My role at JISC Regional Support Centre involves working as an E-Learning Advisor with post 16 learning providers in southeast in their learning technology needs. I work with SMT, Technical, Staff Development, Curriculum, accessibility, and Learning resources staff within these Learning Providers to provide advise on • Enabling curriculum staff to exploit the potential of ICT in the learning process through identification, provision and access to appropriate resources and approaches; • Identifying good e-learning practices among the learning providers in the region and promoting it nationally through the Excellence Gateway case studies; • Identifying ICT staff development needs and then facilitating the delivery of activities to meet these needs; • Directing providers to appropriate sources of strategic, managerial, technical and other specialist advice; • Promote development of support networks amongst providers by setting up User forums and Southeast Learning networks; • Making learning providers aware of funding opportunities and give advise on the bidding process; In the southeast region we work with 6 HEI, 6 Specialist Colleges, over 400 Work based Learning providers, 16 Local Educational Agencies & over 60 FE Providers with over half of them having HE in FE provision per their unique needs to realise their ambitions in deployment of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in order to achieve their organisational mission. We also run events and workshops on emerging themes/issues in e-learning. I work with other funded agencies like BECTA, LSIS and also with JISC services like JANET, TechDis, Legal, Netskills to enable learning providers to exploit opportunities available through regional and national initiatives. We also liaise with a range of commercial providers in terms of raising awareness of the LPs of the type of technologies available for the educational sector.

Working in collaboration with other University departments, I applied my knowledge of pedagogy and learning technology to advise and support users of the Electronic Curriculum and the creation of learning activities and content to support learning and teaching activity. Another part of my job dealt with organizing seminars and workshops to train academics in using computing tools like VLE (Virtual Learning Environment), Streaming Server, Pod casting etc to enhance students learning experience as well as to provide more flexible and convenient form of learning. As part of my job I also developed and operated processes to enable the efficient support and management of the University's institutional virtual learning environment and other associated systems. This involved managing and configuring the existing software and required development of additional administrative tools, with the need for some programming and scripting in ASP. Some of the Projects that I implemented during my time at Birmingham were • Integration of an online assessment tool (Question Mark Perception). • Implementation of an audio video Lecture recording tool (Apreso) and its integration with the WebCT. • Implementation of a Lecture Streaming Solution for the University. • Implementation of a Lecture Pod casting Solutions and its integration with University’s VLE (WebCT). • Establishing a RSS feed system for University’s E-Learning news Website.

I am also a visiting lecturer in University of Peshawar, which is the biggest university of the NWFP province where I have taught different subjects related to Computer Science. I have maintained that role ever since and still teach programmes and deliver workshops as a visiting Lecturer. Over the last few years I have focussed on educational and learning technologies and the their pedagogical advantages.

I was privileged to be asked to work as a Teaching Assistant at University of Paisley while still studying at the University, where I was also fortunate to look at ICT from the perspective of an academic. Experiencing ICT use in education as a student and as an academic in a short span of time has given me a thorough and unique understanding of the issues involved in Online Learning.

eCon Solutions is a software development company based in Peshawar, Pakistan. My duties over there included designing and Implementing Network Solutions for clients including Windows NT, Windows 2000, Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris. I also worked on Multi Vendor platform Networks. My duties also involved designing and Implementing Web Based Software Solutions for clients. I was also responsible for the construction and maintenance of the company’s Web Site and its related Database. I started working as the Director Operations at eCon Solutions after getting a promotion from my previous position as Systems Analyst. My duties included implementing ISO 9001:2000 Standards for Software Firms. During the implementation of these standards I went through the minute details of implementing and paper work of a Software Development and running of a Software Firm. My duties included interacting with clients. I also acted as supervisor for several Software and Web Development Projects and had to interact with the clients on the progress and development of their IT Solutions. Some of the Projects that I worked and Supervised included • Development of an Intranet based Virtual Learning Software (VLE) for a leading College of the region. • Computer Based Testing & Evaluating Software for Primary & Secondary Level schools kids. • Development of e-books for use in teaching primary and secondary level courses for Afghan Refugees. • Development of a Management Information System (MIS) for a leading Pharmaceutical Company of the region. • Development of Paperless Intranet based Software for the implementation of ISO 9001:2000 standards.

Bachelors in Computer Science

Masters in Multimedia Communications

From University of Lancaster

From University of Birmingham

From Institute of Computer & Management Sciences, Peshawar, Pakistan