SUMMARY:

• Deputy IT Manager, managing IT stuff by recruiting, training and coaching employees - controlling and evaluating IT and electronic data operation - design, develop, implement and coordinate systems, policies and procedures - Identify problematic areas and implement strategic solutions in time - Handle annual budget and ensure cost effectiveness.
• IT Project Management at ECG including projects design, making Bill of Quantities, verifying submittals, Approval of projects, managing sub-contractors and project inspection. Handled over 10 Projects including Qatari Amiri Naval Forces Base site campus network infrastructure, computer system design, Virtualization, Security center software.
• Design, implement, management and troubleshooting for VMware vCenter server, vCenter Appliance, vSphere ESXI, workstation, VMware converter, VMware vRealize Operation Manager, Veeam backup, Nakivo backup.
• Implemented VMware ESX server to provide multiple virtual hardware platforms while keeping hardware cost and energy consumption down.
• Migrated obsolete hardware platforms to VMs via VMware Converter.
• Deployed and maintained Linux red hat and Centos OS servers (File server, file permissions, Syslog, etc.).
• Storage system administrator Design, Implementation, system administration, operation and troubleshooting of IBM Storwize V7K generation one unified storage and IBM Storwize V7K generation two block storages, Synology storage enterprise, western digital enterprise storage, DELL MD3400 Storage system.
• Strong hands-on experience with storage Design, support configuration and managing SAN storage, ISCSI, NFS, VMware­ VMotion, HA, storage migration, P2V migration.
• Design, implement, management and administrator of Microsoft windows server environment hand on experience (Active directory - DHCP - DNS - Disaster recovery - Hardware load balancer - Group policy - Local administrator password - Active directory Federation - File server - Hyper-V – Failover clustering – windows server backup – File Server – Security – WSUS).
• System Administrator for System Center environment (SCCM 2008).
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure.
• System Administrator for Mail Server Microsoft exchange 2013 (Design, planning and implement Exchange server 2013 environment - configuration and preform backups – Create and manage mailboxes, distribution list – preformed disaster recovery from tapes and maintain database using exchange utilities and NetBackup) Activated & maintained up to 5000+ users accounts with my colleagues to the entire corporate, have a good knowledge to administrate Microsoft Lync 2013.
• System administrator for biometric fingerprint and CCTV surveillance cameras (design, configuration, troubleshooting and administration).
• System administrator for Kaspersky security center Design, implement, management and troubleshooting (Group policy’s – vulnerability scan – configure end point to control the end user PC, etc.).
• Network Administrator for ECG Qatar branch IT networking including LAN, WAN, VPN, Wireless Access points, wireless Lan controller.
• Network Administrator for SAN switch including switch zoning, configuration, optimization.
• Network VOIP administrator for Cisco Call Manager Configuration and troubleshooting.
• Network security administrator of the security firewall appliances Juniper firewall, Fortigate and have good knowledge on Cisco ASA.
• Network Security administrator of the security proxy appliances like Bluecoat Proxy SG (monitoring, configuration and generation reports).
• Built NOC (Network operation center) in place for monitoring our IT service telecommunication network MPLS, VPN, Internet routers, biometric availability, camera, wireless AP, wireless controllers, virtualization health, server’s hardware and OS monitoring, asset management.
• Penetration testing using Kali Linux (Arp poising, DOS attack, Man in the middle, dictionary attacks, URL snarf and SSL strip). Performing passive information gathering using various tools (Recon-ng, whois, maltego, The Harvester). DNS Enumeration using DNS-recon (zone transfer attacks and reverse DNS lookup trying to discover hostnames. Port scan using different tools (nmap, zenmap and nmap NSE scripts Vulnerability scanning, smtp enumeration & smb-OS-discovery that includes a lot of enumeration screipts). Remote or Clint side Exploitation using various public exploit database (exploit-DB, rapid7 and metasploit).
• Developed an open-source SOC by utilizing deployed security technologies through collecting Syslog, net flow, building use cases, monitoring OS behavior, parsing logs and threat intelligence from multiple sources.
• Incident response and threat hunting.
• Have used various forensics tools like (tcpdump, Wireshark, process explorer and Microsoft sysinternals).
• Administrate and operations of McAfee email security appliance against inbound (anti-spam, anti-virus).
• High Level technical support Level for Datacenters, server rooms and networks Equipment, complex OS systems.
• Hand on experience of hardware server’s architecture and maintenance.
• Good knowledge of Citrix XenApp private cloud system Management.

