my interview with Channel 5

AT&T gave me opportunity to talk to ch5 which is the most viewed channel inside st louis
it was in the air yesterday this is the link for the video and the article

http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=200765&catid=3

Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

it was 3/9 when i get an email from Mr. Castro a co worker in AT&T work as a PMP(Sr. project manager) it was an invitation to Hispanic Chamber of Commerce it was a meeting called Business After Hours and its simply an event to bring HCC members together

he was kind to take us to the place by his car and get us back to mansion house where we live the host for this event is Edward Jones who give a financial presentation it was awesome its talking about the economic crisis and how to run your business in this tough time and it was also a visionary speech about how they started their work the first time and the most important lesson i get form this speak is the important of the networking and building relation ship in business to stay in business its not enough to be the best its not enough to sell at the lowest price its very important to make people trust you

Mr. after the event end Mr. Castro share with me some valuable information one of them is about a company owner how talked to him and said that 70 percent of his work came by referral and that to explain to me the important of networking and  building a trust relationship with the customer  after all its all about people .

It was an event I really get good insight from 

the Open Source Software !!

Hi all, today I want to talk about one of the most interested thing I observe here from the technical side. All of us (Iraqi IT Interns) visit many universities like Stanford, Berkeley (California) and Maryland, this most issue that i notices that all these university use open-source programming language to teach students the programming algorithms, high level programming and they didn't depend on the famous software companies like Microsoft, Apple,...etc (only if there is a lab. gift from this companies to that universities) and I am really surprised from that at first because in Iraq most of the college that I see uses Microsoft products (you know that there are no copyright in Iraq so it is very cheap!!).
And even when I now in the Mercy Corps they use open-source programming and platforms, all these universities and most of the companies want to be independent from Big software producers, they want to be free !! and I thank in Iraq we need to big switch to this type, and as an Instructor and IT Director in my university I will try my hard to do this change.

my friends I want your comment .......

Expo Center

in the previous days there a show in Expo Center in Portland named "Energy Trust Better Living Show", in this show many companies offer the new technology of Solar and wind power beside many healthy products.

Alice in Wonderland in 3D !!

a month ago Serbest tell me that he goes to the movie theater (Cinema) in the Saint Louis to see the Avatar movie in 3D which and encourage me to see the 3D movies. then I browse the INTERNET to see where the 3D theaters and what is the new 3D movie.
Alice in Wonderland is the new one and there is a near theater to me (LLoyd Center Cinema)which Floyd help me to find it.

The Mount Hood

There is a very nice Mount in the portland city called the Mount Hood, there are alot of snow on this mount most of the time. Floyd offer me to go with him and his family to this mount and It is really a wonderfull time we spent it there.

danforth planet science center

it was great experience  i get a chance to go with Deb (AT&T external affair) to visit the danforth planet science center.

the concept of using the technology to help poor people in africa and all the work that have been done in order to enhance the amount of the protein so that the food have more value and the best part is that they take scientists from africa and teach them how to do that themselves 

it was a great experience