SAE Amman Staff

With over 12 years experience in the technical field being TV sat station manager for ShooFeeTV, Technical consultant for Sandbag Productions and Creative Technologies Supervisor for the Royal Film Commission, Yousef has a wealth of technical expertise along with a love of film producing.

Yousef is the brains behind setting policies, procedures and protocols for all technical aspects of SAE Amman operations; building a model to implement to other campuses we are planning to open in the region.

Andrea is a holder of a Masters Degree in Education from the US with a major in leadership and over 20 years experience in the field. Andrea has a track record of leadership and achievements maintaining a high standard of educational quality with admirable energy.

Before joining SAE Amman, Andrea was the Head of English/Humanities with the Modern American School and before that; she was the Examinations Officer and Head of English with the New English School.

Andrea is in charge of all academic and students’ issues. She holds a special passion for Latino music and almost anywhere with sun & beach.

Sarah has joined SAE Amman after an extended experience in Accounting, Budgeting and Financial Planning for over 8 years. As Finance and Administration Manager, she runs the day to day finance related issues in addition to the required cash management, feasibility studies, business cases and financial analysis tasks.

Sarah is also responsible for setting all the administrative policies and procedures concerning students, employees and sister companies.

Before joining SAE Amman, Sarah has sharpened her experience by working for Insurance, Telecommunication and Trading sectors in addition she was responsible for budgeting and financial reporting for Luminus Group Holding Company and its 7 subsidiaries including SAE Amman for more than 3 years.

 Ricardo has been freelancing as a sound designer and media content producer since 2001. He has been working with the national television in Portugal (RTP) as VT technician and as sound designer for one of its biggest prime time comedy shows. He recorded underground rock bands, worked in radio broadcasting and was involved with the Campo Alegre’s theatre productions.

He has a strong passion for teaching and has been teaching at university level in Portugal for the past four years having also guest lectured at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He was also responsible for implementing the only AVID Pro Tools Sponsored School in Portugal.

Ricardo’s main research interests cover audio post-production, Pro Tools and game audio. He is fascinated with the impact of audio’s immersive experience on the audience and wants to study further the field of surround sound.

With 7 years of experience in filmmaking using his time in directing and cinematography, Fred has a portfolio of some interesting movies. He has directed “Metamorphosis” based on Franz Kafka’s novel, “The down set is tonight” and “brothers in blood”. Fred holds a special interest for photography in the areas of modeling and urban. He loves teaching Directing to students to shape their characters as real persons.
 
Fred’s passion to contemporary art and installation is endless. He is a fan of film festivals by nature. London has a special place in his heart for its diversity. Tokyo comes second as Fred is fascinated by the culture and the surrounding filling up its cities with lights and futuristic elements; which is visually complex and interesting.

Portuguese born Frederico holds a BA degree in Filmmaking from the School of Arts (UCP), and a Masters in Fine Arts degree in Filmmaking from the New York Film Academy at Universal Studios.

With 5 years experience in post production, Ahmed has conducted a number of training courses for the past years in Motion, Color grading, Final Cut and DVD mastering.

Ahmed is a Certified Apple Trainer on Final Cut and Motion.

Ahmed’s passion is in editing and color grading. It is more of a storytelling for him as using the right colors to match the cocept enables the student deliver the message behind the film.

Coming from a color grading background, Landscapes with lavish green is his favorite locations for meditation.

After nine years of working as a news documentary cameraman, editor, producer and reporter, Ahmad joined the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts (RSICA) and graduated with a Masters degree in Film Producing and Cinematography.

He was selected by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) as the first non-American to participate in the Power of Diversity Workshop, which took place in Los Angeles. Soon after, he joined Revelations Entertainment (owned by Morgan Freeman) in LA, as part of the creative story development team.      

With 14 years experience in composing, arranging sound tracks, sound design and mastering, Shane loves teaching music and music business to students. A graduate of SAE Singapore, He shares knowledge of composing electronic music background with his students to deliver the Asian experience and ideas for mixing.

Passionate about old school of recording for learning the hard way attributed to being highly regarded to human elements and not fully dependant on technology.

Despite his passion for music, Shane loves countryside where it is quiet and calm.

With nearly 6 Years of Experience in the Field of Radio Broadcasting and 13 Years of Audio Engineering, crowned with a Diploma in Audio Engineering from SAE, Amjad recently joined the Audio Department in Amman.  He is also Technical Manager and Head of Training at Mazaj FM Radio Station where he has worked since 2005

Ayman is a multi-award winning music industry professional. He received a BA in Physics in 1987 and a BA in Music Science "Composing" in 2002 and a Master Degree in Musicology "Modern Composing Tools" in 2008.

He has several years of experience in Audio Engineering through his work as a composer and arranger. He produced a lot of recordings for Arab and Jordanian pop stars such as Mohammad Abdo, Omar Al Abdallat, Diana Karazon.

In the field of Post Production, he designed the soundtrack for a lot of Arabic television series such as "Al Fateen", "Laila".

With 9 years experience working as a 3D artist for companies such as Nassons Entertainment Studios, Rubicon, and many freelance assignments, Mohanned is passionate about teaching character animation to students.

Mohanned believes that this subject depends more on creativity and not fully dependant on softwares and technicalities specifically when creating the surrounding of the character.

Fascinated by Japanese art and culture. Computer games and making short animated movies occupy most of his time. You may find Mohanned occasionally Scuba diving but frequently playing Chess.

