To know better is to DO better

February 15, 2011-Hytham Abo-Zenadh, IT Infrastructure Consultant, for Bank AlJazira is recognized as a Premiere Member by Emerald Who’s Who for Executives and Professionals Inc. for his extensive dedication, leadership and strategic Development and Implementation.

Currently employed at Bank AlJazira, a Joint Stock Company incorporated in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, recognized as one of the leading financial institutions in Saudi Arabia. It is client driven and service-oriented, providing individuals, businesses and institutions with innovative financial services through professional and dedicated staff.  The Bank has been converted from conventional banking into Shari’ah compliant banking.  This is the greatest challenge that any traditional bank can take as it requires mass changes to its infrastructure, offerings, legal environment, staff potentials, corporate values, etc.

Technical Education and certification include a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering in Computers, as well as Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), CobiT and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

Having been recently assigned an IT project for developing Kingdom wide point of sale service, Mr. Hytham Abo-Zenadh, possessing vast knowledge in security as well as IT and communication technology management, has committed to confidence and self drive to take ownership of the new initiative.  An important instrument and a leader among his staff, he has been a crucial support to his team achieving major milestones and overcoming various obstacles.

Mr. Hytham Abo-Zenadh is committed to continue building strong teams of professionals dedicated to the quality of production and development of his profession.  His extended experience in the field, make him a proficient and excellent leader.

Along with his recent award as a Premiere member with Emerald Who’s Who for Professionals and Executives, Inc., Mr. Abo-Zenadh has also been awarded the 1999 SPS-NET Recognition Award, the 2006 NCB-ISSD Excellence Award; the 2007 NCB-ITG Excellence Award and the 2007 NCB-ITG Professional Certification Award.  He is looking to network with Information Assurance, IT Management, Retail Business and Electrical Engineering professionals, as “to know better, is to DO better”. 

Emerald Who’s Who is a service-oriented company that prides itself in helping professional individuals from all industries around the world to network with peers and business leaders who can relate with each other. Members benefit from the several services we have to offer, from locating professionals within the online directory and/or hard cover registry, to discussing topics that matter to them among professionals in virtually any industry. Our company is often developing new networking strategies, and consistently creating the ability for our members to increase their business contacts and exposure online and offline.

We are not an online only organization, by offering the "Human Touch", members are not just another name in a book. We offer networking assistance, with your own account representative, to assist you along the way.

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"Let us do the Work, while others do the Talk"

“Let us do the Work, while others do the Talk”

January 18, 2011 – Salah Hamza, Director of Quality for SOFCON is recognized as a member of Emerald Who’s Who for Executives and Professionals Inc. for his extensive experience, leadership and dedication.

Retaining a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Khartoum (1986) (1995), as well as an M.Sc. in Total Quality and Performance Management from the University of Bradford (2006), Mr. Salah A. Hamza has recently been promoted to Director of Quality for A. Al-Saihati, A. Fattani and O. Al-Othman Consulting Engineering Company (SOFCON) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Previously employed as a Project Manager for Saudi Aramco projects in Al Othman Consultants (1998-2000), as well as a Project Manager in road, agricultural schemes and geomatics engineering in Sudan, he has been employed with SOFCON since 2001.  Upon his initiation with SOFCON, he has since developed a successful practice in the quality management area, with an expertise on oil and gas project management and engineering.  Some of the most noteworthy projects on which Mr. Salah Hamza has worked include the engineering and design of the Saudi Aramco Khurais Development Project, Saudi Aramco Karan Gas Development Project, Manifa Crude Program Front End Engineering & Development, and Ras Tanura Integrated Petrochemical and Refining Project.

At the initiation of his professional career in 1986, Mr. Salah Hamza’s original goal was to become a university professor.  As a lecturer, he was part of the Engineering Faculty at the University of Khartoum and at the University of Al Zaiem Al Azhari. In parallel to his academic career, he also pursued engineering and project management in which he advanced and caused his academic goals to diminish. 

A leader among his staff, Mr. Hamza retains responsibility in assisting his project teams and works one-to-one with them to identify and develop opportunities for quality, productivity and performance improvement.

Salah A. Hamza is committed to continue building strong teams of professionals dedicated to the quality of production and development of the company.  His extended success and dedication in his industry make him a proficient and excellent leader.

As a member of Emerald Who’s Who for Executives and Professionals Inc., Mr. Hamza is looking to network with quality management professionals to retain views and ideas for promoting the area of quality management in the Middle East.

