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Name: Dr. Eng. Islam Younis Murshed Amro
Born: 79.20.11
P.O Box 1132
Ramallah
Palestine
[email protected]
[email protected]
Mobile: ++972599999954
Res. : +97222955624
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Education
Ph.D. Computer Information System
2009
Ph.D thesis "Speech Compression exploiting codebooks and
Hamming correction code compounder".
AABFS, Jordan.
M. Eng Electronic and Computer Engineering
2005
Master thesis” VoIP Data Rate reduction using linear prediction
coefficients redundancy”.
Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine 2005
B. Eng. Computer Systems Engineering
Graduation Project: Medical Smart cards system Design and
implementation Including both card and reader design with
necessary drivers, and pre dos operating system (assembly), with web
based card access system, java based system used for medical
profiling.
Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron Palestine 2002
2002
Publications
Amro I. et el,(2011)"Speech compression exploiting linear prediction
coefficients codebook and Hamming correction code algorithm",
International Journal of Speech Technology archive Volume 14
Issue 2, June 2011
Amro I,(2011)"Simplified road map for temporal packet loss
modeling", TERENA Organization proceeding, Prague, Czech Rp.
Amro I,(2009)"Exploiting genetic algorithms in enhancement of
arabic documents retrieval", IEEE Morocco chapter, Morocco.
Amro I,(2008) "speech compression with linear prediction Neural
networks", EUSIPCO, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Hodali I. S., Amro I. Y. . (2004)., The Implementation of e-Learning
in Al-Quds Open University
, The International Hellenic
Conference on ICT, Athens, Greece.
Amro I. Y., Abdel Nour H. I., (2005). VoIP Data Rate Reduction
Using Linear Prediction Coefficients Redundancy. Arab World
Conference on ICT, Amman, Jordan.
Amro I. Y., Abdel Nour H. I., (2006). VoIP Data Rate Reduction
Using Linear Prediction Coefficients Redundancy. International
IEEE Symposium of Speech Processing, Casablanca, Morocco.
Magazines
Amro I. Y., (2003). The implementation Academic data exchangers.
Al-Quds Open University magazines, Palestine.
Professional experience
Since Sept-2021
Vice President Assistant for Academic Affairs.
Since July 2012
TMS security firm, Senior IT Consultant.
Designing security systems for outdoor facilities, telecom towers.
Since March 2012
UNESCO Palestine Consultant in IT exploitation in education,
consulting on capacity building in educational sector.
Jan-2012 Sept-2012
Al-Quds Open University,
Head of Information and Communication Technology Department
and the Faculty of Information technology and applied sciences.
council.
Since 2010
Al-Quds Open University,
Member of Information Technology and applied sciences.
Since 2008
Al-Quds Open University,
Information Technology and communication center,
Systems Engineering Department
Position : Head of systems Development and Planning Unit.
2006-2007
Al-Quds Open University,
Information Technology and communication center,
Systems Engineering Department
Position : QOU space Channel Project Manager.
2002-2005
Al-Quds Open University,
Information Technology and communication center,
Systems Engineering Department
Position : Networking and Systems Engineer
Position Task: maintaining 32 sites WAN inside and outside
Palestine, connectivity, performance and security wise.
Projects
within QOU
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QOU-privet sector partnership business development (2011)
Initiating cooperation program with the ministry of
interior(2010).
Initiating cooperation program with the Palestinian Police
(2010)
Participation in stratigic and technical planning for the Arab
Regional Network (Spain 2009, Rome 2010)
Participation of core system design for Al-Quds Open
University along with 12 team Members (2007)
Construction of Regional VPN for Al-Quds Open University
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between Palestine-Jordan and KSA(2006).
Complete Proposal plan with business analysis for Al-Quds
Open University Space Channel Project (2007).
Planning for the EUMED CONNECT project in Palestine
in cooperation with DANTE (2005)
Planning the Palestinian national academic and research
network (2005)
Planning for student services over Mobile SMS with a
national cellular company (2005).
Planning QoS system for QOU WAN
Planning and implementation multihoming internet
connectivity with BGP 3 for the QOU (2005).
Planning and Implementation of VPN connectivity over 3
countries in the Middle East (2005).
Planning an over IP Video on demand system (2005).
Planning installation of fiber lines for the university (2004).
Planning and installation of university data security system
with multiple securing levels (2004).
Planning 5 sites video conferencing system (2004).
Planning server architecture for distributed database
Technical support for Avicenna virtual campus this is a
UNISCO project (2004).
Planning system core hardware for enterprise level
applications using IBM plate servers with heavy duty SAN
storage (2004).
