband wireless deployments. Waseela has
also succeeded in securing important strategic partnerships, it is currently
the exclusive regional partner of Accuver (www.accuver.com)
the leading international supplier of advanced 3G and 4G optimization and
benchmarking tools, the exclusive regional distributor of RedLine
Communications (www.rdlcom.com)
the leading supplier of OFDM-based broadband wireless solutions, the regional
partner of Dragon Wave (www.dragonwaveinc.com) the leading supplier
of native-IP based Microwave solutions. In addition Waseela
has become one of the officially recommended service provider partners of
Samsung, Motorola, Nokia Siemens, Huawei, Cisco and
Ericsson. Waseela currently (in 2011) has more than
220 employees and is continuing to grow and expand its operations in the Middle
East region. At the beginning of 2011 and under the management of
Dr. Taha, Waseela started
its first R&D efforts in the field of Real-Time-Location-Services based on
wireless technologies with the ambition of introducing first practical products
in middle of 2012 targeting the sectors of health industry, shopping malls and
logistics facilities. In addition to his position as the CEO of Waseela, Dr. Taha currently also
provides consultation services to several telecom operators and suppliers in
the Middle East region. So far, Dr. Taha
has four published patents by the US Patents Office and five patent
applications pending approval by the US Patents Office.
Education:
·
Graduated
from The Pennsylvania-State University with a
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2002.
·
Bachelors
of Science in Electrical
Engineering, Jordan University Of
Science and Technology (J.U.S.T) , May
1998.