Futuretrend Tutors Bios
Our instructors are professionals who work full-time in the industry and bring their working knowledge to the classroom to enhance your learning experience.
They are trained to address all different kinds of learning styles for all different types of students. Futuretrend's instructors are required to be great improvisers, able to observe their students’ progress as they go along and making adjustments to the prep-plan when necessary.
View our tutor profiles to find out more about our specialist industry knowledge.
Web Design & DTP / Graphics Tutors
Our web and graphic design instructors are top industry professionals out in the world working with the programs they teach. By working in a highly competitive industry with Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, PHP MySQL and more they bring a real-world flavour to the classroom. This all adds up to a great training experience!
George Stickney
After graduating with a degree in Art, Design and Media, George became interested in web design and started learning HTML. He has worked for design agencies and as a freelance designer for several years, working on a variety of projects from large corporations to small businesses. George has been teaching web design and Photoshop for over three years and recently completed his Post-Graduate Certificate in Education.
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Faycal Bouguir
Faycal is a freelance web/graphic designer developer. he graduated with a first class degree in Interactive design and animation and has since been working freelance and has been teaching for the past 2 years with futuretrend in the UK and in the US at UCLA Extension and iDTech (summer school program). He loves and breathes design and specializes in designing for the web, User Interface and for print.
Faycal teaches Graphics and Web design with expertise in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, HTML/CSS and ActionScript 2/3.
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Phil Rae
Phil Rae is an expert in web development with skills including graphical design, web programming and database implementation. He has over 8 years experience in the the field, a degree in Internet Computer Science, and is Sun Java-certified. His particular interest is in developing customised content management systems using PHP and MySQL.
Phil runs his own web design business, NetInspired UK Ltd, which was established early 2009. Although he runs this business fulltime, he likes to share the knowledge gained over years of experience through teaching PHP and MySQL courses at Futuretrend.
Phil's specialities include:
- Vast experience of hand-coding PHP, MySQL, XHTML and CSS.
- Strives for standards-compliant web programming.
- Certification in Java programming.
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Microsoft Office Tutors
Our Microsoft Office trainers are industry-certified, experienced professionals. Indeed their skills are not only certificated, they are also applied on a daily basis therefore teaching is from a basis of experience, not from theory.
Monica Toumany
Monica has Over 17 years experience as a trainer both in groups and one to one. 9 years experience as a Professional Life Coach. Her courses are highly participative with emphasis on ‘hands-on’ experience for delegates, exercises and feedback.
Background:
Masters Degree in Post 16 Education
Various teaching and training qualifications: 7306 Certificate for Teachers and Trainers including D32/D33 and A1 Assessors Awards; Certificate in Education
Management Training
Various IT Certificates
Qualified Professional Life Coach with the UK College of Life Coaching
Qualified Business Coach for Performance Coaching with Newcastle College
Diploma in NLP (Working towards NLP Neuro Linguistic Practitioner Certificate)
Skill Set:
Various levels from Office 97 to Office 2007 with various operating systems:
MS Word
Excel (including graphical representation of data)
Access database
PowerPoint
Desktop Publishing
Internet and E-mail and Outlook
Accredited IT courses include CLAIT and ECDL.
Creating and producing customised training courses for clients including bespoke training manuals according to the client’s individual and specific requirements.
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Huda Couri
Huda has over 30 years as a software trainer and consultant. She likes to specialises in training that is challenging. For example: training delegates to use Microsoft Project and Excel at a high level. Both these products require an effective trainer to have a greater understanding of the software application than most other packages.
Background:
A1 Assessor Level 3 Certificate 2006
Postgraduate Diploma in Internet and Database 2002-2004
(London South Bank University)/London
B.Sc. Physics 1971-1975 (Baghdad University)/Iraq
SKILL SET: In depth knowledge of MS office and Visual Basic, for Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, MS Project and Publisher and XP operating system. Familiar with MS SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle DB. Good knowledge of standard software development concepts, practices, and procedures. Good knowledge of Delphi programming. Familiar with HTML, XML
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Sharon Perry
20 years experience working with varied computer systems both in the U.S.A. and England. A professionally qualified enthusiastic, self-motivated individual with a wide range of knowledge acquired via numerous qualifications in computing. having attained NVQ D32/D33 Assessor status and, City & Guilds 7307, PGCE she is a fully qualified tutor, competent and able to deliver training in various software and hardware packages.
