IT Specialist & Developer
IT Specialist Personal Blog, Specialized in Information Security, Compliance, Business Development, and Active Software Developer
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About Me
Jawad Alalawi
Experienced Information Technology Professional through various disciplines.
My Professional Achievements Through My Career Since 1998:
- Achieved high-level of production improvement on cards production unit without investing in machines.
- Being analytical and focused raw data coming from systems, surveys, measurement tools, I was able to improve card production process tremendously.
- Being strong IT expert managed to integrate several technology systems that were almost impossible to integrate without being Information Security expert, technology expert, business literate, and audit driven thinker.
- By focusing on procedures, processes and policies, successfully reduced department staff and increased productivity with high-level of staff satisfaction (You cannot satisfy everyone)
- Consulting and building business cases is core part of management person, by focusing on clients’ needs I have made several consulting initiatives with major clients to increase ROI from services with each client
- Credit risk scoring, is the tip of the iceberg, utilizing my information security, compliance experience, and core business understanding, I was able to identify the behavioral impact of workers and cards users and integrate them in credit risk scoring to reduce the attack surface of cards fraud
- Emotional Intelligence is core skill in my management style, I was able to convert many demotivated staff into productive, just by being careful understanding people
- PCI-DSS is core skill along with Information Security and audit driven behavior; I was able to transform full organization from non-PCI-DSS compliant to PCI-DSS certified
- Strong track record bridging the GAP between business teams and technology understanding
- Utilizing business experience and knowledge along with deep technical experience achieved greater level of integration and smooth staff productivity, between complex customer data sources, complicated production variations, and multi delivery channels