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Ziad Mahmood Khan Ziad Khan ZiadKhan

http://www.ziadkhan.com http://www.ziadkhan.org As a social entrepreneur, producer, writer, filmmaker, teacher, business executive and technology consultant, worked for over 28 years in media, film and television production, education, and technology.

Production interests include film and drama, stage and talk shows, current affairs, news stories news commentaries, and documentaries, writing scripts and stories, translations and adaptations from other languages and cultures to Urdu and English and vice versa. Multi lingual interests are not limited to only film works but writing and disseminating information using other modes like seminars, meetings etc. Currently working on drama and documentary projects to portray the life of ethnically diverse society in North America. The projects are intended to create greater understanding of the issues in a diverse religious, cultural, and ethnic society and to increase acceptance of the people suffering from such stereotypes. From 1990-2006 helped in production of several film and drama projects, advised on language and literature, pronunciation and religious and cultural aspects for diverse audience base. Wrote, produced, and directed feature and short films, drama, talk shows, documentaries, current affairs programs, news commentaries and reports telling tales of intricacies, complexities, and dynamics involved in everyday life about different vested interest groups and subjects of current, everyday importance in many countries of the world. Produced several general interest programs, drama, short and features films, current affairs, and news reports highlighting current problems of the people of different ethnicities in North America. Worked with different public and private production organizations including public broadcasting systems, public access channels, private television production bodies, and ethnic programming production houses in Washington, D.C., New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles. Areas of production included stage shows, talk shows and interviews, features, documentaries, community programming, digest and magazine programs. Business and Technology Consulting 1987 onward worked in business and technology environment with a wide array of government, corporate and not for profit organizations. Developed curriculum, taught and supervised teaching activity for media, computer science, information technology, information systems, information engineering, business administration, and economics education and training programs. Provided consulting services to government and corporate clients in system and Network development, technology adoption and switch systems integration and conversion processes. Formulated and deployed long term computing policy involving strategic and tactical decisions.

Areas of Interest and Specialization:

Media Film and TV production drama and Documentaries Writing and directing Ethnic programming Current Affairs Programs Dynamics of war & peace Peace-keepers of the world Diversity and multicultural Affairs Increasing awareness about literacy and education Democracy, justice, peace Better distribution of wealth and reduction in poverty. Business and Technology Literacy and Education Strategic planning, modeling, analysis of information and database management. Analysis of business activity Business systems analysis, problem solving, business process re-engineering. Business systems analysis, design, and development. System integration, requirements analysis. Human machine interaction, human behavior, and psychology in high-tech. environment. Media arts, sciences, technology and Engineering Software, database and systems engineering, operations research, MIS, Total quality management, project management, business administration, Finance, and economics.