HAND ON EXPERIENCE:

• Microsoft Windows server 2008, 2012, 2016.
• Microsoft Azure.
• Microsoft Exchange 2013.
• Microsoft Lync 2013.
• Microsoft 365.
• Linux Red Hat and Centos server environment.
• Secure FTP servers.
• Cisco Switches.
• Cisco Routers (MPLS – VPN – ADSL – SDSL).
• Cisco Wireless.
• Physical Network management.
• VMware vSphere ESX versions 5, 5.5, 6, 6.5
• VMware vCenter versions 5.5, 6
• VMware Operation management.
• Microsoft Hyper-V.
• Linux KVM.
• IBM Storwize V7000 Unified generation one.
• IBM Storwize V7000 block storage generation two.
• Dell MD3400 Storage.
• Synology enterprise storage system.
• Western digital Business series.
• FreeNas Storage system.
• Penetration testing using Kali Linux.
• AlienVault OSSIM (Open Source SIEM Solution)
• Juniper Firewall series.
• Fortigate Firewall series.
• Blue Cote Proxy SG.
• Cisco Firewall ASA.
• Biometric fingerprint Access and CCTV surveillance Cameras.
• Design data center equipment rack spacing and specification, cooling, data center security and high availability
• Python, Linux Bash script, Windows scripting.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

System: Microsoft windows server environment, Linux red hat server environment, Kaspersky security center, FTP.

Virtualization: VMware Product, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM.

Data Center: Design data center rack spacing and specification, cooling, good knowledge with data center tiering, data center security and high availability.

Storage: IBM Storwize V7K Generation one and two unified and block storages, Synology storage systems enterprise, Dell MD3400 Storage, Western digital enterprise, FreeNas.

Security: Penetration testing, secure file servers, Juniper firewalls, Blue Cote proxy SG.

Networking: SAN switches, Cisco Switching, Cisco Wireless controller.

Operating systems: Windows XP/7/10, windows server 2003/2008/2012/2016 , Cisco IOS, VMware ESXi 4/5/5.5/6/6.5, Apple mac OSx, Apple smart devices, Linux Ubuntu gnome/Kali/Red Hat/Centos.

STRENGTHS:

• A strong Mindset with good logical and analytical thinking capability.
• Good knowledge of Psychology. problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent learning initiative and ability to adapt any environment fast.
• Fit to work in any environment.
• Punctual.
• Hardworking.
• Comprehensive Knowledge of modern and complex principles and practices of Network Administration.
• Advanced knowledge of Network security and protocols.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Federal copyright laws of computer software.
• Knowledge of current technological developments/trends in area of expertise.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. systems and virtualization engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architecture, design and management of virtualization system using Dell PowerEdge R720 (VMware ESXi 6.5 with vCenter 6.5).
• Configured Dell MD3400 Storage (SAN Storage – ISCSI for backup – apply high availability).
• System design and administrator of windows server environment by creating primary domain controller “active directory – DHCP – DNS – Group policies, etc.”.
• Design and management and configured of backup server using dell PowerVault TL4000 tape library and Symantec backup solution.
• Design and management and configured main file server 2012 with the following feature “Deduplication – File server resource – configured ACL on folder structure – security system”.
• Built NOC in place for monitoring our IT service telecommunication network to keep eye on network and computing system behavior 24/7.
• Design, management and administration of Cisco switching, router and firewall “cisco ASA 5525-X –Cisco catalyst 2960-X”.
• Network administrator for Microwave communication Tower to distribute and manage of wide network infrastructure across the site office.
• Management and Maintenance for Qatar Naval and Armed forces officers, Servers, Network and firewall.

