ABOUT US

The ySTEM (Youth in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), a non-profit organization founded by Mr. Vamadu Sheriff and partners, based in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Mr. Sheriff has over 18 years of experience in managing multi-million-dollar projects including non-profit management with expertise in finance/marketing leadership; grant development and management; strategy/policy development; staff recruitment/training and development; community relationship building. He has strong business acumen combined with expertise in policy context for workforce development standards; emerging trends; and state and federal regulations resulting in the transformation of an under-performing program into a recognized workforce development program. He had expertise in project management-developing and leading highly diverse teams in the execution of high-quality, fiscally sound projects as well as international work experience in the Middle East with fluency in Arabic. Mr. Sheriff has an MBA from John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 2002, with concentration in Financial Management and Strategic Planning. He earned his B. S. in Chemistry & Minor in Mathematics, Missouri Baptist University, St. Louis, Missouri in 1994. PUBLICATIONS

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Authors: Philip Young P. Hong, Ph.D., Saint Louis University; Vamadu (Ahmed) U. Sheriff, MBA, Washington University & the Better Family Life, Inc. /MET Center; Sandra Naeger, Saint Louis University.  "A bottom-up definition of self-sufficiency: Voices from low-income jobseekers."  Published in: ‘Qualitative Social Work’ Saint Louis University, School of Social Work; St. Louis Missouri, USA. 

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Co-authored: “Radio synthesis, In Vitro Valuation, and In Vivo Evaluation of F18-Labeled COX-1 and Cox-2 Inhibitors.”Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2002, 43:117-124. (Timothy J. McCarty, Ph.D.; (Vamadu) Ahmed U. Sheriff, MBA; Matthew J. Graneto, B.Sc.; John J. Talley, Ph.D.; and Michael J. Welch, Ph.D.)