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
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  • contact@williamghoussoub.com
  • www.williamghoussoub.com
  • Lebanon

Skills

    • OSI
    • L1-L3
    • TCP/IP
    • HTTP
      Architecture
    • Campus
    • WAN
    • Edge
    • Data Center/Cloud
      Tools
    • Docker
    • Rest APIs
    • Python
      Security
    • Next Generation FW
    • Proxy FW
    • Packet FW
    • Stateful FW
    • Load balancers
    • IDS/IPS
    • Application secure development
      OEMs
    • Cisco
    • Palo Alto
    • Extreme
    • Huawei
    • Meraki

Languages

  • Arabic
    Native
  • English
    C1
  • French
    C1

Diplomas

  • Cisco Certified Design Prof. (2013)
  • Cisco Certified Network Prof.(2012)

Interests

  • Running
  • Basket-ball
  • Reading
  • Swimming
  • Football
  • Chess