William Ghoussoub
Profile
Senior Network Security Engineer with over 15 years of experience in designing, implementing, operating and securing enterprise network infrastructure. Key Network and Security Operations activities I handle are configuration and management of security and network devices, monitoring their health and performance to avoid network downtime, in parallel with network traffic inspection and secure applications development to minimize vulnerabilities and defend against all kinds of cyber security threats.
Experience
Internet City - Major tech innovation hub
Dubai, UAE
IT and Telecom Networking freelancer
Jan 2021 - Present
- Network Implementation Lead of a wireless consolidation project across all territories of a major retail and hospitality conglomerate with more than 300 interconnected stores focused on network security and minimum business impact (Remote Work)
- SSID Wireless Consolidation
- Secure Wireless Applications
NCR Corporation - Banking and e-commerce solutions
Dubai, UAE
Senior Network Engineer
2015 - 2020
- NCR global partners in-country representative (AT&T, BT, Cisco)
- Design and implement multivendor network solutions
- Manage the deployment of large scale, complex, network projects
- Level 2/3 support in Routing, Switching, Wireless, Security
- Routing
- Switching
- Wireless
- Network Security
NCR Corporation
Dubai, UAE
Network Engineer
2009-2014
- NCR representative for all of Dubai local customers
- Design, implement, and support multivendor network solutions
- Conduct projects pre-implementation site surveys
- Complete regular full network health checks
- Design
- Implement
- Support
- Manage
NCR Corporation
Dubai, UAE
Resident Engineer / Customer Engineer
2006-2009
- NCR's single point of contact for a prominent government client
- Handling support calls and network installations for local customers
- Net Ops
FiberLink - Internet Serivice Provider
Beirut, Lebanon
NOC WAN Engineer
2001-2003
- Internet Service Provider environment experience
- Optimize and operate large multi-vendor ISP network
- Network Operation Center NOC / Helpdesk setting experience
- ISP NOC
- Helpdesk
Dataconsult - Network Solutions Provider
Beirut, Lebanon
Network Engineer
1999-2001
- Installation of different types of Wide Area Networks solutions
- Network support of the corporate / banking customer base
- Installation and support of a Unified Communications software
- Primary owner of a software security solution created for banks
- Unified Communications
- Secure Banking Solutions
Education
B.S. in Telecommunications and Computer Science
Saint Joseph University of Beirut - Lebanon
Oct 1995 - Jun 1999
Maitrise en Réseaux Informatiques
- contact@williamghoussoub.com
- www.williamghoussoub.com
- Lebanon
Skills
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OSI
- L1-L3
- TCP/IP
- HTTP
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Architecture
- Campus
- WAN
- Edge
- Data Center/Cloud
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Tools
- Docker
- Rest APIs
- Python
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Security
- Next Generation FW
- Proxy FW
- Packet FW
- Stateful FW
- Load balancers
- IDS/IPS
- Application secure development
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OEMs
- Cisco
- Palo Alto
- Extreme
- Huawei
- Meraki
Languages
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ArabicNative
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EnglishC1
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FrenchC1
Diplomas
- Cisco Certified Design Prof. (2013)
- Cisco Certified Network Prof.(2012)
Interests
- Running
- Basket-ball
- Reading
- Swimming
- Football
- Chess