| Contact Information | |
| Name: | Adam Saeed |
| Email: | adam.saeed (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed] |
| Location: | Dubai, , Pakistan |
| Resume | |
| Position/Title: | Security Consultant |
| Resume: |
Adam Saeed Contact Info: adam.saeed (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed] Professional Profiles: Experience in Information Security with emphasis on network, system and Industry practices such as HIPPA and ISO 27001, lead security team safeguarding for real time problems. Worked with diversified clients ranges from Banking to Media and government to Multinationals. I have worked on Process Management, Product Management and Project Management. I am expert in solution designing, implementation, monitoring, and support of various critical services on Multiple systems. Experience with design, planning, implementation and configuration of security systems for Government Level Projects globally running 24x7. I also have a proven record in management of strategic Projects and working in complex multi-vendor environment, requiring highly developed project implementation skills with flexible approach towards problem solving and relationship with different groups and communication with them. My motto is to make life easier and ethical to people. Objective: I want to pursue my career by building the organization to the peak of its category using state of the art of science and technology and get the highest achievements and position in the industry through persistent growth. Education: • BS (Computer Science) from University of Karachi, Pakistan, 2004. Professional Certifications: • CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional) ISC2, United States, Sep 2007, Cert #: 117927. • AML (Anti Money Laundering Course from Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi, 2006). Professional Experience: Sage MiddleEast, Riyadh http://me.sage.com (Sage is a leading CRM, HRM and Financial Products provider all over the world). (At Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Sr. Support Consultant July 2006 – Jan 2008 • Managing a Team of developers for Quality Assurance of the code using open source technologies. • Managing the Linux Systems for Monitoring and Maintenance and System Security, major includes Linux clusters and SAN Systems. • Successfully launched a government project country wide covering the 24x7 operations. • Monitoring and making business continuity planning for this highly public oriented government project. • Covering the Disaster Recovery of the System, Linux Hardening and regularly assessing the vulnerabilities in the Linux systems using open source technologies like nmap, nessus and CERT. • Make sure the Systems covering the compliance and international regulations particularly emphasizing the integrity, availability and confidentiality of the Linux Systems. • Provided Linux Training to Government IT Staff and Security Awareness Training, particularly addressing Social Engineering issues. Iventster Inc, Karachi http://www.xuqa.com (Iventster is a Social networking high traffic website) Linux System Administrator May 2006 – June 2006 • Managed (700, 000) 0.7 million users with 25 Linux Servers (a weekly traffic). • Deployed Load Balancer for 25 Linux Servers using LVS. • Made a High Availability Cluster using open source Linux HA. • Day 2 Day MySQL database and Linux Systems Administration. • Defending the Attacks over the site regularly using open source technologies. Barbedwire Technologies, Karachi http://www.barbedwiretech.com (Barbedwire Technologies was a Network Security Company). Manager Operations Aug 2004 – April 2006 (Started as a Linux Engineer and excelled to Manager Operations). • Managed more than 500 Firewall, IDS and VPN devices all over the world and lead a team of 13 system guys. • Developed and Implemented the Policies to harmonize the start to end operations of analyzing, testing, deploying and after sale support of BWT Security devices (DPI). • Managed 24x7 Support operations with critical servers and sensitive clients. • Renewed the support contracts of old customers by customer happy policies. • Successfully deployed FreePKI Server as a service, made policies for it. Secured and managed its 24x7 operations. • Vulnerability Assessment of Clients and develop reports accordingly to HIPPA standard. • Found and fixed loop holes in the HA Cluster of DPI Firewall and deployed it on a Major TV stations. • Created webmin module for DPI® state full Firewall. • Integrate L2TP / IPSec that provides layer 2 VPN tunneling from MS Windows® to connect to IPSec Server at Linux based systems. • Develop an RRD algorithm that converges the half a million of entries in DB to quite less than twice of a hundred, that shows the spam mail graph in quite a seconds. • Release Management using RPM. • Ported Open Source Spam Assassin to Microsoft Windows 2000. • Network Monitoring: Deploy and test Nagios and OpenNMS, test their performance then integrate OpenNMS with DPI®, prelude-ids (hybrid ids) and Ticketing System. • Developed a web-based vacation messenger plug-in for Squirrel mail (http: / / www.squirellmail.org), abandoning ftp, Tools were used PHP and Shell Scripting. • In-house deployment of Jabber server (http: / / www.jabber.org) in Linux, customize it to keep in contact hundreds of clients all over the world to our support engineers. Scripts were developed using Perl and mysql. • IDS Integration & packaging: Integrate apache, mysql, snort and ACID for deploying at Windows®, test it and deploy the package using GHOST Packager. • Defended system against Root Kits and worked on incident handling. • Hands on exp. on Backdoors, Social Engineering and created Perl scripts that benchmark viruses and spam in the DPI®. MITCO, Karachi http://www.mitco.ws Software Developer April 2004 – July 2004 Developed a database application for an auto industry company in C++, tools were used QT 3.12 and Mysql. Skill Set: • OS Hardening. • Security Systems (VPN, Firewall, VA, PT, Encryption & others). • Scripting (Perl, Bash). • OS (Linux, BSD, Win). • Server Hardening (Apache, Mail servers, Mysql). • Social engineering Issues and Incident Handling. • Penetration Testing, VA, (Nessus, Nmap, Retina, etc). • Product Management, Project Management, Process Management, and Love Challenging Work. • Other IT and PMO Tools. Other Activities: Cycling, FaceBook, enjoying paintings and Art, and reading Books. References • Will be furnished upon request. |
