 Karim is originally from Casablanca. He came to San Francisco in 1989 right after high school. Karim is a Certified Novel Engineer (CNE) and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and holds a BS in Information Technology from the University of Phoenix. Karim has been working with AT&T for about eight years as a Network Engineer maintaining private data lines for Global client accounts and government agencies with changing tasks such as Lucent/Alcatel Switches and Cisco Router support, Transmission of VBR video over ATM support, Circuit and Packet switching, maintenance of fiber optic links across WANs and Internet services.
Karim is highly involved in his community. He was a Webmaster for the San Francisco city Ballet School Website and organized a few summer outdoor gatherings for the Moroccan community that attracted over 100 people in the bay area.
Karim is also a member of the Association of Moroccan Professionals in America (www.amp-usa.org), a non profit organization with a simple goal to unite Moroccan professionals in the US and help them expand their professional network to advance their careers. He has helped organize the Morocco Foundation/AMPA “School Without Borders” fundraiser event in Nov 2006 and was part of the organizing committee of the May 2007 AMPA Moroccan American Bridges event.
In his free time, Karim enjoys reading, traveling, skiing, swimming and the outdoors in general. |
