JAD*
DUBAI · --:--

The Jad file · Dubai, AE

JAD.

Final year computing student and IT intern. Networks, Microsoft 365, and the quiet work of keeping a company running. Upcoming guitarist, so get an autograph while you still can. Reader of dead poets, and permanently curious about minds, mine included.

I don't fit on a résumé. Flip the lights.

*ask about the rest.

Jad
Fig. 01 — “Portrait of a work in progress”
Mixed media: coffee, questions, code

Hall 01 · The day job

Systems, kept honest.

By daylight I run IT at Electra Solutions, an events & exhibitions company in Dubai, while finishing a computing degree at RIT. Real users, real deadlines, real consequences when the network sneezes.

Rack A1 · In production

Keeping the lights on

Day-to-day IT for a company that builds things on deadline, networking, Microsoft 365, security, backups, and being the person people find when something breaks. The work nobody notices until it stops.

Networks · Microsoft 365 · Security
Rack A2 · In training

Learning how a business thinks

Getting to know Microsoft Business Central, the ERP that runs the company, from the inside: how orders, invoices, and inventory become software. Less about the tool, more about how a business actually thinks.

ERP · Dynamics 365 Business Central
Rack A3 · Final year

The degree

B.S. in Computing & Information Technologies at RIT Dubai, networking, system administration, and security. The final act is planned on RIT’s New York campus.

RIT · CIT · DXB → NY

Hall 02 · After hours

The job description ends at six.

These don’t. None of it is for a résumé, which is exactly why it belongs here.

Exhibit B1 · Strings

Six strings, slowly

A Squier Stratocaster, a Scarlett Solo, GarageBand, and a proper curriculum. Current mission: playing over backing tracks without flinching. It sounds bad less often every week, that’s the whole art.

Strat · Scarlett Solo · GarageBand
Exhibit B2 · Iron

The long game vs. gravity

The gym is a standing appointment. No heroics, just showing up, adding a little, and playing a very long game against gravity.

Status: stronger than last month
Exhibit B3 · Pages

Twenty pages a day

Twenty pages a day, mostly self-development, with poets on the side, Whitman, Gibran, Rilke, Hesse. Currently reading The Mountain Is You.

Now reading: The Mountain Is You
Exhibit B4 · Mind

The big questions

Philosophy and psychology, taken seriously, consciousness, identity, why people do what they do. Jung, the existentialists, the hard problem. The one ticket I never expect to close.

Open items: consciousness · the self

Hall 03 · Operating notes

Every show runs on a cue sheet.

So do I. Three cues, running daily.

  • Cue 01

    Craft

    Thirty minutes of deliberate technical practice, every day. Small, boring, compounding.

    Running
  • Cue 02

    Leverage

    Build skills people already pay for, then build things that work while I sleep.

    Running
  • Cue 03

    Foundation

    The gym and twenty pages, most days. I maintain infrastructure at work, this is mine.

    Running

None of it is glamorous. All of it compounds.

Hall 04 · Guestbook

Sign the guestbook.

Open to good conversations, internships and IT roles, book arguments, or a genuinely hard question. The exhibition is free. So is a reply.

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