Fouad Ahmed

Fouad Ahmed Fouad Linux Systems Administrator Objectives Seeking a challenging position in well-established known company where my skills can be improved and fully utilized with the ability to update myself continuously according to the company’s requirements and qualifications and to be more professional. Personal Data Date / Place of Birth: January 1, 1979. Nationality: Egyptian. Marital Status: Married. Address : Cairo, Egypt. Mobile : - e-mail:-Military Status: exempted Availability/Ability to Travel or work remotely: Yes Education: Pachelor of Law, Mansoura University 2002 Linkedin profile, eg.linkedin.com/pub/fouad-fouad/4/aa2/a4a Technical Certificates * Linux Administration & Programming “1000 hours track”. ( Orascom Telecom) 24/8/2003 to 26/2/2004. “Ministry of telecommunications 6 Months scholarship”) Graduation Project: kernel Administration. * Linux TCP track (IBM ) 31/07/2004 to19/08/2004. * LPI Certificate - Level 1 February 2005. * LPI Certificate - Level 1 Re-certified October 2011. * LPI Certificate - Level 2 October 2011. Verification link address. https://cs.lpi.org/caf/Xamman/certification LPI ID: LPI- Verification Code: 2tn5a8wudc * REDHAT CERTIFIED TECHNICIAN RHEL5 Date: June 10, 2010 Certificate Number:- *"RHCSA"REDHAT CERTIFIED ADMINISTRATOR RHEL5 Verification link address. https://www.redhat.com/wapps/training/certification/verify.html certificate number is- * Novell Data Center Technical Specialist. * Novell Certified Linux Administrator (Novell CLA) http://www.novell.com/community/cert/ First Name: Fouad Last Name: Fouad Exam Registration ID: CLA-LPI2tn5a8wudc Test Date: 02/14/2010 Work Experience Organization: StyleX Networks Inc http://www.stylexnetworks.com/ Designation: Telecommute Technical Support Agent ”Hosting”. Duration: August 2013 – till July 2014. Responsibilities Working on HostBill ticketing server, Supporting company's OnApp clients as needed, Cpanel, Plesk, Migrations, WordPress, Magento, Doing Backups, Mysql maintenance, Mail, DNS, Apache, Nginx, PHP, Troubleshooting Linux servers issues as arise. Organization: Hendyana, Co. http://samatravel.net/ Designation: Telecommute Part Time Linux Administrator Duration: MAY 2012- till current. Responsibilities Supporting company's servers as needed, Plesk server, Migrations, Doing Backups, Mysql maintenance, Nagios, Qmail, Troubleshooting. Organization:The WayOut internet service provider”ISP”. http://www.thewayout.net Designation: Linux Systems Administrator Duration: 1 October 2007- till April 2011. Responsibilities Full time Linux systems administrator, Managing and monitoring mainly the core Linux servers, BIND “DNS” servers. Qmail based mail services integrated with Squirrelmail, Simscan, Spamassassin, Clamav and some other tools, Backup, Samba and firewalls, Squid, Iptables, QOS, Cacti servers, Nagios and Mysql servers. Troubleshoot software and hardware problems and upgrades. Offer technical training and support for the WayOut ISP partners and staff specially regarding Mail and DNS techniques. Organization: Yat education center http://www.yatlearning.com Duration: 10 April 2011 till 12 Dec 2011. Designation: LPI Instructor Responsibilities Teaching the LPI "Linux Professional Institute" Linux administration courses Level 1,2 exams and parts from LPI level 3 courses. The courses related to the ministry of telecommunication's 9 Months Scholarship. Key Skills *Main Operating Systems: RedHat and its clones, Ubuntu, Debian, Suse, FreeBSD and MS Windows power user. *Very Experienced in: Troubleshooting Linux systems and rescue processes, Troubleshooting networking issues. *Very Experienced in: Cpanel/WHM, Plesk, WordPress, Apache, Mysql, BIND DNS, DHCP, Ntop, Qmail, Pop, Imap, Iptables, Squid, Ssh, Nmap, Vnc, Raid, LVM, Kernel. *Experienced in: Puppet, Ansible, Docker, Amazon “AWS”, Nagios, FTP, OpenVpn ,Shell scripts, NFS, NIS, Samba, NTP, PostFix, SendMail, Phplist, Qos, Selinux, ,PCI standards *Familiarity with: Perl, PHP, WHMCS, HTML, Drupal, Ldap, Virtualization “Kvm, Xen, Vmware, VirtualBox” Cacti, zfs and some other tools. *Experienced in: installing & handling Windows OS. Troubleshooting Windows networking and some services on Windows server. *Good hardware troubleshooter. *Worked as a part time Linux instructor and a part time Linux technical support. *Willing to learn new technologies . *Self learner ”like to depend on my self”. *Like to contribute and help people when I can, So I participate in some Linux news groups and some on-line forums and I help the pupils I taught with technical issues. * Willingness to work remotely.  Willingness to travel. Current studies: Automation. Languages skills Arabic: native. English: very good. REFERENCES Available upon request.