Dr. Qasim Al-Mamari currently works as the Program Director of Information Technology at the Colleges of Applied Sciences. He assumed this position since September 201​5​. Dr. Al-Mamari left the Sultanate on a full scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education in 2001 to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in upstate New York. During his undergraduate study, he enrolled in the Foreign Language Tutoring Program at the English Language Center at RIT. He tutored Arabic for non-arabic speakers for two years. After graduation, Qasim was offered a merit-based full scholarship by RIT to pursue a Master's degree in Information Technology where he also tutored programming, database, and networking students. He also worked as a teaching assistant for some IT professors at the Information Technology department at RIT. In August 2006, he returned to the Sultanate and started working as a lecturer at the College of Applied Sciences in Sohar in January 2007. He, then, left again in early 2009 to Melbourne Australia to pursue a PhD degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). His PhD was about the adoption and implementation of e-Government in the context of the developing world with an emphasis on the Omani experience.​ His research interests are in Big Data, TV White Spaces, E-Government and E-Commerce.