Curriculum Vitae
Personal details
Last name Ahmad
Name Adnan
Address 32, Elephant Hill Drive, Bowmanville
ON, L1C 4M5, Canada
Telephone 647 606 7353
Date of birth 04 juli 1986
Place of birth Peshawar, Pakistan
Nationality Belgian
Study
Industriele Informatica (A2) 2003 exam in front of commission 2003
(selfstudy)
CCNA (complete CCNA) Selfstudy
CEH (certified ethical hacker 3) Selfstudy
Work experience
2003.2004
Databit (www.databit.be) Php & MySQL
developer and Linux/UNIX system
administrator
- Installation of Solaris, Red Hat, Debian & Windows servers.
- Migration of files/users
- Disaster recovery
- Upgrades/Updates/Patching
- Scripting / Automating tasks
- Developing CRM using PHP& MySql
- Install/Configure/Secure Nameserver (Bind) and user “Zone” files (Chrooted)
- Install/Configure/Secure Webserver (Apache/IIS)
- Install/Configure/Secure FTP (Proftp/vsFTP
- Install & Secure host machine and configure (unix)Vservers (Virtualization)
- Install/Configure/Secure Mailserver (Qmail & Postfix & Sendmail) with antispam, pop, smtp
and imap access.
- Scanning network for security issues & patch vulnerabilities
2004.2005 Alcatel
- First level support of Business users for simple networking products (switches/routers)
- Second level support for business users for advanced networking products (VPN/VoIP)
- Document product compliance with other networking vendors
- Support Business customers with implementation of networking products
- Document products for internal use (Finding bugs, problems, setup difficulties)
- Testing & documenting products for knowledge base
2005-2006 Oops It management (IT manager for
Corporate clients like: Kia motors, Duval
Guillaume, US chamber of commerce
Lowe, Burson-Marstellar, BKSH, Xirius
advocates, Young & Rubicam, Creadvice
- Installing/Configure/Secure new servers/pc’s (Unix/Linux/Windows 2000/2003)
- Secure and patch older machines in the network
- Manage and implement own firewall solution (based on IPtables/Debian)
- Install & Configure & Secure Citrix Metaframe
- Websphere installation & security
- VMware installation & security
- Managing and maintaining and securing database servers (Mysql/MsSql)
- Installing and upgrading and scripting in Filemaker
- Maintenance of Windows servers (upgrades, host security)
- Installation and Maintenance of MS Active directory
- Migration of user profiles to new MS AD servers
- MS Exchange server installation, configuration, security and user migration and load
balancing
- Lotus notes/mail installation, security and configuration and user migration
- Maintenance, security and configuration of Blackberry server (+user migration and
configuration)
- Manage and install companywide VPN solutions (own IPSec VPN tunnel implementation)
- Maintain Fileservers
- Automate offsite backup system
- Disaster recovery of failed hard drive(s) and recovery of files
- Installing and maintaining and securing Clustered machines (Redhat + Heartbeat)
- Installation of web traffic scanning firewall (Scripted Linux Based solution)
- Implementation of MS SharePoint
- Scripting in PHP/MySql (Timesheet management application)
- 24/7 support for management appliances (Laptops, Pc’s, Printers, Phone, Blackberry)
- Automating backups (Veritas/Norton/DDS3)
2006/07 – 2007/03 Freelance project for communications
companies (Voice / Data Switching
Platform, switching, mobile applications)
- Design of QoS based Voice network
- Installation and interoperation of Asterisk & Cisco
- Load balancing and Failover system with Asterisk+Cisco+Heartbeat+Vservers distributed over
several European PoP’s
- Configuration and securing this solution
- PHP & Mysql based billing system with C# backend to asterisk
- Implementation of SIP/H323 and IAX protocol and configuring interoperate ability between asterisk
based servers and Cisco appliances
- TDM configuration from Asterisk (with Digium/sangoma hardware)
- Configuring Asterisk to act as MediaGateway (Codec conversion: G729 <-> 723.1 <-> Ulaw <->
Ilbc <-> GSM
2007.3.1 VoIP Expert for Siemens Enterprise communcations N.V
Design Voice networks for enterpise clients (ea. Dexia, Suez Group, Synergics, …)
- Design and implementation of networks based on Siemens, Cisco, Huawei and Mediatrix
- Voice & Data routing using Vlan tagging and ensuring QoS on heavy loaded data nets
- Installation of Mediatrix, Siemens and Cisco RG gateways to BRI, PRI, ISDN
- Securing voice Traffic (sRTP, TLS, 802.1x )
- Securing Linux appliances in the network (comdasys convergence, iptables firewall)
- Configure and install gateways and session border controllers.
- Mediaservers (Convedia, Siemens Mediaserver and asterisk mgcp) and MGCP protocol
- SIP & HFA (h323 siemens)
- Maintain and upgrade software (release cycle, update cycle, patch procedures)
- Scripting bash and kornshell (automated backup of database and filesystem onsite and
offsite)
- Tracing and debugging call scenario’s (ethereal/wireshark)
- Support sales and presales in request for proposals (RFP’s)
- Support to sales in demo’s and design of proof of concepts.
