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Commerical  Software & Graduate Level Course

I have been an IT consultant since I co-founded IMA (Information Management Associates), in 1982, in Pittsburgh, PA. As an IT consultant, I have analyzed, designed and implemented many Client/Server computer systems for many small businesses in the Pittsburgh area. I have also prepared IT grant proposals and conducted IT user training.

Due to my years of experience in teaching and curriculum development in the IT field, I have also been hired as an IT Educational Consultant. As an IT educational consultant I have been involved in the development of Teaching/Learning IT material and software tools, working with faculty from other educational institutions.

 

SpeakFarsi: Intelligent Tutoring Language Software: Due to my years of curriculum development in IT field, and because I am a native Farsi/Persian speaker, I was hired as an educational consultant by Carnegie Speech, a company founded by CMU faculty, to be involved in the development of a web-based software product to teach Americans how to speak Farsi(Persian).

The Carnegie Speech website is here.

Carnegie Speech also hired two other faculty from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Texas who taught Farsi/Persian language at those universities.

We, three faculty, developed the SpeakFarsi curriculum that consisted of 7 different skill levels in language learning. Level 1 was a very basic conversation, reading, and writing skill level. Level 7 was sophisticated conversion, reading, and writing skills in topics such as politics.

I also assisted the Carnegie Speech staff in the development of the required databases used for pronunciation/voice recognition (using transliterations), translation (Farsi to English and English to Farsi), and Test/Quiz for lessons in SpeakFarsi software.

SpeakFarsi was sold to In-Q-Tel, a non-profit organization providing innovative technology to support the CIA. SpeakFarsi a web-based intelligent tutoring software was used by CIA and DLI (Defense Language Institute) to teach Americans soldiers and officers how to speak Farsi/Persian during the US/Afghanestan War.

The Press Release about the In-Q-Tel Investment in Carnegie Speech to Enhance Spoken-Language Training Software for the U.S. Intelligence Community is available here.

 

The following are samples of the type of material I was responsible for in the development of SpeakFarsi software:

 

 

 

Digital Teaching/Learning Material:

Professor Richard Thompson, one of the faculty members and the Chair of Telecommunications Department at the University of Pittsburgh, taught TELE 2016 Electronic Engineering Fundamentals. This course was a graduate level Telecommunications course. Professor Thompson used to use his 155-page lecture notes, consisting of circuit diagrams, logic gate, etc. all manually completed, copied, and put together as the textbook for his course.

In 1999, I converted his entire instructional material to a digital form using an electrical engineering software tool called "Electronic Workbench" and PowerPoint.
 

Pages 98-102 of Dr. Thompson's original manual lecture note/textbook, as a sample are provided here.

The same pages converted to digital format using an electrical software are available here.

The entire digital version consisted of over 400 pages of diagrams and text that could easily be revised, if necessary.

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