Ali El Moussaoui [MBA, CCIE], Instructor

Ali El Moussaoui [MBA, CCIE]

Instructor

Lebanese University

Location
Lebanon
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
19 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 6 Months

Instructor at Lebanese University
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since September 2010

• IPTV course for Masters in Audio Visual
• Graduate final project supervision

Head of Network Operations at Tell International
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since January 2015

• Research and analyze new trends within the telecommunications industry and provide recommendations for developing new technical solutions.
• Support the Business Development Unit in presenting the technical aspects of company services and solutions.
• Manage resource allocation and ensure meeting timelines
• Prepare projects requirements and negotiate offers and contract terms with suppliers
• Prepare budget requirement for various types of projects

Network Manager at Tell International
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • March 2011 to December 2014

• Lead network department to ensure 24/7 availability of TELL NGN network spread over 3 continents in 8 countries
• Design, implement, maintain and document TELL network/NGN projects
• Manage and optimize all different types of WAN links (Fiber, satellite and microwave)
• Evaluate and resolve capacity and performance issues
• Manage resource allocation and ensure meeting timelines
• Prepare projects requirements and negotiate offers and contract terms with suppliers
• Prepare budget requirement for various types of projects
• Prepare and present Revenue Assurance, FMS and STP solutions for several telecom regularity bodies in Africa.
• Conduct regular training sessions for the network team
• Projects:
o NGN deployments for several African operators and incumbents including Sotelgui (Guinea), Gamtel (Gambia), SCPT (DRC), Africell (DRC), Onatel (Burundi), IOLA (South Africa), Sahelcom (Niger) and Novafone (Liberia)
o Data Traffic monitoring and policy enforcement for the Gambia regulatory authority
o Novafone (Liberia) IP network recovery and migration
o Revenue assurance and Traffic Control for Niger telecom regulatory authority
o TELL AS and IPv4 subnet acquisition through LACNIC
o Service delivery for TELL POP in London @ Epsilon Global Hubs
o Service delivery for TELL POP in Munich @ Level3 Gateway
o TELL VPN and IP Telephony

Senior Network Engineer at Orange Business Services
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • January 2009 to February 2011

• Operate state-of-the-art Beirut Central District triple play MPLS Metro network
• Ensure first class services for Beirut Central District customers (L2VPN, L3VPN, VPLS, Internet Access, IPTV, CUCM, CUE & IPCCX)
• Provide design for network changes and upgrades
• Develop and write LLD, NIP and NRFU documents
• Transfer of Information (ToI) workshops for customers engineers
• Provide Post Implementation support in execution of NRFU
• Hands-on Cisco 7600, 3750ME, 28xx, 4400, IPS, FWSM, ASA, CSS115xx & Bluecoat ProxySG
• Monitor network stability and performance - ensuring 24x7 operations and resolving service impacts as they occur.
• Extensive experience with different network management systems (Ciscoworks, EMC, Centreon..)

QA SoftwareEngineer (Intern) at Cisco Systems Inc.
  • United States
  • June 2008 to December 2008

• Provision CUCM, integrate with other Cisco Unified Communication set up an end to end system for feature/functionality/system testing
• Extensive Hands-on experience with Cisco Routers, Switches, CUCM & CUE
• Contribute in writing and executing test plans
• Use of Rally to utilize the Agile Development techniques in project management
• Demonstrate team work and drive towards a successful execution of the project

Network Enginner at Spectrum Holding
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • December 2004 to May 2008

• Managed The Gambia international voice gateway (TDM & VoIP)
• Designed and implemented different data and voice networks
• Lead Billing task force resulting in 30% increase in collection
• Shared in valuation and due diligence of GAMTELl with DETECON team
• Installed an advanced NMS based on Linux and open source products (cacti, nagios, nagvision..)
• Delivered technical documentations for all conducted projects (NIP & LLD)
• Trained Gambia Telecom NOC engineers
• Hands-on Cisco 45xx, AS53XX and Entice Softswitch CSP
• Maintained excellent relationships with carriers and suppliers

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at American University of Beirut
  • June 2014
Diploma, CCAI
  • at Cisco
  • December 2010

Cisco Certified Academy Instructor

Diploma, CCIE #22302
  • at Cisco
  • October 2008

CCIE R&S

Diploma, Softswitch
  • at Datatronics
  • November 2007

3 weeks training on CSP and ENTICE

Diploma, CCNP
  • at Cisco
  • April 2007
Diploma, CCNA
  • at Cisco
  • October 2005
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Beirut Arab University
  • June 2004
Diploma, MCP - Microsoft certified professional
  • at ACT
  • April 2004

Specialties & Skills

Telecommunications
Project Management
Optimization
Strong experience in different networking protocols
Experience with Windows XP and Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server administration
Excellent experience with Cisco devices (Routing & Switching)

Languages

English
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Arabic
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