Emerald Who’s Who is a service-oriented company that prides itself in helping professional individuals from all industries around the world to network with peers and business leaders who can relate with each other. Members benefit from the several services we have to offer, from locating professionals within the online directory and/or hard cover registry, to discussing topics that matter to them among professionals in virtually any industry. Our company is often developing new networking strategies, and consistently creating the ability for our members to increase their business contacts and exposure online and offline.

We are not an online only organization, by offering the "Human Touch", members are not just another name in a book. We offer networking assistance, with your own account representative, to assist you along the way.

Courtesy of:

Emerald Who’s Who for Executives and Professionals Inc.

208 East 51st Street

Suite 151

New York, NY, 10022

Media Relations Contact – Cindy Pinzon

Phone - 646-290-6474

   Fax - 646-290-6089

Email – info@emeraldwhoswho.com

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Happy New Year to all!!! This piece should provide a chuckle and add some warning that none of us end up on this list next year. BNET complied 75 biggest business blunders of 2011, they all are quite clever in their own right... From Birth Control will save your life, to Bank Foreclosure reps considered "Burger King" kids with no experience. However the first one has to be the best one of all....Walmart- Notice to Employee's, anyone who stops shop lifting at this store will be fired!" Hmm should we go shopping at Walmart without our wallets? Take a peek and share your thoughts
From all of us at Emerald Who's Who, we wish you all a happy and healthy 2011, and may 2011 bring you success both personally and professionally!!

From BNET.com
http://www.bnet.com/photos/business-blunders-of-the-year/493483?tag=mantle_skin;content

Thick Film Materials require Engineering and Manufacturing, as well as an Excellent Technical Service Manager

December 14, 2010 – John Whitmarsh, Technical Service Manager of ESL Europe, is recognized as a member of Emerald Who’s Who for Executives and Professionals Inc. for his extensive experience, leadership and dedication.

Retaining an HNC in Applied Physics from Slough-UK in 1975, Mr. Whitmarsh worked in the production of II-VI semiconductors (with Mining and Chemical Products Ltd) and researched into platinum group metals (with Johnson Matthey), and spent a short period of time producing thick film hybrid circuits for Waycom (now Corintech Hybrids). For the past twenty five years he has been Technical Service Manager at ESL Europe, manufacturers of think film pastes for the microelectronic industry. This involves supplying technical information to Sales staff worldwide, solving processing problems, and building prototypes.

Mr. Whitmarsh relates his responsibilities to the applications of thick film materials, involving a large sum of engineering and problem solving. He considers the most important and crucial part of his job to communicate what is to be done as well as what has been done so that problems are solved and no work is repeated by careful planning and organization. This necessitates a great deal of thinking, listening, reading as well as talking and writing. Mr. Whitmarsh is dedicated to the uses of thick film pastes in any electronic circuitry, the support of sales to this end, and the development of new technology within the ESL group.

“My responsibilities have included a certain amount of fire fighting…” Mr. Whitmarsh humors, “but these days more and more time is spent on information dissemination especially via the website www.electroscience.com.” ESL ElectroScience has continuously supplied materials for the fabrication of thick film circuits since its formation in 1962. Having many years’ experience in thick film materials and their applications, Mr. Whitmarsh is able to answer queries about traditional uses of thick film materials and has run many courses to teach newcomers the basics of the technology. Many of the traditional products are processed at 500°C or 850°C but he notes with great interest the move towards plastic electronics (low temperature processing) and high temperature cofired ceramic (HTCC). Articles on these technologies, and others like aluminum as an alternative to steel as a substrate and flexible polymer silvers for smart card, touch panel display and thin film solar cells, appear on the ESL ElectroScience website.

Along with his affiliation with Emerald Who’s Who for Professionals and Executives, Mr. Whitmarsh is also a member of the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS), and has received an Emerald Literati Network 2010 award for a paper that appeared in Microelectronics International. He is looking to network with all kinds of professionals, especially those in emerging and green technologies as “there is so much to learn”.




Emerald Who’s Who is a service-oriented company that prides itself in helping professional individuals from all industries around the world to network with peers and business leaders who can relate with each other. Members benefit from the several services we have to offer, from locating professionals within the online directory and/or hard cover registry, to discussing topics that matter to them among professionals in virtually any industry. Our company is often developing new networking strategies, and consistently creating the ability for our members to increase their business contacts and exposure online and offline.

