NAME

Mie Charlotte Ahmt

YEAR OF BIRTH

1974

NATIONALITY

Danish

SPECIALISATION

Project Management, Administration, Information & Communication Technology.

ADDRESS

Amagerfælledvej 41, 4^thDK-2300 Copenhagen S
Mobile : 0093 (0) 798 137 047
Email: mie@ahmt.dk
www.ahmt.dk

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Ms Ahmt has international experience working as Administration Manager, Program Assistant, Manager, Supervisor and as an IT Consultant in Afghanistan, from fieldwork in Bangladesh in relation with her thesis at the IT University in Copenhagen and as a sponsor- and volunteer- coordinator for a NGO in Guatemala.

She has experience with collection and use of local knowledge, writing reports, proposals and has a strong analytic instinct. She has strong administrative skills and is well founded in quantitative and especially qualitative research methods. She has teaching experience partly from teaching IT to mentally disabled adults, and partly from teaching Danish as a Foreign Language to children. Ms. Ahmt has in-depth experience with all the phases of web production including; planning, organizing, web design, web writing, usability testing and video editing. She has excellent skills within communication, argumentation, and reflection and an interdisciplinary orientation and the ability to be abstract.Ms. Ahmt is experienced in working cross-culturally and in multidisciplinary teams and has well-developed presentation skills.

EDUCATION

M.sc. in Information Technology, Design, Communication and Media, The IT University of Copenhagen, 2003
Master thesis: “IT in Developing countries – a case study of Asian University for Women” (11 point on the Danish marking scale). BA in Danish and Spanish, University of Copenhagen, 2000 The Master of Science Design, Communication and Media consist of Design and Interactivity, and IT as a social and cultural media. Graduates are empowered to use new IT for communication purposes, including a hands-on 'practical' approach to construct and design websites and multimedia, 3-D animations and games. The course offers knowledge of project management, graphic design, organisation, usability and interaction.

SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION

International project Management, Carl Bro International, 2004

· Teambuilding

· Project Management

· Logical Framework Approach (LFA)

· Proposal Writing

· Project Planning

· Competence development

· Presentation Techniques

· International Tendering

· Monitoring and Evaluation

· Transfer knowledge

· Institutional and Organisational Analysis

· Fundraising

· 12 weeks On-The-Job-Training

Spanish Language course, Guatemala, 2002
Language course in Guatemala (4 weeks)

Danish School of Design (Digital Design, Institute of Visual Communication), 2002
Design and production aspects within the digital design in multimedia publishing, TV and film, advertising, web design, industrial design, information appliance, interface architecture and within the games and entertainment industry. The end product was report and a creative design of a computer game for the TV show “Rejseholdet” (6 months)

Spanish Language course, Guatemala, 1997
Language course in Guatemala (6 months)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Dan Church Aid
Danish Red Cross
Danish association of academics

COUNTRIES OF WORK EXPERIENCE

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Denmark

LANGUAGES

Speaking	Writing	Reading
Excellent	Excellent	Excellent
Excellent	Excellent	Excellent
Good	Good	Excellent
Fair	Fair	Excellent
Beginner	No	Beginner

DANISH

ENGLISH

SPANISH

GERMAN

DARI

COMPUTER SKILLS

Technical flair and a super user of a broad variety of software, including;

o MS office

o FrontPage

o Photoshop

o Premiere

o After effects

o Illustrator

o Dreamweaver

o Flash

o Final Cut Pro

o Pagemaker

o HTML

o Corel Draw

EXPERIENCE RECORD	:
2006-Current		Administration Manager, Danish Camp Supply, Afghanistan · Managing and Training Local Afghan Administrative Staff · Controlling all Petty cash · Weekly budget and cash flow planning · Managing all logistic operations – both national and international. · Handling all shipping and custom clearance · Recruitment of both national and international staff · Managing all day-to-day operations in the Kabul office · Customer Service · Support of Sales team · Contact to all relevant embassies and military bases · Manage administrative accounting and all staff administrative actions · Carry out other administrative and management duties as directed by the Country Manager · Setting up all administrative systems in the Kabul office including Local Salary system, vacation/sickness leave system. · Planning all work schedules for local staff · Responsible for stock and stock count. · Reporting to all DCS offices in Denmark, Turkey and the Balkans

