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Mr. Alkishawi is an entrepreneur who pioneered Fortess NetGuard Inc to answer the many demands in the information technology business particularly in the Middle East. Mr. Alkishawi spent more than 5 years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia an experience he says was very interesting and came to learn more about the many different business projects in the IT arena. Overall Mr. Alkishawi has more than 14 years of experience in Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering and Management.
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Work Experiance
Urban Security Project for the City of Riyadh Sponsored by ArRiyadh Development Authority
Mr. Alkishawi recently headed a project to study and analyze the current crime situation in the city of Riyadh using Crime Prevention Through Environment Design (CPTED) concept including assessment of physical and data security of all stakeholders of this project. Mr. Alkishawi was responsible to manage the entire project in association with well trained staff from ADA. Fortress NetGuard headed 2 teams from the United States and Austria who worked on the first phase of this project and took care of assessing the crime situation in the city. FNG was responsible of all IT aspects of this project (Data security and Physical Security)
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CEO and President of Fortress NetGuard Inc (United States of America)
Established Fortress NetGuard Inc with the following business modules to answer the large demands of in the IT Business:
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IT Director, Saudi Tawaz Company (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
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Played many different roles in the company: IT Manager, Business Development Manager, IT Director, and finally General Manager of the company
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Responsibilities and Achievements:
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building the IT Security Division from ground up including hiring tasks, establishing policies, meeting customers, presentations, attending conferences, sales and marketing, presales responsibilities, research and development, preparing AV, FW, IDS, Hacking training materials and many more.
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Established many important partnerships including Symantec, Cisco, McAfee, BitDefender, Application Security, esGulf, and many more.
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Was able to build many important relationships with the governmental and private sectors.
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Managed a company of 50 people reporting directly to the owners and the chairman of the board
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Worked on many projects from the banking sectors (such as Bank Albilad), and worked on many big accounts for National Guard, Air Force, Supreme Commission For Tourism, Embassies and more.
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Investigated, researched and conducted market and competitive analysis for Symantec products vs. Websense, McAfee, BlueCoat and SurfControl.
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With the merger of Potevio International (China Putian) I assumed many more responsibilities such as setting up the new infrastructure for both IT and GSM/Telecommunication divisions (Hiring / Interviewing tasks, Market research, Worked on company Hierarchy Structure, Built Business Plan, Built 5-year projection and budget plan for the company, Risk Analysis, Marketing and Sales plan.
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Developed training courses for IT Managers and for IT technical staff (developed more than 25 courses). This was actually a business on its own that the company wanted pursue.
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Nokia Corp (United States of America)
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Responsibility of software development, management and program management of a new Windows team to work on SSL / VPN technologies.
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Plan, assign and document life cycle of the project.
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Work on different projects simultaneously.
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Work closely with our clients and customers to secure some contracts and future projects for Nokia.
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Responsible for developing code for SSL / VPN technology on Windows and Unix platforms.
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Familiar with Load Balancing solutions include Round Robin DNS and Squid Cache servers.
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Work closely with managers, project managers, and the rest of the team to assure a complete and detailed life cycle of the project and to ensure delivering our product on time to our customers.
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Researched and worked on technologies such as VPN, SSL, Windowing, UI, Client / Server and many more.
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Developed code on both C / C++ on platforms such as Windows and UNIX.
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Symantec Corp (United States of America)
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One of few senior engineers selected to work on a brand new technology at a new team
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Developed, maintained, and quality assured a code user mode code and kernel mode
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code base project
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Developed various tools to test the communication between user mode and kernel mode. Developed a brand new test application to track test cases, execution cycles, defects rates and other data.
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Attended 2 important kernel development courses offered by OSR. Code was developed using C++ mainly. Base code was made
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Lead a team of 4 engineers. Worked very closely with architects on many projects and many engineers from different teams at Symantec.
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Researched new security tools and presented them to the team such as FlowFinder. I also used many static analysis tools to find as many bugs in the code as possible (such as PC-Lint and Prefast).