We are not an online only organization, by offering the "Human Touch", members are not just another name in a book. We offer networking assistance, with your own account representative, to assist you along the way.
Courtesy of:

Emerald Who’s Who for Executives and Professionals Inc.
208 East 51st Street
Suite 151
New York, NY, 10022
Media Relations Contact – Cindy Pinzon
Phone - 646-290-6474
Fax - 646-290-6089
Email – info@emeraldwhoswho.com

Is it true? AT&T worst mobile provider of them all? Houston Chronical reports...

http://www.mediapost.com/blogs/raw/?p=4840

What mobile provider do you have? I have heard only good things about Verizon in NY over the years, while all other carriers are sub-par, with dropped calls, dead zone and the lot. I have heard that now that Verizon will start to carry the IPHONE soon, AT&T will need to come up with the next big thing in order to compete.

Interestingly, AT&T has spent billions on revamping their infrastructure according to the article. Perhaps they are waiting to unveil it, I guess this is something we have to see.

So you have an IPHONE now? Would you move over to Verizon when they begin to carry it... Just make sure you check out the prices first if it matters to you. Verizon will be releasing it's 4G technology early next year, and they might be charging extra from this one.

Good Luck!!

Excellence is not a skill; it’s an “ATTITUDE”

November 29, 2010 - Sayed Mahmood Al Mukhtar Manager of Service Excellence Centre at Bahrain Telecommunication Company (Batelco) is recognized as a Premiere member by Emerald Who’s Who for consistent dedication, strong leadership and outstanding perseverance.

At the initiation of his professional career Mr. S. Mahmood Al Mukhtar began working in the central office building as a “wireman” with only as much as a High School Certificate, determined to climb the Management ladder, essentially withheld an MBA in Business Administration from the University of Glamorgan (Wales, UK); an H.N.D. in marketing, Advertising and PR from London Chamber of Commerce & Industry (UK) and an HND in Network Telecommunication from Batelco College (Bahrain). He retained a wide range of expertise from experience in customer service to quality assurance in access network infrastructure and executive management experience in the communications technology region. Providing a progressive insight and expertise to his position at Batelco, Mr. Al Mukhtar has been instrumental to the success of various projects.

Recently appointed to Manager of Service Excellence Centre, with over more than 22 years of experience, Mr. S. Mahmood Al Mukhtar is responsible for carrying out audit processes on operational field activities to assure quality of service and work standard. Among many tasks, his daily responsibilities include composing various audit reports. Reports such as: Aged Service Order History Report (Observation, findings and recommendation report) Aged Faults; Conduct Service Provision Quality audit; Craftsmen Vehicle & Safety audit; Network system integrity audit; Online Customer Experience Survey; Online Customer Experience Service Provision Survey & Audit; Repeated Faults audit and Tools & Equipment Audit. Along with coordinating employees training program in Fix network at Batelco; Organize & conduct a field site visit to major project in progress and Lead Service Order Coordination Team (SOCOOT).

Mr. Al Mukhtar brings progressive insight and expertise to his position in Batelco Networks management for the MENA region (www.batelco.com.bh). Based on his knowledge and experience he has been instrumental to the success of many projects, setting the strategic and tactical evolution in the Kingdom of Bahrain. His broad understanding of the technical, business and market realities behind the emergence of access network communications ensures Batelco Solutions’ continued commitment to innovation focused on the end user.

Along with his many successes, Mr. Al Mukhtar was Senior Planning Officer and Manager Access Network of the building permission committee in Bahrain, delivering responsibility of the underground communication infrastructure in Bahrain.

Among other achievements, Mr. Al Mukhtar is a former national football team player whom performed excellently in the 1990’s. Extending his various professional tasks to writing sports articles in local newspapers such as Alayam and Alwaqt, to critique and help develop Bahrain sports.

Along with his affiliation to Emerald Who’s Who for Professionals and Executives Inc., Mr. Al Mukhtar is also a member of the International Association of Book Keeper (IAB)-UK and ex Bahrain National Football Team Player 1987-1992. He is looking to network with Customer Service (service excellence) or Quality Audit field professionals to research the visibility of applying similar strategies to Bahrain.


