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Service
Professional Activities
- Made numerous presentations at national and
international conferences, leading information technology firms, and
universities
- Member of the Organizing Committee for
International Symposia and Conferences
- Session Chair at congresses and symposia
- A reviewer for journals, federal grants
agencies, and national and international conferences
- Fulbright Scholar, 1984-85
- Dr. Richard Neel (Blue Diamond) Award for
Lifetime Achievement in Information Technology, 2005
- North Carolina Technology Association Career
Achievement Award, 2008
Community Activities
- State
- Participant in the Vision 2030 initiative;
an effort to outline the future strategic investments for North Carolina
- Member of the North Carolina Department of
Commerce delegation to Europe in 2002 and 2003 to promote the
biotechnology and information technology resources in the state
- Participant in the state’s efforts in
collaborative technologies (Collaboratories), biotechnologies (NC
Genomics and Bioinformatics Consortium’s Task Force on High
Performance Computing), and work-force improvement
- Member of the North Carolina Healthcare
Information and Communication Alliance (NCHICA)
- Presenter at NCHICA, NCTA, and Charlotte
Chamber organized conferences, panels, and events
- City
- Past member of the Steering Committee of the
Information Technologies Charlotte, a committee of the Charlotte
Chamber of Commerce
- Past member of the Technology Executives of
Charlotte organization
- Member of the Board of Directors of the
Children’s Law Center, 2003
- Member of the Blue Ribbon Committee (set up
by the Arts and Sciences Council, Foundation for the Carolinas, and
Center City Partners) charged with planning the Greater Charlotte’s
cultural environment for the next 25 years, 2004
- Member of the United Way’s Health
Council, 2004-2006
- Member of the Executive, Steering, and
Program Content Committees for the United Agenda Initiative, an
initiative to promote education, health, and safety of our children and
youth, 2004-2005
- Grants Panelist of the Arts and Sciences
Council, 2005
- Board member for the Levine Museum of the New
South, 2007-
- Board member for WFAE, 2008-
- Member of the Mayor’s International
Committee, 1996-97
- Invited speaker for events organized by
elementary schools, high schools, Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System,
rotary clubs, non-profit foundations, and corporations
- National
- Founding president of the Bosniak American
Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina
- International
- Founding president of the
Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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