Ed Hartley Email & Phone Number

Baldock, Gb

Ipswich, England, United Kingdom

Evaluated and assessed new potential security products for inclusion in the company’s Security Product Stack for External Customers.Conducted strategic Proof of Concept (PoC) and Proof of Value (PoV) trials with external vendors, swiftly identifying if products would be suitable for addition to the BT Product Portfolio for resale. Presented findings to senior-level stakeholders.Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Palo Alto Networks, supporting the MSP Product Launch of Strata Cloud Manager and Prisma AccessLed and Designed Palo Alto Authentication and Authorisation process for integration with BT Process and Standards.Managed dedicated lab, enabling rapid deployment and rigorous testing of new security solutions.

London Area, United Kingdom

Led the Delivery and Architecture of BT’s Internal SIEM platform, and deployed Splunk Security Architecture to support both the internal BT Logging and several external customer contracts.BT’s primary Splunk Security Expert for over 9 years leading the delivery within BT, to collate logs from 140K devices, delivering BT’s internal logging, monitoring and SIEM capability.Delivered customer-facing Splunk platforms within BT, to support both Security and PCI Regulations.BT lead for presenting to Government and PCI Accreditors on BT’s Logging and Monitoring of systems.Integrated Splunk with over 50 different technologies, ingesting logs and then designing and developing Technical Add-Ons to extract relevant data to ensure compliance with the Common Information Model and Security Tools.

London Area, United Kingdom

Worked within the Physical Security team as Design and Technical Deployment Manager, looking at multiple in-flight projects and programs concurrently.Took over the Project Management of two long-running BT Physical Security Projects, one to uplift Physical Access Management solutions and the other to uplift the security of BT Physical Access Racks.Led a review of the projects current position, costs to date and future costs. Engaged with Senior Stakeholders and recommended that both projects be ceased due to a lack of clear business requirements to justify the future costs.

London Area, United Kingdom

Technical Infrastructure, Security and Operations Manager for the BusinessLink Programme.Led the Network and Architecture Designs for a Secure Government Website.Responsible for designing and delivering Infrastructure and Applications to support in-house web development software.Led BT’s Security Accreditation to comply with the required National Security requirements. Represented BT in the HMRC Joint Security Working Group.Managed the day-to-day security of Businesslink.gov.uk Managed Service.

Baldock, England, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

Security Industry Authority - Technical Design: Assisted in delivering a disaster recovery platform for the Security Industry Authority (SIA), before staying on as Technical Design Authority, overseeing all platforms and applications.Customer Satisfaction Solutions - Collaborated with Syntegra Directors to deliver technical and business solutions for the Insight Customer Satisfaction Program.NHS Messaging Support - Supported over 40,000 employees across 4,000 sites within Syntegra’s NHS Messaging System supporting over a million transactions per month.SettleNET Upgrade - Contributed to a major upgrade of SettleNET, serving over 200 customers with 700 pieces of equipment.Telecom RED DSP Development - Created new testing tools for the Telecom RED DSP project.