Andrew Pollock Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, QLD, AU

Mountain View, CA, US

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/03/osv-and-vulnerability-life-cycle.html

Mountain View, CA, US

https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/shared-success-in-building-a-safer-open-source-community/

Mountain View, CA, US

Led and grew the team responsible for protecting Google's internal usage of GCP, by choosing appropriate technical security controls to deploy, deploying them, managing exemption criteria and related workflows and remediation of non-compliance

Mountain View, CA, US

Brisbane, AU

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I work on packaging free and open source software for integration into a Linux distribution. In the past, I also worked on providing a degree of quality assurance in the distribution. You can view the packages that I maintain at http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=apollock

Auchenflower, QLD, AU

GL with Kurilpa Scout Group, responsible for all aspects of the group's operations, managing leaders of youth in 5 youth sections.

Auchenflower, QLD, AU

AGL with Kurilpa Scout Group, responsible for membership management.Implemented direct debit with Paypa Plane to streamline fee collection

Oversaw financial operations for the P&C, which turned over $750K+ in 2016, and successfully passed its annual audit with no qualifications.Implemented G Suite for the P&C to improve communications and provide P&C owned tools for collaboration and consistency.Drove improvements in compliance with the Accounting Manual.

Mountain View, CA, US

After relocating to Brisbane and transferring off Prodimage, I rejoined the Security team in a Security Engineering role. I worked on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance related work, remediating issues found in the Prodimage from the 2013 first-half audit. I also worked on automating some of the auditing infrastructure for future audits.I devised a system bulk.

Mountain View, CA, US

I joined the team responsible for the maintenance of the OS image that runs on all of Google's production servers (Prodimage). This was at the tail end of the time it was being transitioned (in place) from being based on Red Hat Linux 7.1 to something based off of Debian. This was much more of a software engineering role.I was responsible for assisting.

Mountain View, CA, US

I was invited to join a new Systems Administration team within the Security team, for maintaining security-sensitive services. I took over management of Google's Network IDS infrastructure, which was present in every Google office. I upgraded the (Goobuntu) operating system on all of them from an OS derived from Ubuntu 6.06 to Ubuntu 10.04, also.

Mountain View, CA, US

In Q2 of 2007, I was asked to act as the tech lead for Goobuntu (Workstation), while the current tech lead was on paternity leave. Goobuntu was the Google-customised Ubuntu Linux distribution used on all Engineering desktops and some Corporate Servers. From Q3 onwards, I remained in this role in a permanent capacity until the end of 2009.During my time.

Mountain View, CA, US

Responsible for the maintenance and management of Mongoogle, a now retired bespoke distributed monitoring system that was used for black box and white box monitoring of some of Google's Corporate and Production servers. This was a Python code base, which made heavy use of threading. I was responsible for the maintenance of the code, management of releases.

I am a volunteer system administrator for Linux Australia, the organisation that provides the legal umbrella for linux.conf.au as well as providing assistance with a number of other Free and Open Source software related activities.

US

I worked in Professional Services, assisting with the ongoing development and maintanence of the Australian Taxation Office's Internet gateway. The role required a Highly Protected security clearance.

I was a member of the linux.conf.au 2005 organising committee. I was a general dogsbody for most of the leadup to the conference, with my main contributions being to peripheral work on the conference program and website, with a sizable technical contribution to the conference infrastructure setup and administration immediately preceding and during the.

US

I assisted with the management and maintenance of a Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) accredited highly redundant Internet gateway, serving multiple Australian Federal Government agencies.I worked in the Network Operations Centre, and was responsible for resolving escalated client faults, planning and implementation of complex client change requests and.

Asia Online acquired Brisbane Internet Technology, and I worked on the company's ambitious Accounting, Billing and Customer Care project, which endeavoured to migrate all of the acquired ISPs over to a common, custom built CRM and billing system consisting of Vantive and Portal Infranet.I led the team responsible for the maintenance of infrastructure this.

I was responsible for managing the employees responsible for the technical operations of the Internet Service Provider, and setting the general technical direction of the company's infrastructure. I was also an escalation point for technical support, and assisted with general systems administration duties, as well as some software development of internal.

Brisbane, Qld, AU

I was part of the team that oversaw the day-to-day operation of the Brisbane City Council's Unisys and IBM mainframes. I assisted with demand and batch processing, offsite backup tape movements, and print and plot production.

Bachelor Of Information Technology, Software Development

Bachelor Of Information Technology

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