Dr. Abdel Rahman Alzoubaidi

Employer:	The Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences
Position:	Work experience
Time period:	November 2007 - Present
Description:	• Faculty of Information Systems and Technology • Director of Admission and Registration • VLE implementation

Employer:	MoE
Position:	Minister's of Education ICT Consultant
Time period:	March 2002 - Present
Description:	- Education Reform for Knowledge Economy (ERfKE) Program committee member - ICT resources consultations in plans and facilities for MoE network and data centre, evaluation, purchase, upgrade, and maintenance issues. - Eduwave Jordanian elearning VLE platform coordination - MoE's GIS, MIS, EMIS, DSS and ERP gap analysis and solutions. - ERfKE program Continuous and ongoing components evaluations. - Coordination with ICT private sector, national and international donors for the Jordanian education initiative (JEI) supported by WEF. - In classroom/in school continuous evaluation, responsible for the southern part of Jordan's MoE directorates and schools for evaluation, reporting and presenting ERfKE program implemented components or subcomponents. - Consultations in numerous other technical, legal and pedagogical issues related to this huge transformation project.

Employer:	Mu'tah, Alzaytoonah, and Arab University for gradate studies universities
Position:	Teaching experience
Time period:	January 1996 - Present
Description:	Teaching is the Job that I love and maintained, however I employ different approach from the approach that my teachers used to teach. I taught the following courses/subjects: - Information Technology - Data transmission & Computer Networks - Computer and Network Security - Internetworking and Protocols - Digital Systems Design & Digital Systems Design Lab - Microprocessor Systems and Assembly Language - System Analysis - Software Engineering - Modeling & Simulation of computer and telecommunication Networks - Computer Architecture Organization and Design - Information Technology Laws - Computer Networks design and performance evaluation Lab Using OPNET technology - Graduation projects in elearning, content authoring and mobile learning - IT enabled courses redesign, staff orientation short courses, seminars and workshops. - LMS/CMS staff orientation courses.

Employer:	Mu'tah University
Position:	Head of Computer Engineering department
Time period:	September 2007 - November 2007
Description:	- Teaching various courses using in house customized open source moodle VLE, multimedia resources and encourages students to engage and use the LMS collaboration and communication tools to foster knowledge. - Prepare and conduct seminars and workshops aimed to encourage teaching staff to shift from teaching to learning, and facilitate the plans of the university to move to elearning and online. - Research, and evaluate through continuous effort to bring up to date developments in learning and teaching at the University distributed campus. Keep up the University with the latest, cost effective, user-friendly technological and pedagogical solutions to facilitate and minimize the computer technical burden to the end users in the classroom.

Employer:	Alzaytoonh Private University
Position:	Elearning advisor
Time period:	September 2006 - September 2007
Description:	- Team leader, aims to customize and manage an open source VLE program to introduce pedagogical and technological innovations in eLearning across the campus, follow-up work on VLE implementation, and support using Open source LMCS and PHP programming. http://elearning.alzaytoonah.edu.jo. - Migrate the content from blackboard VLE to the above customized VLE based on moodle, free open source platform, due to financial considerations, - Prepare and conduct seminars and workshops in using moodle, IT enabled courses redesign, implementation and evaluation using the above VLE, - Provide and furnish classrooms with the required facilities and technologies for learning services - Plan and coordinate instructional design programs for teaching staff. - I recommended the necessity to establish a Center for learning and teaching to take on the above and many others distributed responsibilities and efforts among the computer Center, the IT faculty and other administration staff and entities.

Employer:	Mu'tah University
Position:	University President's Assistant for Information Technology, Scientific External and International Affairs
Time period:	September 2004 - September 2006
Description:	- Team leader, responsible to establish an a LMCS using open source, and - Conduct seminars and workshops in IT enabled courses redesign for blended learning using the university VLE. http://elearning.mutah.edu.jo. Please refer to the above section; it is replica of my first program implemented at Mu'tah University. I started this program using Jordan Education Initiative model, from lessons learned and best practices, knowledge gained and experience during my extensive and heavy load of work, and several attended training programs such as; project and change management, elearning platforms and VLE. I engaged in several meetings with national and international technical, educational and service providers, visiting experts from leading ICT and educational companies and establishment. JEI is an ambitious project that is expected to serve as a model in many other nations. JEI is a huge e-learning project as a major component of ERfKE of the Ministry of Education program reform to knowledge economy, again I learned a lot through the real engagement as one of the minister's active consultation team member for ERfKE. - University's ICT and elearning strategy committee member - Scientific International relation officer - Teaching various courses, using blended learning approach through the VLE LMCS.

