Leadership
Meet our leaders and advisors
MESSAGE FROM OUR ACADEMIC PRESIDENT
Millions of workers worldwide are considered “underemployed.” They have jobs that are not in line with their ambitions, training, experience, or education; they are working part-time when they would instead be working full-time, or they are not working at all. The underemployed are underpaid due to either the job’s mismatch with their skills, a skills gap issue, or both.
Our Academy exists to transform the lives of the underemployed to the wholly employed; from no-time, part-time, unsatisfactory employment to right-time, fulfilling full-time employment; from employment that does not match one’s ambitions, training, experience, or education, to productive, personally enjoyable and rewarding employment.
We help self-starters enhance their skill sets to match their competitive markets’ ambitions by closing their skills gaps. BeTech works with motivated people looking to enter careers, switch careers, or gain greater career depth.
BeTech offers world-class, integrated learn-by-doing experiences highlighting complex problem scenarios in practical contexts. These learning opportunities simulate real-world employment situations through experiential learning. Participants are guided by academically qualified instructors who have many years of domain-specific experience. Current practitioners in relevant industries also mentor participants. These mentoring opportunities help create employment pipelines through direct relationships with companies looking for competent individuals.
BeTech programs are of high quality and affordable. The value of a BeTech program is unmatched. Our participants:
- Demonstrate advanced technical competencies and skills
- Exhibit mastery of professional vocabulary
- Communicate fluently
- Establish clear positions and visions
- Solve complex problems
- Perform with predictable quality and reliability
- Honor commitments
- Work productively in teams
- Build trust and respect
Join us. Transform your life.
Sincerely,
Dr. Gerald Williams
Academic President
Dr. Gerald Williams
Academic President
Dr. Gerald Williams has over 30 years of combined career experience in technology applications, development, academia, and management, and organizational consulting. Dr. Williams has provided exceptional leadership as the President Emeritus to Aspen University and countless technological organizations and schools.
BeTech Academy appealed to Dr. Williams because of his desire to lead educators in challenging and relevant learning experiences and grow career-ready individuals in an experiential environment. As head of Academics, Dr. Williams is providing guidance and leadership to provide deep and meaningful education.
Dr. Lynn Carter
Dean & SQA Division Chief
Dr. Lynn Carter joined BeTech Academy as Associate Dean and Head of Technology Department after nearly 50 years of combined experience.
The first 17 years as a professional realtime control system software and embedded software tools developer and researcher, followed by 23 years as a researcher, teaching professor, and curriculum developer at Carnegie Mellon University. He then served as a professor, curricula developer, and faculty developer, supporting several universities in the United States, India, and other countries for another nine years. He was an active IFIP Working Group 2.4 (Software Implementation Technology) member and officer and then as a Commissioner and an Executive Committee member supporting ABET’s Computing Accreditation Commission.
Over these nearly five decades, Dr. Carter observed a growing gap between what university graduates can do after they finish their education and what businesses, industry, and society need them to do. Dr. Carter was attracted to BeTech Academy by the opportunity to not only develop programs and teach in programs but also spearheaded experiential learning as head of the Department and specifically design and implement curricula to provide the knowledge and the professional skills, abilities, and behaviors required of professionals. Far too many graduates have mastered attending lectures and taking tests. Very few can produce high-quality work products expected of professionals leveraging those concepts. There’s too much attention given to understanding technical issues and demonstrating that understanding by solving throw-away toy problems. Most do not have nearly enough experience experimenting, practicing, and mastering those critical concepts through the processes, methods, and tools employers will need their new professionals to know.
Mr. Yasifur Rahman
Founder and CEO
Mr. Yasifur Rahman is a serial entrepreneur with over 14 years of Executive Management, Operations & Office Administration, Client Services & Account Management, Staffing & Recruiting, Project Management (Application & Software Development), and Training focused on Staff Development.
Mr. Rahman came to the US in 1996 and graduated from CUNY Baruch College, with a degree in Finance. As he wanted to give back more to the students, he enrolled to achieve his Master’s degree in Education, slated to complete in 2021. His current industry expertise includes Healthcare, Education, Travel & Tourism, Email Management, Strategy, Business Development, Strategic Partnerships, Operations & Process Management, and Email CRM Consulting, Delivery, and Compliance.
In search of creating a legacy and making a difference in the community, he launched BeTech Academy to spread his pedagogy of learning through experience. The Academy is the culmination of his learning, experience, and knowledge to better the lives of the people in the community with the intention of giving them the chance to enter the software engineering field.
The Program empowers and enables all individuals who know they deserve better but have never had the opportunity to do so. Enrichment and knowledge are ingrained into every facet of the Program with guidance and counseling from mentors who are veterans in their own fields. Students are given individualized attention and support to learn hands-on from these experts, tackling real-life problems, creating tangible solutions and learning necessary skills to succeed in their new career path.
Dr. Shahidul Islam
Advisor to CEO & Student Mentor
Dr. Islam is an American Statistical Association accredited Professional Statistician with a strong background in Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data, Health Information Technology, and large national health-related databases. He has 17 years of combined experience in the healthcare industry as a Biostatistician, Health Informatics Data Scientist, Software Quality Assurance Engineer, and educator.
He has 7 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance (QA) engineer and directly working with a backend database of health informatics data gathered from EHR systems, disease registries, and medical surveillance systems. He has extensive experience writing complex queries in SQL server and Hadoop Impala against EHR data marts. Working as a software QA engineer for a clinical surveillance software team led him to pursue a career in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Currently, he is an assistant professor of Biostatistics and a consulting Biostatistician at the NYU Long Island School of Medicine. In this role, he collaborates with investigators by providing statistical consultations such as designing research studies, analyzing and interpreting statistical, epidemiological, clinical trial and administrative hospital data. He has authored/co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications in a variety of medical specialties, including health informatics, endocrinology, cardiology, osteoporosis, pediatric and OB/GYN.
His research interests include Joint Modeling of recurrent survival and longitudinal data, Clinical Trial Design, Propensity Score Matching and EHR based big data in healthcare.
Education & Training:
DrPH, Epidemiology (2019), State University of New York—Downstate School of Public Health, Brooklyn, NY
MPH, Biostatistics (2008), New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY
B.S., Computer Information Systems (2003), Magna Cum Laude, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY
PStat® (Accredited Professional StatisticianTM), American Statistical Association
CPH (Certified in Public Health), National Board of Public Health Examiner