Shadi Jawhar
Computer Engineer
Ottawa,Ontario
Summary
Shadi Jawhar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Rennes, in France. For the past 20 years, Shadi has worked for different international companies in various private and public industries, including cyber security, financial, retail, real estate and press organizations demanding real-time performance. Shadi coordinated with multiple teams to build a cyber security resilience SaaS Product to help clients perform cyber security assessment and generate a plan of action to become compliant with standard frameworks. Shadi’s software engineering assignments have included process automation, project planning, requirement analysis, software design and development using such facilities as Microsoft Azure, Amazon’s AWS, web and .Net Services, APIs, network optimization, network and database security, and secured web development. In parallel, Shadi has been an assistant professor at different universities and national institute of technical studies, where he teaches software engineering courses. Shadi’s goal is to seek an opportunity to utilize his studies and skills in the ever-evolving IT.
Overview
86
86
years of professional experience
19
19
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Chief information technology officer
Lionfish Cyber Security
, United States
01.2020 - Current
- Designed cyber security assessment tools aligned with management module to plan scheduled tasks, follow-ups and monitor components to help customers be compliance with standard security frameworks: ISO 27000 family, NIST, CMMC and PCI-DSS, etc
- Developed strategies for advancing platforms by conducting technical reviews for in-house developed products and solutions to evaluate their applicability
- Responsible for the planning, resource management, deployment, oversight of project activities, cost allocation, risk management and project delivery for the Business Technology services Delivery team
- Worked with other senior leads, vendors, and business partners to ensure the effective management of the overall Program management plan, financials, and change management processes
- Designed and architected a SaaS compliance and assessment product
- The product is used to assess and document the current state of clients in terms of compliance oversight, management, and related risks
- The tool generates Plan of action and baseline to give an achievable compliance plan
- Built integration to 3rd party systems and devices by developing modules via Web-services and APIs
- Managed infrastructure assets to meet the internal technical and financial targets
- Monitored technological performance metric to assure continual service providing
- Worked closely with the CMO, CFO and CEO to deliver new and enhanced products
- Performed powerful work management using JIRA, Asana and other tools to manage use cases, from requirements and test case management to agile software development
- Managed software development team to insure the best implementation of the SDLC.
Software development project manager
Appeal Taxes
, United States
01.2010 - Current
- Managed software high-level design choices and frame technical standards, including tools, software coding standards, or platforms to be used to operate and automate
- Planned for and prepared potential projects and their parameters with management, executives, and software developers
- Planned out the development life cycle for software projects, including defining the scope, allocating resources, setting deadlines, laying out communication strategies, and indicating tests and maintenance
- Participated in and supervised each stage of the project
- Ensured each project stays on schedule and adheres to the deadlines.
IT consultant
Institute des Finance Basel Fuleihan, Ministry of Finance
01.2011 - 01.2022
- Analyzing and managed company's IT infrastructure, by reviewing business needs, and designing and implementing technology solution via in-house developed tools and other tools designed and supported by different IT vendors
- Determined information system requirements and defined project objectives
- Provided recommendations, such as appropriate hardware, software, and systems
- Designed, installed, and improved new processes in the aim of automating workflow
- Complied and presented information by designing dashboards, reports, and documentations.
Assistant Professor
IPNET License Technique
01.2002 - 01.2022
- Prepared and taught lectures and conducted laboratory sessions or discussion groups
- Software Engineering Courses
- Power electronics theory and laboratory
- Computer Networks theory and laboratory
- Control Systems theory and laboratory
- Microprocessor theory and laboratory
- Microcontroller theory and laboratory
Senior software engineer
Premium IT Services
01.2007 - 01.2020
- Provided IT consultancy for multiple international companies, in the domain of software development, IT best practices and Cybersecurity
- (ITILv3 Framework)
- Developed and maintained a real estate Tax management portal [Visual Studio/, jQuery / MS
- SQL on Premises and Azure]
- Built an ecommerce application for international business journal
- Architected and managed a news content management system and worked on implanting it for clients abroad
- Delivered completed software products to clients and performed regular checks on the products' performance.
IT director
Arab United Press. Al-Mustaqbal Newspaper
01.2006 - 01.2019
- Managed and maintained company’s IT infrastructure along with the company’s official web site by providing design, development, maintenance, and support for different in house developed tools
- Designed and developed HR management application that provides functionality for the human resources, payroll, and accounting departments
- Contributed to building a Continuous Integration & Continuous Development for a fully integrated ERP
- Managed the workflow and content management to publish the newspaper content on the web site as a daily process
- Along with developing adaptation objects between Windows and MAC operating systems
- Manage the digital media strategy and the conversion from a printed to a web newspaper
- Managed a team of IT employees to provide help desk services to other company departments.
