Curriculum Vita for

Dr. Eng. Islam Amro

Curriculum Vita for

Dr. Eng. Islam Amro

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ACADEMICS

Candidate Full Professor of Computer Information Systems 2024

Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems 2014
Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems 2010

SELECTED COURSE TEACHING

Graduate Studies
Cybersecurity, Strategic Information Systems, Digital
PERSONAL INFO Content Creation Media and Business Innovation. Corporate
Communications
Name: Dr. Eng. Islam Amro
Born: 79.20.11 Under Graduate
Computer Networks, Advanced Computer Networks,
P.O Box 1132 e-Crimes and Forensics, Web Programming, Data Structures,
Ramallah, Palestine C++, Java Programming, Data Communication, Operating
Systems.
[email protected]
Mobile: +972 599 9999 54
EDUCATION
Res.: +972 229 556 24
ORCID: 0000-0002-3429-2115 Ph.D. Computer Information System 2009

h-index: ISLAM AMRO Ph.D thesis “Speech Compression Exploiting Codebooks And
Hamming Correction Code Compounder”.
Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences, Jordan.

M. Eng. Electronic and Computer Engineering 2005

Master thesis” VoIP Data Rate reduction using linear prediction

coefficients redundancy”. “first electronic engineering thesis in
Palestine”.
Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine 2005

B. Eng. Computer Systems Engineering 2002

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

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SELECTED ISSUES WITH CYBERSECURITY AND DIGITAL TRUST

• Building the National Cybersecurity Strategy 2023-2027 for the government of Palestine.

• National Consultant for Norway Registers Development AS projects implemented in Palestine in digital
payments 2022.

• Advising and Provdining solutions of SIEM and SAOR level for the ministry of interior in Palestine since
2022.

• Graduate Courses Teaching Applied Cryptography includes teaching DES,RSA,PKI, AES, Hashing and
data integrity Algorithms, DigitalSignature, Digital Trust and Systems Security.

• Drafting laws and regulations for law enforcement agencies in Palestine in the fields of Forensics and
digital Crimes, understanding digital evidence, device and media analysis, investigativemethods,
technical and legal reporting. 2021

• Establishing Red Team and Threat Hunting for Palestinian Security forces 2017

• Training Cybersecurity teams in Palestinian security forces 2012-2016

• Designing and implanting state-level symmetric encryption solutions based on Swiss based
OMNISEC technologies 2011-2015 for national agencies.

• Implementing digital signature solutions of document management systems based on Microsoft PKI and
KDC and other open source technologies 2012-2014 for national agencies.

• Leading the national team on building a civil registry system for the ministry of interior and boarders
management software 2010-2012

• Extensive experience in key authentication protocols and approaches with integrations between different
operating systems, web technologies, authentication protocols, certificates, cross-sigining and root
certificates structures.

• Good experience in working with the Palestinian government working environment, local regulations, and
constraints

• Representative of several international prestigious cybersecurity companies in Palestine.

• Solid experience in corporate IT projects managements.

KEY POSITIONS

Founding Member of The National Center for Digital Transformation Since June 2023

National Coordinator of Palestine Cybersecurity conference Since Aug 2023

National Advisor for the Government of Palestine on Cybersecurity Since Jan 2023

Dean of Faculty of Modern Science Since Jul 2022

Associate Professor of Cyber Security in Arab American University Since Jan 2022

University President Assistant for ICT and Media Production 2015-2022

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Director of Information Technology and Communication Center 2016-2022
Director of Al-Quds Educational Channel 2016-2022
General Supervisor of e-Learning in Al-Quds Open University. 2018-2022
Acting Head of Master Degree Program of Media Management. 2021-2022

BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Open Educational Recourses (OER), Published By Queen Rania

Center of Excellence, Ministry of Education in Jordan. UNESCO
funded, ISLAM AMRO et el.

Four Chapter of Open Educational Resource QOU curricula

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (ORCID: 0000-0002-3429-2115)

I.Amro . ,”Speech Compression Exploiting Hamming Correction Code Compressor”, IEEE Conference on
Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks, Madrid, Spain, June 2013.

I.Amro . ,” Markovian Model for Packet Loss in EUMEDConnect Network”, IEEE Conference on Computational
Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks, Madrid, Spain, June 2013.

I.Amro . ,” Higher Compression Rates for Code Excited Linear Prediction Coding Using Lossless Compression”,
IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks, Madrid, Spain, June
2013.

