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Ramez Hanna


Summary

Open and dedicated leader and an experienced system engineer, with experience in IT infrastructure, supporting development environments and Integration automation.


Professional Experience

Integration Technical Product Owner

NOKIA, MeeGo Devices

September2009 - Current

Technical Product Owner of release and integration infrastructure, covering releasing, configuration management, automated testing and IT infrastructure.

Achievements
  • Devised to come up with an extensible solution for MeeGo release engineering, that covers automation of the tasks, as well as the business processes of creating “MeeGo devices”.
     
  • Moved the development teams from the existing integration system of Maemo, to the new system more suitable for MeeGo.
     
  • Extended the offering of the integration service to other Nokia units and bring multiple units to one table without an assigned role to do it.
     

Handset Release Manager

NOKIA, meego.com

May2010 - Current

Monitoring MeeGo handset releases for quality, while focusing on the automation of the releasing infrastructure.

Achievements
  • Oversaw the release engineering activities as a whole and spot where issues occur.
     
  • In coordination with other team members we were driving the release engineering cycle to a more product oriented cycle.

Senior, IT Specialist

NOKIA, MeeGo Devices

August2008 – September2009

Member of the Infrastructure team, responsible for the Linux systems supporting the Maemo platform.

Achievements
  • Introduced advanced virtualization concepts to help in staging deployments.

Senior, Systems Engineer

Q-Layer (qlayer.com)

May2007 - August2008.

Team Lead of the system engineering team, creating virtual appliances, plug-ins and monitoring capabilities into the company's product.

Achievements
  • Designed the monitoring capability into the company's product and supervised the implementation.

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.

Achievements
  • Redesigned and deployed the company's email service, rendering it more stable and restoring the clients' confidence in the company's services

IT Specialist

OpenCraft (open-craft.com)

September 2004 - January 2006.

Designing the company's IT infrastructure, covering mail, user account directory and a staging environment. Deploy Linux systems at customer sites.

System Administrator

Niletelecom (niletele.com)

September 2002 - December 2004


Education and training

Bachelor of Engineering

Arab Academy of Science and Technology, 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

Opensource Contributions

  • Import plugin to toendaCMS
  • packaging for fedora
  • meego.com release infrastructure tools

ITPlus magazine

  • Managing Editor