Ahmad Yassein, Infrastructure Network Manager

Ahmad Yassein

Infrastructure Network Manager

Ministry of International Cooperation (MIC)

Lieu
Egypte - Le Caire
Éducation
Diplôme, IT Networking and Systems Administration
Expérience
21 years, 2 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :21 years, 2 Mois

Infrastructure Network Manager à Ministry of International Cooperation (MIC)
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • Je travaille ici depuis mai 2011

• Supervising, administering, maintaining, and troubleshooting servers and networking infrastructure systems including but not limited to routers, switches, wireless APs, firewalls, IPSs, and telephony.
• Oversees and manage implementation projects and meet deadlines.
• Managing IT equipment tenders and receiving bids from vendors.
• Responsible for configuring, troubleshooting, and monitoring the following IT technologies:

1. Directory service (Active Directory 2012) of two domains, three sites, and 1500+ client workstations.
2. Email service (MS Exchange) of 900+ user mailbox.
3. Patching and client management service (SCCM).
4. Routing and switching comprised of Cisco ISR 3600/2600 running OSPF, Cisco Catalyst L3 6500 backbone, and HP ProCurve L2 switches edge switching.
5. Network security comprised of gateway firewalling/NGIPS (Fortigate 400D / Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePower services) running DMVPN between sites.
6. Kaspersky security center 10 and endpoint protection installed on 1500+ client workstations.

Senior Network Support Technician à RasGas Company Ltd.
  • Qatar - Doha
  • novembre 2008 à mai 2011

• Supervising the IT help desk staff's related tasks including but not limited to Contractors/Direct hire's accounts creation/extension/decommissioning, user mailboxes administration, NTFS access permissions management, OU structure design, group scope/type management, computer objects management and running scripts written in VB and/or PS for automation.
• In charge of managing, maintaining and troubleshooting single Active Directory domain that runs on windows server 2008 R2 domain controllers, MS Internet Security & Acceleration (ISA) 2006, and McAfee Anti-virus (ePolicy Orchestrator).
• Responsible for evaluating and deploying third-party solutions including but not limited to IPrism web content filtering appliance, NetIQ Web Marshall, FortiGate 100A firewall appliance, and Symantec Gateway Security (SGS) firewall appliance.

Senior Network Engineer à Ministry of International Cooperation (MIC)
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • octobre 2007 à novembre 2008

• Responsible for implementing, managing and troubleshooting networking equipments including Cisco ISR Router 2600 series, Cisco Catalyst Switch 6500, Cisco ASA 5505/5520, and FortiGate 100A UTM firewalls.
• Responsible for implementing, managing and troubleshooting Remote Access IPSec VPN tunnels.
• Responsible for implementing, managing and troubleshooting OSPFv2 dynamic routing communication between the HQ and Branch offices.
• Monitoring systems' health and manage logging using a Syslog system for further analysis.
• Responsible for securing the perimeter network using Cisco ASA 5520 appliance and FortiGate 100A UTM appliance. Creating and analyzing firewall rules, application and protocol Inspection engines, address translations (NAT/PAT), basic end-to-end QoS (DiffServ/PriorityQ/LLQ), failover, and URL filtering.

Pre-Sales and Network Security Engineer à Misr2000 Corporation
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • mars 2003 à octobre 2007

• Handle incoming tenders/RFP, Preparing technical proposals and Creating bill of material (BOM).
• Making a direct contact with the vendors and distributors to receive the best prices.
• Getting in touch with the customer to understand the nature of their business, assets, sensitive information, existing credentials, existing resources, and translate these information into a technical security solution that can guarantee optimal performance, meet SLA, and achieve business continuity based on the company's products line..
• Designing solutions based on the tender and customer requirements.
• Delivering demos & technical presentations to the customer.
• Deploying, administering, and troubleshooting the customer solution based on the requested design.
• If required, delivering training sessions to technical engineers at the customer premise.
• Pre-sales and implementation of the following security solutions: FortiGate, FortiMail, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, Symantec Gateway Security (SGS), Symantec Network Security (SNS), Symantec Endpoint Protection, Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5505/5510/5520, Private Internet Exchange (PIX) Appliances, Cisco IPS 4200 series sensor, and SmartFilter for URL filtering.

Éducation

Diplôme, IT Networking and Systems Administration
  • à Synergy Professional Services
  • juin 2010

MCSA - MCSE: Security - MCSE: Messaging - MCTS - CCNA - CCNP - CCSP - CCNP: Security

Baccalauréat, Software Engineering
  • à Modern Academy in Maadi For Computer Science
  • août 2002

A 5-years bachelor degree in computer science that taught me the following programming languages: C++ Borland C Assembly Java HTML4 Graduation Project (2002): An intranet portal for the academy utilizing HTML4, CSS2, and Javascript. Project Grade: Excellent

Specialties & Skills

Cisco Security
Microsoft Servers
IP Networking
Cisco Catalyst Switches
Fortinet Fortigate UTM Firewall Appliance
Cisco PIX/ASA Firewall Appliance
Cisco IPS Sensor Appliance
IPSec VPN
I-Prism Web Filtering Appliance
Cisco ISR Routers
Microsoft ISA Server
Active Directory 2008 R2

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert

Formation et Diplômes

CCNP-Security (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
April 2013
Valide jusqu'à:
October 2016
CCSP (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
June 2006
Valide jusqu'à:
October 2016
MCTS (Certificat)
Valide jusqu'à:
June 2008
CCNA (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 2005
Valide jusqu'à:
October 2016
CCNP (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2007
Valide jusqu'à:
October 2016

Loisirs

  • Reading a lot of IT networking books
    Routing TCP/IP volume 1 and 2 - Inside IOS Architecture - Developing IP Multicast Networks - Internet Routing Architectures - Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols - Cisco ASA, PIX, and FWSM Handbook 2nd Edition - Network Security Technologies and Solutions - The Complete Cisco VPN Configuration Guide - Router Security Strategies - Cisco Router Firewall Security
  • Treadmill Working Out