Technical Director with a focus on providing leadership and consultancy for the cyber security of manufacturing and other industrial networks.

Security consultant specialising in design and implementation of technical security controls in industrial networks.

Carrying out security consultancy within Enterprise Security Services. Recent assignments include analysis of Industrial Control System network security for remote operating sites within the oil and gas industry, service design for a patch management solution in the finance industry, authoring a recommendations paper for a public sector security operations capability within a central government department, detailed assessment of resilience to ransomware within specific environments and recommendations for improvements.

Specialising in third party security compliance - in particular the application of internal client security policies to the vendor landscape. Part of a 'Service Introduction' team charged with understanding client requirements from contractual and policy documents and translating these into a clear, measurable assessment question set that can be applied to the supply chain in order to assess compliance. Developing, documenting, and operating clear and effective processes before hand over to BAU teams for ongoing run operations.

Working on a project designing processes to support more efficient provisioning of physical and virtual assets..

Currently working on the transition and transformation of Managed Communications and Collaboration into T-Systems. Specific responsibility for IT Service Continuity Management and Operational Risk & Compliance.Based in the T-Systems offices in Hannover, Germany.

I am joint owner and Director of Ty-Casa Ltd (trading as Belvoir Stoke-on-Trent) with my business partner Alejandra Garcia Hernandez.Our company delivers excellent service to Landlords and Tenants in Stoke-on-Trent (postcodes ST1, ST2 & ST3). We are driving professionalism through the rental sector by ensuring our Landlords are aware of, and compliant with, the minefield of legislation impacting the private rented sector.

Team leader within the IT Service Continuity Management team with GRCB Technology; managing a team of Disaster Recovery specialists. Involved in planning, executing and reporting on Disaster Recovery testing for all bank systems across a number of key Data Centres.Platforms include Mainframe, Tandem, & Mid-Tier (Windows / UNIX).Testing includes major invocation rehearsals with off-line mainframe recovery and mid-tier recovery. Also plan, execute and report on live switching exercises involving key authorisation and payments systems.

Planned, managed and reported on End-to-End DR Testing in a diverse enterprise using UNIX, Windows, SAP, Oracle and Informix.Managed teams of up to five engineers on IT DR Tests at customer sites throughout the UK and Europe.Wrote Service Continuity Plans for campus sites in the UK and Europe.Was involved in an invocation of Disaster Recovery Plans for a UK Head Office site following a server room power failure.

Third line support of windows server estate in excess of 2,000 servers. Implemented capacity monitoring and planning to manage data growth across the windows server estate.Carried out capacity upgrades at sites in Europe using SAN technology.Conducted technical recovery work for a number of Disaster Recovery exercises and one invocation.

Third line support for Windows 2000 Server estate. Primarily supporting the Learning Skills Council contract.Specific responsibility for enterprise backups using Veritas NetBackup.

Desktop engineer supporting a user base of 550, mainly technical, staff. Duties included administration of NT4 Servers running File, Print, WINS, DNS, DHCP, FTP and WEB services.

Provided installation and technical support to ICL customers including the Post Office, Medicines Control Agency, St Helens Schools, and the Department of Health. Led small teams on PC roll out projects at various sites in the UK.

Windows 95 desktop support engineer managing a network of around 60 desktops. Assisted with all IT support tasks including some basic UNIX server administration.

Security cleared communications analyst.Service included a ten-month attachment with the US Air Force supporting a NATO wide computer system.Served with UNPROFOR during the Balkan conflict in 1994 installing and supporting IT equipment in Sarajevo and training Canadian UN troops in Zagreb.Spent an eighteen month tour with the Defence Intelligence Staff as an intelligence analyst in the Old War Office and six months with 33SU in Cyprus at RAF Ayios Nikolaos.