Tier-3 Huntsman Security is a global provider of security analytics solutions to government, law enforcement, utilities, financial services and MSP/MSSP's. I sit on the leadership team and am involved in defining the strategy of the business, product development, sales and marketing.I oversee all UK and EMEA technical services, consultancy and pre-sales operations delivered by a team of permanent and contracting staff. This includes regional product software development and the translation of compliance standards (GPG-13, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, EU GDPR) into product functionality. I am also the regional CIO/CISO responsible for the security and availability of the business within EMEA.Responsibilities - Business Development and Operations --- Strategic direction and delivery of technical operations within UK and EMEA --- Partner technical on-boarding, management and development - Pre-Sales and Technical Operations --- Development and delivery of training and consultancy services --- Accountable for professional service delivery and customer support/service standards and targets --- Solution architect and technical writer for tender and bid responses - Product definition and development --- Liaising with overseas R&D team to communicate customer product requirements/issues --- Technical author for all product manuals and guides - Regional CIO and Information Security Officer --- Internal systems, security controls, policies and procedures securing data and assets --- Compliance with EU and UK Government security and data protection regulations --- Core member of Huntsman global CIRT team - Thought leader and speaker for Huntsman at industry events and discussion panels

Lead for Huntsman Security's involvement in the development of STIX/TAXII & OpenC2 standards

Sapphire Technologies is a security value added reseller supplying leading security products and services including ISO27001, CLAS and CHECK compliance consultancy and penetration testing.Responsibilities - Streamlining of business operations and processes - Thought leader representing Sapphire at industry events and discussion panels - Vendor management and development

Business founder leading the company as part of the management team and defining business strategies including services, sales, marketing and finance. Over 9 years the business grew from 5 to 20 staff with a turnover of £3-4M. Assurix provided cyber security consultancy, services and solutions to a broad range of clients across Government, Finance, Banking, Retail and Legal organisations. As CIO / CISO I was responsible for the IT strategy, technical operation, and security of the business and its data.Responsibilities - Business Management and Operations --- Financial systems, accounts and reporting --- Vendor on-boarding, management and development - CIO / CISO / Technical Director --- Technical strategy, operation and management of the business and its systems --- Development and implementation of security strategy to support business objectives --- Compliance with legal/regulatory requirements --- Definition of security controls providing confidentiality, integrity and availability of data --- Staff development, training and mentoring - Pre-Sales / Technical Operations --- Service delivery and customer service standards --- Operational management of a team of consultants delivering services to customers --- Development and delivery of training and consultancy services --- Solution architect and technical writer for tender and bid responses - Thought leader representing Assurix at industry events and discussion panelsAchievements - Ground up implementation of customer service desk operation and processes - Built technical pre-sales/consultancy teams - Built a managed services operation for bespoke services to SME customers - Implemented virtualised infrastructure hosting business services - Disaster recovery and backup strategy providing users access to corporate data and services - Deployed a global security solution to 5,000 users across 50 sites to provide secure, resilient connectivity whilst reducing cost and operating overheads

Diagonal Secure Networks was a large security value added reseller created from the purchase of CenturyCom and three other security service and reseller businesses. It provided services to a wide range of organisations including the Banking, Finance, Legal and Retail sectors.As a senior security consultant I provided security design, implementation and compliance (PCI-DSS, GSi, CoCo) consultancy.Responsibilities - Technical Account Manager for large corporate clients - Large scale enterprise security architecture design and implementation management - Security auditing and compliance consultancyAchievements - Drove the modernisation and efficiency of tender, RFI, RFP and proposal process, reducing response times and costs by up to 50%

Diagonal Secure Networks was a large security value added reseller created from the purchase of CenturyCom and three other security service and reseller businesses. It provided services to a wide range of organisations including the Banking, Finance, Legal and Retail sectors.Responsibilities - Operational management of the engineering team, delivering support, installation and consultancy services - Maintaining service delivery and customer service standards - Technical development, training and mentoring of engineers - Management and support of corporate IT and security systemsAchievements - Design and management of the merge of four separate businesses IT systems and networks - Modernisation and deployment of a new corporate wide IT security infrastructure

CenturyCom was an IT security value added reseller providing leading solutions and services to all types of organisation, before being purchased by Diagonal Security. I was responsible for delivering: - Enterprise security architecture design and implementation - Security consultancy, auditing, compliance and penetration testing services

Provided support and services to end customers and partners on all aspects of deployment, integration and operation of leading security solutions.

Part of the network and security operations team, performing management, monitoring and incident response across multiple networks on dispersed sites serving over 5000 users.