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Welcome to my personal website!

My name is Mina Gerges; here you get to know about me!

 

TARGET

Accumulate my knowledge, sharpen, enhance, increase technical knowledge and field experience, seek more challenges.

GOALS

My current goal of life is to be able to raise my son in an adequate manner, I believe that what I do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets for lifetime.

HOBBIES

Electronics, motorbikes, woodwork & fishing, yet computer science is still considered my main hobby not just a proficiency.

ABOUT ME

     I'm an autodidact computer science obsessed person; what intrigues me about the field of computer science is its infinite capacity for growth. I've filled different position in different firms as an information technology specialist, that to say gave me a wide based experience in various information systems fields. I started out my professional career as a desk-help at a moderate size company later as a systems administrator / information systems manager for other firms. The fact that my bachelor degree is in business administration and commerce provided me with a wider base of knowledge which supports fulfilling various tasks. While mainly being an autodidact as most IT specialists, a margin of academic education had to take place to enhance my skills and open my mind for more research fields, thus I completed a Master of Science in Engineering of Cyber-Security at Tallinn University of Technology - Tartu University.

Currently I fill the position of Sr. Information Security Developer & Consultant.

My current fields of proficiency are: 

SOFTWARE DEBUGGING

Debugging is a methodical process of finding and reducing the number of bugs, or defects, in a computer program or a piece of electronic hardware, thus making it behave as expected.

WEB DEVELOPMENT

Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network), I do development in PHP & .NET.

.NET DEVELOPMENT

The .NET Framework by ®Microsoft is a technology that supports building and running the next generation of applications and XML Web services.


SECURITY CONSULTANCY

Providing risk assessment and advisory services to companies and individuals on the best ways to protect digital assets.

SKILLS

     My computer technical skills are wide-ranging due to the fact of working in different positions within different firm business scopes; in which I've learned to adapt to the working environment whether from technical or policy perspective. That gave me a wide field experience, where I've learned to be fully autodidact and enhance my skills according to work needs.

Technical skills:

    • MCSE
    • CCNA, CCNA security
    • CompTIA Security+ certified
    • SQL
    • Data Loss/Leakage Prevention (Symantec DLP, Zscalar, BigID, MS DLP)
    • CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) DAR & DIM
    • Information Security Solution integrations and development
    • Symantec Management Platform, Technical Specialist certified.
    • Symantec ITMS, Technical Specialist certified.
    • C# Coding/Code analysis and reverse engineering.
    • VMware vCenter administration.
    • Web app development.

My main areas of expertise would be categorized as:

    • Software debugging/Reverse Engineering
    • Systems Administration
      • Windows server
      • Linux
      • VmWare
      • Networking (CCNA)
      • Miscellaneous Administrative systems
    • Software development
    • Cyber security
      • DLP & CASB, including integrations development
      • Security information and event management (SIEM)
        • Simple Event Correlator: Open-source powerful event correlation engine
        • Event correlation (Cyber-Security thises topic)
          • Author of "SECwin": A Windows integration & UI for "SEC" )
          • Author of "Ausar": A Windows event log watcher, converter & filtering (similar to nxlog)
      • OWASP concepts awareness.
      • Network traffic analysis
      • Various penetration testing skills 

 

CONTACT ME

RESUME

While this website is my profile, this section concentrates on education and work experience information.

Below link is full resume in PDF format, (Created on demand from HTML)

DOWNLOAD RESUME

Education

Academic degrees:

MSc. in Cyber Security

Tallinn University of Technology
Tartu University

The international Master’s programme in Cyber Security aims to provide students with skills in all aspects of the security of information systems. It gives students a unique chance to study under high-level cyber security practitioners from Estonian banks, telecoms, CERT and the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. The programme introduces students to this exciting environment and provides them with an opportunity to conduct research within the Estonian Centre of Excellence in Computer Science.

BSc. in Comm. & Business Administration

Helwan Universtity

The Bachelor of Commerce degree is designed to provide the student with a wide range of managerial skills while at the same time building competence in a particular area of business studies; a broad knowledge of the functional aspects of a company and their interconnection.

Work experience

Senior Information Security Developer & Consultant

Symantec corp.

- Developing, designing, maintaining, debugging and troubleshooting tailored information security solutions and integrations.
- Provide technical advisory on various information security solutions

Princ. Tech. Support Engineer / Tech. Account Manager

Symantec corp.

Sr. Tech. Support Engineer

Symantec corp.

- Provide complex technical support to field engineers, technicians, product support and customers when first-line & advanced product support has failed to identify or fix equipment or software issues.
- Document and reports design, reliability and maintenance issues. Analyzes technical support problems and identifies customer and internal needs.
- Research a wide variety of technical subjects including operating systems, networking, firewalls, Symantec software, security and third party applications.
- Provide product training, workshops and technical mentoring to regional and global support groups.
- Administrating VMware Vcenter cluster (test lab environment)

IT Consultant

- Egyptian House for Consultancy & Information Systems.
   - Various Organizations / firms.

- Consulting on IT needs, preparing budgets and analytical information.
- Administrating and assessing security and functionality of different types of servers, networking, VPN & firewalls; securing and backing up data.

Information Systems Manager

Ghibli raceway

- Preparing budgets and analytical information.
- Leading administrating servers, “SMS-timing system”, securing and backing up data.
- Preparing IT department reports (technical and budgets).

System Administrator

Naama Networks

- Administrating, establishing, testing and maintaining clients' & enterprise IT systems, networks, servers, VPN, firewalls
- Preparing budgets and reports.

Help Desk (IT)

Orascom S.A.E.

All help-desk Tasks.

QUOTES
that influenced me

"When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity."

Rose Kennedy

"The experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered."

Sun Tzu

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

Ram Dass

"If people work together in an open way with porous boundaries - that is, if they listen to each other and really talk to each other - then they are bound to trade ideas that are mutual to each other and be influenced by each other. That mutual influence and open system of working creates collaboration."

Richard Thomas

"The human race is self-destructive by nature, creating its own gods and daemons to be blamed on its own deeds; yet so called the dominant."

Mina Gerges

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

Bruce Lee

CONTACT ME

Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions or queries and I will get back to you with response as soon as possible.

Tallinn,

Harjumakond,

Estonia


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