About Us
Founded in 2004 by two MIT alums, MobiLaps
LLC is a woman-owned small business committed to providing subject-matter expertise
to senior management to help them solve complex technical and strategic
problems. MobiLaps LLC specializes in two high-demand
technical areas: information and communication technologies and geospatial interoperability
solutions.
- MobiLaps’ Network Appliance Software
Division is headed by Dr. Hisham Kassab, who has extensive IT
experience in general and wireless communications experience in particular. Previously, Dr. Kassab worked for Booz-Allen & Hamilton.
For his clients, Dr. Kassab has performed financial analysis, market
analysis and assessment of strategic-technological alignment. He has
helped clients on a wide-range of projects including formulating MVNO
strategy for a mobile operator, exploring pros/cons of banking/telecom
partnerships, studying the threats and opportunities posed by Wi-Fi to cellular carriers, and deploying customer
care and billing system for a large telecommunications company.
Dr. Kassab received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, his M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his
M.S. degree in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. His Ph.D. research at MIT was in the field of wireless
communications.
Dr. Kassab can be reached at hkassab@mobilaps.com.
- MobiLaps’ Geospatial Technology Consulting Division is headed by Dr. Nadine Alameh, an expert and leader
in the field of geospatial interoperability. For her unique expertise in
that field, Dr. Alameh was awarded the status of “Individual of
Extraordinary Ability” by the Department of Homeland Security
Immigration Services, and was granted permanent residence in the US
based on that classification. Dr. Alameh’s
most recent projects include leading the design and implementation of FEMA’s Multi-hazard Information Platform
Geospatial Interoperability Framework, and managing the architecture
effort of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Web Services Geospatial
Decisions Support thread.
Dr. Alameh holds two M.S. degrees and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information
Systems Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Her Ph.D. research at MIT was about scalable and extensible
infrastructures for distributing geographic information services.
Dr. Alameh can be reached at nadinesa@mobilaps.com.