Mohanned’s work has included TV series, video games, television commercials, and realistic characters and objects for press.

With 15 years experience in sketching, character and location designs and vehicle designs, Sami holds a special passion for 2D being the foundation of all advanced animation techniques nowadays. Sami believes in quality education that is result-oriented thus committed students motivate him to give his best.

Sami is also an artist of free hand drawing. He is obsessed with drawing     and likes to share his personal knowledge with students.

Sami is a fan of nature and water in specific for its artistic and energetic features.
 

With 9 years experience as a Maya developer, Mahmoud is passionate about teaching visual effects as it combines all Maya experiences and provides great employment opportunities for students in the fields of TV identities, TV commercials and animation and live shooting.

Mahmoud has a passion for strategy games. Combines a number of contradictions; hates technology but very dependant and addicted to it; loves high places but suffers from acrophobia.

Mahmoud is proud to be the first Arab who is an Autodesk Certified Trainer for Maya. Mahmoud is also a Certified Macromedia Flash Designer.

Luay received his degree in Mechatronics from an American University and has 14 years experience in Animation/Art related fields.  Though his strength is animation and free-hand drawing (he loves character sketching), he has also done modeling, architectural projects, designing logos and graphic and web design. 

One of his achievements is a camp simulation as a training project for the American Police Department.

Creativity is what he is best at and he enjoys imparting his knowledge and passion for art to his students. 

Ashraf  comes from 3D animation production background, he has been working for years in companies such as Rubicon Animation studios on a number of projects such as Pink panthers and Pals and Ben & Izzy series. He also participated in a number of freelance projects in the all field of CG and Animation.

14 years experience working with advertising agencies on across the line. He holds special interest for ATL building fully fledge campaigns across all media as  it is more dynamic.

His skills focus more on the integrating the different softwares and make them work together as understanding the different softwares make it easy on students to achieve their objectives.

From a brand point of view, his passion is for creating jingles for radio. He also shares his industry experience teaching fresh graduates and junior mid level designers and client servicing employees the structure of advertising agencies to prepare them for the working environment and how to excel.

Hani gets inspired by outdoors and landscaping.

Anas Al-Ramahi is one of us! He enrolled in 2008 and graduated in 2009, top of his Audio Engineering class!
 
Anas was born and raised in Jordan, Amman.  His passion for music drove him where he is today.  His talents and love for guitar playing, recording and mixing has made him decide to continue at SAE International in helping students in following their passion after his graduation!
 
While studying at SAE Amman, instructors as well as management felt because of Anas's friendliness and wonderful people skills he was recruited as a customer service representative and was later promoted as guidance counselor after graduating.  
 
Anas is not only a graduate of SAE International, but a friend who is always here to lend a helping hand!

Noor possesses an English Translation Degree from ASU (Applied Science University). She has over three years experience working within Educational Industry.

Within her three years of work experience she has mastered several positions such as Customer Service officer, Academic Coordinator, Student Counselor and Sales Representative

Her Passion for student advocacy has enriched her future growth as a professional at SAE Amman. She enjoys working with students in all capacities and strives to provide them with a rich learning environment

Noor was born in UAE - Abu Dhabi and has lived in Amman for the past nine years. She continues to expand her professional development focused on education and student empowerment.

Dina is 2 years young in experience but with a dedication and commitment to make students life on campus easy. Dina is responsible for organizing class schedules, coordinating executive plans, managing attendance sheets and solving issues related to students’ affairs.

Dina is a big fan of the Japanese culture and film industry.

Ahmed is the first friendly face you see when you visit SAE Amman. Friendly, energetic and always happy to help are some of his fine characteristics. Ahmed (aka AVIDBOLD), a graduate with a certificate in Electronic Music Production from SAE Amman, Ahmed holds a true passion for music.

In the summer of 2009, AVIDBOLD was asked to play at one of the region's biggest music festivals, Distant Heat, alongside famous DJs on the lineup (Armin Van Buuren, Glenn Morison and Bee Bee). In 2010, AVIDBOLD was invited to be the main DJ at "Escape to Snowbar" in Ramallah – Palestine, an event attended by more than 800 music lovers. AVIDBOLD is also on the lineup of Distant Heat's 2010 summer festival. You can often see Ahmed playing DJ sets around Amman and occassionaly in Lebanon.

Ahmed is responsible for keeping a good vibe and good tunes playing throughout the campus, he's like the SAE mascot.

Khaldoun is a graduate of SAE Institute Amman with hands on experience in audio related software like Pro Tools, Logic and Reason. He has experience in live sound, choirs and recording and editing for studio audio production.

Anas has trained with numerous Jordanian production companies and has extensive freelance experience on promotional, industrial, medical and independent video projects.

Jamal is a graduate of SAE Institute Amman filmmaking program, holding diverse film production skills, software expertise and excellent knowledge about post-production processes. Jamal participated in many entertainment projects with Toyoor al Janeh channel.

Hussam is a graduated of SAE Institute Amman with hands on experience in studio recording and music editing while mastering pro tools and logic audio softwares. Hussam was involved in couple of post production films and has worked in a live PA company where he got his experience in live sound and live sound equipment.

Khalid is a fresh graduate from SAE's sister company Al- Quds College. He holds a Diploma in Accounting.

Dima graduated from University of Jordan Accounting section in the Faculty of Business Administration.