Dr. Donia has more than 15 years of IT and consulting experience. He received a Ph.D. in Computational Design from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998, where he was involved in the design and development of a software environment to support the early phases of intelligent building design, called the SEED project.
 
     He spent more than 7 years at Trilogy Software Inc. in Austin, Texas where he managed software products, designed, implemented and tested high-end configuration and CRM software systems for complex industrial products, such as high-performance servers, mass storage and telecommunication systems. Clients interacted with include IBM, Hewlett Packard (HP), Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Boeing, GE Industrial Systems, and Lucent Technologies.

     In addition to serving as the CTO for VALLEYSOFT, he is also the Principal Consultant with SAPIT in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he manages the definition of IT Strategy and Architecture for several major institutions in the financial services and real-estate industries.