TED Community » Suad Alhalwachi

About Me

• Energetic, open minded and enthusiastic
• Professional, positive attitude
• Excellent people skills, friendly and tactful manner
• Solid work ethics- dependable, punctual and honest

• Runs own business and lead staff that would aspire to make it a successful organisation
• A good manager with an open door policy, keeping staff motivated, stimulated with high morale
• Excellent teaching and training skills- a quick learner and thinker who can pass the information on clearly and can teach student how to think not what to think.
• Extremely competent computer skills
• Practical, resourceful problem solving skills, efficient delegater
• Excellent time management and planning skills
• Organised and accurate, can work under extreme pressure to deliver quality work
• Contract writing and negotiation skills
I enjoy stimulating and challenging work that calls on a diversity of skills. I enjoy change and using innovative ideas to improve systems and service. I welcome opportunities to enhance my career advice proficiencies and help the employers identify gaps in professional competencies of staff.
Also I have a distinct love for writing, my blog is read by all my student followers and I am an active social media user.
English, Arabic, Farsi and French
• Date of Birth: 11th January 1956
• Nationality: Bahrain
• Marital Status: Married with three children
Managing Director- Ingenious, New Zealand (Revenue not known yet could be of Dh3.5 million).( 2006- Present) The business specialises in recruitment of teachers for the gulf region.
Adjunct Lecturer- Middlesex university of Dubai- January 2008- present
Managing Director- Education Zone fz,llc, Dubai (Revenue of Dh2.5 million).( 2003- Present) Knowledge village based. The business specialises in academic services, student evaluation and career advice. The business is made up of 10 employees and has affiliations to more than 1500 universities, institutes of technology and English schools. The company deals with groups of universities in 6 countries and coordinates the marketing activities of each group. The company also publishes educational magazines, and participates in workshops and education exhibitions around the Arab Gulf region.
Adjunct Teacher- Higher Colleges of Technology- DWC- 2005-2006
Faculty Finance and Planning Manager (revenue of $50 million)- Waikato Institute of Technology (full time), Hamilton, New Zealand, 2000-2002, and a part time Lecturer of Advanced Management Accounting (year three of the programme)- Department of Business Studies- Waikato Institute of Technology- 2002.
Tutor and Research Assistant- The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1998-1999 ( this job was taken up whilst studying for my Masters degree at the University of Auckland)
Head of Project Accounts(project costs $1.2 billion) – Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd- Dubai- 1997-1998 (Responsible for capital budgeting, expansion projects financing, contracts and sub-contractor reports and daily reporting on progress of the various projects that Dubal was involved with at the time such as Falcon)
Head of Financial Accounts (total asset value of more than $2 billion, and turnover of over $800 million) – Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd- Dubai- 1995-1997 (Responsible for accounts Payable department, General Ledger and hedging sections. Also responsible for year-end audit, auditor liaison, accounting policies and procedures. Established easy to prepare raw material, work in progress and finished goods accounting methodologies and year end conversion to actual procedures). During my term in Dubal I was the main trainer for Finance for non-finance manager’s course.
Various accounting jobs – Dubai Aluminium Company Ltd, Dubai, 1981-1995
International Affairs officer- Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Bahrain, 1977-1981

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Reading, writing, swimming and walking