He graduated in Electric Power Systems Engineering in Budapest, Hungary (1970), and obtained a Master of Science Degree in Electric Power Systems Analysis and Control from the Victoria University o...voir plusHe graduated in Electric Power Systems Engineering in Budapest, Hungary (1970), and obtained a Master of Science Degree in Electric Power Systems Analysis and Control from the Victoria University of Manchester in the U.K. (1979).
He held senior positions at the Guyana Electricity Corporation from 1973 to 1986, became a Chartered Engineer of the U.K.-based Institute of Electrical Engineers (1977), has been a Member of the U.S.-based Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc.(IEEE) since 1978, and an IEEE USA Consultant since 2001.
From 1999 to 2001, he served on several occasions as a United Nations Energy & Power Consultant, to the UNOPS’s (UN Office for Project Services) Reconstruction efforts in Kosovo, which was bombed by U.S. and NATO forces in 1999.
In 2004 he served in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR) as a U.S. Federal Contractor on the Northern Iraq Electricity Network Rehabilitation Programme (ENRP) under the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority led by the U.S. Bremer Administration.
He later served as a U.S. Federal Contractor/Project Manager, initially in 2005 with the Gulf Region Division (GRD) of the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), and subsequently within the U.S. / GRD-led Joint Reconstruction Operations Center (JROC) from 2006 to 2010, with U.S. Companies on the U.S. Government Iraq Reconstruction Project funded for $18.4B.
From 2010 to 2011 he served as Program Manager/ Electrical Engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and was assigned to the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) of the U.S. Department of State (DOS) at two of Iraq’s Provinces located outside Baghdad. From 2011 to 2013 he served as the Post Electrical Engineer as a U.S. State Department Contractor and was assigned to the U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq.
For his service to both the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of State (DOS), he was presented with over 15 ‘Certificates or Letters of Commendation and Recognition’ awards for outstanding service to the U.S. military and the U.S. State Department in their reconstruction efforts in Iraq.voir moins