Ammar Al-Attiyat
20 years of experience in the IT field with 13 years experience in Educational Technology field in entry, middle and senior management and executive posts of varying scope and magnitude. Currently working as Manager at ITS GBS.
| Headline: | Investor |
| Skills: | Business, Management, Marketing, Sales |
| Location: | Cairo,Egypt |
| Groups: | Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Supporting my investments |
| Tags: | corporate learning, e-learning, educational technology, NGO |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | ITS GBS (formerly ITSoft) |
| Position: | Manager, Business Solutions (e-Learning) |
| Time period: | August 2006 - Present |
| Description: | - Managing a team of 20 e-Learning specialists (Instructional Designers, MM Developers,
Designers & Illustrators, QA/QC). The team is in charge of developing e-Learning bespoke courses for ITS clients coming from the Higher Education and Corporate sectors - Acting as the technical reference for our Business Development, Marketing and Sales divisions in all e-Learning related technologies and services. - In charge of my company’s e-Learning Pre-Sales activities; conducting presentations, drafting proposals, meeting clients, providing consultations …etc. for customers and prospects in the following countries; Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt. |
| Employer: | e-Knowledge |
| Position: | Co-Founder & Managing Director |
| Time period: | September 2000 - August 2006 |
| Description: | - As an entrepreneur, I co-founded and managed a venture capital company which had a primary focus on designing and developing e-Learning software solutions for Academic and Corporate clients.
- Carried the company through all phases of inception and delivery; idea, mission and objectives definition, feasibility study, establishment related (with all the underlying logistical details), recruitment, and take-off. - Conducted business development, sales & marketing activities since start-up. - Inspired and supervised the design and the development of the first Arabic enabled Learning Management System (LMS) in the Middle East region, product was launched to our markets under the brand name “Bredge”. - Creative director for the design and development of an educational multimedia series for Preschool kids. The series achieved the first rank in a national content endorsed by the first lady of Egypt. |
| Employer: | Sakhr |
| Position: | Education Department Manager |
| Time period: | September 1988 - May 1999 |
| Description: | - Managing a team of 75 IT professionals divided to 2 main subgroups; the Software Group was in charge of the development of School Management System application targeting K-12 public and private schools. The Multimedia Group which was in charge of producing K-12 Courseware CDs, generic educational CDs.
- My division produced more than 100 new CD title as a result of in-house development and licensing titles from international vendors and localize them for our markets, a negotiation and contracting business process that I had a major role of attending and implementing. |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Reading, e-Learning, Web 2.0, e-Learning 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 |
| Awards: | - First place award in the first lady (Suzane Mubarak) national contest for best educational software for Kids, 2003
- Kuwait University, BSc Computer Science, Distinction. |