Emerald Who’s Who is a service-oriented company that prides itself in helping professional individuals from all industries around the world to network with peers and business leaders who can relate with each other. Members benefit from the several services we have to offer, from locating professionals within the online directory and/or hard cover registry, to discussing topics that matter to them among professionals in virtually any industry. Our company is often developing new networking strategies, and consistently creating the ability for our members to increase their business contacts and exposure online and offline.

We are not an online only organization, by offering the "Human Touch", members are not just another name in a book. We offer networking assistance, with your own account representative, to assist you along the way.
Courtesy of:
Emerald Who’s Who for Executives and Professionals Inc.
208 East 51st Street
Suite 151
New York, NY, 10022
Media Relations Contact – Cindy Pinzon
Phone - 646-290-6474
Fax - 646-290-6089
Email – info@emeraldwhoswho.com

Some unemployed may never work again - Possibly Due to "Job Skills Atrophy"

Some unemployed may never work again.... an interesting phrase from this article is "Job Skills Atrophy". For those out of the work force a long time 12 months plus, you need to make sure you keep you skills sharp if you want to get back in there. Another worthy note, those who are out for too long, may milk the system... for more paid time out of work. As a colleague of mine stated recently, he took a job, and is now being paid less than he was when on unemployment. Quite disappointing.

http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/dekaser-p...work_again.html

More folks than ever before have been out of a job for a year or more. The prognosis for them isn't good. And that spells bad news for the economy.
By Jerome Idaszak, Associate Editor, The Kiplinger Letter
November 3, 2010
It's likely to take five or more years for the ranks of the long-term unemployed to return to a more normal level. With the unemployment rate remaining stubbornly high and job creation anemic, the number of would-be wage earners who have been out of work for a year or more is ballooning. It's risen from 668,000 when the recession began at the end of 2007 to the current tally of 4.3 million -- nearly 3% of the labor force and almost three times the previous post-World War II high of 1% in 1982.

That time, it took about five years for the number of long-term unemployed Americans to recede to its prerecession total. This time, there's reason to believe the tide will take longer to ebb. One reason: In the roughly 60 months since the inflated housing market crested, about 2 million jobs in construction have disappeared. Although housing construction will gradually recover, it won't return to bubble levels for a couple of decades, at least. As a result, many of today's unemployed construction workers may never earn a paycheck again. Moreover, the longer someone is out of work, the less likely he or she is to return to the workplace. Job skills atrophy, especially in fields that require computer use or other rapidly evolving technology.

What's more, following this recession, the spectrum of workers finding themselves out of work for a prolonged period is broader than in the past. Just 35% of those now counted among the long-term unemployed were working in factories before the recession. In the downturn of the early 1980s, 55% of those with no jobs for a year or more came from factories. This time, a greater portion were earning their livings in finance, insurance, real estate and business services. The ratio of college graduates is higher now, too.

The fact is, "natural unemployment" has probably crept up in recent years. In the late 1990s, many economists considered the nation to be at full employment with a jobless rate around 4% -- just enough to account for folks moving between jobs plus enough slack to prevent wage inflation. Now economists figure that the benchmark is about 5.5% unemployment, maybe even 6% -- closer to what had been considered natural unemployment through most of the previous two decades. Odds are it'll stay near that higher percentage for years, long after the economy is operating at full steam.

That's a bum deal on two scores. Having a larger share of the workforce unable to find jobs at any given time keeps pressure on government to spend more on the social safety net -- not just jobless benefits but also Medicaid, food stamps and more. And more long-term unemployed means millions of shoppers staying away from malls, auto dealerships, restaurants and other businesses.

The outlook isn't good. Almost one-third of today's jobless have been out of work for more than one year. Even though the economy is improving, job creation remains sluggish. It will be several months before employers can be counted on to consistently add 130,000 net new jobs a month, and that will only match growth of the labor force from immigrants and young folks just starting out. To bring the unemployment rate down will take sustained net job growth of much more than that.

Why are there so many long-term unemployed this time around? First and foremost, it's because this recession threw a whopping 8.4 million people out of work -- compared with 2.9 million in the early 1980s. In addition, hiring in this recovery has been slower than in all other postwar economic recoveries.

It's also possible that extending unemployment benefits beyond the standard 26 weeks -- as Congress has done several times -- discourages people from trying to find work. Critics of lengthier benefit periods cite the national average of 90 weeks of benefits in the current recession and recovery versus an average of 55 weeks in 1983. But Federal Reserve economists say that even without the extended benefits, the number of long-term unemployed would total at least 3 million, still a record.