BETECH - Key Persons
Dr. Gerald Williams has over 30 years of combined career experience in technology applications, development, academia, management, and organizational consulting. Dr. Williams has provided exceptional leadership as the President Emeritus of Aspen University and countless technological organizations and schools.
BeTech Academy appealed to Dr. Williams because of his desire to lead educators in challenging and relevant learning experiences and to grow career-ready individuals in an experiential environment. As head of Academics, Dr. Williams is providing guidance and leadership to provide deep and meaningful education.
Job Titles:
- Dean and Software QA Division Chief
Dr. Lynn Carter joined BeTech Academy after nearly 50 years of combined experience; first as a professional realtime control system software and embedded software tools developer and researcher, and then as a researcher, teaching professor, and curriculum developer at Carnegie Mellon University. He then served as a professor, curricula developer, and faculty developer, supporting several universities in the United States, India, and other countries
Over these nearly five decades, Dr. Carter observed a growing gap between what university graduates can do after they finish their education and what businesses, industry, and society need them to do. Dr. Carter was attracted to BeTech Academy by the opportunity to not only develop and teach programs but also to spearhead experiential learning, and specifically design and implement curricula to provide the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors required of professionals. Dr. Carter believes that while far too many graduates have mastered attending lectures and taking tests, very few can produce high-quality work products expected of professionals leveraging those concepts.
Most do not have nearly enough experience experimenting, practicing, and mastering those critical concepts through the processes, methods, and tools employers will need their new professionals to know. Dr. Carter and BeTech are committed to solving these problems.
Job Titles:
- Advisor to CEO and Student Mentor
Dr. Islam is a professional statistician with a strong background in Electronic Health Record (EHR) data, health information technology, and large national health-related databases. He has 17 years of combined experience in the healthcare industry as a biostatistician, health informatics data scientist, software quality assurance engineer, and educator.
He has 7 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance engineer, and working with a backend database of health informatics data gathered from EHR systems, disease registries, and medical surveillance systems. He has extensive experience writing complex queries in SQLs. Working as a software QA engineer for a clinical surveillance software team led him to pursue a career in Biostatistics and Epidemiology.
Currently, he is an assistant professor of Biostatistics and a consulting Biostatistician at the NYU Long Island School of Medicine.
Job Titles:
- Director and Enrollment Advisor
Kseniya "Kes" Sullivan graduated from New York University with a degree in Social Sciences, discovering her enthusiasm for assisting people to realize their dreams and working with them to plan and facilitate them. After taking on a management role in Destination Management, Kes further explored her passion in the Education sector with BeTech Academy. Starting on a part-time basis in 2020, she found the mission and the vision of BeTech to be in line with her own interests. The positive change that the Program brings to an individual's life within a matter of months was eye-opening.