FAANA Board Members 2019-2020
Ahmad Malik |
As Senior Vice President of Information Technology at Learning Care Group, Ahmad Malik leads all aspects of technological development supporting the company’s innovative educational programs and customer solutions. His background includes more than 20+ years of wide-ranging leadership experience across all aspects of IT.
Ahmad joined Learning Care Group, second-largest for-profit child care provider in North America, in 2009 to steer internal and external technology initiatives to support the company’s growth. Previously, he spent 12 years with Ciber (now HTC Global) in senior IT roles of steadily increasing responsibility, most recently as Director of Application Services. During that time, he was responsible for implementation and enhancements of enterprise resource planning (ERP), Business Intelligence and Custom/Packaged applications. Prior to that, Ahmad served as an IT Consultant. Ahmad holds an MS Information Systems degree from Lawrence Technology University and an MBA from University of Colorado at Denver. Ahmad graduated from FAST Institute of Computer Science Lahore in 1994. |
Sheeba Malik |
Sheeba Malik is an experienced Project Management Professional (PMP) and ITIL Service Management Expert with more than 19 years of experience in successfully managing and delivering complex, large scale technology projects from conception through implementation with a focus on SDLC and end to end solution delivery. She works for Apple in the role of Engineering Program Manager supporting First Party Apps and resides in Cupertino, California. Prior to joining Apple, she has delivered numerous projects in the domain of speech systems and transit solutions.
She holds BS Computer Science from FAST-NU Islamabad and Breakthrough Leadership diploma from Harvard Business School. |
Nauman Sheikh |
Nauman Sheikh worked on an AI project very early in his career back in 1996 when he built a rule-based Pilot Scheduling system for Northwest Airlines. He has been building and deploying predictive models in operational environments since 2008 when he built and sold Credit Risk Models to banks in 3 continents. In 2013 he undertook a 10+ million device project dealing with IoT, billions of records and Real-Time operational decisions using predictive models. He first used Neural Networks in 2009 to solve a Money Laundering problem which built on his earlier project he had undertaken for US Treasury on Anti-Money Laundering back in 2002. He is a hands-on practitioner and has written a book on implementing AI that covers problem definition, model building, model deployment and overall business adoption of AI. His recent work is focused on Text Mining, Human Machine interface and gaming.
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Ahmad Uzair |
Ahmad Uzair is currently the youngest member on the FAANA board having graduated from FAST Lahore in 2014 with a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering. After graduation, he worked for National Engineering Services NESPAK before moving to United States where he enrolled in a Master’s program in Systems Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park. Over the last 4 years, living in Washington DC Metro area, Uzair has been exposed to a wide range of working experiences. Currently he is working as a Systems Engineer with a Fortune 500 company called Conduent (previously known as Xerox Business Services). Uzair loves to travel, meet new people and listen to good music. During his college days, he was one of the top music bloggers of Pakistan where he wrote over 100 articles for a popular online music blog KoolMuzone and also contributed to DAWN, The News, and The Nation.
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Jasim Qazi |
Jasim Qazi graduated from FAST Karachi in 2008 and since then has moved to California to venture into the world of video games. He pursued a masters in computer science from San Jose State University, CA and worked for different startups in Silicon Valley before moving to Los Angeles, where he worked on multiple Call of Duty titles at Activision. He is currently at Niantic Labs, the creator of Pokemon Go, as a lead engineer working on augmented reality (AR) and location based products. One of his latest projects includes Marvel Strike Force, which has become a new favorite amongst mobile gamers. He is also the founder of UrduScienceTech.com, which aims to spread knowledge and awareness of science and technology to the common Pakistani.
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