Michael Al-Sharaiha, Accelerated Business Academy Coach

Michael Al-Sharaiha

Accelerated Business Academy Coach

Rising Tide Capital

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
8 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 11 Months

Accelerated Business Academy Coach at Rising Tide Capital
  • United States - New Jersey
  • My current job since June 2019

• Helping Entrepreneurs through one on one sessions to establish achievable goals for their businesses, and understand their target market and how to reach it
• Helping connect Entrepreneurs to providers of the services their businesses need to grow and achieve their goals

Community Business Academy Instructor at Rising Tide Capital
  • United States - New Jersey
  • September 2018 to June 2019

• Instructed students on the different business activities they have to perform in order to establish or grow their business
• Ran business simulation games to help students better understand the concepts taught in previous classes and how to apply those concepts to day to day business matters
• Represented the organization in their Families for Literacy initiative, which endeavors to empower families through education, when meeting with other partner organizations, and in the events held to promote the course potential students
• Reviewed the curriculum for the new student population to ensure it remains true to the goals of the organization and the cultural sensibilities of the potential benefactors
• Created an English - Arabic Glossary for future instructors to follow.

Head of Business Development at Gibran Translation Services
  • Jordan - Amman
  • March 2015 to July 2015

• Managed translation teams by dividing work loads and ensuring quality parameters and checks are being executed
• Managed corporate clients making sure no two competing businesses had their desired documents translated by the same translation team
• Led the development of contracts, due to the absence of a legal department
• Explored sectors to market services through market research, analyzing trends in different industries and finding the optimal markets the company could expand to
• Handled social media activities from content generation to promotion and endorsements
• Handled recruitment activities, through finding and interviewing potential translators and confirming they are of sufficient skill

Special Projects Officer at Al-Nisr Al-Arabi Insurance Company
  • Jordan - Amman
  • July 2013 to March 2015

• Managed and served special corporate clients and accounts for the company, all totaling up to 50% of the department’s revenues. Drew up offers and contracts for new potential accounts, RFQs and RFPs
• Designed the company’s first foreign workers insurance, which the company had previously abandoned as unprofitable
• Renegotiated the company’s reinsurance contract as part of the management team, finding loopholes that could have proven detrimental to the company’s existing contracts with their clients
• Represented over 50 corporate customers of the company to protect their rights

Administrative Assistant at Imdad Media Center
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2013 to June 2013

• Assisted with starting the youth-empowerment media initiative
• Organized events with other NGOs to empower women with social media skills
• Handled managerial and administrative tasks, including designing budgeting and accounting systems, and conducting research for the Center

Customer Relations Officer at Al-Nisr Al-Arabi Insurance Company
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2013 to April 2013

• Provided clients with group medical and life insurance offers for their employees
• Managed a portfolio of 20 clients providing them with solutions and making sure that the terms of the policy are being filled
• Handled collections followups the clients in that portfolio

Retail Loans Sales Officer at Bank of Jordan
  • Jordan - Amman
  • November 2012 to January 2013

• Handled the sale of banking services including Loans, Visa Cards, and advances on salaries, to individuals in various professions and fields

Intern at Volkswagen
  • Jordan - Amman
  • September 2011 to January 2012

• Participated in the marketing campaign for the launch of the VW Tiguan; planning and execution of media plans, showroom activities and logistics

Intern at Zein
  • Jordan - Amman
  • July 2007 to August 2007

Worked as an intern under Mr. Latayfeh learning about the message tracking system and general software required to be developed or edited in such companies

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at New York Institute of Technology
  • May 2018

Relevant Courses: Branding, Operations Management, Business Enterprise Management Participated in Customer behavior and buying habits study under the supervision of Professor Colleen P. Kirk

Bachelor's degree, Marketing
  • at New York Institute of Technology
  • September 2012

New York Institute of Technology, Amman, Jordan 2010 - Present Studying Marketing Current GPA: 3.80 A list of courses will be provided if required

Diploma, Computer Science
  • at University of Brighton
  • June 2010

University of Brighton, Sussex, UK 2007 - 2010 Computer Science. Transferred to NYIT. Obtained Certificate of Higher Education in Computer Science.

High school or equivalent,
  • at National Orthodox School
  • January 2007

National Orthodox School 2005 - 2007 AS and A2 Levels Graduate My A-levels were: Computing (AS), Mathematics (full), Biology (AS), Physics (AS), Business (AS), and Psychology (AS) I also did the American SAT 1, and the TOFEL English Language test.

High school or equivalent,
  • at Amman National School
  • January 2005

Amman National School 2001 - 2005 O-Levels IGCSEs (International version of the GCSEs)

Specialties & Skills

Mathematics
Computer Skills
Marketing
Customer Service
Physics
B2B SOFTWARE
Marketing research

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Japanese
Intermediate

Memberships

of the British Computer Society
  • Member
  • January 2007