Issam Andoni: Chief Technical Architect

Issam Andoni, Chief Architect Officer

Issam is a seasoned technologist and business consultant. He has over 20 years of enterprise experience in the Computing Industry. Issam’s expertise focuses on strategy and planning for both business and IT alignment; enterprise architectures and supporting technologies; visioning and future directions. Issam has strong specialized skills with Microsoft technologies, which include server infrastructure deployment, messaging and collaboration, software distribution, and IT Service Management (ITSM) methods and techniques. Issam holds a Master Degree in Computer Science from American University and working on his PhD in Information security. He also has many industry certificates among them: CNE, MCSE, MCT, CCNA, CCDA, CISSP, and CISM. To contact Mr. Andoni, please e-mail him at: andoni@2validate.com

Main Technical Roles

Active Directory Architect

Mr. Andoni led and delivered several large scale Active Directory engagements. As AD architect Mr. Andoni role was to:

· Understand customer’s environment, requirements, directions, and business goals.

· Analyze design options and provide directions that map to business objectives.

· Design options include: logical design, physical design, and security components.

· Provide migration paths and step by step directions

· Provide operation and support direction

· Develop scripts to automate design components and deployment.

In conjunction with Mr. Andoni role as AD architect he provided guidelines and help in other infrastructure areas:

· Migration planning from other technologies such as Novell NDS.

· Automated deployment strategies.

· Messaging and secure messaging support mainly exchange.

· Deployment & management including MOM, SMS and other products

· Migration tools including ADMT and other tools

· Virtualization including VMWare, Virtual server, and virtual machine

· Identity management including MIIS.

Senior Security Consultant

Mr. Andoni led and delivered many large scale security engagements. This includes the following components:

· Authentication services (NTLM, Kerberos, and Smart Cards)

· Access control systems (Microsoft and CISCO)

· Data encryption and network encryption (EFS, SSL, TLS, IPSec)

· Public Key Infrastructure planning and design including the development of Certificate Policy and Certificate Policy Statements

· Wireless Security planning and design (Web with TLS)

· Virtual Private network planning and design (RRAS, IAS)

· Firewall planning and design (ISA, PIX, Raptor)

· Operation security (Change management and Change control)

· Disaster recovery planning

· Group Policy and group Policy management

· Vulnerability assessment (Nessus, and Microsoft security analyzer)

· Intrusion detection (Host based: Logs, audits, Network based: Network monitor, and snort)

Mr. Andoni is the current Chairman of Global Institute for Technology Advancement, GIFTA

Ph.D. in Information Technology “Internet technology and Security”, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. “In Progress”

Master of Science in Computer Science, American University, Washington DC , December 1994.

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics December 1985.

Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), October 2003

Certified Information Systems Manager (CISM),January 2004

Microsoft Certified Instructor, Microsoft Inc., October 1999.

Cisco Certified Network Associate, CISCO Inc., July 2000.

Cisco Certified Design Associate, CISCO Inc., February 1998.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Inc., October 1997

Citrix Winframe Administrator, Citrix Inc., June 1997.

NetWare 3.x + 4.x CNE, Novell Inc., August 1995 and April 1997.