Fund raising fro the e-learning platform of Al-Quds open
university (2003) .
QOU University ISP Officer (2002).
International and National Activities
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Participation in design of National Academic Network (2006,
2009)
e-Government National Core team Member (2010).
EumedGrid Netwrok support Group (Amman 2009)
proposing the Mediterranean belt network (Brussels 2007)
setting strategy and design ASREN network between Europe
and middle east (Brussels 2010).
Strategic IT plan and upgrade for the civil registry system
for ministry of interior (2011).
supporting Police forces for IT related crimes (since 2011).
Member of Palestinian National standards association.
Professional skills and Trainee Skills
Project Management
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Working on project planning, resource allocation,
monitoring planning, and deliverables definitions.
Exploiting IT technologies in Project management(MSproject, SharePoint, IRIS, primavera).
IT Strategic Planning
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Defining Major organizational Tracks of IT.
conducting full gap analysis.
defining IT roadmap with project portfolios with budgets.
monitoring projects from strategic view points.
Note: Based on ISO, ITIL or COBET standards
Cisco Systems
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Worked with 1600,1700,2500,2600, 3600, 3700, 3800, 7200
router families.
WAN Protocols configurations: Dial-up v.92 , ISDN, BRI,
PRI, Frame Relay, HDLC, DS0, DS1 ( channelized), DS3
(Fiber), MCDS3,MCSTM1
Routing Configurations: RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, COPS,
MPLS.
AAA: Radius, TACACUS, with integration with Microsoft
internet authentication server and Linux PPP
Security: Standard ACL, IPSEC, VPN, PPTP
Cisco H.323, RTP, SIP
Other :VoIP, WCCP , VLAN , QoS
Unix Technology
 RED HAT up to Enterprise AS4, fedora, Debian.
 Excellent Experience with Apache Group web servers,
sendmail , squid siplens postfix, BIND, iptables, ipfilters,
Squirrel, Horde, webmail, Samba, Kerberos 5, NFS, VSFTP,
webmin, zebra and majordomo. “worked with all of these
servers heavily”
Microsoft
 Microsoft operating systems up to Microsoft 2000 advanced
server
 Microsoft Active directory “working is designing and
building and maintains a 16 sites active directory”
 Microsoft ISA server, “operating 8 ISA servers as Firewalls
and in charge of remote 46 ISA server as caching servers ”
 Microsoft Exchange Server “ used to be in charge of
exchange mail server with 1400 mail box ”
 IIS5
 Microsoft Remote Access, IAS, RADIUS, VPN servers
“Back to end, Back to Back or stealth VPN”
Security and Virus
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Symantec SGS firewall hardware “hiding more than 25
servers inside a DMZ for web based applications”
Symantec Corporate antivirus” implementing 16 remote sites
antivirus servers ”
Vexira under Linux “ configured to filter the emails ”
Milter, spamassassin “rebuilding the our mail server to fight
spam ”
Snort (TCP connection states analysis and IDS ) “ analyzing
the network connection states to identify automatic and
human based attacks ”
Nessus “used it for security assessment”
Linux Kernel Connections Tracking “I use the connection
tracker to identify the effect of connections on the kernel
performance, this is used to tune the connection parameters”
NG Checkpoint, Flood gate “configured it to protect
Microsoft based clients in deep dirty zones in the remote
sites”
Networks Monitoring and design tools
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ITguru (networking simulator, I use it to detect perform of
devices before purchasing them)
Solarwinds Engineers and standard editions (network
performance monitor, mostly for monitoring Cisco routers
performance and other simple connectivity information )
MRTG NT, UNIX (network traffic monitor )
NETFLOW NT,UNIX (TCP/IP network Monitor)
integrated with Cisco routers ip-cache flow
Smart Draw: drawing my designs in a professional manner.
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CyperGuage
Certificates & Professional
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Microsoft Certified since 2002
Digital Video Transmission over internet certificate , Birzeit
University, Palestine 2004
Debian Linux Training, Al-Quds Open University, 2003
Programming Skills
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Memberships
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Microsoft office, Open Office , adobe office tools, Open
Office
Pascal, C/C++ (excellent, general, file processing, process
management, networking, systems calls, Graphics), Java
(excellent, worked some DSP work with it), x86 assembly (v.
good) .
Matlab (Fuzzy Logic, DSP, Communication, Signals
Processing Excellent)
Good knowledge is SQL, Oracle developers, MYSQL (for
web applications)
EUROSIP.
ACM.
IEEE Member.
Palestinian Engineers League.
All References are available upon request.