Abdurahman Yusuf

Experience

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  Somcable Ltd.

  Dec 2014 - now

  • Assist CTO in developing the technical strategic direction, development and future growth of the company while ensuring alignment with long-term business goals• Lead Company in Telecommunications and Information technology with a consultative and collaborative approach acting as an advisor of technologies that may improve overall efficiency and effectiveness. Oversee communication efforts with technical and non-technical staff within the company.• Optimize IT and computer networking services for the company and provide technical leadership guidance of these services.• Coordinate among technical departments and follow-up on their daily tasks• Compile reports and feedback to CTO weekly• Research current and new industry trends, technologies, and software development.• Discover and implement technologies that yield a competitive advantage and help departments use technology profitably while efficiently utilizing the annual budgets and shareholder investments. Show less Responsibilities •Follow all rules, policies and procedures of Somcable. •Monitor and manage the network performance, security reliability, and accessibility; develop, enforce and maintain network security policies and practices; monitor LAN and WAN bandwidth and performance. •Supervise assigned operations to achieve goals within available resources; plan and organize workloads, train technology staff. •Communicate official networking information technology plans, policies, and procedures to staff, vendors, and customers. •Travel to all regions to setup and maintain network devices uptime and performances. •Provide technical advice and assistance to staff in the use of equipment and the network infrastructure, along with supervising their work. •Coordinate with management staff, support staff, technical personnel, and/or vendors to solve problems as required. •Prepare reports to inform management of project status and deviation from goals with suggested solutions. •Prepare reports to management of network bandwidth status. •Perform related duties as requested by Chief Technology Officer. Show less Planning, engineering, and monitoring the security arrangements for the protection of the network systems. •Identifying, monitoring, and defining the requirements of the overall security of the system. •Creating different ways to solve the existing threats and security issues. •Configuring and implementing intrusion detection systems and firewalls. •Testing and checking the system for weaknesses in software and hardware. •Deploy, maintain and upgrade Fortigate firewalls. Maintain virtual private networks, web protocols, and email security. •Creating different ways to solve the existing threats and security issues. •Defining and maintaining security policies. •Informing the company about the security incidents as soon as possible. •Investigating intrusion and hacking incidents, collecting incident responses, and carrying out forensic investigations. •Determining latest technologies and processes that improve the overall security of the system. •Using industry-standard analysis criteria to test the security level of the Network. •Developing tracking documents to note system vulnerabilities. •Reporting the security analysis and monitoring findings. •Supervising the configuration and installation of new software and hardware. •Implementing regulatory systems in accordance with IT security. •Deploy, maintain and upgrade Cisco Routers and Switches. •Maintain the network uptime and Security. Show less

  • Deputy CTO

    May 2023 - now

  • IP Core Supervisor

    Feb 2021 - May 2023

  • Network Security Engineer

    Dec 2014 - Feb 2021
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  Ali Jirde Hotel

  Jan 2017 - now

  IT Specialist

  Maintain register of all IT hardware, software and systems to ensure full asset management and timely replacement & upgrades as required. •Coordinate regular maintenance and serviceability checks to ensure all ICT equipment and systems remain functional. •Responsible for ongoing training of personnel on IT related topics to ensure personnel have adequate IT knowledge to perform their primary functions. •Provide a Help Desk service for fast resolution of all IT customer issues. •Install and setup CCTV System and maintain. •Install and setup VoIP system and maintain. •Deploy and maintain Unifi Wi-Fi Access points. •Deploy and maintain Active Directory. Show less

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  National Group Of Companies NFS

  Mar 2017 - Sept 2018

  Information Technology Consultant

  Design new IT infrastructure from physical servers to Virtual Servers. •Management of all IT systems, networks, hardware, and software remain operational ensuring reliable IT services in support of the programmer. •Conduct regular reviews with mission IT section on all IT systems, networks, hardware and software provided and ensure the programmer’s operational needs are being met in the most up to date, effective and secure manner. •Provide recommendations, priorities, costs and requirements specifications for required updates or corrective actions and assist with procurement. •To deploy and maintain the advanced enterprise-level computer virtualization software product VMware ESXi Server used to facilitate centralized management for enterprise desktops and data center applications. •To deploy and maintain Next-Generation Cyberoam Firewall that offers stateful and deep packet inspection for network, application and user identity-based security which protects organizations from denial-of-service (DoS), distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) and IP Spoofing attacks. •To deploy and maintain Microsoft Active Directory for Windows domain networks, or System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM ) from Microsoft that enables administrators to manage both the deployment and security of devices and applications across an enterprise, and the mail server and calendaring Microsoft Exchange Server. •Maintaining & optimizing network performance by measuring the network and the servers’ uptime. Show less