Part of the Threat Detection and Response (TD&R) team in Cisco’s Secure Network Analytics (SNA NDR) business unit. As a global Technical Marketing Engineer, responsible for driving partner enablement and field readiness, ensuring alignment with messaging, building mindshare, and educating customers on all things for Secure Network Analytics. Also quantify competitive characteristics with those of competitors for internal stakeholders, transforming deep product analysis into concrete and compelling collateral and functional comparison whitepapers, presentations, and demos. Delivering customer webcasts, author technology blog posts, design and maintain product demo labs, and create customer and partner training content. Frequently interact with customers and partners to provide use case insights and analysis to product management and engineering teams.Key achievements- SANs GIAC Certified Incident Handler Certification (GCIH)(July 2024)

Relocated from the UK to Singapore to be part of Cisco’s Advanced Threat Solutions (ATS) division, which is a leading provider of network visibility and security intelligence products for the private network, public cloud (AWS, GCP and Azure) and Containers (GKE – Kubernetes) to protect organisations against today’s top threats. By analysing NetFlow, IPFIX, VPC flow logs, NSG2 logs and other types of network telemetry, our NDR (Stealthwatch/Secure Network Analytics) solution delivers Context-Aware Security Analytics to quickly detect a wide range of attacks from APTs and DDoS to zero-day malware and insider threats. Part of the Secure Workload (Tetration) and Analytics (Stealthwatch) team for ASEAN, ANZ & Korea. Role & Responsibilities-Provided pre-and post-sales assistance.-Responsible for building XDR/NDR, cloud labs, demoing and creating bill of materials that meet the customer’s security requirements.- Conducted XDR/NDR proof of concepts.- Educated customers and partners on XDR/NDR.Key achievements- ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (May 2022)- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals - AZ900 (Mar 2021)- AWS Certified Security - Specialty (Feb 2021)- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (Apr 2020)- FY19 Sales Champion (Aug 2019)- Talker/presenter at AWS Summit Singapore (Apr 2019)- Talos Champion (Apr 2019)- Global Stealthwatch CSE of the Quarter (Mar 2019) - Cisco SDA PoV Certification (Jan 2019)- Won the APJC Award (for amazing wins May 2018 & May 2019)

Role & Responsibilities- Worked mainly with the Cisco UK and Ireland sales teams as a Consulting Systems Engineer for the Global Security Sales Organization (GSSO) - The main objectives were to provide support on Lancope and NaaS/NaaE/ISE/TRUSTSEC opportunities and so being a Cyber Threat Defence (CTD) architect for the various teams- Responsible for building Lancope labs, demoing, creating BOMs, and managing Cisco/Lancope security POCs- A secondary part of the role was about empowerment and education of fellow Cisco SEs and sales teams, providing them with a better foundation for them to be confident enough to articulate the Cisco/Lancope security story to their customersKey achievements- Cisco acquired Lancope in December 2015 (for $452.5 million USD) and integrated Lancope into the Security Business group.- Awarded Lancope team player of the year for 2015.- Presented NetFlow Security Monitoring at Cisco Live in Berlin 2016 (BRKSEC-2073).- SE of the Quarter for Q1 2016.- UK Security Check (SC) cleared, expires 2026

Role & Responsibilities- Reported to the Global Technical Director and World-Wide VP Sales; main objectives are providing pre-sales technical and consultative support across EMEA to prospects and customers as well as developing technical relationships with partners and end users including enablement services and training- Supported large, enterprise and mid-tier partners including working with the world's leading enterprises, telecommunications manufacturers and service providers to evangelize Entuity’s products across the EMEA region- Utilized strong technical , communication and customer relationship building skills to articulate the value and power of Entuity products to both partners and prospects in a wide range of scenarios- Worked closely with sales, partners and prospects to understand business needs and requirements to scope a solution and deliver successful proof of concepts that lead to sales generation- Responsible for product demonstrations, in-depth explanations of product functionality, implementation, support and running proof-of-concepts- Attended prospect and customer meetings to support the EMEA sales team as well as presenting the Entuity value proposition and demonstrating the solution to meet with the client expectations- Engaged in scheduling and execution of evaluations (POCs); designing and specifying global architectural solutionsKey achievements- Requested by strategic partner territory managers to attend customer events and host presentations- Published product best practice guides for internal and external customers- Developed relationships with key partners and customers that assisted with revenue growth

Role & Responsibilities- Worked with the world's leading enterprises, government agencies, telecommunications manufacturers and service providers to apply the latest networking technologies and to better understand future technologies- Utilized extensive engineering and communication abilities to articulate the value and power of Riverbed solutions (OPNET & Cascade solutions) in a wide range of scenarios- Extensive customer contact, both in-house and on site - responsible for demonstrations, in-depth explanations of product functionality, implementation support, "proof-of-concept" projects and training; technical leader at seminars, conferences, presentations, demos and other customer interaction eventsKey achievements- Riverbed acquired OPNET in December 2012 (for $1 billion USD) and created a new business unit within Riverbed for OPNET and Cascade solutions called Riverbed Performance Management (RPM). As part of the acquisition, transferred to the new RPM business unit with the purpose of increasing Riverbeds APM and NPM sales using OPNET and Cascade solutions.- Used APM products to investigate end user experience issues, by creating high level SLA dashboards which monitored and alerted on the poorly performing applications. Also used NPM products to provide service providers with the tools to manage their networks (poll, audit, diagram and model customer’s networks).

Role & Responsibilities- Worked as a Senior Services Architect working for Computer Associates Technologies Service Assurance business unit for EMEA; CA acquired NetQoS in November 2009 - transferred to the CA SA BU in EMEA - assisting the CA EMEA team in generating revenue for the recently acquired NetQoS products; was one of only two NetQoS product experts for CA in the EMEA region at the time- Provided product implementation, enhancement, integration, auditing and consulting services for the CA/NetQoS product suite as well as providing internal training to services and sales and external training to customers and partnersKey achievements- For the EMEA region - producing internal documentation on the CA/NetQoS services offered (e.g. costs, timeline and resources required for a services engagement) to assist the sales and pre-sales teams to successfully engage with services on CA/NetQoS projects - based in the EMEA region but travelled across the EMEA, APAC and NA regions (CA US Blanket L-1B Intra company transferee visa to enable working in the USA) .- Taught MPLS for the NetQoS/CA NetAnalyst training course to external customers.

Role & Responsibilities- Prepared technical requirements for complex networks to support existing and future products & services including designing and performing integration (i.e. proof of concept) testing on new products; producing Detailed Design, Configuration and Implementation documentation- Worked closely with product development, product management and vendors to support new equipment and application evaluations; providing support to various departments to resolve complex service-affecting issues Key achievements- Migrated Global Crossing customers from a legacy service to the UK Government MPLS network- Successfully expanded Global Crossings MPLS network to include new P and PE routers- Successfully designed a Secure DSL product for use on UK Government MPLS (IP VPN) network- Successfully vetted to Security Clearance (SC) level

Role & Responsibilities- Primary function - supporting the Radiant Networks unique new Mesh network product 'MeshWorks' worldwide- Installed a point to multipoint radio mesh, which used OSPF (NBMA) for management and ATM as the transport protocol; the end user was presented with a T1/E1, 10/100BaseT and USB interface; the product was designed to compete with ADSL technologiesKey achievements- Implemented remote access support services for MeshWorks deployments- Produced network design proposals for new and existing customers- Successfully integrated MeshWorks with existing WANs and LANs with emphasis on end to end service delivery