Abdul H Shawqi

Enterprise AI & Business Systems Leader — Dallas, Texas

Twenty years of enterprise systems. Now applied to the AI era.

I'm Abdul H Shawqi. For two decades I've helped some of America's most regulated institutions — a Federal Reserve Bank, national insurers, a Fortune 50 telecom — turn complex business needs into systems that work. Today I bring that same discipline to Generative AI: building governed, explainable, audit-ready AI solutions that deliver value the business can actually measure.

20 yearsacross financial services, insurance & telecom
6 credentialsPMP · CBAP · CISA · AWS AI · ITIL · FLMI
Regulated firstNYDFS, banking supervision & audit environments

Where I create value

Three disciplines, one throughline: making enterprise change real — with the rigor regulated industries demand.

Enterprise AI, done responsibly

From AI use-case discovery to production: LLM-based automation, retrieval-augmented workflows, and prompt engineering — designed for explainability, governance, and risk from day one, not bolted on after.

Business systems analysis

Twenty years of requirement gathering, enterprise analysis, and business process design. I translate what stakeholders mean into what engineers build — and keep the two aligned all the way to delivery.

Compliance & security programs

Deep experience inside InfoSec and audit contexts: NYDFS cybersecurity compliance, IAM and privileged access management, RBAC design, and requirements traceability that stands up to examination.

Signature work

A career of enterprise delivery, told through the engagements that defined it.

Bringing Generative AI into a regulated insurer

National Life Group — Senior Business Systems Analyst, 2023 to present

At a life insurance group answering to NYDFS cybersecurity regulation, I lead the analysis behind InfoSec initiatives — and I built one of the company's first production GenAI tools: a Custom GPT analytics solution in ChatGPT Enterprise that automates IAM certification campaign reporting.

What used to be manual spreadsheet work became real-time visibility into completion status, overdue access reviews, and delay metrics — cutting effort dramatically and strengthening audit readiness. Alongside it: RBAC-aligned SOPs, privileged access documentation with SailPoint and security teams, and traceability matrices that tie every requirement back to a regulation.

Modernizing retail systems at national scale

Verizon — Business Systems Analyst / Project Manager, 2019 to 2023

Four years driving point-of-sale enhancement initiatives for trade-in and IVR systems across Verizon's retail channels — leading requirement analysis, aligning stakeholders across business and engineering, and using SQL-based data insight to improve transaction processing efficiency and customer experience at Fortune 50 scale.

Supporting supervision at the Federal Reserve

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — Senior Business Systems Analyst, 2015 to 2019

Inside the Banking Supervision function of a Federal Reserve Bank, I led stakeholder discussions to elicit business requirements, surfaced operational pain points, and worked with development teams to resolve production issues — systems work where precision and accountability are non-negotiable.

The full journey

A career built across the industries where systems carry the most consequence.

2023 – Present

Senior Business Systems Analyst

National Life Group · Addison, TX

GenAI solutions, NYDFS compliance, IAM & privileged access programs.

2019 – 2023

Business Systems Analyst / Project Manager

Verizon · Irving, TX

POS, trade-in and IVR system enhancements across retail channels.

2015 – 2019

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Dallas, TX

Banking Supervision initiatives and production issue resolution.

2013 – 2015

Business Systems Analyst

Genpact at CVS Caremark · Richardson, TX

IVR application requirements, functional specs, call-flow design.

Earlier

Analyst & QA roles — Horizon BCBS, Hewlett-Packard, State Street

Requirements, business process modeling, change management, and UAT across insurance, technology, and financial services in NJ, CO, and MA.

Credentials that back the experience

Certified across the full span of my work — project delivery, business analysis, systems audit, IT service management, insurance operations, and AI.

PMPProject Management Professional — PMI
CBAPCertified Business Analysis Professional — IIBA
CISACertified Information Systems Auditor — ISACA
AWS AICertified AI Practitioner — Amazon Web Services
ITIL v3Foundation — PeopleCert
FLMI 1Fellow, Life Management Institute — LOMA

Education

Master of Business Administration

University of Central Missouri — Warrensburg, MO

Bachelor of Business Administration

University of Dhaka — Bangladesh

Working toolkit

  • Enterprise Generative AI
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • LLM prompt engineering
  • SQL Server
  • Python analytics
  • Tableau
  • JIRA
  • ServiceNow
  • IAM / RBAC
  • PAM

Bringing AI to a regulated business? Let's talk.

Whether it's an enterprise AI initiative that needs governance built in, a systems program that needs an experienced analyst at the helm, or a conversation about what GenAI can realistically do for your organization — I'd be glad to hear from you.

Or reach me directly: ahshawqi@yahoo.com · 214 587 7210 — based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, Texas.