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Cairo, Egypt

Cairo, Egypt

• Information Security Assessment.
• Design & review of the NBD's DC, HQ, and branches security measures.
• Pinpointing & hardening of the core banking application platform's problems and security issues respectively.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Design and presentation for Atheeb's 3 data centers' security and systems in Riaydh, Jeddah, and Dammam. Based onSecure Computing, Juniper, and Foundry boxes. Atheeb is Saudi Arabia's 3rd Data Service Provider (DSP).
• Operation and support for Saudi Telecom Company's (STC) Security Operation Centre (SOC) and several Saudi banks which is composed of Secure Computing's CyberGuard TSP and SideWinder firewalls, WebWasher URL and content.

Cairo, Egypt

• Managed 4 teams, 26+ members, of IT Operations, Information Security, Infrastructure, and Call Center.
• Initiation of new building in Pyramids Heights project. A 1300+ nodes LAN and a 150m2 data center.
• Initiation of Oracle's Enterprise Business Suite (EBS), and Alcatel-Lucent's Motive Total Broadband Care (TBC) projects.
• Run a new branch with 150+ employees over WiFi, 802.1x, and PEAP over WiMax load balanced with copper link.
• Deployed the corporate's budgeting and project management system.
• Deployed a wired roaming facility for HQ employees using 802.1x with RADIUS, PEAP, and ADS credentials.

Cairo, Egypt

• Run and supervised a GRE tunnel between HQ's IP PBX and 5+ access servers for PBX off-loading.
• Run and secured 30+ point-of-sales joint-venture project with TE's exchanges, and Olympic Group's B-Tech.
• Deployed an IPSec VPN platform with PSK keys in a site-to-site setup for use with vendors and other corporates.
• Deployed a transparent anti spam/virus SMTP gateway with false-positives near zero, detection accuracy ~ 99%.
• Deployed an open-standard XMPP/Jabber IM system with Yahoo, MSN, GTalk, soft phones, white board, and audio/video conferencing support.
• Secured and deployed RDBMS replication system used with ADSL configuration management solution for customers.

Cairo, Egypt

• Initiated the establishment of the Information Security and MIS' data center with latest security measures.
• Secured the initial VoIP call center. A Windows based VoIP PBX and call center.
• Deployed corporate SSL/TLS VPN with X.509 certificates and MS' ADS credentials.
• Integrated all 7 branches, and 20 CSOs over a solid SSL/TLS VPN.
• Secured Oracle's Financial and HR applications, and IBM's Tivoli management and monitoring systems.
• Secured MS' network which is composed of ADS DCs, SMS, WSUS, SPS, and Exchange 2003.

Cairo, Egypt

• Designed and deployed a highly-available LDAP directory service with multi-master support.
• Setup of Jordan branch. A setup for a mini ISP plus technical training.
• Designed and deployed a broadband SOAP web services. This was the interfacing with other OSS/BSS systems.
• Migrated old qmail-ldap server into a cluster for high availability and high capacity which consisted of 6 nodes.

Cairo, Egypt

• Designed and deployed Vodafone's SkyPass, a joint project, authentication and billing system with gateway type auto-sensing.
• Deployed webmail sites of Seven7s, TE, and TE Data and also hacked its LDAP queries to 1 per session for better performance.
• Developed a reporting system for traffic usage per exchange which helped too much with better distribution of access servers.
• Developed a prepaid billing plugin for SkyPass in Cairo ICT 2004 and 2005 to disconnect customers when no credit.
• Deployed the Egyptian Meteorological's authority qmail-ldap server with a local LDAP directory plus training.
• Deployed Gomhuria's Thanawya A'amma results as a clustered and highly-available website on years 2002 to 2004.

Cairo, Egypt

• Deployed and administered the ADSL resellers' forum.
• Developed tools in C with shell scripts' wrappers for daily system administration with staff training.
• Developed scripts for analyzing and reporting accounting information from the RADIUS servers.
• Developed an LDAP replication using OpenLDAP which consisted of both an LDAP master and a slave.
• Deployed email system of Free Internet project on Jan 2002. Migrated from Sendmail to qmail-ldap with maildir support.
• Configured several Linux servers like Sendmail, qmail, NTP, Apache, BIND, MRTG, MySQL, LDAP, and freeRADIUS.

Cairo, Egypt

• Troubleshooted customers’ dial up problems on phone or on site.
• Configured LAN modems, Analogue / ISDN modems, proxy servers, and firewalls.

Cairo, Egypt

• Setup and operation of a high-speed video tracking system from Mil-Spec, USA and Hadland, UK.
• Brought focus on use of computer-aided applications, trained personnel, and developed a monthly pay-roll sheet.

Cairo, Egypt

• Instructed C and Java languages.
• Troubleshooted customers’ dial up problems on phone or on site.
• Configured LAN modems, Analogue / ISDN modems, proxy servers, and firewalls.

Cairo, Egypt

• Designed and implemented an AS/400 ODBC Arabic-translation DLL in C. Responsible for the overall product design, including the user interface of its control panel program to change settings on the fly.