Biography
Fawzi is a visionary, thought leader, author, entrepreneur and contributor in advancing adoption of technology in serving humanity. Fawzi spent over 30 years in industry and held various executive and leadership positions with Tier 1 companies in the areas of communications and networks spanning Semiconductor, communication systems and service provider in US and Canada. Fawzi was a principle architect and championed the definition and the developing of integrated pre-IoT telecom alert system and networking management solution. He was a senior product manager for networking product release for enterprise, broadband edge and core nodes. Fawzi also served as the Director of Strategic Marketing for SoC networking & Communications product line.
Fawzi is passionate about technology automation and has founded TelNet Management Consulting Inc. in 2009 offering consulting services in the areas of technology trends and positioning for smart networking and IoT/GIS solutions. Examples included solar energy, public safety – emergency response systems. He organized and chaired workshops, tutorials and was a distinguished speaker on key topics such as IoT, 5G, virtualization and big data/analytics.
Fawzi is a board member with several companies and had several publications including a recent book on the subject of future IoT “Collaborative Internet of Things for Future Smart Connected Life and Business “ published by Wiley, June 2015 http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118913744,subjectCd-EEJ0.html
Fawzi holds a Bachelor of Science with honors and distinction; Masters in Computer Science and Executive MBA.
Fawzi was a speaker at IEEE N3XT® 2016 Austin.