Mohamed Osman Ali Abdalla, Systems and Networks Engineer

Mohamed Osman Ali Abdalla

Systems and Networks Engineer

SURE International

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems and Networks
Experience
13 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 10 Months

Systems and Networks Engineer at SURE International
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2014

• Analyzing business needs, design, implementing and supporting Telecommunication/Network solutions on multiple architectures.
• Responsible of the Telecommunication/Network installations, upgrades.
• Designing, Specifying, configuring, installing, and maintaining LAN/WAN/Wi-Fi hardware, software, Datacenter equipment’s and services. \[Cisco, EMC, F5, …\]
• Providing routine after-hours maintenance and emergency support as needed to maintain and secure network
• Establishing and maintaining network users, user environment, directories, and security attributes.
• Troubleshoot communications between computers, networks, data switches, printers, and other network and wireless resources.
• Implementing and maintaining network security systems to meet the organization's current and future requirements.
• Participating in the design of the network solutions for the customers.

Co-Founder & Organizor at OWASP Khartoum Chapter
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • March 2012 to February 2016

• Organizing the OWASP chapter meetings and group discussions.
• Organizing the chapter Mailing List.

System Administrator at Ibn Khaldun Educational Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2013 to September 2014

• Installing and supporting LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems.
• Installing and maintaining network hardware and software systems.
• Network monitoring to ensure security and availability to specific users.
• Evaluate and modify system's performance.
• Identify user needs.
• Determine network and system requirements.
• Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment, and security.
• Ensure network connectivity throughout a company's LAN/WAN infrastructure is on par with technical considerations.
• Assigning configuration of authentication and authorization of directory services.
• Maintaining network facilities in individual machines, such as drivers and settings of personal computers as well as printers.
• Maintaining network servers such as file servers and intrusion detection systems.
• Administering servers, desktop computers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, personal digital assistants, smartphones, software deployment, security updates and patches.
• Testing and Securing internal company systems and network infrastructure.
• Implementing KAV End-Point security10 and Kaspersky security center.
• Partially administering company ERP server.

Systems Security & Network Administrator at National Ribat University
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • February 2011 to April 2013

• Designing the new university IP and Network plan to be efficient and scalable according to the Campus Infrastructure module in the Enterprise Composite Network model, including the routed and switched network design.
• Installing, operating and troubleshooting University new network, including the routers, switches \[Catalyst Multilayer Switches\], access points, HP servers and the university network services like monitoring tools under Linux environment.
• Upgrading old servers and Network infrastructure. \[Redhat/Ubuntu/Windows Server/Cisco\]
• Building and securing University Mail-Servers.
• Doing a penetration testing to the internal university systems.
• Administrating the University Network and servers.
• Administrating the University IPS/IDS systems \[NetASQ\].

Researcher/Technician at Sudan University of Science & Technology
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • August 2010 to January 2011

Click to edit position description• Developing the new IPv6 Network plan.
• Migrating the university network and servers into IPv6.
• Building Network services such FTP, APACHE and DNS to work under IPv6.
• Building and configuring network/servers monitoring systems \[ Nagios, Snort \] under IPv6 environment.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Systems and Networks
  • at Sudan University of Science & Technology
  • October 2010

Specialties & Skills

Application Security
Replication
Storage
Network Security
IP Networking
Penetration Testing
Virtualization
Network simulation
Windows server
Netwotking
Network services
Network security
EMC VNX
F5 LTM/ASM
EMC RECOVERPOINT
Datacenter Networking

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate

Memberships

Sudan IPv6 Task Force
  • Awareness Team
  • November 2010
OWASP Khartoum
  • Organizor
  • April 2012

Training and Certifications

Recoverpoint Implementation Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
Cisco IOS Security Specialist (Certificate)
Cisco Firewall Security Specialist (Certificate)
CCNA Security (Certificate)
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv8) (Certificate)
Cisco VPN Security Specialist (Certificate)
CCNP Security ( CCSP ) (Certificate)
Cisco ASA Specialist (Certificate)
Cisco IPS Specialist (Certificate)
CCNA Routing & Switching (Certificate)
IPv6 Engineer (Certificate)