Doha, Qatar, P. O. B
Box 7256
T: +974 44 634 74
F: +974 44 638 07
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Jounieeh, Lebanon, P. O. Box 111
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T: +961 9 911 446 // 7
F: +961 9 911 442
info@pragma‐tech.com
www.pragma‐tech..com
PRAGMATECH
PRAGMATECH was established in 2009 as a wholly owned subsidiary of United Development Company (UDC),
which is based in Doha, Qatar. In line with UDC’s strategy of supporting innovations, our own vision of
improving the Information Technology Milieu in the Middle‐East by introducing a world‐class player, and our
mission of creating a world‐class IT solutions provider out of the Middle‐East servicing clients locally and
internationally, PRAGMATECH’s focus from the start was on creating original technologies that service
international market needs – technologies that will have an impact on a global scale.
OUR TEAM
At PRAGMATECH we believe that, at the end, behind every success story are unique individuals with special
qualities. We are thus very selective in hiring potential talent, and in particular in senior positions. Members
of our core team are experienced IT professionals with graduate degrees in computer science and extensive
experience in Europe, Canada, the US and the Middle East, where they have held senior positions at places
such as AT&T Bell Labs, IBM, Nortel Networks, the American Institutes for Research, Cognos, Inc. and
MetLife.
Several of our core team members are also published authors with award winning research that appeared in
several international journals and the proceedings of international conferences.
OUR SERVICES
E
Softwaree Developm
ment
• System
ms (educational, financial,, corporate, m media, etc.)
• Portals (e‐commerrce)
• Webssites (elegant,, classy, innovvative, and crreative design
ns)
h & Develop
Research pment (R&D
D)
Trainingg
Senior meembers of the
e PRAGMATECH H team have e experience in preparing an
nd delivering aadvanced cou
urses
ber of computter science fieelds, including:
in a numb
• .N
NET technologgy (multi‐tier architecture)
• ShharePoint
• UML/Rational method and multi‐tier sofftware engineeering
• Business proceess re‐engineering
• Object‐Oriente
O ed analysis, design and devvelopment
Partnersships
Walid.. S. Saba, Ph
hD. (Chief Information
I Officer)
Dr. Sab
ba received his
h PhD in Computer Scieence from Carleton Univversity
(Canadaa). He spentt over 16 yeears in industry where he was a prin ncipal
a the American Institutees for Research in Washin
softwarre engineer at ngton,
DC, a knnowledge engineer at AT& &T Bell Labs, a consulting software enggineer
at the IBM Watson Center, Mettlife, Nortel Networks
N and Cognos, Innc., as
well as a technical mmanager of an Artificial In ntelligence grooup at an intternet
startup in New Yorkk. Dr. Saba haas also spentt 7 years in accademia wheere he
taught Computer Science
S at th
he University of Windsorr, the New Jersey
J
of Technology (NJIT), the American Un
Institute o niversity of Beeirut (AUB), aand the American Universsity of
Technologgy. Dr. Saba’’s research interests
i are in computaational seman ntics, ontology and intelligent
agents, where
w he has published ovver 30 technical articles that
t appeared in refereed
d journals an
nd the
proceedin ngs of internaational conferrences, includ ding an award d winning paper that he reeceived at KI‐2008
– the 31stt Annual Germ man Conferen nce on Artificcial Intelligencce.
Dr. Saba iis a co‐founder of PRAGMAATECH where hhe currently h
holds the Chiief Informatio
on Officer po
osition
supervisin
ng and advisinng the team rregarding pro
ojects and leading the reseearch and devvelopment teaam.
Eddy Touma
T (Operrations Managger)
Eddy recceived his BScc in Computeer Science with highest hon nors in 2005 ffrom
the Ameerican University of Techno ology, Lebanoon. He is currrently workingg in
parallel on his final dissertation to
o receive his M
MS in Computer Science w with
Software engineeringg emphasis frrom the Univeersity of Liverrpool, United
Kingdomm.
Eddy woon two Microsoft awards in 2006 along with another teammate
(Romeo Issa, also meember of the PRAGMATECH rresearch and
developm he Software EEngineering ccompetitions of Microsoft’s
ment team) when they partticipated in th
Imagine C Cup 2006. Edddy has more tthan 6 years o different fields both in Lebanon
of experiencee working in d
and Qatarr. This has helped him add
d to his techniical background valuable bbusiness and managementt
skills.
Eddy is a co‐founder of PRAGMATECH and curreently holds th o Operationss GM where he is
he position of
involved d directly with all operations and works simultaneoussly with the R R&D team onn developing sstate‐
of‐the‐artt technologiess.