Curriculum Vitae

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Name

Ali Darweesh

Personal Info

  • Married
  • Non-smoker - Teetotaller - Workaholic!

Work Experience


Company Name

Duration of employment

Achievements during this period

Al-Yaman Fairs

2000-2003

Full-time job in the IT and statistics department. Participated in developing pieces of software for advertising purposes; and worked in the marketing department for a while as  Reservation Manager

Kindi International Institute

2003-present

Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, teacher of English for exams; TOEFL, TOEIC, FCE, CAE, CPE IELTS and others, Teacher of Information Technology and Computer Investment; MS Windows, MS Office, Multimedia Design and Development, ICDL Tester and others

Free-lancer

2002-present

Have worked as a translator, interpreter, and web designer and developer. Worked for several publishers and produced a couple of books on Computer Science and English Langauge



Have worked as a teacher trainer, educational consultant and material developer



In the Multimedia field, produced several CD-based presentations and multimedia projects in addition to other websites and portals

MBC (Almanar Book Centre)

2005-present

Sales manager, educational consultant and marketing and support manager. Al Manar Book Centre is a sole agent of McGrawHill Companies in Syria

Aleppo University

Faculty of Arts and humantities

2008- present

have worked as a lecturer and examiner of full-term academic subjects like History of Thought and Literature, Comprehension Introdcution to Poetry and others.


Educational Qualifications


Course and Name of Institution

City and Year of Completion

Achievements during this period

Licentiate in English Language and Literature

Aleppo University, 2007

Studied English Language in detail and got a good idea about linguistics, arts, world literature, in addition to some qualification in ELT/ESL/EFL and Applied Linuistics

M.A Postgraduate in English Literature

Aleppo University, started 2007

Still working on the course through which I hope i will get a better understanding of English Language and Literature in addition to some knowledge in Philisophy and Religion

Several courses in IT, management, teacher development, and some languages

2000-2007

Acquired more understanding of several subjects in the previously-mentioned fields and developed new skills at work

Achievements as a free-lancer

Published a translation of SPECIAL EDITION USING MICROSFT FRONTPAGE 2000 by the publisher KSBEST

Published a book about MS Frontpage 2002 by the publisher KSBEST

Published a course in IT for London College of Management training centre in Aleppo

Built several websites and educationl peices of software and computer-based training and testing system for English Language and other subjects

Other Skills

Excellent knowledge of computer systems, software and hardware, IT training and teaching, Internet usage and investement

Good communication skills

Excellent presentation skills, communication skills and teaching skills

Native-like speaker of English

Some adequacy in Spanish

Activities / Interests

Music, reading and computer gaming and use, langauges and accents