MOUZANNAR IGNACE
ghantoos@ghantoos.org
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a challenging position that offers me the opportunity to employ my knowledge in the Open Source IT and telecommunication domains while gaining the skills towards achieving professional and mutual growth.
I expect that several of my strengths will be quite useful, such as determination and the ability to work under pressure. I would welcome your views on these observations, as well.
Thank you for your time and the consideration of my qualifications.
Ignace M Mouzannar
EXPERIENCE
System and software engineer – Industrialization team at COMVERSE – NETCENTREX (Paris, FRANCE)
Dec. 2008 – present
* Working on the industrialization of the NetCentrex – Comverse solutions.
* Conceiving and implementing the process of industrialization, which relies on the Redhat package management system (RPM) and its structured repository.
* Securing the solution is one of our main objective.
* Conception of a unified CLI (Command Line Interface) for the NetCentrex Solution.
VoIP Engineer & part of the expertise team at COMVERSE – NETCENTREX (Paris, FRANCE)
Nov. 2006 – Nov. 2008
* Gave trainings to our customers/internals (VoIP(H323, SIP, MGCP), NetCentrex platform Expert trainings)
* Internal tools conception in order to increase deployment and documentation efficiency:
- Knowledge database of the NetCentrex solution accessible via a web user interface (python / mod_python / LDAP)
- VMware server and hardware information scanning tool (python / mod_python)
- Unified CLI (Command Line Interface) for the NetCentrex Solution (python)
* Deployed an asterisk IPBX in IP-trunking interconnected with our platform:
- Core network in H323 or SIP (includes billing and class 4/5 information)
- “Residential” access in SIP and MGCP
- Asterisk interconnected to our softswitch via an SBC
BSS Telecom Engineer at Bouygues Telecom (Paris, FRANCE)
Sep. 2005 – Jan 2006
* Was confronted during this internship to theoretical knowledge about telecommunication including the various GSM protocols.
* Lead one project on the Radio Link Timeout that was presented in a meeting with the radio performance regional managers.
* Participated in a major project to study the added value of probes (protocol analyzer) placed on the A Interface of the Bouygues Telecom network.
System Engineer at ABB – Energy Automation S.p.A (Abu Dhabi, U.A.E)
July – Aug. 2005
* Participated in the design and configuration of automation systems for:
- An ethylbenzene production plant
- An butadiene extraction plant
Project manager & developer Freelance web-designer (Paris, FRANCE)
Jan. 2005 – June 2009
* Designed websites for:
- Red-e-Entertainment Group, Los Angeles, U.S.A (2005)
- Mobius Events, New York, U.S.A (http://www.mobiusevents.com) (2005-2009)
Communication manager at Cercle Rouge (Paris, FRANCE)
June – July 2002
* Designed communication websites for the:
- The jet ski World Cup 2005 quarter finals in Euro Disney in France
- The music festival of Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2005 in France
SPECIALITIES
* GNU/Linux, UNIX & Open Source
* VoIP: H323, SIP, MGCP, H248, Asterisk
* Virtualisation Technologies: XEN, kvm, QEMU, vmware
* Webserver: apache, mod_python, lighttpd, DNS, OpenVPN, OpenSSH, CVS, DHCP
* Programming languages: python, shell script, php, SQL, HTML
* Operation Systems: Debian, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, RedHat & clones, NetBSD
EDUCATION
2000-2006 Institut Supérieur d’Electronique de Paris (Paris, France)
* Graduated with an engineering degree in telecommunication and multimedia.
* Projects:
- Telecommunication project and memoir lead on HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access)
- Networks research and memoir lead over the latest techniques and tools of hacking
- Business Start-Up Project (on Networks Security)
1986-2000 Lycée Louis Massignon (Abu Dhabi, U.A.E)
* Graduated with a French Baccalaureate in Sciences with distinction on June, 2000.
PUBLICATIONS
* GNU/Linux Magazine France:
- July 2008: Hors Série 37: VoIP Illimitée avec Asterisk & OpenVPN (link)
* Personal blog:
- Creating a .deb package from a python setup.py (link)
- Apache2 & mod_python tutorial (link)
- NetBSD 5.0 & KVM (link)
- Debian Kernel recompilation (adding UFS read/write support) (link)
- Running Debian on a Samsung Galaxy under Android (link)
OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS
* Author & maintainer of lshell (Limited Shell), a project that restricts a user’s shell environment to limited sets of commands (link)
* Debian contributor (link)
* Member of the GCU-squad association, an Open Source advocacy and support group (link)
* Member of the Ubuntu Lebanon Team (link)
LANGUAGES
Fluent in spoken, written and read English, French and Arabic.
Fair knowledge of spoken, written and read Spanish.
PERSONAL DATA
Date of birth: November 3rd, 1982
Nationalities: Greek and Lebanese
Marital status: Single
INTERESTS & HOBBIES
Interests: music, geopolitics, mathematics, IT, Linux.
Hobbies: piano, guitar, Internet and sports (squash, volleyball and swimming).
REFERENCES
References and recommendations are available to be presented during any prospective interview.
