Ashiyan Ian Rahmani-Shirazi

Citizenship:

British-born Citizen of Persian descent & US permanent resident.

My current affiliations:

Lecturer at Honolulu Community College - Information & Computer Sciences program.

Volunteer service with the Baha'i community (www.bahai.org).

Faculty on the undergraduate Technology program at the University of Phoenix in Honolulu, part-time.

'Software Engineering' M.Sc(part-time candidate) at Kellogg College, Oxford University - www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk & completed thesis is on cyber-security for www.bic.org, a UN affiliated faith-based NGO. (applying for award of PGDip. only)

Previous academics:

'Affiliate scholar' at www.eastwestcenter.org at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in Honolulu from October 2011 to September 2012.

'International Politics & Computer Science' B.Sc. at Keele University, UK - www.keele.ac.uk

M.A. in 'The Chinese Business World' at SOAS, University of London - www.soas.ac.uk.

Work Experience:

Approx. 15 years working experience, including teaching(Computer Sciences, ESL & International Management), IT projects (Security, Web, UAT, Management etc.) & with both for and non-profit organizations, including 7 years living in China (University teaching & studying Chinese) & 1 year in Mexico (IT internship at www.cimmyt.org).

Other:

Languages: Intermediate Chinese & Farsi, basic Spanish

Hobbies: Traveling, drumming, singing, swimming/scuba diving, writing, audiobooks & playing football/tennis & with gadgets, including mobile device/social media/pod & vod-casting projects.

Vegetarian and a member of the Baha'i Faith, for which striving to actively participate in community development (please feel free to contact me if you you'd like to learn more about this).

In progress:

Accepted to start an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in the Communication and Information Sciences department at University of Hawaii at Manoa (on the general topic of 'social media/mobile devices for development NGO's') for Fall 2013 and will be working as a GA.