Karim Hamamo, Information Security Engineer

Karim Hamamo

Information Security Engineer

GBIINC.

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Information Technology Managment
Experience
13 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 10 Months

Information Security Engineer at GBIINC.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since June 2012

o Design, Implementation, Management of IT Security strategies and Policies compliant with ISO 27001.
o Network and logs monitoring.
o Security incidents investigator.
o Advisor for the SMD for required security solution.
o Point of Contact with Network and Security vendors.
o Responsible for preparing and handling RFQ and RFP in IT and Technology Departments.
o Helping in Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing of GBI system.
o RSA Two-Factor authentication Implementation and operation.
o Achieving high availability and maximize ROI of GBI Information systems by designing, supporting and troubleshooting all GBI internal computer network infrastructure/Applications problems (Network gears, firewalls, Microsoft infrastructure, Microsoft Exchange 2013, Microsoft Lync 2013, Microsoft SharePoint 2010 & 2013 and HRMS system).
o Responsible for Two Data Centers operations (Production in Doha and hot DR in London).
o Designing, supporting and troubleshooting accounting ERP software (Sage 50 PeachTree)
o Planning for migration plans for Microsoft Infrastructure.
o Documenting network schematics and gears configuration.
o Tracking opening tickets and maintain SLA within Acceptable Level.

Information System Engineer. at NOC24x7 Ltd.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2012 to July 2013

Implement and administrate Gulf Bridge International Inc. Network Infrastructure and systems as an outsource IT.

Support GBI Inc. offices infrastructure in the Gulf (Dubai - Doha - Kuwait) as an outsource IT.

Implementing a new Data center from the scratch and integrating it with an existing one for GBIInc.

Associate Infrastructure Consultant at ingazat Information Technology
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2012 to June 2012

Associating in Designing & Implementing (Exchange Servers - SCOM - SCM - NetApp) in several enterprise organizations.

Troubleshooting several organization networks problems.

Technical Support Engineer at Fast for Constructions
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • May 2010 to September 2011

Implement, Maintain and support Network Infrastructure gears.

Education

Master's degree, Information Technology Managment
  • at UOWD
  • August 2016
Master's degree, Network Infrastructure & security
  • at Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
  • August 2011

Graduated from MCIT Special Training Scholarship in Network Infrastructure & Security Engineering. Graduation Project: Tactical Network Adaptive Defense Grade: Excellent My role in project was:  Implementing, managing and administrating VMware VSphere ESXi 4.1  Implementing, Managing and administrating (SNORT NIDS)

Bachelor's degree, Communications & Electronics
  • at Alexandria Univesity
  • July 2010

B.Sc. in Electronics & Communication Alexandria University, Egypt. Graduation Project: Computer Networks Security Supervised by prof. Dr. (Mohamed Rizk) Grade: Excellent The project includes:  (Hardening Linux servers environment) Applications of Networks Security:  ( Complete Network Security Solution for Faculty of EngineeringAlexandria University Network)

Specialties & Skills

Exchange Server
Microsoft Servers
Electronic Signatures
Juniper
Cisco IOS
VMware Vsphere ESXi
Troubleshooting and researching
Linux/BSD systems
Cisco Gears
Microsoft Infrastructure
Juniper Gears
Security solution consultant
Information Security Auditing

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

ISACA
  • Member
  • January 2015
IEEE AlexSB
  • Member
  • October 2005

Training and Certifications

CISSP (Certificate)
MCITP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2011
CCNP R&S (Certificate)
PMP v.5 (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI, NewHorizons Alexandria
Date Attended:
January 2015
Duration:
40 hours
CCNA R&S (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2011
CISM (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
Microsoft Exchange 2010 Ignite (Training)
Training Institute:
Ingazat Information Technology
Anti-corruption (Training)
Training Institute:
GBI, Legal Department
Cryptography (Training)
Training Institute:
Coursera
RHCE (Training)
Training Institute:
Self study
MCITP (Certificate)
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon Alexandria
CCNP R&S (Training)
Training Institute:
CISCO Academy
CCNA R&S (Certificate)
CISA (Training)
Training Institute:
Self Study
CompTIA Security+ (Training)
Training Institute:
Vision Academy

Hobbies

  • Jogging
  • Diving
  • Squash