SKILL SET: Expert in Ms Office (Windows XP) Word, Excel, Access, Power-Point & Publisher, Lotus Smart-suite, WordPerfect, applied Networking systems
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Software Testing Tutors
Our Software Testing Training is delivered by software testing practitioners with many years of IT experience including over 8 years QA experience as lead testers and test managers within the Public Sector, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Insurance and Telecommunications industries
Sam Obot
• Automation expert in QTP and LoadRunner
• 10 years uninterrupted experience working as a Lead test automation expert/training,
• Previous clients include Visa, Nestle Foods, Santander, Royal Mail, IBM and Cap Gemini,AXA insurance
• 4 Years training experience in both QTP and LoadRunner
• Currently working as an automation expert at LinkLayters
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
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Nathan Johnson
8 years software testing experience.
13 years IT experience
MCSE, CNE, ISEB, Prince 2, and CITRIX certified.
Previous Projects
- End to End Test Lead/Defect Manager for the London Low Emmission Zone
- Work Stream Lead for BT on WLR Project (carrier pre-select & broadband provision)
- Test Lead for IBM UK on Defra Project (department for environment food and rural affairs)
- Regression Test Lead for AIG on the AIGextra Web Project
- Other clients include: Atos Origin, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, Soros Private Equity Partners, Natwest Coutts Bank, BT Syntegra
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Financial Tutors (CeMAP & CeFA)
The Financial training team have a wide range of experience. Our courses are led by those who have enjoyed success in many areas of the financial services industry, including major insurance companies, Investment companies and building societies.
Adetomi Omidiora - BA Hons Economics CeMAP, CeFA
Tomi Graduated ‘Magna Cum Laude’ with Departmental honours in Economics, and went on to do a Masters in Business Administration at the University of Nottingham. She has a wealth of experience in Banking and Finance particularly within Treasury services (Money Market operations and financial Advice). Tomi Started tutoring as far back as her college days at the university’s learning centre, teaching Economics as well as holding revision classes for undergraduates. Her extremely impressive student pass rates rank her as one of the top CeMAP and CeFA tutors in London.
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Munawar Ahmad Malik - M.Sc CeMAP
Munawar Ahmad Malik is a CeMAP Trainer (Mortgage & Insurance. He holds a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics from Punjab University (Pak) and CeMAP from Institute of Financial Services UK.
He started his career with State Life Insurance which is one of the biggest Life Insurance Organizations in Southeast Asia. He was promoted to Sales Officer, Sales Manager and then Area Manager. He achieved a gold medal, recruitment trophy and various other awards.
In UK he started as a business consultant with Legacy Protect which was part of Millfield Partnership and then joined as a Mortgage & Protection advisor with Bates which is part of Money Portal. Presently he is a full time trainer for CeFA/CeMAP courses. He conducts these courses at the top three Financial services training companies in London.
He specialises in face-to-face class room training, one-to-one sessions, distance learning with the support of Skype, email and telephone.
His approach is to use presentations, group discussions, brain storming, role play, individual exercises, question and answer sessions, case studies and mock exams.
He also provides practical mortgage skills training and consultancy for those who are willing to start their own business (either as an appointed representative or directly authorized) after they complete CeMAP.
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Maria Hunter - CeMAP CeFA
Maria Hunter is Cefa and Cemap qualified and provides training on modules 1 and 2 of the Cefa syllabus. She has extensive experience in finance gained within an 18-year career in the industry. She has studied economics and went on to study business at The London Institute. Her career has involved a front office role in large international dealing rooms, trading various products and later went on to work as a portfolio analyst for a large securities house. She has acquired excellent technical knowledge of wide-ranging financial products. She possesses well focused teaching and communication skills gained during her career providing training on market analysis and product utilisation, she also advised on a corporate level on asset and liability management.
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Chris Wilkinson - CeFA
Mr Cris Wilkinson is not only a Compliance Officer but also a Mortgage Broker and Independent Financial Advisor with a wealth of 20 years experience in the sector. (full bio coming soon).
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