Mark Ragel:  

Life It's been a long way from Decatur - 1962. I moved to Chicago in 1963 after a year at the U of I in Urbana. I got involved in 'Data Processing' in Chicago in the mid 60's. I went to Chicago City Colleges at night and worked as a programmer during the day. Raced sports cars & rode my motorcycle during the Summers around the MidWest. In retrospect, this was my retirement... it was a good one!! In 1971 I worked at the Univ. of Ill Circle Campus in an attempt to finish a degree but was hired by the Univ. System of Florida in 1972 and moved to Miami. I was on the founding staff of the the Southeast Regional Data Center located at Fla. Int'l Univ. where I finally got a Bachelors and Masters degrees. I moved to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1975 as the Manager of the Administrative 'Data Processing' department. Later I was on the founding staff of the oil company (Aramco) Exploration, Petroleum Engineering Center (EXPEC), in the Mid 1980s I was the Manger of Data Base Administration at Saudia Airlines & then became the head of Data Administration at the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO)... one thing just led to another... I've been in the Middle East ever since. I was the founder and GM of Algosaibi Information Systems from 1994 until the end of 2004 when I resigned to form 'Business Process Management Middle East' (BPM-ME) a software distributor focused on the emerging Business Process Management market sector. As I was just a bit ahead of the market curve, I closed BPM-ME and started Business Process Management Saudi Arabia (BPM-KSA) as a consulting organization. In 2008 I took a contract ...Expand for more