Saad Faruque has over 15 years of experience implementing open source software solutions for business and educational institutions. During this period, he worked with banks, ISPs, and educational institutions. Recently, Saad helped set up the IT infrastructure for International School Dhaka and Stonehill International School, Bangalore.

Currently, he works as the head of solution development at Xeo InfoSoft (http://xeois.com), a Bangalore-based company that he cofounded. Xeo helps businesses implement open source software solutions, such as Moodle, Mahara, Alfresco, Zimbra, ORTS, Nagios, and Elastix.

You can find him on his blog at http://tektab.com. For Moodle and some other open source software implementation-related support, Saad can be reached at <[email protected]>.

Anna Krassa (kanna) holds a bachelor's degree in librarianship and information science. Mostly, she works as an e-learning consultant. Anna lives in North Greece (Nea Moudania, Chalkidiki). In December 2006, she became the first Moodle-certified teacher in Greece. In May 2007, Anna became a mentor and assessor for MTC/MCCC candidates and collaborated with Certification Central Administration, HRD Moodle Partner (New Zealand). In 2012, Anna became the main mentor and assessor at MCCC Central Administration. Her responsibilities include assessing MCCC candidates, mentoring MCCC mentors and assessors, and representing HRDNZ in conferences.

Anna has also been working at GAC Corporate Academy since 2007, initially as an external facilitator for HRDNZ Moodle Partner, facilitating the course on personal and professional development. When this course was withdrawn after 2 years, her position changed from a facilitator to a course developer and GAClearn administrator because of her Moodle background. Since 2012, she has been working as a GCA learning developer. Her areas of focus are site administration, course design, facilitator training and support, participant assistance, research on e-learning, and Moodle. She also represents GCA at conferences, seminars, and similar events.

In Greece, Anna has worked for the e-learning service of the Greek School Network and the Library of University of Macedonia Telemathea. As a volunteer, she has worked for FreeMoodle and Mathisis, the most active e-schools in Greece and Cyprus. Internationally, she worked as an HRDNZ contractor in Bahrain (GII Academy), Ethiopia (Mekelle University), Canada (the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology), and Cyprus (European University Cyprus).

Anna started collaborating with Packt Publishing as a technical reviewer in 2013. Until now, she has been involved in three books: Moodle 2.5 Multimedia, Moodle Course Design Best Practices, and Moodle E-Learning Course Development, Third Edition.

She is married to Vasilis and has a lovely daughter.

Danny Wahl is an educational technology consultant and implementation specialist working in the Asia-Pacific region with a particular focus on international schools. He has assisted several schools in 1:1 computing, online, and mobile e-learning programs, among other things. When not working, he enjoys web development, reading the Bible, and playing the ukulele.