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Co-Founder and Entrepreneur

In 2015, After I took the CliftonStrengths Finder test, I decided that I wanted to do something that utilized all my strengths. I also felt a huge need in Egypt's tech market for spreading practical hands on tech education.

UX Evangelist, User Experience Coaching and Consulting
Freelance - Egypt

It started when I created my own freelance brand, Eman the UX Evangelist. The idea was to help startups and companies learn more about user experience design concepts and techniques to help them build better products and processes.

  • Designed and delivered a 20 hour workshop for User Experience Design. It was delivered both independently to the public as well as part of the development and learning workshops to companies and startups in Egypt.
  • Coached and consulted with companies and startups to help them adopt a user centered approach in building their products.
Co-Founder at AlMakinah
AlMakinah - Egypt

In late 2016, I met with Bahia El Sharkway, Founder of AlMakinah, a tech school in Egypt that aimed at addressing the talent gap by creating tech programs for adults that did not study programming or computer science and help them gain the skills needed to land jobs in tech companies.

It was a chance for me to take part in building a platform of opportunities for tech job seekers companies and tech experts that want to share their knowledge.

As a co-founder my role included:

  • Setting and evaluating the strategy and business model for our programs.
  • Overlooking the business development and marketing strategy for the company as well.
  • Process, leading and streamlining the work across various functions and teams.

As a Education Experience Lead my role included:

  • Designing and developing learning experience for our tech programs that mostly targeted students who had no previous experience in computer science or programming.
  • Streamlining the educational process in our programs through the use of proper tools and platforms to facilitate a seamless learning experience for students, instructors and mentors.
  • Teaching, content development and program design.

As female tech founders, we also focused on creating opportunities for creating programs dedicated for women, dedicated to support women looking to get into the tech field.

Aiming to start early and build a future generation ready for the AI workplace. AlMakinah teamed up with educaiton experts in teaching youngsters programming, creating a spinn off brand "Makinder" The youngsters Coding Bootcamp.

AlMakinah gave me a chance to be part of building a startup that was focused on providing high quality tech education in Egypt and transforming many lives through tech education.

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