Ottawa, ON - October 20^th, 2009

Ahead Technology is pleased to announce that NASA has selected Westlake Training + Development; an Ahead Technology Training Partner (ATP) Partner. Westlake in conjunction with Ahead Technology will deliver our newly released ITIL® - Project Management course entitled ““Understanding ITIL® Framework and Project Management Framework to Execute ITSM Quality Programs” to NASA employees. “It has been a pleasure working with our partner Westlake to determine the requirements and to customize our curriculum to meet the specific needs of NASA .” says Nasser El-Batal, CEO of Ahead Technology. “We are seeing increased requirement from our customers to better understand how the ITIL framework can effectively work with the Project Management framework to increase the quality of ITSM deployments” says Mark Rogers, President of Westlake. This program developed with the support of the RG Freeman group of Boston Massachusetts program developed will become part of the portfolio of training solutions that Ahead Technology authorized partners can deliver to their customers.

About Ahead Technology – Ahead Technology is a world renowned IT Service Management (ITSM) organization that specializes in the provision of Corporate based ITSM training solutions and professional services. Ahead Technology is a LCS Accredited Training Organization (ATO) with the mission "to improve the health of our clients IT organizations, through the provision of structured and focused ITIL ® V2, ITIL ® V3, COBIT ® and ISO/IEC20000 ® Training". For more information visit http://www.ahead-technology.com.

About Westlake Training + Development - is a privately-held C-Corporation organized under the laws of the state of Virginia. WestLake was founded in 1995 by Greg Eoyang and was originally focused exclusively on Web development training. In 2004, the company was acquired by Mark Rogers and began expanding its view beyond the web to include deeper levels of Applications Development, Project Management, ITIL and other business and managerial topics. Today WestLake serves the most progressive and innovative organizations in the world with lab-intensive, instructor-led training and consulting services designed to provide students with useful, practical knowledge and the skills required to develop world-class software and to manage and deploy mission-critical applications. For more information visit www.westlaketraining.com.