- Writing documents and manuals for common used products and appliances
2008-01 – 2010-07 Self-employed (Toronto, Canada) running consultancy business (Ahmad
Adnan Telecom Corporation & root2security incorporated)
2010-08 – 2011-10 British Telecom Belgium (BT operate Finance and Government) as Systems
engineer working in the belgian unix team.
Management of AIX based P-series IBM mainframe cluster for Friesland bank (AIX 6
Operating system)
Responsible in the team for Backups of the AIX mainframes (using IBM Tivoli TSM)
Deployment and setup of AIX nodes using AIX nim
Management and day-to-day operations and change-requests on Redhat/Oracle
enterprise Linux based systems for several customers (NS-hispeed, B2Boost, …)
Management of 100's of legacy systems (customers and internal) running all different
operating systems (HP-UX, SunOS, Redhat enterprise linux, Debian, Suse Enterprise
Linux, ...)
Platform Specialist role for Youview project (knowledge of the end-to-end platform
architecture, guiding support teams of networks, firewall and storage teams),
management of all the Oracle linux based nodes (www.youview.com)
Assisting BID-team in writing out sales/technical specifications
Day-to-day operations and changes on large checkpoint firewalls for customers (1000's
of rules).
Management of Bluecoat proxies that manage/intercept/modify traffic on the edge of
“The haagse ring” government network of the ministry of internal affairs in Nl and daily
operations on the internal systems for the government running HP-UX
Responisble HP dataprotector backups/restores and HP EVA storage for (internal affairs
of NL government)
Responsible for Cisco TACACS systems (radius for all routers internal and customers)
Monitoring and proactive problem solving of internal & customer systems using Nagios
SNMP
On-call availability for priority 1 and 2 tickets for customer systems
Writing technical procedures and guidelines for internal use.
Updating Unix-team wiki pages
2012-01 – 2013-08 Self-employed/freelance/selfstudy (Malaga, Spain)
Elliptic curve encryption with DH-key exchange implementation in C
Decentralized VPN network and system design
Building & optimizing toolchain
Cross-platform design and testing(ARM/PPC/MIPSEL/x86)
2014-02-2015-05 Phidani Software BVBA (IT Manager)
● Zarafa mail server migration
● Migrate all windows machines into domain (Samba 4 setup) with Group policy
design
● HP UX, AIX, zOS management
● Firewall design (OpenBSD based) and implementation (vlans for voice/data
and different lan’s red/green). Multi-uplink (with mPath tcp)
● 40 TB mirrored storage design for company wide usage (BSD based with zfs
for versioning support)
● Telephony migration to Asterisk based setup
● Nagios Monitoring rollout for all internal and off-site systems
● Redesign internal network (change out all switching/routing equipment to
10gbe)
● Webservers migration to Apache + weblogic
● Internal legacy databases migration to MySQL with high-availability and
fail-over (using Galera clustering)
● VPN design for remote workers (using OpenVPN) and custom interface to
generate certs/configs for employees.
● Wiki implementation to document all designs (hardware, software packages
list, versions of software, config files, mountpoints, network configurations)
● On call availability 24/7
Languages
Dutch Perfect
English Perfect
French Good to very good
Spanish basic
Urdu Very Good
Pashto Very Good
Punjabi Good
Hindi Very good
Computer Knowledge
Ms Office Complete
Tcp/ip (routing, nat, security...) Complete
Linux security & kernel programming Complete
Netwerken (Security / Intrusion Prevention: Complete
Nessus(NASL), Snort/Ethereal, Nmap Complete
Nagios, Ntop, TCPtrack, Spade, Osiris Complete
PHP/ASP scripting with DB backend (MySql/MsSql) Very Good
HTML/Javascripting/Ajax Very Good
Windows (NT/98/ME/XP/Vista/8/10) Very Good
Linux (debian, redhat, suse, mandrake, FreeBSD) Complete
Clustering, Load balancing, High availability (HA, HB) Complete
Virtualization (Vserver, Parallels, OpenVZ, xBSD Jails Complete
Sun Solaris (Installation, Maintainance, Security) Complete
WebSphere (Installation, Maintainance & Security) Complete
Citrix Metaframe XP (Installation & Maintainence, Sec.) Complete
Storage systems (NAS/SAN) Complete
Hardware Complete
Apache (webserver) Complete
(Mod Perl) + Perl/Kornshell scripting Complete
(Mod PHP) + PHP programming Complete
Bind (8&9) (DNS server) Complete
Mail servers: Exchange, Qmail, Postfix, Sendmail Complete
Setup, Security, Anti-spam, POP & SMTP
MySql/MsSql (Database server) (Setup, Config, Secure) Complete
Photoshop (Graphic design)& Flash Complete
ASM (Assembler x86) Complete
PLC (Siemens S5) & PLC (Siemens S7) Good
DHCP/NAT/LAN/WAN Complete
VOIP/TDM/ATM/SS7/H323/SIP Complete
Java development Good
Swift programming (xcode 8 & 9) good
Python very good
Certifications
- CCNA (Part 1 & 2 complete) (Selfstudy)
- CEH 3 Certification (Certified Ethical Hacker) (Selfstudy)
Varia
Personalia Perfectionist, very quick learner
Hobby’s Internet, computer security, technology
Mobility Driving license: B (belgium)
Driving licence: G (canada)
Availability Immediately
