Ramez Zoheir Zaki Hanna
Tel.: +2012-2710513 / +202-2607 8632
E-mail : me@infomatiq.org
Summary
- Over 4 years working with IT systems.
- Over 2 years experience working with mission critical systems
- Experienced in deploying IT systems based on open source software
- Experienced in security testing and vulnerability assessment
- Author of the security article in ITeye magazine
Professional Experience
Senoir Systems Engineer
Q-Layer (qlayer.com)
May2007 - present.
Team Lead of the system engineering team
My main responsibilities are:
- Maintenance of our linux based OS Q-OS (upgrading kernel, adding specific drivers and capabilities)
- Development and delivery of soft-appliances
- Development and delivery of specific plug-in and workflows.
- Be involved in acceptance of the product
Senior Systems Engineer
ECC Solutions (eccsolutions.net)
March 2006 - April 2007.
Member of the services team, mainly responsible for the mail system and all the Linux operations
My main responsibilities are:
- Install a new mail system (Qmail) that hosts over 30 domains and over 3000 user
- Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus server solutions
- Mail system security and optimization
- Installation and maintenance of the Linux/Unix systems of the clients
- DNS server administration.
- Deploy and administrate the Intrusion Detection system.
- Develop new products based on opensource software.
Systems Administrator
ITRize (itrize.com)
September 2005 - March 2006.
Systems administrator remotely from home, as the servers are located in USA.
My main responsibilities are:
- Web server administration and configuration.
- Database servers administration (pgsql, mysql).
- Deploy and secure internal web applications.
- Maintain the development environment.
- Design backup policy and implement it.
- Design a software development policy and procedures.
- Design and implementation of network monitoring systems (Nagios and other hand made scripts).
- Security planning and implementation.
- Design and implementation of backup and disaster recovery procedures.
Information Systems Specialist
OpenCraft (open-craft.com), Engineering Department
September 2004 - January 2006.
I started by installing the company's server that hosts the development environment, migrating the company's infrastructure to Linux, and providing our clients with infrastructure solutions
My main responsibilities are:
- Installation and administration of the company's main Linux server
- Deploying Directory services based on openLDAP and secured by SSL
- Installation and administration of the development environment on the server, composed of JBOSS, APACHE, TomCat, Mysql, Postgresql
- Installation and administration of local groupware web application and integrating it into the Directory service
- Deploy Knowledge management portals at clients.
- Design, implement and optimize IS solutions for our clients form scratch or integrate new services in current infrastructures
- Research and experiment on new technologies to be always up-to-date with the latest technologies and integrate them in our client's solutions
- Security assessment
- Securing the web server
- Securing connections through SSH and VPN tunnels
Technologies i worked on :
- LDAP directory servers
- Oracle server
- ERP systems
- JBOSS server
- Dynamic DNS and DHCP
- Single Sign On solutions using LDAP
- Content Management Systems
- Document Management Systems
Infrastructure Administrator
Niletelecom (niletele.com) ,Systems & control Department
September 2002 - December 2004
Member of the systems and control Team who has built all the networking infrastructure and intranet
My main responsibilities are:
- Responsible for creating the company's intranet and Internet websites.
- Designing the IT help desk intranet application.
- Automating the database monitoring and server monitoring through the use of scripting languages such as PERL and ASP.
- Network administration (TCP/IP network and wan).
- Troubleshooting and maintaining the different servers (Exchange, ISA, SPS, SMS, Domain controller).
- Designing and implementing the disaster recovery plan for our online servers
- Maintenance of the computers (over 70 PCs)
- Troubleshooting and receiving calls concerning computer related problems from staff
- Creating corporate policies concerning the PC and e-mail usage
- Analyzing security status and designing security plan
extra activities :
- Introduction of open source applications
- Designing the company's web site
- Create the company's intranet portal
- Managing Server Room physical security
IT specialist
Free Lance
- Deploy business portals
- Spam filtering solutions
- Deploy email systems
Education and training
Bachelor of Engineering;
Alexandria University, Egypt
July 2002
Major: Communications and Electronics
"RedHat certified technician" Certificate
RedHat
September 2003
A Linux course oriented on the GNU/Linux installation and administration
"RedHat certified engineer" Training
RedHat
july 2005
A Linux course oriented on the network services installation and security
Language Skills
French: Fluent written and spoken.
English: Fluent written and spoken.
Extra curricular activities
EGLUG.ORG Linux volunteer
- Participation in various events to spread Linux/opensource in Egypt.
- Giving Linux beginner courses at SAKIA cultural center
- Giving PHP and firewall sessions.
- Helped in organizing the FOSS conference held by mengos.net and organized by EGLUG.ORG
- Gave a session on affordable computing in the FOSS conference held by mengos.net and organized by EGLUG.ORG
Mengos.NET volunteer
- giving sessions on open source technology and Linux to members of NGOs of Egypt through mengos.net NGO at AUC and RITSEC
ITPlus magazine
Travel
Personal Data
Date of Birth: May 10, 1980
Place of Birth: Alexandria, Egypt
Nationality: Egyptian
Marital Status: Married
Military Service status: Exempted
References are available upon request
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