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Firas Amach
  Associate Programmer Analyst

Firas Amach is a programmer and analyst with the Value-Added Research Center. He joined VARC in March 2012. Firas performs data analysis for the Hillsborough County Value Added Project and for VARC executive director Rob Meyer. He has also worked on the Tulsa Head Start program. Previously, Firas lived in Syria, where he taught university-level computer engineering classes. Prior to that, he worked as a development programmer at AccuWeather in State College, Pa. He met his wife in Syria, and they recently had a child. Firas graduated from Penn State with a B.S. in engineering.   Contact Information famach@wisc.edu Phone: (608) 890-4765 Office: 1161B Ed Sciences