TOPIC: Risk Management for Successful Projects and Operations - Why and How?
Kassem A. Saleh, Ph.D., PMI PMP-RMP
Dr. Kassem A. Saleh received his BSc, MSc, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa in Canada. Dr. Saleh worked as a Software Design Engineer at Northern Telecom in 1984 and then as a Computer Systems Specialist at Mediatel, Bell Canada, from 1985 to 1991. Kassem was on the faculty of Concordia University in 1992, Kuwait University from 1992 to 2000, and the American University of Sharjah from 2000 to 2007. He is currently Professor in Information Sciences at Kuwait University. His research interests include software engineering, information security, quality and risk management and project management. Dr. Saleh has published more than 130 refereed journal and conference papers and one textbook on Software Engineering and has presented numerous tutorials, lectures and invite talks at international conferences and universities. The Journal of Systems and Software has ranked Dr. Saleh among the top ten scholars in the field of systems and software engineering in eight of its annual assessments published from 1996 to 2003. Dr Saleh holds professional certifications in software engineering (IEEE CSEM), information security (ISC2 CISSP), project (PMI PMP) and risk management (PMI PMP-RMP), quality engineering (ASQ CQE, ASQ CSQE) and business analysis (PMI PMP-BA).