Bassel Alkharraz, Sr. System Administrator

Bassel Alkharraz

Sr. System Administrator

NUPCO

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Diploma, LPIC Level-1
Experience
21 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 2 Months

Sr. System Administrator at NUPCO
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2010

Administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux running SAP and Oracle Systems. Some of the systems are on physical servers and the other are virtual machine (VMware ESX 4.1).

Sr System Securty Administrator at SPIMACO
  • Saudi Arabia
  • April 2003 to August 2010

Since my graduation early 2003, i have worked with SPIMACO for almost 7 years (from 26-April-2003 till now). During this time, i have done many tasks and projects. The bellow are an examples of them:

- LAN migration from OminiSwitches to CISCO (Technical Team Leader)
- SAP ERP 4.6c upgrade to ECC 5 (Team Member)
- lotus domino infrastructure upgrade with more security and high availability (Team Leader)
- lotus domino hardware migration (Implementer)
- implementing MS ISA 2000 server (to replace the WinGate) (Planner & Implementer)
- implementing Linux-based proxy (SQUID) to replace ISA 2000 (Planner & Implementer)
- upgrade domain controller from NT to 2000 (Planner & Implementer)
- upgrade domain controller from 2000 to 2008 (Planner & Implementer)
- implementing the security policy in domain controller (password and lockout, restricting user from installing application, preventing outside access to the domain, local administrators' passwords changing, & auto execution of some scripts) (Planner & Implementer)
- WSUS implementation (automate the patching for all MS Windows clients and servers) (Planner & Implementer)
- automate the deploying of anti-virus software in all domain clients (Planner & Implementer)
- Implementing Norton Antivirus Corporative Edition (Team Member)
- implementing the TrendMicro OfficeScan 6.5. And later upgrade it to 7.0 and to 8.0 (Planner & Implementer)
- reviewing the reconfiguration of the CISCO firewall (remove unused open ports and servers) (Team Leader)
- implementing DameWare for remote support connection (Planner & Implementer)
- WAN Migration from technology with an ISP to another technology with another ISPs (Project Manager)
- IT Infrastructure Assessment Projects (Project Manager)
- Provide an on-job training for 5 employees; 3 system administrators and 1 network administrator & help disk technician. (Team Leader)

Education

Diploma, LPIC Level-1
  • at AUST
  • October 2011
Diploma, VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
  • at VMware
  • October 2010
Diploma, Project Management Professional & PMP Exam Preparation
  • at CHANGE Consulting - Training
  • October 2009

The Preparation Course for the PMP Exam, in addition to MS Office Project 2007 training.

Diploma, Certified SAP Netweaver 7.0 Consultant (MSSQL 2005)
  • at SAP AG
  • April 2009
Diploma, Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • at RedHat
  • January 2008

Red Hat Enterprice Linux 5 administration, networking and security

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at KFUPM
  • March 2003

Specialties & Skills

Hacking
Security
HP Proliant Rack and Blade servers
TrenMicro OfficeScan
SAP system administration
Symantic Backup Exec
Information Security
Windows 2000 & 2003
Networking
MS Office Project 2007
VMware ESX/ESXi
hp Data Protector

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
German
Intermediate

Memberships

Linux Arab Community
  • Member
  • April 2008
@Bassel_
  • Twitter.com
  • January 2009