Skills and Certifications

• SAIR/GNU Certified Linux Professional (LCP)
• SAIR/GNU Certified Linux Administrator (LCA)
• SAIR/GNU Certified Linux Instructor (LCI)
• Digium Certified Asterisk Professional (dCAP)
• Open Source Telecom and ISP Infrastructure
  • Asterisk Open Source PBX
  • Kamailio SIP Server
  • GNU GK (Open H323 Gatekeeper)
  • Free Radius
• Networking Skills:
  • CheckPoint Firewall Administrator
  • Cisco ASA Firewall Administrator
  • pfSense Firewall Administrator
  • Cisco Router Administrator including BGP4 and High Availability configurations.

Experienced with

• Programming Languages: C/C++, PHP, JAVA, Python
• Development Environments: Eclipse IDE, InteliJ Idea, phpStorm
• Operating Environments: Windows (all versions), Solaris, Linux
• Scripting Experience: bash, tcsh, perl, php-cli
• Commercial Products: Windows Server (Standard and Enterprise), MS-SQL, CheckPoint VPN1, NG and NGX
• Open Source Products: Postfix, Courier IMAP, MySQL, FreeRadius, Asterisk, GNU GK, Kamauilio, Apache (BrainBench Certified).

Publications, Books and awards

• “The VoiceCon RFP: Walking the path of the penguin’ – Can an open source VoIP solution meet Allan Sulkin’s criteria? Of course! – Published Aug 2007-11-19
• “AsteriskNOW – A Practical Guide” – Published by Packt Publishing, March 2008.
• “Asterisk 1.4 and 1.6 AGI Programming” – Published by Packt Publishing, Jan 2009
• Winner of the Digium Innovation Award – Pioneer Division – 2008
• Winner of the Digium Innovation Award – Pioneer Division – 2009

Open Source and Community Affiliations

• The Asterisk Open Source PBX Project – Active member since late 2002
• Founder of the Israeli Asterisk users group (http://www.asterisk.org.il) – since 2005.
• The Israeli Linux Users Group – Active member since 1996.
• Co-founder of the Haifa Linux Users Group (haifux) – 1998.
• The GnuGK OpenH323 Gatekeeper – Active member since 2003.