Alamadi’s ambition is to become a leading professional in the field of information security in the region. Joining aeCERT’s emergency response team at UAE’s telecommunication regulatory authority in 2007, he recollects the four year stint to have been the richest in his professional career. Now working as principal consultant at help AG since mid 2011, Alamadi admits moving to the private sector was not without its share of question marks. “Everybody was telling me joining the private sector may not be the right thing to do. But I felt it would put me in a unique position professionally, eventually making me competitive in the local job market.” Alamadi anticipated it would be culturally challenging to fit into help AG’s work environment, but now well into the job Ali has no regrets. “It turned out to be exactly the opposite and I find myself fitting well into help AG’s multicultural environment.”
Ali has a Master’s of Science in Information Technology with specialisation in Cyber Crime as well as QualysGuard specialist certification and enjoys his current job role of conducting security risk assessments for diverse environments. Since each company’s security environment is very different and unique, the job role is never boring and on the contrary becomes very interesting. On the other hand educating customers on the benefits and importance of establishing international and local security standards can sometimes become the most challenging part of the job role. During his stint at aeCERT, Ali found developing awareness campaigns in different languages for different audiences as well as presenting it in different emirates in the UAE to be the most challenging.
Ali looks at each day as a new lesson in both his personal and professional life. He loves languages and speaks Italian, Farsi and Urdu fluently amongst others and is learning German. He describes himself as eager to meet new people, open minded and cosmopolitan, social, well-travelled and easy to get along with. Quality leisure time is spent with family, friends and sports. “I cannot imagine a day without exercising.” Ali has another passion. “I love writing and it gives me great joy.” So far he has written seven titles, published one and is writing his eight. His favourite daydreams: to become a professional writer and enjoy the simple things in life.
