Meet the Instructors
Samad Aidane
Senior IT Project Manager, Port of Seattle
Samad Aidane is a senior project manager at the Port of Seattle, where he leads information technology projects for the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport and Port of Seattle. Aidane has more than 29 years of industry experience as an information technology professional and project manager. His experience spans the fields of telecom, finance, health care and government in the U.S., Germany, Austria and Belgium at organizations such as HP, Cap Gemini, Time Warner Telecom and Telefonica.
Aidane has presented at international conferences such as the Project Management Institute Global Summit, Dubai International Project Management Forum and Oracle OpenWorld conference. He earned a Ph.D. from Canterbury Chris Church University (U.K) for his research on social equity practices in project management.