Mahmood Asgharzada

Experience

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  National Solidariry Program

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

  IT/MIS Officer
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  Herat University

  Jan 2008 - Jul 2022

  Assistant Professor

  As a teacher, I have been teaching Object Oriented Programming, Software Engineering, Operating System Design, Programming Fundamentals, Computer Engineering fundamentals and IT Project Management.

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  Computer Science Faculty of Herat University

  Apr 2009 - Jan 2011

  Local Manager

  I was managing communications and cooperation of staffs of Ziik and TU Berlin who were Germans with stakeholders and leadership of Herat University.We, together, were working on development of Computer Science Faculty in Herat; during the time we designed a new totally new and update syllabus, establishing three departments of Software Engineering, Information Systems and Databases and Operating Systems and Network. The structure is yet valid.

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  Computer Science Faculty of Herat University

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Department Manager

  In parallel with routine activities and in collaboration with other department members, I did lead the department to define new vision for students, to align and update our syllabus. We, periodically, updated our syllabus which was founded in 2009, brought major changes in courses, credit numbers and course objectives.

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  Freelancer Teams

  Sept 2013 - Aug 2021

  Team Leader

  I have worked as project manager and team leader for multiple projects in small-sized software development teams. I have worked with startups and newly born software development companies and fully understand required tradeoffs between software products stakeholders.

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  Ministry of Higher Education of Afghanistan

  Nov 2016 - Aug 2021

  MOOC Development Specialist

  Under E-learning committee of Ministry of Higher Education, I managed and was leading development of MOOCs under edx platform.In collaboration with Afghanistan education institutions, we developed 15 international MOOCs and 10s of for national recipients.Five MOOCs released in 2018 and they could have almost 2000 international students. Courses were developed and released in MIT/Edx.

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  Cube.af

  Jul 2022 - now

  Founder