Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 
 


Name: Hijazi, Ibrahim Mahmoud.

 

Nationality: Lebanese.

 

Home Address: Bldg 25, 53 street, section 6, Haret Hreik, Beirut, Lebanon.

 

Home Telephone no:           +961 01 273018

 

Mobile Telephone no:         +233 24 4303060

 

Internet address: http://www.oocities.org/ibrahim_hijazi/index.htm.

 

E-mail:                    femto@cyberia.net.lb

 

Gender: Male.

 

Date of birth: July 17, 1976.

 

Marital status: Single.

 

Education:

1.        Baccalaureate II - Math section (Haret Hreik secondary official school 1991-1994).

2.        Bachelor of electrical computers engineering /Computer Engineering/ (Beirut Arab University 1994-1999).

  • Bachelor included electronics engineering, electrical engineering, programming languages design + usage, computers hardware, CPUs, database, computers communication networks + protocols + devices, operating systems and computer control + interfacing (more details are in my transcript).

3.        English language courses at the British Council.

 

Interests: Swimming, travel, music, watching the universe using my telescope and quantum physics.

 

Skills / Experience:

v      Programming tools

Ø       Microsoft Visual/C++ (MFC)

Ø       Visual Studio .NET 2003 – Architect

Ø       Visual /Basic (GW, MS Visual Studio 6, VB.NET)

Ø       Visual /Java, jdk1.2.1 on windows ,Symantec visual Java, MS visual studio 6 java

Ø       Pascal Borland IDE

Ø       Borland C++ Builder

Ø       Borland Turbo C++ 3.1 IDE

Ø       KDevelop 1.2 on RedHat Linux (C++).

v      Operating systems

Ø       Microsoft

§         DOS

§         windows 3.11

§         Windows 9x

§         Windows 2000 Professional

§         Windows XP home edition and Windows XP Professional

§         Windows 2000 server

§         Windows 2000 Advanced server

§         Windows 2003 server

Ø       RedHat

§         Linux 7.2, 7.3, 9 and Fedora C2

§         Enterprise Server (RHEL4)

Ø       Sun  Solaris 9

v      Databases (RDBMS)

Ø       ORACLE 7,8 9i and 10g

§         Installation and configuration on Windows and Linux/Unix

§         Schema Design and Implementation

§         Administration (DBA tuning & backup/recovery)

§         Enterprise manager, RMAN, OMS … etc.

§         Development (PL/SQL)

Ø       MS SQL server 6.5, 7.0 and 2000

§         Installation and configuration

§         Schema Design and Implementation

§         Administration (DBA tuning & backup/recovery)

§         Development (stored procedures)

v      Networking and Internet (Design, setup, administration and maintenance):

Ø       Establishing networks  with administration

§         MS LAN/WAN using Windows NT 4.0, windows Advanced/2000 and Windows 2003 servers with win 9x, win 2000 professional and windows XP professional clients

§         RedHat Linux servers and clients LAN/WAN with ipchains/SAMBA, (MIMEDefang, MailScanner, openwebmail) interface to MS networks (GNOME, KDE).

§         Connecting Intranets to Internet using NAT/PAT (virtual routers like Internet sharing or Cisco routers)

§         Communication between MS WANs/LANs using Virtual Private Networking (VPN) with IPSec’s  DES, 3DES, SHA1 and MD5 encryption

§         Securing MS networks using  IPSec’s  DES, 3DES, SHA1 and MD5

§         RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Server) configuration for VPN, NAT… on windows 200x server

§         Internet sharing using Wingate 4.5 and satellite download sharing for multiple computers.

§         Cisco devices

Ø       Hosting servers

§         MS hosting server supports .NET(complete services including Active Directory, SQL server, Oracle 9i, Web server, FTP server, SMTP server, POP3 server, SSL, Commerce server … etc).

§         RedHat hosting server for apache ,mysql and PHP

Ø       Other software

§         MS Exchange/Conferencing Sever 2000

§         PC Anywhere and other communication applications

§         MS Site Server 3.0 and MS Site Server 3.0 Commerce edition (E-commerce) on NT 4.0.

v      Web development

Ø       Web site hosting and domain name registration

Ø       IIS 4.0, IIS 5.0, IIS 6 and ASP.NET

Ø       Active Server Pages: Jscript, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, CSS and CGI (UTF-8 and multi language websites)

Ø       Visual Studio. NET (ASP.NET, VB.NET, and C.NET).

Ø       ASP.NET Web Application in C#.

Ø       Web Control Library in C# (ActiveX and COM)

Ø       XML web services

Ø       Apache Server on RedHat Linux

Ø       PHP-4.0.3

Ø       mysql-3.23.58-pc-linux-i686 and MySQL 4.1

Ø       MS SQL server 7.0 /2000, MS Access, ADO and ODBC (Client – Server, stored procedures, replication, programming) and concurrent database connections

Ø       Oracle 9i

Ø       XML

Ø       Database design

Ø       Database synchronization programs (offline database image and web application of an online one).

