Mohamad Hallal, Technical Operations Engineer

Mohamad Hallal

Technical Operations Engineer

TransferTo

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Double Major)
Experience
11 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :11 years, 1 Months

Technical Operations Engineer at TransferTo
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since November 2014

Responsible for developing and maintaining Phone2Phone integrations with Mobile Network Operators worldwide.

Responsible for developing and maintaining internal tools supporting the business objectives.

Technical support

Junior Software Engineer at Namshi
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since May 2013

- Part of the Application Development Team maintaining and integrating the latest web technologies into Namshi.com

- Learnt and developed experience with open-source web technologies such as: Symfony2 Framework, Object Relational Mapping (ORM), Behat, Mink, Solr and Rabbit MQ.

- Completed a project in Behavior Driven Development and Automated Testing using Behat, Mink and Gearman.

- Initiated Namshi Tech Blog to report the latest completed projects within the team.

- Gained valuable experiance in Symfony2 framework, AngularJs and Functional and Unit Testing

Software Engineer at Namshi (Rocket Internet)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2014

- Responsible for designing, building and maintaining software projects to support the business.

- Completed projects:
- FedEx Integration
- Tracking website
- Namshi's Lebanese website

- Building readable, extendable and maintainable code in PHP and Javascript employing frameworks like Symfony2, NodeJs and AngularJs.

- Focusing on Test Driven and Behavior Driven Development

Intern at VIVA - Kuwait Telecommunications Company
  • Kuwait - Hawali
  • July 2010 to August 2010

- Third Telecommunications Company in Kuwait.

- Assigned to the Value Added Services and Core Network
Department.

- Studied GSM Network in details.

- Participated in VIVA Internet with CAP tests.

- Interacted with Huawei Engineers through meetings and site Visits

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Double Major)
  • at American University of Sharjah
  • January 2013

PUBLICATIONS • System Consideration on LTE and LTE-Advanced Requirements for Receiver Channel Filter. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Electronics Design, Systems and Applications - ICEDSA 2012 • Preliminary All Digital Channel Filter Design for LTE-Advanced Software Radio Implementation. 8th IEEE International conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems in nanoscale era - DTIS 2013 PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHES AND ACTIVITIES • 2nd place, Undergraduate Intercollegiate Cyber Defense Competition (UICDC2012) •3nd place, AUS Badge Hacking Competition • Towards Internet of Things: Adoption and Threats in the Gulf Countries, ongoing research • Performance of Fiber-Optics Sensors in Cyclic and Torsion Loading, ongoing research • Attended the International Conference on the Modern Art of Software (Jazoon 2012) • Participated in organizing the 1st Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering 2011 • IEEE Computer Society Student Branch Activities Coordinator (2011-2012) PROJECTS • Analyzed social engineering attacks - Replied to fraud emails, SMSs, and Calls - Analyzed attackers’ behavior. •Senior Design Project - Design of a Tunable Channel Filter for 4G (LTE-A) Receivers - Building FPGA module for the filter • Research on WiMAX Technology - Analyzed WiMAX networks architecture, standards and deployment - Simulated downlink queuing system using SimEvents • Cellular System Design Simulation - Matlab program and Graphical user interface to design and evaluate the performance of a Cellular System • Design and programming of an inventory system - Using Java Programming Language • TweetMap - Analyze the mood of people all over the world based on tweets - Integration of GoogleMaps, Twitter and Mood Evaluation Web Services using .NET • Implementing a JPEG Compression and Decompression program - Using Matlab

Specialties & Skills

Web Development
Network Engineering
Computer Security
Research
Research
Web Development
Kali Linux/ Backtrack 6
Network Forensics
Javascipt
Penetration Testing

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Network Components Configuration (Training)
Training Institute:
CISCO Networking Academy
Date Attended:
September 2009
Juniper Networks Firewall Configuration (Training)
Training Institute:
Zayed University
Date Attended:
October 2012

Hobbies

  • Technology
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