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puter Center in University of Jordan, there’s any word that could describe
and then worked for another nine Zakariah it is “Super”. Tips and Advices to
months in Sarayah Nour Al-Deen for
Computer Services, to join ITG after loose your weight
that in 2008 with a total of nine years Outside work, Zakariah leans to relax-
of experience. ing and enjoying some time with
friends in a café smoking Shisha. A
thing he also enjoys doing during the كنزل ةراسمل تاتيجوت ل حئاصن
Kamel is married and has two beauti- lunch break every day. And when
ful daughters, he likes to separate Zakariah was asked to point out one
work from his personal life and be- of his life goals, he stated that he
lieves it’s the best way to maintain a intends starting his own business far
healthy life and keep a balance be- from the IT world.
tween the two. When he’s home, he
tends to visit relatives and neighbors
to check up on them. Kamel finds As for Mr. Ahmad Al-Farkh, he is
himself to be his father’s backbone an IT Helpdesk Specialist who started
being the oldest child of the family. his studies in Communication Engi-
He is also the vice president of the neering at the Yarmouk Private Uni-
family’s Diwan serving his clan in eve- versity in Syria completing four years
ry possible way. there, and then moved to Jordan and
earned his B.Sc. from Philadelphia
University in 2015. He started as a
When he is free, he spends time rid- trainee in ITG in the same year while
ing horses and making political analy- studying, and now has a total experi-
sis; also, as most of you know, Kamel ence of two years. Ahmad is de-
works on developing his hobby of scribed by his colleagues as reliable
weather forecasting by reading and ambitious because he always
weather maps and comparing his seeks to develop himself professional-
conclusions with the real results and ly to make sure he’s on the right
occasionally publishing them in his track to reach his goals workwise.
Facebook page سقطلل دصارلا he Ahmad believes that in order to
became a reference to everyone in achieve one’s big goal in life, they
ITG especially in winter when there is have to accompany it with several
a snow potential and a holiday is ex- smaller goals that form the ladder
pected to take place. steps to the bigger one. This is why
he aims to learn more by taking pro-
Kamel is known among his colleagues fessional development courses. Determination
as a reliable person who never says In his free time, Ahmad plays football
NO to anything that could come up with his friends, and he also likes
any minute at work. His colleague, watching the Spanish League football
Ahmad, said that Kamel is the person matches and cheering for his favorite is the Key
who always got his back and is with team, the Royal, Real Madrid. He
him through thick and thin. Kamel added that his passion in the game is
prefers to take things slowly and getting out of control as he finds him-
move one step at a time on the way self strongly influenced by a match The key to staying motivated to
of reaching his goals. He aims to own result for days. lose weight is similar to the
a house and start his own business. amount of fuel in a car—you don't
Relationships are the foundation of need the motivation tank to be full
In his turn, Mr. Zakariah Salhab is teamwork. Teams fail to execute to drive, you just need to prevent
a Senior System Admin, who graduat- when relationships are poor and suc- it from running empty.
ed from Mutah University with a B.Sc. ceed when strong. The admins are
in Computer Engineering in 2012. He aware of the great value of this and
worked for three years in different thus they like spending quality time Says Mohammad Khail
companies before joining ITG in together outside working hours, and
2015. Zakariah is a real pistol both currently planning to going on a trip ي
inside and outside work, a person to relieve work stress. They found out ةراسخ ديرت اتلجأ م نلا بامسلأا دد
ي
with a lot of verve and personality. that such time not only allows them كنزل
He always comes to work full of ener- to get to know each other better as
colleagues from different disciplines, Decide why do you want to loose
gy and motivation to start the day.
Considering that he’s the team’s con- but also gave a creative space for weight
tact point with ITG USA branch, his wider work-related discussions.
Team Leader Abu Al-Waleed counts
on him in providing support miles When we asked the admins what is كفادهأ عضو مق
away. This is a double-edged sword; their most favorite thing in ITG, they Setup your goals
as all Zakariah’s team members all agreed that it is the friendly at-
agreed that it is sometimes impossi- mosphere the company provides urg-
ble to wake him up to work taking ing them to give more every day, and
into consideration the time difference the way employees treat each other; ةي امصلا ةيعيجشتلا تاراعشلا بتكأ
between Jordan and USA and the fact in addition to how concerned is the Write your morning mantra
that he’s requested to do work at Management with the employees’
night. Abu Al-Waleed stressed that he comfort. Nonetheless, if they could
believes Zakariah has proved himself change one thing about ITG, they all ةي اجيإ ر ف
capable of doing the job ever since agreed that the long working hours
he joined the team, and added: “if during Ramadan is a must change. Think Positive

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