Maher Abdelshkour

Total 17 years of experience in the field of Information Technology in the area of Network & System Administration on Windows 2008/2003/2000, Windows NT 4.0 based Networks & modern Internet Technology.
Fast learner, self-motivated, applying methods and technical updates in my day-to-day work with a high degree of attention and commitment to work.
I would like to pursue a challenging career and strive hard to acquire knowledge and achieve higher grounds in the ever growing and innovative field of Networking. My areas of expertise include
Network & System Administration, NOC Administration and onsite technical support involving software and hardware.

Specialties

Networking Hardware
Routers: Cisco (IOS, Cat OS).
Switches, Bridges, Hubs: Cisco Catalyst.

Security / Firewalls
IP Sec, VPNs, Cryptography, Key Management, AAA Model (RADIUS, TACACS), Cisco Authentication Proxy, Access Lists, IOS Firewall, 802.1x, IOS Security Features, DMZ set ups, CBAC, DoS and common threats prevention, Cisco IDS / IPS (Intrusion Detection / Prevention System), Cisco Secure ACS Server, Cisco VPN Concentrator, Cisco PIX / ASA Firewall, VPN Client, Cisco Security Manager (CSM), Cisco MARS, Cisco NAC / CANAC.

Routing
Static Routing, RIPv1, RIPv2, RIP nG, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGPv4, ODR, GRE, MPLS,
IPv6, Traffic Engineering, Policy Based Routing PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization

Switching & Bridging
Catalyst Cat OS and IOS based Switches, VTP, STP, RSTP, Trucking, VLANs,
Layer 3 Switches, Logical Ether channels, Transparent Bridging.

LAN
Media: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI, CDDI, Token Ring, ATM LAN Emulation Network

WAN
Leased lines 64k - 155Mb (PPP / HDLC), Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN, x DSL, Load Balancing, Multi Homing, Satellite links

Various Features & Services
IOS and Cat OS Features, HSRP, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, DNS, HTTP, TFTP and FTP Management, IPv6 test projects, RAS Solutions, Cisco CNR (DNS & DHCP server)

QoS (Quality of Service)
WRED, Queuing features, FRTP, CAR, RTP, MLS QoS, LLQ, Policy Based Routing, CBWFQ

Multicast
Implementations from large (ISP) to medium sized environments (Video stream over Multicast).
Sparse-Mode, Dense-Mod