Security Management

Mostafa Mohamed Ali Ismail

Sr./TL - Systems/Network Administrator

http://eg.linkedin.com/in/mostafa55

*********@*****.***

Egypt: - 002***********

Personal Information:-

Date of birth: Jan-18-1980

Marital Status: Single.

Military Service: Exempted

Nationality: Egyptian

Objectives:-

I’m looking for a competitive job opportunity in a good company/organization, which has professional work environment that help me to utilize and share my professional experience & my academic background, to benefit the company/organization & the community in addition to gain more experience/knowledge, and challenge my abilities in different IT areas.

I like innovative thinking and taking responsibilities.

SKILLS:-

1) Computer & IT-Related skills:

a) Certificates

RHCE (805************)

http://www.redhat.com/certification/rhce/current/

RHCT/RHCSA (605************)

http://www.redhat.com/certification/rhce/current/

LPIC-1, LPIC-2 (Linux professional Institute)

LPI ID: LPI000035251 - Verification Code: azc9v698wh

https://www.lpi.org/caf/Xamman/certification

MCP [MCP ID 2989419]

MCTS Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure Configuration

ICDL

b) Vocational Training

i) Orascom Telecom Co.(ministry of communication –Egypt )

- Linux System General Administration

- C/C++ under Linux using KDeveloper & QT Designer

- Designing and Implementing Desktop App. & Web App. (C#)

ii) (ISC)2

- CISSP (2 Days training course in RHUL, Egham –UK).

iii) Foundstone/McAfee

- Web Hacking (2 Days Training course in RHUL, Egham –UK).

c) Academic Curses

Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

- Security management

- An introduction to cryptography and security mechanisms

- Network security

- Computer security

Institute of Graduate Studies & Research University of Alexandria – Egypt

- E-commerce

- Introduction to JAVA programming

- Information Security

- IS Analysis and Design

- Data Structure

- Introduction to Computer Networks

- Data Base Management

d) Professional Experiences

Amazon Cloud infrastructure (EC2 –VPC – AMIz …..etc)

Manage a wide range of windows & Unix/Linux servers

RedHat, Centos, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Solaris & MS-Windows (2003/2008) servers.

Install, Configure, Maintain & Monitor (Unix/Linux & Microsoft Based) Servers.

Write Customs scripts for automated & proactive response.

Manage, Monitor and Troubleshoot (OSs, Services, Networks, firewalls for performance and security issues).

Support Servers/Clients and troubleshooting software hardware problems.

o Files servers

- FTP (Active/Passive)

- SAMBA ( print / file / PDC ) servers.

- NFS

o Network infrastructure

DHCP, DNS/DDNS, NAT, Squid-proxy & ISA-server

o Storage Technologies:

RAID / LVM

o Authentication

RADIUS servers, NIS/YP, OpenLDAP, MS Active Directory

o Security / firewall

Linux/Unix iptables & TcpWrappers

SSH server, SELinux, PAM

Cisco-VPN, Open-VPN

o E-Mail servers

1) Open-source

MTAs ( sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim )

Courier, Dovecote (pop3 & imap) servers

Secure authentication with SASL-auth SSL/TLS

e-mail filters (procmail, mailscanner, spamassassin, clamAV )

Webmail clients (Horde, Squirrelmail)

Write scripts to block DDoS & smurf attacks

MX backup & Relay Email servers

Distributed & clustered email servers

Zimbra Email solution.

2) Microsoft

Designing and implementing MS-Exchange 2010

Forefront security for MS-Exchange 2010

o Data Base servers

MySQL (DB High Availability & Replication)

Percona (DB High Availability & Replication)

MS-SQL

o Web servers

Apache, Tomcat, IIS

o Virtualization and Xen technology

(VMWare, XEN)

o Scripting

Bash, Perl, Php, Awk, Sed

o Network management

Design, implement and manage wire/wireless networks.

Manage Cisco Routers - switches L2 & L3 - Access Points- firewalls

f) Tools

Webmin, CPanel / WHM, PLESK

Navicat / mysql-gui-tools / PHP myadmin

Nagios, Zenoss, OSSEC, Awstat, cacti

Nmap, Nessus, snort

2) Language skills:

Arabic: Mother tongue

English: Very Good

German: basic

3) Personal skills:

I’m capable of learning new techniques in a short time

Teamwork player

Work under pressure

Work Experience:-

1) Aug-2007 / present

Sr./TL Systems/Network Administrator at The Bookdepository Ltd. (an amazon company).

http://bookdepository.co.uk

- Manage all the company’s servers (Data Centers’ dedicate servers & Amazon Cloud instances) (EC2 –VPC – AMIz …..etc)

(Web, E-mail, FTP, DB, Applications, Development and staging/test servers)

- Designing, Implementing and manage LANs (wire & wireless).

- Design, implement & manage clustered email system

- Database servers management (Replication, fine tuning)

- Responsible of Capacity Planning and Upgrade/Migration Process

- Manage the Backup processes & Disaster Recovery plans & operations

- Planning, coordinate, in Implementing Host/Network Security Measures in Order To

maximize the customers’ data protection.

- Write Custom Scripts that automate routine tasks or Specific Requirements

- Monitor Network Performance/Usage & security

- Monitor the server’s performance & security threads

2) Jan-2007 / Aug-2007

Linux Systems Administrator for Top Line for services (KSA)

http://tl4s.com.sa

- Manage wide range of web hosting Linux servers (apache, mysql, FTP, BIND and exim )

- Configure and tune the running services to maximize the servers’ uptime & performance.

- Manage users’ accounts and hosted sites.

- Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning

- Managing the Backup/Restore and Disaster Recovery

- Write Custom Scripts to automate the routine tasks

- Manage servers’ firewall, IDS & fix the security threats

- Troubleshooting the third party Software and Operating System Problems

- Monitor the Servers using custom scripts and monitoring tools and log analysis tools

- Write Performance and Security Reports

- Using some tools such as ( WHM, Cpanel, Zenoss, Nagios )

3) Sep-2004 / Sep-2007

System Support Specialist

Monitoring & Support Installed Services.

Provide end-user day-to-day support on MS- Windows & Linux Platforms.

Install and Configure OSs (Linux, Windows).

Deploying third-party Applications

4) Jan-2004 / Jun-2004

Instructor of Linux System Administration for VirgiTech Corporation

http://www.virgitech.com

o Linux Basics

o Linux Power User

o Linux Administration

o Linux Networking TCP/IP

o Linux Security and Firewall

Education: -

Postgraduate

2011 - Present: (MSc.) Master of Information Security.

Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

2004 - 2006: Postgraduate Diploma of Information Technology.

Institute of Graduate Studies & Research Alexandria University – Egypt

Graduate

1998 - 2001: Bachelor's Degree of Agricultural Sciences (Chemistry Dept.)

Alexandria University – Egypt

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