AmjadYahya

Mobile: +966-500243367(Saudi)
+962-797091058(Jordan)
E-mail: amjad.yahya@gmail.com
Date & Place of birth: Amman, 27/8/1982
Marital status: Single
Nationality: Jordanian
Driving license: KSA and Jordan

Summary

Senior Information System & Security Engineer / Consultant , equipped

with state of the art knowledge and Expertise of Information security
related technologies, in addition to widely recognized professional and
Industry designations and certifications like CISSP, RHCE , Arcsight,
Symantec, CCNA, Tripwire , Sun , AIX , Trend Micro ,FIH , MCP and others.
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Specialties

• RedHat Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX System Administration.

• System Hardening, Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration
Testing, Security Related Processes, Policies and Procedures (ISO
27001).
• Pre-sales activities; Presentations, POC's, RFI's and RFP's.
• Security Related Training Courses and Awareness Sessions.
• Expert in Netbackup, Nagios, Tripwire, Qualys, Core Impact.

Employment

March, 2007-present IT Security Training and Solution,

Riyadh, KSA

Senior Information System and Security Engineer

Job responsibilities include:

• Conduct operational and process reviews in compliance to ISO27001

standards, Documenting reports with clarity, and issuing findings with
effective recommendations

• Conduct Vulnerability Assessment (VA) using Qualys and Penetration

testing using Core Impact in a periodic basis , Develop a penetration
testing reports, evaluating and analysis the risk and propose risk
treatment solutions

• Building, Configuring and Designing Linux and Solaris servers on High

Availability mode, Installing and configuring services , performing Linux\

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 Unix administration, system modifications to existing system
configurations , Installing /updating system security related patches ,
writing shell scripts to automate repetitive tasks , troubleshooting
hardware and software problems.

• Configuration and Support for NetBackup/ backup infrastructure

troubleshoot and resolve backup related problems, storage provisioning,
storage capacity planning, monitoring and troubleshooting storage related
problems.

• Build Monitor and report server and application usage / change using
Nagios and Tripwire, Configure and improve Nagios for Customer.

• Network Configuration ( Core Switch , Router , Terminals Server , Load

Balancer )

• Delivering Training for Linux Security Internal Academy Course for both
internal Employee and Partners.

• Security Awareness Training to different department & starts a security

awareness email.

• Project Manager for Various Project Internal and External.

Jan, 2006-Feb, 2007 UNRWA (UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY),
Amman

Senior Computer Trainer/Instructor

Job responsibilities include:

- Certified trainer for Linux / Unix Essentials, Introduction to Computing, HTML for
E-business, Computer Mathematic.
-Excellent command of English language and basic Arabic
-Excellent communication and planning skills.
-Excellent interpersonal skills
-Excellent Presentation skills

July, 2004-Jan, 2006 Leapone (IBM Education Center),

Amman

Computer Trainer/Instructor

Job responsibilities include:

- Deliver Training for Linux essentials, system Administrations, network and

security, Ec-council Network Security, Informatics’ Computer Security
- Deliver Training for IBM AIX Essentials
- Prepare Materials and Notes.
- Prepare Lab Hardware and Software.
- Presales Activity for Courses.

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Education and academic activities

2000.2004 Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan.

BSc Information Technology

Software Engineering
Average of 83.6% with four honor certificates

1999.2000 High School: Al-Hussein Collage School

Scientific stream
Graduated with average (88.0) Passed the General Secondary
Education Certificate Examination With average (82.3) in 2000.

Certifications

• (ISC)2 Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) , Oct 2009 .

• CISCO, Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), 2009.

• Novell Certified Linux Administration, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11(NCLA), 2010.

• CompTIA, Linux +, 2009.

• LPI, LPIC-1, 2009.

• Symantec Certified Specialist (Data Protection 6.5) Netbackup, 2008.

• Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA), 2008.

• Tripwire Certified Operator, 2008.

• Qualys Guard Certified Specialist, 2008.

• Trend Micro Foundation Certification (TFC), 2008.

• Cert, Fundamental of Incident Handling (FIH), 2007.

• CompTIA, Security +, 2007.

• EC-council, Linux Security, 2007.

• Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), 2007.

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• Arcsight Certified Integrator/Administrator for Arcsight Version 3.5(ACIA),
2007.

• Arcsight Certified Security Analyst for Arcsight Version 3.5(ACSA), 2007

• RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE), 2004