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Name: Sherif Samir Mahdy Current work: Unix admin support at National Bank of Egypt Mobile: 01117003941 E-mail: sherifsamirmahdy@gmail.com Date of Birth: 19/8/1991


Skills 1. Experienced in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX. 2. Create and maintain AIX partitioning creating Volume Groups (VG), Logical Volumes (LVM), Journal File Systems (JFS), Extended Journal File Systems (EJFS) and Network File System (NFS). 3. Provided AIX operating system network configuration and integration into existing networks. Setup and managed user accounts and system security. 4. Assist in the support and integration of third party infrastructure software products. 5. Knowledge in implementing NPIV and mapping storage directly to the VIO clients using the client WWPN's. 6. Did Failover and Falback of HACMP Resource Group. 7. Proficient with IBM`s (SMIT) maintenance tool. 8. Installed and configured Sudo for users to access the root privileges. 9. Installed and upgraded different versions of ssh/ssl. 10. worked in setting the Crontab for non root users in both AIX and Redhat. 11. Monitor system alerts and/or problem reports to identify any systematic patterns which may require action. 12. Redhat cluster HA with shared storage (open filer) over ISCSI 13. Provide systems administration support for DNS, FTP, Apache, RHEL Operating systems, and production application configurations. 3. Provide systems administrations support for Oracle Web logic and Oracle Database environments 4. Provide systems administration support for Web services applications. 5. Ability to script routine system administration tasks using Shell Scripting 6. Systems administration support for KVM 7. Systems administration support for VOIP (Elastix)


National Bank of Egypt (Dec 2012- Present) 1. Administration of ATM servers using HACMP cluster (AIX) 2. Administration of 56 lpar in Iflex project using virtualization VIO (banking core) (AIX) 3. Administration of 4 monitoring Linux servers (ossec - Event log analyzer -lpar2rrd-snort) that I and my team implemented Open source helper Projects to audit control and manage our AIX business servers 4. take backup & restore on AIX servers 5. Administration of Unix/Linux file systems LVM or partitioning 6. Network Administration (routing ,configuration and balancing between interfaces) 7. Applying PCI compliance (Encrypted file system, User audit trails and system hardening) 8. User audit system: Server/Client oriented solution .Agent script written by Perl collects the users audits and send them to the Collector server 9. Automated backup system: A system that automatically manage file system and data backups 10. Building open source monitoring system to monitor servers using SNMP and integrate 11. Day-to-day systems support