Dr. Raissi is a senior professor at DeVry University, Georgia, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the School of Technology. Jalal holds undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from Southeastern Louisiana University (SLU), Master's degree (with honors) in Computer Science from Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU), Master's degree (with honors) in Healthcare Policy and Administration from Mercer University, and Doctor of Philosophy in Information Systems from Nova Southeastern University (NSU). His Ph.D. thesis was Dynamic Selection of Optimal Cryptographic Algorithms. He is currently working on his CCIE in Security Lab.

Prior to the start of his fulltime academic career a decade ago, Jalal was the president of Alpha Source, Inc. He is the author and developer of SuperCASE - a Client and Case Management system for Corrections offices in the state of Florida, MedRec - a Medical Records system in Physician's offices in state of Georgia, CatWatch - an Offshore Platform's Safety and Monitoring System in the state of Louisiana, and JC+ - a Job Cost system in the state of Arkansas. Dr. Raissi is the author of Tracker - an Intranet DSS package developed for HUD-related agencies that tracks projects, tasks, activities and milestones. He is the author of Gen/Series^®, a data-driven lower CASE written in C++ that generates applications with full source code. He is also the developer of SBasic, a Basic Compiler written in C++. He is a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon (International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Discipline), a CompTIA (Computing Technology Industry Association) Certified Technical Trainer+ (CTT+) , CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Cisco Certified Academy Instructor (CCAI), Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) in Security/Written, post-graduate certificate in Object Orientation Methodologies, certificate in Information Security Management approved by the National Security Agency ( NSA) Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), CNE, Microsoft Windows 2K Professional & Advanced Server, Linux, SQL, PL/SQL, ASP, JSP, C/C++, and Java.