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Lemma Lessa
Dr.
Lemma Lessa Ferede
is an associate professor of Information Systems at the School of Information Science, Addis Ababa University; and a certified management consultant. He obtained his PhD in Information Technology (specializing in Information Systems). He has over twenty-five years of experience in the Ethiopian Higher education and as a practitioner in parallel. His teaching, research, and consultancy interests are Information Systems Policy and Strategy, Digital Transformation, IT Governance, IT Project Management, and Information Systems Security Management. His postgraduate teaching includes Information Systems Security Management; Enterprise and IT Architecture; Information Systems Project Management; Information Systems Policy, Strategy and Governance, and more. He has authored or co-authored over fifty articles - ten journal articles, six peer-reviewed Book chapters, and about thirty-eight peer-reviewed conference papers. In his career, he served in different administrative positions including University librarian and Director for Information & Communications services at Defence University; Department head and Postgraduate program coordinator at the School of Information Science, AAU; Member of Institutional Review Board (IRB) at College of Natural and Computational Sciences at AAU; Software project manager at TechSol software development PLC; senior manager for business management solutions at CIMAC Microsoft Dynamics ERP consulting PLC; and Head of research & community services at SRI SAI college. He participated in the preparation of several national and institutional policy and strategy documents including (a) National ICT in Education Policy for Ethiopia; (b) Digital Skills Country Action Plan (DSCAP) for Ethiopian higher education and TVETs Institutions; (c) Institutional e-Learning Policy Guideline for Higher Educational Institutions in Ethiopia; (d) ICT Strategic Plan for Ethiopian Higher Learning Institutions and TVETs and (e) E-Learning Policy and Guideline of Addis Ababa University. He is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the current president of the Ethiopian chapter of AIS. As an entrepreneur, he is the founder and manager of UltraPerfect IT Training and Consultancy service.
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