I. Amro, “Short Segment Cumulative Modeling Algorithm for Markovian Model on Packet Loss”, IEEE International
Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing, Compiegne, France, October 2013.

I. Amro, “Higher Compression Rates for Conjugate Structure Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction”,
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin, Berlin, September 2013.

I.Amro, “ Higher Compression Rates for ITU-T G.729”, IEEE 8th EUROSIM Congress on Modeling and Simulation,
Cardiff, UK, September , 2013.

I.Amro, “ Dynamic Estimation Algorithm for Markovian Model for Packet Loss”, IEEE 8th EUROSIM Congress on
Modeling and Simulation, Cardiff, UK, September , 2013.

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.

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KEY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Since 2018 Feb 2012 - December 2015

General Supervisor of eLearning within Al-Quds IT Consultant for a Palestinian Security Forces, PGI,
Open University, the task included supervising the Palestinian Police on e-Crimes.
open learning center with teams of instructional
designers, content developers, SME’s coordination, Jan-2012 - Sept-2012
and programmers. Al-Quds Open University,
Head of Information and Communication Technology
Since 2016 Department and the Faculty of Information technology
General Director of Al-Quds Educational Satellite and applied sciences. council.
Channel of Al-Quds Open University
http://www.qouchannel.tv/ Since 2010
the task includes supervising production of Al-Quds Open University,
television lectures (more than 400 hours of peer Member of Information Technology and applied
reviewed production through predefined criteria and sciences.
workflow)
Since 2008
Since Jan. 2015 Al-Quds Open University,
Al-Quds Open University, President Assistant on Information Technology and communication center,
Information Technology and Media Production Systems Engineering Department
Affairs, Position: Head of systems Development and
Head of information and Communication Planning Unit.
Technologies Center.
2006-2007
Sept 2014 - March 2015 Al-Quds Open University,
Bethlehem University, Consultant/Project Manager Information Technology and communication center,
on information technology Projects Systems Engineering Department
Position: QOU space Channel Project Manager.
Sept 2013 - Sept 2014
Committee Leader for establishment of the Faculty
of Digital Media in QOU. 2002-2005
Al-Quds Open University,
Sept-2012 - Jan 2015 Information Technology and communication center,
Vice President Assistant for Academic Affairs. Systems Engineering Department
Position: Networking and Systems Engineer
Since July 2012 Position Task: maintaining 32 sites WAN inside and
TMS security firm, Senior IT Consultant. outside Palestine, connectivity, performance and
Designing security systems for outdoor facilities, security wise.
telecom towers.

March 2012 - Sept 2012

UNESCO Palestine Consultant in IT exploitation
in education, consulting on capacity building in
educational sector.

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KEY PROJECTS

Project
Project Name Donor Name Project Purpose
Period
Supporting Distance UNESCO Establishing Educational Television for the 2020-2021
Learning in Palestine through Ministry of education in Palestine, I served as
the Establishment of an an individual Consultant. Complete project
Educational TV Broadcasting plan and budget were delivered
Channel for the Ministry of
Education
Developing the Regulations German Developing ELearning Regulations for 2021
and Instructions for E-learning Government. Ministry of Higher Education in Education.
in Palestine Individual Consultant, Delivered Law Draft
and Strategic Document on eLearning in
Palestine
Final External Evaluation of UNITED Nations Delivered a complete analytical report on 2017
the Ministry of Education and the Education for all initiative (individual
Higher Education and United consultant(
Nations Education for All
Package (EFA(
Framework of the UN WHO and Worked with several Palestinian Ministries 2017
Partnership to Promote the UNESCO and seven united nations organizations
Rights of the Persons with in Palestine (UNESCO, UNRWA, WHO,
Disabilities Project UNICEF, ILO, UNDP, and The higher
commissioner office( on evaluating the
Palestinian efforts in serving people with
disabilities according to the UNPRP
initiatives.
Project Manager: Consulate The project aims at equipping students 30/9/2013
English Language Summer General of the with the language basics to enable them to To
Camp communicate with one another in different 30/9/2014
United States
situations. Hence, English-In-Camp aims
of America, at promoting the use of English as a
Jerusalem communicative tool in various real situations.
Students will enjoy and have fun when using
the language in the camp

Project Manager: Community The project is the first of its kind in the 1/2/2014
Mobile Educational Computer Development region. It aims to improve the quality of To
Center Improve Educational and Resilience education in the marginalized C areas 29/2/2016
Opportunities in Marginalized Programme located South of Hebron, through providing
Areas in Area C in Hebron (CRDP( an educational center equipped with a
Governorate through the computer lab and a library on a truck
United Nations traveling between the marginalized areas
Development and schools to be used by the students
Program and the local community. This project
(UNDP(. is implemented in cooperation with the
Municipality of Yatta and Al-Samu’u and the
Directorate of Education of South Hebron.

