Release No. 04012006

Date: April 1, 2006                                                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Ron Cramer, President
             Romey Brooks, Public Relations
             Habitat for Humanity of Frederick County, MD
             4 East Church Street
             Frederick, MD 21701

Habitat Hires New Executive Director

Frederick–Habitat for Humanity Board President Ron Cramer has announced that Dr. David Ozag will begin serving as executive director of Habitat on April 4. “We are delighted to have Dr. Ozag as executive director because he brings over twenty years of progressive experience in various skills associated with managing a non-profit organization,” said President Cramer. “These include skills in accounting, financial management, human resources, project management, system administration, fund-raising and volunteering. He is experienced in the many tasks associated with managing an organization,” he concluded.

Dr. Ozag has served as president and chief executive officer of an accounting consulting organization and system administrator for a major national mortgage servicing company. In these positions he reengineered various internal processes and developed and managed technical and managerial training, compensation, recruiting, and employee performance programs. In addition he has directed a large group of technology professionals including programmers, trainers, system analysts, and technology support personnel. He has served as webmaster for several professional organizations.

During the past eight years, Dr. Ozag has had full-time appointments at Gettysburg College and East Carolina University as well as a part-time appointment at the University of Maryland-University College.

Dr. Ozag has extensive experience as a volunteer. He has been on the board of directors of Rockville Striders, a youth track club in Rockville, Maryland and was an assistant basketball coach at Thomas Johnson High School, Frederick, for ten seasons. He is on the Alumni Council of the College of Education at George Washington University and serves as faculty advisor of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity at East Carolina University where he has been named faculty advisor of the year several times.

He recently took a group of undergraduate students to Camp Boggy Creek in Eustis, FL. The camp, started by Phi Kappa Tau alumnus Paul Newman, is for terminally and chronically ill children. There he volunteered as a family counselor for “Diabetic Weekend.” He also does volunteer accounting and website management for Mediation Services of Adams County (PA).

Dr. Ozag is single and lives in Frederick as do his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ozag, Sr., and other immediate family members. For a change of pace he works out, reads and writes. He has published books on visual basic programming and organizational commitment and six scholarly articles in the past year on topics ranging for movie making to managerial decision making.

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