Knowledge and Objects

Oma Sewhdat, FCCA (U.K.)

Oma is currently researching opportunities in China. He was previously with Neumont University (formerly called Northface University) as Vice President of Business Development, after 30 years at IBM.
Oma spent the previous 8 years as a Senior Manager in IBM's Software Group, leading the WebSphere world-wide Education and Certification strategies and initiatives with Universities with special focus on emerging markets like China and India.
Oma was the IBM driver behind the establishment of the jCert industry Java certification initiative with other high tech companies like SUN, Oracle, BEA, etc. He was the IBM board member and President of jCert for 5 years. During his 30 years with IBM, Oma held a variety of management positions, including Finance, Manufacturing, Software Development, Software Product Assurance, Software Marketing, and Software Technical Consulting Services. He also worked on a special assignment in IBM's Corporate Headquarters in NY for 3 years, initially as the technical leader and later as the Manager responsible for the design, development and deployment of IBM's internal Financial Systems into Italy, Germany, France, UK, Japan and Canada.

Oma is a thought-leader in the delivery of educational services via the Web.