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About

Dr. Faisal Quader spent more than fifteen years with General Electric and Lockheed Martin Corporation.  During his tenure, he oversaw an off-shore development center, re-engineered multiple business processes for cost optimization and improved efficiency and provided direction to new product lines.  As the senior manager of GE, Faisal grew the R&D division at an offshore facility from ten to six hundred employees over a span of seven years.  He brought his technical and management expertise with Fortune 100 corporations developed during his tenure with these multinational organizations to new technology startups.  In 2007, he cofounded TISTA Science and Technology Corporation and provided leadership roles until 2013 when he cofounded the current organization, Technuf.  His current interest as the president of his organization is in emerging technology that includes collaboration application development for mobile platforms, cybersecurity, cloud computing, forensic analysis embedded in Big Data, AI/ML (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning), and RPA (Robotic Process Automation). 

 

Faisal has closely worked with both federal civilian and defense organizations. In the civilian sector, he has supported the agencies in defining cybersecurity countermeasures to ensure the protection of federal assets with Identity Access Management, Deep Packet Capture, Forensic Analysis and E-Discovery and litigation support. He is also a researcher in human behavior analytics for smart cars.

 

Faisal is passionate about serving his community and in the past has served in the leadership role as the chair of a number of non-profit organizations including professional engineering bodies. He is currently serving as the President of AABEA Central in the US. Faisal also loves music. He is an active singer and involved with numerous cultural activities. 

 

He is married with two children and lives in Bethesda, Maryland, a few minutes from the nation’s capital.

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Education

2020

University of Maryland

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Degree in Information Systems with the concentration in Cybersecurity & Data Science under the School of Engineering

2003

Johns Hopkins University

Master of Science (MS) Degree in Computer Science and Engineering

1995

University of Wisconsin

Bachelor of Science (BS) Degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics

Awards, Scholarships and Grants

  • “Award of Excellence” from GE for managing and delivering quality product.

  • GE Leadership Awards for excellence in managing global teams across the world.

  • “Rookie of the Year” at Lockheed Martin Corporation. 

  • International Scholarship Recipient (90% of the College Expense) in undergraduate.

  • “Best & the Brightest” student award in 1994.

  • Involved in leadership activities in college, served as the Community Advisor (Residence Assistant – RA) of a Residence Hall at the University of Wisconsin. Awarded “CA/RA of the Month” 4 times.

  • Presented a research paper as an undergraduate student at the Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America.

  • Strengths – creative and innovative, willing to learn new technology, technical, ability to manage a team very effectively, focused, goal oriented, open minded, ability to motivate and run a team efficiently, problem solving capability in a stressful situation.

  • Top Secret Security Clearance

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