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Project Manger: Community The project aims to improve the quality of 1/7/2016
Mobile Educational Computer Development education in marginalized areas (C( in The To
Center Improve Educational and Resilience northern Jordan Valley region, through 31/5/2017
Opportunities in Area C in Programme providing an educational center equipped
Tubas Governorate (CRDP( with a computer lab and a library on a truck
through the traveling between marginalized areas and
United Nations schools which do not have a computer
Development laboratories,, to be used by students
Program and the community in cooperation with
(UNDP(. village councils, local governance and the
Directorate of Tubas

Project Manager: UNESCO office The project aims at develop A Self-Learning 14/8/2017
Promoting OER Concepts, in Cairo and Open Online Training Course to raise the To
Reuse, and Practices in the in partnership OER awareness and assist academics and 14/12/2017
Arab Countries with Ministry teachers from the Arab countries (Jordan
of Education and Palestine( in acquiring and reinforcing
and Higher the skills and knowledge they need in order
Education- to exploit the rich potential of e-Content.
Jordan They will learn how to incorporate OER in
their courses; ways to reuse e-Content and
what are the easy tools to develop OER for
their students; how and where to publish
and share their OER and how to establish
sustainable communities for sharing
initiatives, thoughts and experiences. As
a part of this project, a Training of trainers
(TOT( workshops was held in Palestine and
Jordan in using the Self-Learning Open
Online Training Course.
You can access the application through the
following link:
https://dspace.qou.edu/contents/oer/
Project Manager: Consulate The project aims to build the national 4/11/2017
Increase the capacities of General of the capacities among journalists in the concept To
Citizens in investigative United States of investigative journalism by providing 31/10/2018
Journal by providing training to of America, intensive training to selected 30 journalists
Journalists. Jerusalem in WB GS who are working in different
mass media including our TV. The training
purpose is create a team that will be pioneer
and change agents to use the investigative
journalism techniques to influence the
people and support them for social and
political change

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Project Manager: Consulate This project targets establishing a joint- 1/10/2020

General of the PhD degree in Computer Science between To
Developing a Joint Graduate
United States Georgia State University (GSU( and Al-Quds 30/9/2023
degree & a Joint Research
of America, Open University (QOU( and to promote joint
Program
Jerusalem research in Computer Science between
the two universities. In order to achieve this
goal, QOU and GSU will work together on
developing the curricula for the joint-degree
program and on the capacity building
of the faculty at QOU to administer and
run their part of the program. The main
role of GSU is to share its expertise in
curricula development and to provide any
necessary pedagogical training to QOU
faculty. Establishing such program stemmed
from the fact that both QOU and GSU are
committed to globalization of education. In
addition, in line with the Palestinian national
strategy of promoting scientific research and
encouraging innovation.

Project Manager: Belgian This project aims to build the capacity 1/8/2021
Development of young Palestinian youth especially To
Skilled Young Palestine -
Agency in (vulnerable youth and adolescents( in the 31/3/2023
Improving Resilience and Job
cooperation field of the 21st century skills (employment
opportunities for Youth
with the Ministry and resilience tracks( and to be able to
of Labor compete in national, regional, and global
markets.
And to provide the youth, especially
disadvantage female with flexible facilities
at their doorsteps to develop project ideas
in a collaborative learning environment, by
directing them to financial products.
Project Manager: UNESCO The project aim to provide a comprehensive 1/10/2021
analysis of the media sector, mainly public To
Assessing Media Institutions
Strategic Management and and private media institutions, including 1/9/2022
Extending Media Information TV and radio stations, newspapers, online
Literacy in the Palestinian news agencies, and PR companies, in order
Higher Education to understand how these institutions are
incorporating strategic management into
their work as a method of achieving viability.
Furthermore, the project aim to extend
Media Information literacy education in
higher education institutions, mainly among
media students, through two outcomes:
interactive training for students from many
local universities; and authoring a specialized
book in media literacy.
Project Manager: UNESCO The project aims to conduct needs and 5/8/2020
gap assessment for MoE, to help and To
Supporting Distance support the establishment of an Educational 20/8/2020
Learning in Palestine through TV broadcast channel to ensure the
the Establishment of an continuation of teaching and learning to all
Educational TV broadcast children and youth in Palestine during the
Channel for the Ministry of COVID-19 pandemic.
Higher Education.

