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Ramez Hanna

Tel.: +3580504867384

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

 

IT Engineer

NOKIA, Devices R&D, Maemo

August2008 - Current

Part of the Infrastructure team, responsible for thelinux systems supporting the maemo platform

My main responsibilities are:

  • Developing and deploying new infrastructure services to support the developers
  • Responsible for the maintenance and running of several web applications including trac, rt,
  • postfix administration
  • ...


Senoir Systems Engineer

Q-Layer (qlayer.com)

May2007 - August2008.

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

  • Managing Editor

Travel

  • USA
  • France
  • Italy
  • Spain