Confidential

Senior systems and virtualization engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and management of virtualization system using VMware military standard setup using HP Gen9 and management using VMware vCenter to apply schedule tasks, backups, monitoring 24/7.
• Design a secure file server with redundancy and HA to ensure that the system up and running without any interruption using high complex system and security setup (network – OS – storage – firewall – FTP – MPLS) and secure communication and replication between branches with site office (Qatar Doha HQ and Site office Qatar Mesaieed, USA Washington DC., Confidential Giza Smart Village and Confidential Cairo HQ).
• Apply project folder with confidential folder structure schema.
• Design and implement a full virtualization system on high level of security system on a big large network using the following hardware (Cisco UCS Servers) and software using VMware products (vSphere, vCenter, Fault Tolerance, NSX, Distributed resource scheduler "DRS", Operation Manager for monitoring and alarm, Design SAN storage system on IBM Storwize V7K 90 TB usable capacity, using military-standard).
• Implementation and migration my existing Storwize storage with a new generation.
• Initialize and configuration IBM V7K Gen2 system.
• Initialize and configuration complete IBM SAN switche environment.
• Migrate over than 20 TB SAN hard drives from IBM V7K unified generation one to new IBM V7K generation two using VMware vMotion technology.
• Initialize and configuration new IBM backup tape library.
• Rebuild and configure HP generation 7 to be main backup server.
• Design and build new server room on the standard (Cooling – power – racks – cable schematic – Apply Disaster recovery plan – Switching – Hardware Security – Software Security – virtualization Tech – Firefighting system FM200).
• Design new network infrastructure includes (Patch panels – switching – floor boxes).
• Design and implementation full computing and network security system.
• Design, fix and reconfigure for wireless system and wireless controller.
• Supervision for new complete network infrastructure, upgrade for network system uplink from 1GB to 10GB and we do upgrade our backbone switch with stacking for redundancy, changeover than 8 access switches from cisco POE 24 ports to Cisco 48 POE, changeover than 200 Cisco IP phones with call manager upgrade, install and configuration Cisco wireless system, and taking care of (uplinks, stacking, enhancement wireless connectivity, rack arrangement) the challenge was this is running environment.
• Implementation and Migration Mail Server from IBM Domino mail Server version 9 to Microsoft Exchange 2013.
• Migration my Domain Using ADMT the Active Directory Migration and Exchange Migration project.
• Creation of a new Active Directory concept
• Implementation of the new Active Directory infrastructure
• Active Directory migrations of all users, clients, servers, and permissions
• Built SOC (Security Operation Center) from ground up by fully utilizing all deployed security technologies through collecting syslog, net flow, building use cases, parsing logs, threat intelligence for multiple source, to let me understanding well the behavior of our systems and expected connection to be able to spot abnormal/malicious traffic and building remediation plans depending in the incidents.
• Design and implement new open source document management system on our private cloud for our corporate using the following tech (Linux SUSE - apache server - open KM), to distribute and centralize our document between branches, clients and site offices.

System Engineer / Tech Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Duties included technical support, specifications and programming on the mainframe computer systems; management & maintenance of the VMware product; implementation, management & maintenance of VMware view clouding computing; management & maintenance IBM Domino Mail Server; IBM Notes Clint support over than 5000 + users; mail support and set-up (Apple mail & MS outlook); implementation, management & maintenance of Print server using Equitrac print management software; responsible for weekly incremental and monthly backup operations; troubleshooting technical problems and implementing solutions, acting deputy IT manager SV.

Technical Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Duties included providing technical support and network troubleshooting; installing Microsoft OS (Windows XP & 7 – Windows Server 2003); installing and troubleshooting printers and scanning problems; network troubleshooting; user support and assistance to covering all activities on both PC and mainframe systems and networks
• Windows and software troubleshooting.