I am a trained Computer Engineer with a Masters’ in Computing Systems. I have more than 20 years of experience, being a University Faculty, Trainer, Coach and Mentor. As a Faculty, my focus has always been to help my students to reach their goals and achieve success. As a Trainer, I have helped participants with their understanding, which has helped them to perform efficiently and productively at work. My passion for public speaking led me to leadership and skills development. Working as an Independent Coach, my role is to get people to identify their own strengths as communicators. I have helped more than 800 participants to realize their potential and become positively motivated.
I am an avid trekker and I have explored and hiked through the Himalayan terrain in India as also the trekking spots in various emirates of UAE. This hobby has taught me to adapt to adverse conditions and complete whatever you set out to do. My desire to excel and adapt in my role have facilitated me to help build participant’s self-confidence.
Subjects
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Data Structure and Algorithms Grade 9-Bachelors/Undergraduate
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Maths (IB Board) Grade 5-Grade 8
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Maths (English Medium) Grade 5-Grade 8
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MS - Excel Intermediate-Expert
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Data analysis in Excel Intermediate-Expert
Experience
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Adjunct Faculty (IT / Computer Science) (Sep, 2009
–Jun, 2012) at Higher Colleges of Technology – Khalifa Women’s College, Abu Dhabi
• Adjunct Faculty in Computer and IT department
• Conducted courses like Software Essentials, Hardware Essentials, Database Essentials, Database Design, Project Management and other courses.
• Student assessment by quiz / tests / team activities / group work.
• Paper setting for courses like Software Essentials, Database Essentials and Database Design.
• Ensuring course coverage in stipulated time, inclusive of proper student understanding of concepts
• Average feedback of 90% every semester per class.
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Soft Skills Coach (Nov, 2008
–Apr, 2019) at Soft Skills Coach for Executrain of Dubai
As a freelance Trainer and Coach I undertake multiple assignments as a faculty, coach and trainer with different companies. These assignments typically are a one to three days engagement in a week. Hence, from 2008 to present, the dates of my work may be seen overlapping with different companies.
I have more than 12 years of experience, being a University Faculty as a teacher, trainer, coach and mentor. As a Faculty, my focus has always been to help my students to reach their goals and achieve success. As a Trainer, I have helped participants with their understanding, which has helped them to perform efficiently and productively at work. My passion for public speaking led me to leadership and skills development. Working as an Independent Coach in Dubai, since 2006, my role is to get people to identify their own strengths as communicators. I have helped more than 800 participants to realize their potential and become positively motivated. My desire to excel and adapt in my role have facilitated me to help build participant’s self-confidence.
Some examples:
• Co-partnered as a Lead Coach for “Presentation Skills and Communication” workshop at Al Tayer Stocks, Dubai.
This was a 4-day workshop for Middle Management team of 20 delegates, focusing on the need to communicate with clarity to Senior Management and customers to achieve business objectives.
• Conducted a workshop (as a Soft Skills Trainer) on “Effective Supervisory Skills” in Total Lubricants for 6 participants.
This was a 2 – day workshop for a team of 6 candidates who had been identified by the company for a career progression to next level of managing people. The objective was to get these candidates to recognize their leadership strengths, give them insights into the challenges ahead and ways to manage their teams.
• Conducted a workshop on “Effective Business Communication Skills” for Reddington, Dubai. This was a 2 – day workshop for 13 delegates and it was aimed at improving email and telephone communication skills for business.
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Corporate Trainer (Sep, 2008
–Dec, 2018) at Corporate Trainer (IT) for Executrain of Dubai
• Conducting IT based trainings for participants / delegates on MS Office applications like Excel (Advanced), Power Point, Access, Word, Outlook. The courses are offered are basic, intermediate and advanced levels and run for a day or 2 days. My primary expertise is in conducting Excel Advanced, Access Advanced and Power Point – Intermediate and Advanced.
• Trainings are conducted either as public courses or as in-company programs. Public courses have a mix of delegates from different companies and functions. The number of candidates varies from 6 to 20. In-company programs normally have 12 – 18 candidates per course and trainings are customized according to client requirements.
• Few corporate clients are Dubai Petroleum, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Radisson SAS, Tiger Steel Engineering (Sharjah), PepsiCo, First Gulf Bank (Abu Dhabi), Du, Dubai World, Panasonic, Chalhoub and others.
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Business Skills Development Coach (Nov, 2007
–Nov, 2019) at 8ack International
• One-on-one positive review coaching for participants on the program, to enable quick learnings.
• Making sample presentations to the participants, in order to help them understand course learnings with ease.
• Intense involvement such as practicing presentations with participants, clarifying course contents, talking them through their difficulty in understanding, in order to get all participants on the same page in the program.
• Clients include Estee Lauder, Aramex, Symantec, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank and others.
• Participated in a ‘Train-the-Trainer’ talking Presentations program in Geneva, Switzerland for Kinetic Consulting, Geneva, in September 2016.
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Faculty (Jan, 2007
–Feb, 2008) at Our Own Indian School, Dubai
• Worked as Computer Faculty for grade 7 to grade 12 in Our Own Indian School, Dubai
• Conducted courses for grades 11 and 12, in C++, Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access and HTML.
• Designed invites, certificates, photo-collages for activities
• Annual report generation for academics and exams.
• Instructor for Mathematics
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Lecturer (Jun, 1996
–Jun, 2004) at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, Mumbai
• Lecturer for Computer Engineering and IT
• Conducted lectures for semester-wise allocated courses like
1. Data Structures 2. Analysis of Algorithms
3. Distributed Operating Systems 4. Artificial Intelligence
5. Networking Fundamentals 6. Database Management Systems
7. Object Oriented Programming 8. Computer Graphics
• Project Guide for final year students
• Moderator, Examiner and Paper-setter for University of Mumbai,
• Mentoring first year engineering students.
• Holding interactive technical discussions with student groups
• Conducting seminars, question and answer sessions and quizzes.
• Judging student contests in cultural activities like Mock Group Discussions, Poster Presentations and other competitions.
Education
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Masters in Computer (Jun, 2002–Mar, 2004) from The University of Mumbai
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Bachelor of Computer Engineering (Jun, 1990–May, 1995) from University of Pune, India
Fee details
د.إ150–500/hour
(US$40.87–136.24/hour)
School level: minimum AED 150 to maximum AED 300 per hour
College level: AED 250 per hour
For soft skills training - AED 300 per hour per participant (maximum 6 trainees), AED 500 per hour per participant (maximum 3 trainees)
For MS Excel - AED 200 for 4 hours Basic level per participant (1 to 6 trainees)
- AED 300 for 4 hours Intermediate level per participant (1 to 6 trainees)
- AED 400 for 4 hours Advanced level per participant (1 to 6 trainees)