Ø       MS commerce server 3.0 on NT 4.0

Ø       MS Front Page, Macromedia Dream Weaver, MS Visio, UML, Visual InterDev and Java applets building using MS J++

Ø       Verisign online payment integration

Ø       Installing system and support environment of the above development tools.

v      Project management

Ø       Project Management course (May 2006): Certificate from the George Washington University, IIR South Africa training center.

Ø       Project Risk Management course (May 2006): Certificate from the George Washington University, IIR South Africa training center.

Ø       Software: MS Project 2000 ,Microsoft Office(including macros)

v      Oracle9i: Installation, backup/recovery and using, in addition to that: PL/SQL, Procedures….

v      Computers hardware: Designing, maintaining and updating

v      Personal made Software:

Ø       Encryption-Decryption:

§         Cobra Cipher 4.0.0.1, a Visual C++ .NET application that supports Stop and Resume and ciphers/deciphers any file using modulation/demodulation of bitmap images *.bmp, sound waves *.wav …etc. (Please visit my website for free download)


 

Work experience:

v      Head of Development in the IT department (Currently Manager), SCANCOM Accra-Ghana (spacefon / Areeba TM/ MTN) (May 19, 2005 - now).

As the head of the software applications development section,

Ø       Developed various applications on different platforms including Oracle database, PL/SQL, Sybase, .NET, GSM network mission critical applications, Intranet portal… etc.

Ø       Most relevant Developed software solutions:

§         Database design and setup (Oracle On Windows and Solaris)

§         Database tuning  (Oracle On Windows and Solaris)

§         Intranet Portal

·         Serves more than 700 employees 24 hours a day, including customer care.

·         Local office and world wide access through Intranet and Internet.

·         Includes standby system ready for distributed redundancy against disasters with few minutes’ data accuracy.

§         Unit Transfer Multi threads server application

·         Serves 2,000,000+ subscribers nonstop in Ghana plus more in Liberia, Afghanistan...etc.

·         Includes all necessary implementations to provide highest level of availability, quality and speed.

·         Supports up to 100 transactions/second non-stop and more than 150/sec peak.

·         Includes standby system ready for distributed redundancy against disasters with few minutes’ data accuracy.

·         Fully Deployed in Ghana since June 2005.

·         Designed software architecture and hardware.

Ø       Designed and Tuned application hosting servers.

Ø       Participated in database implementation of the Subex Fraud software for the Billing Department.

v      IT Manager, Network administrator, Application developer at ALL TRANS SHIPPING S.A.L. (March 2, 2005 – May 4, 2005).

Ø       Built a website VS.NET and SQL server 2000

Ø       Designed a complete sea RO/RO shipping database

v      Internet & Network administrator at u-mark, KSA – Riyadh (July 11, 2004 - December 31 2004).

  • Established two internal LANs and bridged between them (Accounting LAN and Internet LAN) ipchains/SAMBA, (MIMEDefang, MailScanner,openwebmail) with RedHat Linux 7.3 and windows 2000 servers, 3 printers.
  • Prepared, purchased hardware and installed PC computers with Windows XP Professional; more than 12 computers including 3 servers have been involved.
  • Administered ORACLE 9i database and put it in Archive mode on Windows 2000 server 4-cpu/DELL Power Edge 2600 SCSI/RAID-5(3), 2 Itanium CPU server, DELL PowerManage software, updated bios of tape drive and bios of backplane. Reinstalled system from scratch after hard disk failures and restored all backups according to the recovery plan made before.
  • Performed routine backups automatically using scheduled scripts and on DDS4 PowerVault tapes
  • Helped in installing ORACLE Developer 2000 accounting program on remote machines.
  • DSL 128Kbps  Internet line installation lifecycle (asked for offers from different providers, made a choice, visited Ministry of communication for plan details and accomplished Internet sharing using one port hardware router on proxy).
  • Successfully configured and tested MS Windows 2000 SP4 server RRAS for hosting purposes.
  • Installed Fedora Core 2 and made a demo web application on MySQL4.1 INNODB, PHP and Apache for the HR team.
  • Kept an eye on the e-commerce website (http://www.u-mark.net/ ).

v      Web consulting, Programming, development, analysis, system and database administration at Stripling & Beck (March 2001 – May 2004).

I have completed the following projects through lifecycle starting from requirements, architecture, work plan, implementation and up to support. (Listing oldest to newest):

v      Visual Basic 5 at Brain International (February 2001).

v      Flag service lieutenant in the Lebanese Army as a network administrator and a programmer (September 8, 1999 - September 8, 2000).

v      Robots: explorer robot (graduation project), it’s a robot to transfer images of the surrounding environment to a personal computer station. We used Visual C++ to interface the PC to the robot on the ground using FSK modem and wireless transmission and we designed and built an 8086 module with communication peripherals to control the interfacing commands of the PC.

- I am a registered engineer at the engineering syndicate of Beirut, Lebanon.

- References: Available upon request.

Notes: Please visit my website for an updated CV.