Employer:	MoE
Position:	Director, Queen Rania Center for educational Technologies (QRC)
Time period:	September 2004 - September 2005
Description:	- QRC is Jordan's elearning hub for JEI, connecting pubic and private schools in Jordan through the national broadband network. - QRC provides staging and production of learning content management and learning management system services for MoE schools through its unified VLE. - QRC hosts and maintain different elearning programs, technological, educational and pedagogical designed and implemented in collaboration with international agencies such as JICA, USAID, and UNESCO etc, private and public Jordanian sectors, all under the umbrella of Ministry of Education’s Education Reform for the Knowledge Economy (ERfKE) program. - QRC hosts and maintain MoE help desk to provide users with technical support for the schools networks hardware, software, security, and Eduwave VLE infrastructure. - QRC hosts and maintain state of the art training facilities for ICT, for the integration and use of technology in teaching and learning including content authoring and management, change management, ICT national and international programs such as ICDL, Intel Teach for the future, train the trainers educational and pedagogical workshops and programs for MoE. - QRC hosts and maintain MoE core network, server farm and storage facilities necessary to support classrooms students and teachers as well as schools administrators applications and services.

Employer:	MoE & MoICT
Position:	Committee Member
Time period:	April 2004 - September 2005
Description:	Committee Member, Connecting Jordanian Initiative & Jordanian Universities Network Company (UNICO) http://www.moict.gov.jo/MoICT/MoICT_NBN.aspx

Employer:	Ministry of Planning
Position:	King Abdullah II Fund
Time period:	November 2002 - February 2007
Description:	Veterans ICT Training Royal Committee Member, headed by the Minister of education, the committee develops and design training programs in ICT for veterans.

Employer:	Mu'tah University
Position:	Director of Mu'tah University IT Center
Time period:	January 1996 - September 2004
Description:	- Responsible for strategic planning, building Inter/Intra/ and Extranet multiple campus network. - Develop MIS, SIS, ERP and elearning solutions. - Operating, troubleshooting and maintaining computer and networking equipments and facilities. - Provide training seminars and workshops in computer technology and applications for the University staff and students. - Provide consultation for the University faculties and units concerning ICT. - Internet Access Management and control - Provide security solutions to protect the university's information assets. - Prepare studies and ICT plans for the best cost effective solutions to support the university's educational and administrative objectives to the highest level of accuracy and security. Prepare technical specification for ICT tenders, study-biding document technically and financially. - Maintain and update the university Website.

Employer:	Mu'tah University
Position:	Computer Engineer
Time period:	April 1987 - January 1993
Description:	- Teaching assistant in the faculty of engineering, - Computer and network maintenance engineer

University:	University of Sussex
Time period:	1996
Degree:	Computer Engineering , PhD

Articles:

• Mustafa Al-Fayoumi, Shadi Nashwan, Sufian Yousef, Abdel-Rahman Alzoubaidi "A New Hybrid Approach of Symmetric/Asymmetric Authentication Protocol for Future Mobile Networks" Third IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2007) p. 29. • Sameh Ghwanmeh, Abdel Rahman Al-Zoubidi, “Wireless performance optimization using Opnet Modeler, Information Technology Journal. • Sameh Ghwanmeh, Abdel Rahman Al-Zoubidi "Comparison Of Different Fuzzy Implication Algorithms Under Self-Learning Fuzzy Logic System”, Egyptian Computer Science Journal, Volume 27, Number 2, July, 2005. • Al-Zoubaidi A.R., E.Stipidis and G.Jones, "Analytical Performance Evaluation of Home based Multimedia Integrated Systems Using ATM", ABHATH AL-YAROUK , Vol. 11, No. 1B, 2002. • A. Al-Samarrie, Al-Zoubaidi A, A. Fo’ad Behaia, "Temperature Effects on the Performance of the OFA Used in Optical Communications", ABHATH AL-YAROUK, Vol. 11, No. 2A, 2002. • Al-Zoubaidi A., “ Comparative Performance of Virtual Private Networks’ Access Techniques”, MU’TAH Lil-Buhuth wad-Dirasat “Natural and Applied Sciences Series, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2002. • Al-Zoubaidi A., “National Internet Exchange for MENA Countries Performance Analysis”, International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Information Science , Ain Shamas University , Vol.2, No. 2, 2003. • Al-Zoubaidi A. Odeh, “Internet Exchange in MENA Countries Performance Evaluation”, International Arab Conference Regional on Information Technology University of Qatar , Doha-Qatar, Dec 16th – Dec 19th, 2002. • E.T. Powner, Al-Zoubaidi A. Odeh, and Y. Wang, “ATM LAN/LAN Bridging Connectionless Methods Performance Analysis”, Fifth IEE Conference on Telecommunications, Brighton, UK, 26-29 March 1995. • Al-Zoubaidi A. Odeh and E.T Powner, “AAL5 Streaming Mode; Connectionless Server Performance Evaluation”, Second Communication Networks Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, 10-11 July 1995. • Al-Zoubaidi A. Odeh and E.T Powner, “AAL5 Streaming Mode; Connectionless Server Performance Evaluation”, Second Communication Networks Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, 10-11 July 1995. • Al-Zoubaidi A. Odeh, Y. Wang and E.T. Powner, “ATM Real Time Multimedia Private Network Performance Evaluation’, Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Computer Communications, AFRICOM-CCDC'98, Tunis, TUNISIA, Oct. 20-22, 1998.

Memberships:

- IEEE member - Member of Jordanian Engineers Association (JEA), Jordan