2005-2006		Program Assistant, Louis Berger Group, Afghanistan · Managing and Training Local Afghan Administrative Staff · In August 2005, planned, equipment and managing all logistics of the establishment of three small engineering sub-offices in Kunduz City, Ghazni City and Lashkar Gah City, each with a compliment of approximately 5 engineers and 10 support staff. This included arranging all equipment transport from Kabul; all support staff contracting all premises and vehicle rental contracts. It also included ensuring that these offices were properly administered during the five month period they operated. · Developed and managed a day to day complex construction progress reporting system that tracked the progress of eight Afghan contractors working on 89 school and clinic projects in seven provinces. This report was disseminated read and used as a key planning tool by local LBG S&C Staff all over Afghanistan, LBG REFS program staff, LBG/Washington senior corporate managers, and USAID Kabul Mission Staff. · Developed and managed the day to day work and travel scheduling program for the entire Kabul Staff. This included assisting the planning and managing of Bell 212 helicopter flight operations for six months. Managed the important communications program between Kabul and sub-offices. · Managed and carried out the LBG REFS Schools & Clinics expatriate and Afghan Staff Travel request and PRT Clearance Approval system within the Schools & Clinics Program. · Managed and arranged meetings and workshops for the Program Manager including a large two-day Afghan construction contractor training workshop. · Managed Sub-contractor security arrangements for sub-office staff and operations and for helicopter landing zone crews with LBG REFS subcontractor, USPI. · Managed administrative accounting and all staff administrative actions. · Carried out other administrative and management duties as directed by the Program Manager.

2004 - 2005		Manager, RA International, Afghanistan Planning, setting up and managing laundry service for RA International in Afghanistan. Writing quotations and liaise with clients. Budget planning and responsibility. Overall control of department. Main clients are Military, Embassies and military contractors.

2004		IT Specialist UMCOR, Afghanistan Short term contract. Arranging workshops and training the staff in various IT related activities.

2004	:	IT-Consultant, DACAAR, Afghanistan Carrying out various information and communications tasks in DACAAR. Analysing and developing means and measures for communication and information in DACAAR, internal as well as external for the Public Information Unit in. Actual tasks are to assess needs and feasibility creating and designing a new DACAAR homepage and Intranet. Furthermore responsible for arranging workshops and train local staff in order to strengthen IT and communication skills in general and specifically to enhance skills creating and maintaining a new website/intranet for DACAAR in Afghanistan.

2003 -2004	:	Secretary and Webmaster, AB Fælledegaarden Construction of the website for the flats under a multi-ownership-scheme. Member of the board of condominium and responsible for the internal information flow. Furthermore responsible for appraisal and sale of apartments.


2003	:	Fieldwork in Bangladesh In relation to master thesis (IT in developing countries – a case study of Asian University for Women) did fieldwork in Bangladesh and experienced the society from the inside, applying ethnographic and discourse analysis methods to an extensive corpus of video-recorded material, interviews, participatory workshops and questionnaires. The conclusions were used to analyse the said project and formulate the problems of some of the most common assumptions about the benefits of importing a western style educational system (with emphasis on IT) to a third world country. The thesis concluded with a SWOT analysis of the Asian University for Women with emphasis on political, social and educational issues for AUW to consider and a recommendation for a better employment of funds.

2002	:	Sponsor and Volunteer Coordinator, Camino Seguro, Guatemala Internship at a NGO in Guatemala. Main responsibilities were recruitment, PR and Fundraising. Made a dummy for a new website for the NGO and a proposal for a new visual identity for Camino Seguro. Furthermore, prepared a report analysing the website and suggesting new ways of organising the internal information flow in the organisation and new ways of using IT in the organisation.

2000-2003	:	Teacher, Fountain House Teacher in a variety of computer skills for adults with mental problems. Mainly Word, Excel, Access, PageMaker and Photoshop. Furthermore, taught different study- and reading -techniques to mentally disabled university students.