As the founder of Metis Security, I am passionate about empowering businesses with comprehensive cybersecurity solutions that deliver tangible benefits. With a focus on both business and technical outcomes, I collaborate closely with clients to achieve their security goals and drive success in the digital landscape.Strategic Cybersecurity Planning: By developing tailored cybersecurity strategies, I help businesses mitigate risks, protect their assets, and build resilience. Through a deep understanding of your organisation's unique challenges and objectives, I deliver proactive recommendations that enable you to make informed decisions and stay ahead of threats.Holistic Risk Management: I assist businesses in establishing robust risk management frameworks that align with industry best practices and regulatory requirements. By identifying and prioritising potential vulnerabilities, I enable you to effectively allocate resources, reduce exposure, and maintain the trust of your stakeholders.Enhanced Security Posture: Through comprehensive assessments and evaluations, I provide insights into your digital infrastructure's security posture. By identifying weaknesses and implementing targeted improvements, I help you strengthen defences, safeguard sensitive data, and enhance customer confidence.By partnering with Metis Security, you gain direct access to my expertise, industry knowledge, and personalised attention. Together, we can navigate the complex cybersecurity landscape, address vulnerabilities, and optimise your security investments.

As a technical delivery consultant, I held a dual role as the Proposition Manager for NCC Group's Professional Service division, where I played a key role in driving the strategic direction and value proposition of our global consultancy offerings. I was responsible for developing and refining technical service definitions, as well as crafting effective go-to-market strategies to ensure our offerings resonated with our clients.Working closely with business unit heads and service owners, I collaborated to ensure that our consulting offerings remained up-to-date, aligned with industry best practices, and appropriately supported our clients' needs. This involved conducting thorough market research, analysing client feedback, and leveraging my technical expertise to shape the value proposition of our services.In this role, I successfully coordinated cross-functional teams, facilitated collaborative discussions, and led initiatives to enhance the overall quality and effectiveness of our consulting offerings. By fostering strong relationships with stakeholders and internal teams, I ensured that our services were positioned strategically in the market and delivered exceptional value to our clients.

As the leader of the Security Alliance service portfolio, I was responsible for the overall development, management, and delivery of our comprehensive range of information security services. With a strong focus on quality and excellence, Security Alliance has been serving clients since its establishment in 2007, consistently delivering award-winning security testing and monitoring services.In my role, I successfully managed assessment activities, ensuring the seamless execution of projects and the delivery of high-quality results to our clients. This involved overseeing the assessment process, coordinating with internal teams and external stakeholders, and ensuring adherence to industry standards and best practices.Building and maintaining strong partner and supplier relationships was a crucial aspect of my responsibilities. I cultivated collaborative partnerships with trusted industry players, enabling us to offer a diverse range of complementary services and leverage their expertise to enhance our offerings.One of the notable achievements during my tenure was leading the CREST technical working group that created the Cyber Essentials testing specification. This initiative involved collaborating with industry experts to develop a comprehensive framework that has become a benchmark for evaluating cybersecurity practices and providing essential guidance to organisations seeking to enhance their security posture.

Responsible for end to end penetration and audit activities for one of BT’s largest Government accredited platforms* Liaison with senior and middle managers across the business to provide direction on governance functions such as compliance, audit and risk management against BT, regulatory and HMG standards. * Development of security assessment business practices – including documentation, methodologies and process automation.* Matrix project management experience of large scale deployments as well as direct line management experience.* Initiated and saw though to completion numerous initiatives that improve both efficiency and governance from initial requirement scoping through to remediation and the uplift of lessons learnt into the business.* Delivery of CHECK engagements* Extensive experience of managing 3rd party providers.

Project management and technical delivery of large scale security assessment and risk management engagements, primarily HMG and financial clients.* Technical and business account management* Head of the Business Process Centre of Excellence* Embedded as a subject matter expert in a large investment bank providing architecture and general security guidance.* Regular contributing author for the Elsevier’s Network Security Journal

Responsible for the selling, project management and technical delivery of security assessment services, primarily financials and retail.* Technical security assessment, architecture review and penetration testing consulting. * Development of specialist vendor-neutral ISS training course – Ethical Hacking* Delivered a number of training modules on the MSc Information Security course at RHUL.* Lead the initial design, assessment and subsequent security monitoring of the Athens Olympics Internet facing environment.

Senior administrator responsibly for the MS Windows, Solaris & networking environments in the UK

Responsible for the corporate and store MS Windows and networking environments

Provided technical support to business and consumer customers.