CV

CV

Mohammad Ali Al-Bahrani

Personal Information

• Name: Mohammad Ali AL-Bahrani
• Nationality: Kuwait
• Date of Birth: 27/2/1973
• Email: mohdbahrani@gmail.com
• Blog: https://liskw.wordpress.com
• Socially: Married and Father of 4 kids.

Educational state:

• Master degree in Library and Information Science, Kuwait university, 2010
• Bachelor degree in Business Administration -Marketing, College of Commerce, Economics and Political Science, Kuwait University. (September 1992 – June 1996)
• TOEFL test grade 560
• IELTS Test 6.5

Working Experience:

• Working in the Ministry of communication since June 1992
• 4 years as clerk in the postal service
• Head of advertisement & promotion Section in the Marketing Department 1997-2003
• Head of advertisement & promotion Section, Public Relation Department 2003- 2012
• Manager Assistant for Agreements and GCC Affairs, International Relations Department 2012 – 2014
• Manager Assistant of Public relation, International Relations Department 2014 – current
• Former member of “Kuwait Government Mall” committee at Ministry of Communications
• Former of many committees related to conferences and Meeting events and forums

Teaching experiences:

• Presented lectures’ at Kuwait University with title of “ Social Networking”, “Blogs”
• Teaching at PAAET, LIS Department since 2011
  • Collection Development, Information Resources, Information Services, Specialized Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Information Resources in Humanities, and Libraries & Research class ( Still Teaching ).
• Teaching Kuwait University, LIS Department 2012 – 2014
  • Teacher Assistant for Information Skills class

Published works:

• Writer in AL-Qabas newspaper specialized in technology and computer related articles 2000-2004
• Writer in Ministry of Communication Magazine, Several articles about communication
• Writer in local technology magazine “Kuwaitnet”
• Author of “Kuwait international calling card collection. 1998 – MOC”
• Author of “Kuwait international calling card collection 2001 – MOC”
• Published Article “The Internet in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC): Vehicle of Change” International Journal of Internet Science. Volume 6, Issue 1 (2011). http://www.ijis.net/ijis6_1/ijis6_1_index.html
• Co-author “Educational Blogging: The Case of Graduate MLIS Students in Kuwait” Libri. International Journal of Libraries and Information Services. Volume 62, Issue 4 (Dec 2012). http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/libr.2012.62.issue-4/issue-files/libr.2012.62.issue-4.xml

Other Activities:

• Participated in several info/Connect fairs at Kuwait International Fair, As Head and part of the Ministry of Communication Team
• Organizer of Ministry of Communication team at “Youm al Shaheed”, 2001 at the flag Square.
• Organizer of Ministry of Communication stand fair at “AL-Qurain Museum – in memory of the invasion” Located in shuaikh.
• Manager of “Bahrani Computer Systems”. A Computer Company with 2 branches in Kuwait
• Participated in Romanian postal stamps expedition in 2008 as part of Kuwait official team in Bucharest, 2008
• President Kuwait Team for Kuala-Lambur postal stamps expedition in 2014.

Part of Ministry of Communication team that organized Arab standardization forum With ITU 2014.

• Part of the organizing volunteers team in organizing SLA-AGC 10th Annual Conference in Kuwait
• Attended The Online Social Networking World Forum 2010 – London, UK
• Designed several internet sites, forums and Blogs over the years since 1996.
• Founder and owner of https://liskw.wordpress.com blog. Web site blog dedicated to the study of Library and Information Science in Kuwait since 2007, in English.

Training

• Qualified training with certificate in Typewriting
• Qualified training with certificate in PowerPoint
• 40 Hours of field work training in NESTIC – KISR
• Qualified training with certificate in Etiquette
• ICDL – International Computer Driving License