ICT Lead Teacher & Edtech Coach - Career Counselor (2 years)
Abu Dhabi Vocational Education and Training Institute (Adveti)
Total years of experience :22 years, 7 Months
Accomplishments:
Covered the role of a career counselor for a period of two years from 2015 to 2017 where I was in charge of guiding students through their career path by arranging scholarship and sponsorship opportunities, establishing good relationships with universities and industries, arranging internships and work placements, organizing and participating in career and academic events.
Participated and led in establishing a school committee for educational technology with a vision to increase the EdTech capacity of all staff to improve the learning and safety capacity of our students.
Participated in designing, developing and implementing ICT Curriculum and STEM/STEAM projects for students in different grade levels.
Successfully installed the E-learning Project infusing technology into classroom learning, simultaneously providing professional development for staff in the use of educational technology.
Trained and coached students to build a secure website, hack a website and fix vulnerabilities in a website. Designed a robust computer security system, and won the third place in this competition at NESA and Abu Dhabi Polytechnic AD Poly.
Trained students the concepts for the SmartSec competition organized by NESA and Khalifa University.
Played the role of a facilitator using Raspberry Pi in the Cyber Quest camp organized by Bon Education and NESA.
Set up an online exam center (Certiport) and administered it.
Key Responsibilities:
Applying new and innovative methods that revolutionize education and provide outstanding success rates for students and organizations.
Delivered to and assessed students in ICT and CS Courses like Computing Fundamentals, Operating Systems, Office Applications, Digital Citizenship, PC technology, JAVA, C++, HTML, Computer Networks and Cyber Security.
Supporting the integration of technology and 21st-century skills via lesson modeling, coaching/mentoring, team teaching, training, collaborative planning and working with students.
Participating with Technology Committees/teams to assist with planning the design of the technology infrastructure to promote the technology program.
Fostering innovative and effective use of ICT learning resources; monitoring the use of instructional technology to ensure that resources and activities enhance rigorous academic content and the institute’s mission.
Providing professional development on instructional technology through coaching, staff development, and use of current technologies in education aligned with SAMR model, TPACK framework, and 21st-century learning design.
Accomplishments:
• Prominent Technical Leader promoting the development of highly effective teams linking the importance of technical competence with wider leadership qualities and learning skills.
Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for delivering IT and computer science lessons to groups of students and using advanced teaching techniques to inspire and motivate them for higher level qualifications.
• Provided in-depth consultation in the areas of needs, assessment, curriculum design for complex training goals, and program evaluation.
• Involved in course team activities and curriculum development for students as well as course management duties.
• Installed and repaired computers and computer hardware and software problems. Troubleshoot and maintained computers in computer labs.
• Prepared and delivered instruction on course modules including ICDL, Computer Assembly and Computer Networks to the Armed Forces officers.
• Provided in-depth expertise for IT professional development and implementation of integrated learning infrastructure in the field, using state of the art teaching interface
Key Projects:
Established the computer network and IVR servers in “TAWASUL Audio-Text Services” in Abu Dhabi in March 2003.
Deployed the computer network and IVR servers in “TESAHEL Audio-Text Services” in Abu Dhabi in Dec 2002.
Setup the computer network and IVR servers in “MEDIA-CALL” in Al-Riyadh, KSA in May 2002.
Key Responsibilities:
Provided technical leadership for maintaining computer systems and networks for the organization.
Proffered end-to-end IT operational & functional support, managed backups of corporate data, and streamlined policies, procedures, and documentation processes.
Identified skills gaps, process improvements and technical solutions that enhance service delivery, configured the network to support user demand and documented all network changes.
Offered IT training for effective and optimum use of such systems and oversaw all software licenses and hardware logistics.
Ensured the smooth operation of corporate networks to provide maximum performance and availability for users.