Dr. Shahid Ahmed has more than 20 years of experience in risk assessment, computing and software development, and development of healthcare training programs. He started the company in 1998, after many years of work at Bell Communications Research, Franklin Research Center, and Babcock and Wilcox. He was an Adjunct Professor at the Systems Engineering department at the the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Dr. Ahmed has extensive consulting experience with such clients as NASA, USNRC, Sargent & Lundy, High Technology Corporation, French company EDF, Australian company ANSTO, and the United Nations. Dr. Ahmed is currently devoting his full time in developing and running the nursing programs at PITC, a post-secondary career school, accredited by ABHES, and licensed by Pennsylvania Department of Education and Pennsylvania Board of Nursing. PITC is named among the 100 fastest growing small businesses in Philadelphia in 2012 and 2013 by the Wharton Small Business Center and Philadelphia Business Journal. Dr. Ahmed has started a non-profit, DoPeace.org, which has developed a successful model for low-cost education for the children of the slums of the world. A fast-growing 501(c)(3) charitable organization, DoPeace currently has 17,500 students in the slums of Bangladesh.Dr. Ahmed is a long-distance runner. He has completed the Twin Cities Marathon in 2016, Berlin Marathon in 2015, the Amsterdam Marathon in 2014, Big Sur International Marathon in 2013, Quebec City Marathon in 2012, Paris Marathon in 2011, Munich Marathon in 2010, Venice Marathon in 2009, Vienna Marathon in 2009, Edinburgh Marathon in 2008, Long Beach Marathon in 2007, Toronto Marathon in 2006, Flora London Marathon in 1998, the New York Marathon in 1996, and the Philadelphia Marathon in 1995.