Basic Blockchain and Bitcoin Course

Module 1: Blockchain Technology

• What is Blockchain?
• Decentralization with Blockchain
• Blockchain Archtiecture and Design
• Opportunities through Blockchain

Module 2: Blockchain Applications

• CrytoCurrency
• Digital Tokens
• Smart Contract
• Real Blockchain Application Case Studies
• Blockchain Challenges and Risks

Module 3: Cryptocurrency

• What is Cryptocurrency?
• Advantages of Cryptocurrency
• Cryptocurrency Trading

Module 4: Bitcoin

• The Birth of Bitcoin
• How to Store and Use Bitcoins
• Bitcoin Wallet
• Bitcoin Mining
• Strength and Weakness of Bitcoin

Module 5: The Future of Blockchain and Bitcoin

• Alternatives to Bitcoin - Altcoins
• Blockchain Community, Politics, and Regulation
• Security issues with Bitcoins

• Fintech Administrators
• Finance Administrators
• Blockchain developers
• Bitcoin traders

Muhammed Siraj is an IT executive, lecturer, trainer, security expert, developer, hardware technician, and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in the IT profession. He is an experienced IT instructor who has delivered several lecturers in the area of Cybersecurity, Computer Forensics, and Fraud detection to the military, police, CID, Financial Institutions, among others. In addition to training, he provides consultancy services to Educational and Governmental Institutions in the area of computer security and adoption of Open Source solutions. His experience and knowledge acquired from Ghana, Mali, Denmark, South Africa, and Malaysia, enables him to interact with people of different cultural backgrounds very well.

Skillset:

• Degrees in IT, Economics, Psychology. Currently pursuing his PhD in Computer Science (Security in Computing field)
• Certified CEH, CHFI, Hardware repairs and maintenance.
• Data mining, Office automation, filemaker, Fraud detection, Blockchain, Hardware repairs, Google Power Searcher, Drupal/Laravel/CakePHP developer.
• Proficient in Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, Solidity, VBA, Google Apps Script, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQL.

Truman Ng graduated with Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering from NUS in year 2002. He designed Artificial Intelligence (AI) controller for DC-DC Power Convertor by using Fuzzy Logic and Neural Network (NN) as his university Final Year Project.

Truman has over 15 years project experiences across Database & Web Design, PLC machinery, Data Center Design , Structure Cabling System(SCS) and Enterprise Network Design and Implementation. He used to be a network architect for Hewlett Packard, working with a group of virtual team from the US in handling network design and projects in the States.

Truman is the founder of Nexplore (S) Pte Ltd. He provides solutions of Cloud SaaS, IaaS & PaaS and Software Defined Network (SDN), VoIP and Internet Security. He was engaged by Huawei Global Training Center to provide 60+ consultations and trainings for Internet Service Providers(ISP) from Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philipines, Australia, Poland, Iran, South Africa, Swaziland, Cote Dlvoire, Syria, Uzbekistan, New Zealand and countries over the world.
As achievement, Truman has successfully completed 100+ IT network projects for Bank, Hotel and Factory within 5 years.
Truman is certified in PMP, Cisco CCNP, CCIP, CCDP, HP Ase and Huawei HCNP, HCIE R&S, HCNA Cloud, HCNA Security, etc.

Tarun Sukhani is an IT executive, educator, author, speaker, data scientist, security expert, agile coach, polyglot coder, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of combined professional experience both in the U.S. and internationally. As a seasoned veteran, his expertise lies in leading teams in the design and delivery of highly scalable, concurrent, and performant enterprise and web-scale software solutions with budgets of up to $100 million. He is particularly adept at building productive, self-managing agile teams with predictable velocities and delivery timeframes. He is skilled in all phases of the SDLC/ALM, with a solid foundation in Agile (XP, SAFe, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, and Scrumban) and traditional (PMI and PRINCE2) project management frameworks and methodologies.

Skillset:

• Degrees in Math, Computer Science, Business Administration (Finance, Accounting, and Operations Management), and Information Systems Management
• Certified in Scrum (CSM, CSP, PSM I), Data Warehousing/Mining/Science, E-commerce, and Microsoft/Oracle technologies (.NET/Java). 
• PMI/PRINCE2 project management
• CISO (Infosec), CEH, CISSP
• 6 Sigma/Lean at GEMS (GE Medical Systems)
• ITIL,TOGAF,COBIT,ISO27000,NIST
• Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Text Mining, Genetic Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Computational Finance, Blockchain, Driver-Based Budgeting, Computer vision.
• Proficient in Big Data Analytics: Python,Hadoop, Pig, Hive, HBase, Spark, R/Rattle, Cassandra, YARN, Zookeeper, Mahout, SimpleCV, OpenCV

Achievements: 

• Project Lead on over 50 projects at clients that included Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies, spanning the healthcare, manufacturing, Internet, media, BFSI, telco, oil & gas, and education verticals.
• Corporate trainer and university lecturer, conducting academic and vocational business and IT courses in North/South America, Europe and Asia. 
• Co-founder of 4 companies 
• Consultant to 12 Fortune 500 companies and SMEs
• E&Y Winner of 2005 business plan competition