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Project Manager: ACTED This project is implemented in partnership 10/9/2020

With MA’AN with Information and Communication To
Interactive Content 2/5/2021
Digitalization Development Technology Center, the open learning Center
Center within and the Continuing Education Center to
a project titled help in creating, designing and supporting
“Supporting the delivery of digital contents-courses to
sustainable the project platform (Moodle(. In addition,
and inclusive to build the capabilities in this area that
growth in the will benefit wide range of unemployed
Palestinian young graduates and young Palestinian
territory through entrepreneurs.
digital inclusion”

SELECTED PROJECTS

 Supervising Authoring the First Arabic OER reference https://tinyurl.com/yblavo4r (2018)

 Implementing and releasing 17 mobile course for QOU on google play (https://tinyurl.com/y72malhh)
(2017-2020)
 Landing the University OER Team (https://www.oercongress.org/event/arab/) (2017)
 Implementing privet university slides sharing portal for eLearning purposes (https://slideshare.qou.edu/)
(2017)
 Implementing a privet university MOOC portal based on EDX with 7 moocs (https://tadreeb.qou.edu/)
(2017)
 Development of university digital repository for QOU university with more than 30,000 asset. (https://
dspace.qou.edu/) (2017)
 Development of university video tube portal with more than 2000 educational videos developed within the
university (https://qtube.qou.edu/) (2016)
 Development of content development criteria for eLearning content (2016).
 Development of collaborative book authoring tools based on share point (2015).
 Supervising External Cooperation Programs, Ministry of finance, Financial Training Center, (2013) .
 Supervising QIF Projects (2012)
 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 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).

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International and National Activities

 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).
 System Architecture 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.
 Supporting National Institute on Standards SINCE 2011.
 PICTI Startups commission 2013.
 Supporting international council on distance education ICDE.
 Member of UNESCO international Council on education.

Professional skills and Trainee Skills

Elearning

 Working with several content Authoring technologies.

 Working with Several LMS technologies (Moodle, Canvas, LMS 365).
 Working with several Content technologies (tincan, SCORM, AICC). With several content management
systems.
 Working with Several virtual classroom technologies (BBB, WizIQ, illuminate, Zoom, Google meeting,
MSTeams).
 Working with several evaluation technologies.
 Working with several educational mobile technologies.
 Supervising building pedagogies, teaching and learning plans on large scale.

Project Management

 Working on project planning, resource allocation, monitoring planning, and deliverables definitions.
 Exploiting IT technologies in Project management(MS-project, SharePoint, IRIS, primavera).
 Products Development plans for privet sector.
 Building and revising project documents and frameworks for several organizations.

IT Strategic Planning

 Defining Major organizational Tracks of IT.

 Conducting full gap analysis.
 defining IT roadmap with project portfolios with budgets.
 monitoring projects from strategic viewpoints.
 Define ERP systems frameworks.

Note: Based on ISO, ITIL or COBET standards

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Cisco Systems

 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 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 cach-
ing 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

 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 auto-
matic 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

 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.
 CyperGuage.

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Selected Certificates & Professional

 IEEE Online ITEL training 2011

 ITIL Service Strategy
 ITIL Service Design
 ITIL Service Transition
 ITIL Service Operation
 ITIL Continual Service Improvement
 Microsoft Certified since 2002
 Digital Video Transmission over internet certificate, Birzeit University, Palestine 2004
 Debian Linux Training, Al-Quds Open University, 2003

PROGRAMMING SKILLS

 Microsoft office, Open Office, adobe office tools, Open Office.

 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).

MEMBERSHIPS

 EUROSIP.
 ACM.
 IEEE Member.
 Palestinian Engineers League.

LANGUAGES

 English, TOFEL, IBT 106.

 French, Basic.
 Hebrew, Moderate.

Note: All References are available upon request.

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