Summary
William M is a systems engineer and academic leader with over 11 years of experience bridging cybersecurity, networking education, and IT project management. He holds a PhD in Systems Engineering, an MSc in Strategic IT Management, PMP and ITIL Foundation certifications, and serves as Director of the Professional School of Informatics at Universidad Nacional Agraria de la Selva. As a senior pentester and team lead at Open-Sec, he combines practical offensive security skills (eWPT, (C)PTE, OSEH) with extensive hands-on instruction as a long-standing Cisco and Huawei academy instructor (CCNP/CCNA/HCIA). He has led institutional IT governance and security projects, contributed to national telecom standardization (INACAL), and regularly presents at international security conferences across Latin America. Beyond teaching and consulting, he authors academic work and mentors graduate students in thesis seminars and applied security research, demonstrating a rare blend of classroom pedagogy and field-tested red-team expertise. Based in Peru, he is an IEEE senior member who consistently integrates academic rigor with pragmatic, auditor-friendly security assessments.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master en Dirección Estratégica de TI, Master en Dirección Estratégica de TI at Universidad de Piura
New Horizons Computer Learning Center of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
CCNP|CCNA|CCNASec, CCNP|CCNA|CCNASec at Cisco Networking Academy
Project Management Professional Certification (PMP), Project Management Professional Certification (PMP) at New Horizon Peru
Doctor, Doctor at Universidad Nacional del Centro del Perú