Tarek Amr

Current

Owner at Baralbait
Author at Global Voices Online
Network Security Architect at SALEC

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Past

System Engineer at SALEC
Software Developer at TechnoWireless

Education

Cairo University

Recommended

8 people have recommended Tarek

Connections

207 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

Tarek Amr’s Summary

Network Architect focused on providing Network Security solutions and Consulting Services. Specializing in products such as Juniper (Firewalls/VPNs, IPS's, NAC, SIEM, and AAA), as well as Proofpoint (AntiSpam and DLP), Qualys (Vulnerability Assessment and PCI-Compliance) and CA (Identity and Access Management). Also specialized in building Application Acceleration solutions using Juniper WXC Series, and the former DX Application Front End Series.

Certificates and Trainings: JNCIS-FWV, JNCIA-IDP, JNSS-S, JNSS-AC, JNSS-DX, JNSA-R, CA Access Control Foundation, CA SSO, McAfee Sales Professional - Vulnerability Management, McAfee Sales Professional - Network Intrusion Prevention, Lucent VPN and Security PreSales and PostSales Qualification.

Interests:
Programming:- Mainly on Ubuntu-Linux using C (LKM's, Libpcap, etc.) ,Python (CherryPy, Genshi, PyS60, etc.), and JavaScript (jQuery)
Blogging, Reading, and Photography (Olympus E-400)

Web 2.0 For Fun:
I am currently working on a location based social service called Baralbait. The site is meant to be used by people to share their current location with their friends, rate and comment on places of interests such as Cafes, Cinemas, etc, and find what their friends are up by seeing their calendar and future plans. This site is implemented using Python/CherryPy, Postgresql, as well as integration with many web services such as FireEagle, Flickr, Facebook, etc.

Tarek Amr’s Specialties:

Competitive analysis, Security Design, and Consultancy Services

Tarek Amr’s Experience

Owner

Baralbait

(Computer & Network Security industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

I am the owner of Baralbait.com

Baralbait is a location based social service. Baralbait let you see where your friends are, meet new people, discover new places and events all over the world.

http://www.baralbait.com/
Author

Global Voices Online

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.
I am responsible for bringing the voices of the Egyptian social media and blogs to the whole world.
Network Security Architect

SALEC

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Responsible for Pre-Sales and Consultancy Services on Security and Application Acceleration Products including (Juniper, CA and BlueCoat Products)
System Engineer

SALEC

(Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)

June 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 11 months)

Responsible for installing and supporting Juniper Security Devices (NetScreen Firewalls, IDP's, NSM, and SA SSL-VPN ), Foundry LAN Products, NetApp Storage, Lucent Security Products (Lucent Brick Firewalls), Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls.
Software Developer

TechnoWireless

(Computer Software industry)

December 2002 — May 2003 (6 months)

Developing Web Applications using ASP.NET/Visual Basic, and C/C++

Tarek Amr’s Education

Cairo University

BSc. , Electronics & Communications , 1998 — 2002

Graduation Project:

Linux Based DiffServ. Router.
A software to classify the network traffic, DSCP Mark, Shape and Prioritize it according to those classes.
Grade: Excellent.

Courses:

Instituto Cervantes: Spanish Courses, Levels one and two.

Cairo University Centre for Advanced Software Development: C/C++

Alcatel BSS Training Course: EVOLUM Base Station Subsystem: 9100 BTS, BSC, TC, 9135 MFS, 1353 RA OMC-R, and GPRS Solution.