Assistant Professor
ARAB OPEN UNIVERSITY AOU
01.2008 - 01.2015
- Prepared, taught, and supervised lectures and conducted laboratory sessions or discussion groups
- Software Engineering Courses
- IT management Courses
- Use Cases and UMLs,
- Computer Networks theory and laboratory
- Programming Courses
- (Object Oriented)
- Computer Networks Security
- Cyber Security (Compliances and Social Engineering)
- Supervised final year projects in terms of project development, report documentation and presentation preparation.
Assistant Professor
MUBS [MECAT
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Prepared and taught lectures and conducted laboratory sessions or discussion groups
- Software Engineering Courses
- Visual Studio Programming
- Microprocessor theory and laboratory
- Human Factors in Computer Systems
- Microcontroller theory and laboratory
Assistant Professor
CLET Campus Libano, Européen d’Etudes Techniques
01.2005 - 01.2007
- Prepared and taught lectures and conducted laboratory sessions or discussion groups
- Antenna, Satellite and Radar systems
- Microprocessor theory and laboratory
- Trainings & Stages
- MBM
- Providing Software support (Delphi & pervasive sql managed using ODBC access)
- FT-Cellis
- Programming an instant messenger under Delphi language.
Software developer
S&B American Offshore IT Company
07.2003 - 12.2005
- Developed web and windows applications for international IT Companies
- Participated in different teams to participate in the SDLC
- The development is done on DOTNET Frameworks (VB.Net, C#.Net, ADO.NET and ASP.NET, Telerik Modules) and (ASP, VB, and JS)
- Scripts to exchange data with MS Exchange server, SQL databases, and http mail inboxes
- Provided database design, modeling, configuration, replication, and maintenance on Microsoft SQL servers and designing scalable crystal reports v9 on visual studio & Dotnet framework
- Projects:
- Mycastle.com (1.5 years)
- Developed a full real-estate solution for MyCastle Company in Texas and Indiana states
- (ASP .NET / JS / SQL)
- Csiproperties.com (6 months)
- Developed real-estate solution for CSI Charlotte to publish homes and get selling interviews
- (ASP / JS / Access)
- Littleonline.com (6 months)
- Developed a warehouse web system to manage Projects / Awards / Publications / Press Releases
- Striplingandbeck.com (6 months)
- Developed the clients’ portal to manage clients, projects, work plans, issues, and bugs
- (ASP / Access)
- Academic Teaching Experience
Education
Ph. D - Computer Engineering
Rennes University
M.S - Computer and Telecommunication Engineering
L.U. University
called DEA - Network and Telecommunication
St Joseph University
Skills
Management and Communication Skillsundefined
Accomplishments
- PHD (France)
- Proposition for solving the Light Splitter Problem in multicasting over optical Networks
- IEEE
- DEA (Lebanon)
- Theoretical study of Implementing Multicast routing Protocols over optical switches
- Pre -DEA (France)
- Proposition with its simulation for Implementation of Multicasting over MPLS protocol
- L.U
- (Lebanon)
- Simulating Multicast Protocols with ns-2 (network simulator) under UNIX.
Certification
IT / Cyber Security
Timeline
Chief information technology officer
Lionfish Cyber Security
01.2020 - Current
IT consultant
Institute des Finance Basel Fuleihan, Ministry of Finance
01.2011 - 01.2022
Assistant Professor
MUBS [MECAT
01.2011 - 01.2013
Software development project manager
Appeal Taxes
01.2010 - Current
Assistant Professor
ARAB OPEN UNIVERSITY AOU
01.2008 - 01.2015
Senior software engineer
Premium IT Services
01.2007 - 01.2020
IT director
Arab United Press. Al-Mustaqbal Newspaper
01.2006 - 01.2019
Assistant Professor
CLET Campus Libano, Européen d’Etudes Techniques
01.2005 - 01.2007
Software developer
S&B American Offshore IT Company
07.2003 - 12.2005
Assistant Professor
IPNET License Technique
01.2002 - 01.2022
Ph. D - Computer Engineering
Rennes University
M.S - Computer and Telecommunication Engineering
L.U. University
called DEA - Network and Telecommunication
St Joseph University
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