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Researched many kernel-testing tools in the DDK and from OSR to test and find flaws in the driver.
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Found at least 100 defects including system crashes, I provided detailed analysis of the problems.
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Experience with crash dump analysis and stack tracing.
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Used many other tools to test for stability and performance problems including and not limited to TrueTime, BoundsChecker for both kernel and user modes.
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Lots of documentation work (requirements, functional specification, design, code reviews, test plans -QLT compliance, test cases and more)
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Worked on many competitive analyses for security products
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Familiar with McAfee products, Websense products, blue coat and SurfControl.
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Software development and Management for Anti Virus products on W32 platforms (NT, 2K,XP), on W16 (Win95 and 98) on Linux ,Solaris, and NetWare (NLM) platforms.
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Responsible of full certification process for AV products including, code reviews, fixing bugs, writing tools, documentations on multiple platforms simultaneously.
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Developed a tool in C/C++ using MSVC++ and MFC libraries which utilized the anti virus engine, scans/repair infected files and display and log performance data.
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Developed a tool, which monitors systems resources and memory usages to check for memory leaks and resources contentions.
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Wrote automation scripts using Visual Test programming language to automate lengthy manual processes without any user intervention.
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Experience with tools such as True Time, Code Coverage, and PC Lint.
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Wrote scripts and make files Win32, Solaris and Linux.
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Familiar with Anti Virus technologies (detection and repairs).
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Developed a tool using MFC and VC++ 6.0 that creates dump viruses and another tool that corrupts files in an attempt to crash the Anti-Virus engine.
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Lead the latest engine release process, including and not limited to managing a team of 2 engineers, creating test cases, schedule plan, developing and debugging code.
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Matsushita Avionics System (United States of America)
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Designed an MFC application using Ultimate Grid software on VC++ 6.0.
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BIOS Development for Pentium II processor.
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Experience with Video Controller chips (65535, 65550, 69000).
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Developed VGA BIOS and System BIOS using BMP utility and assembly language.
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Developed DOS program to initialize and set up the KS1027 chip (PC Video Chip) using VC++ 1.52.
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Experience with flight entertainment systems.
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Developed applications and DLLs using LabView (have 2 certificates from National Instruments).
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Perkin Elmer Inc (United States of America)
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Designed user application software for UV exposure systems using C.
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Took the lead role for 2 major projects.
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Exposure with congnex and MVP vision systems.
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Completed the design for alignment algorithm.
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Good understanding of CompuMotors and transfer arms robotics.
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Worked with serial communications and optical sensors.
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Responsible of designing, testing, documenting and controlling the software.
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Peerless Systems (United States of America)
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Real time programming using C and assembly for power PC processors
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Developed new application interface for software imaging products
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Working knowledge with PJL, PCL, and PDL interpreter language
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Working knowledge with printer architecture design and functions
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Experienced with PVCS and other Software Control Programs
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Lear Astronics Corporation (United States of America)
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Real time programming using C/C++ and assembly
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Developed and testes application software for real time embedded systems
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Reverse engineering experience
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Experience with ARINC, DAC, 1553 bus architecture
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Design high and low level I/O interfaces
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Experience with navigation equipment, and documentation (SRD, SDD, and VDD)
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Lumonics Corporation (United States of America)
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Software Development, Software/Hardware Maintenance of Laser Marking Equipment
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Bug discovering and resolving
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Modifying installation programs for new software releases
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Writing and modifying REXX scripts
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Programming in (C and REXX), used OS/2 operating system as part of the development environment
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Documentation and traveling to customer sites
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Education
- Masters Degree in MSEE from Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering) at California State University, Los Angeles (United States of America)
- Master Degree in Information Technology - MSIT, Masters in Information Technology, On-Line University
- Thesis Project: ESP Compiler Optimization
- Bachelor Degree -BSEE, Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering), California State University, Los Angeles
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