New staff profile: Omid Haass

Omid is an Associate Lecturer, Project Management at the RMIT University, School of Property, Construction and Project Management.

Omid obtained his doctoral degree on Project Management in the department of International Business and Asian Studies (IBAS), Griffith Business School (GBS), Griffith University. His research interests entails Project, Knowledge and Risk management. Omid studied on evaluation of large and complex projects as his PhD research project. He also worked at GBS, Griffith School of Engineering and Griffith School of Information and Communication technology as a sessional academics and delivered a variety of courses such as project management, managerial problem solving, introduction to international business, comparative management, sustainable supply change management and business processes to the postgraduate and undergraduate students.

Omid obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master’s degree in Executive Management (E-MBA) both at the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in Tehran, Iran. He also holds over 16 years work experience as a practitioner and worked in various project based, management consulting and manufacturing companies in Iran. His professional career includes project management office (PMO) director, quality management representative, quality manager, quality lead auditor, chief of knowledge executive (CKO), systems and training manager and project planner.

Omid is a member of Project Management Institute (PMI) since 2014 and have been certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI since 2015.