Responsible for effective management of security programs and governance within software development teams within Business Services part of the organisation. The role involves developing KPIs, metrics and implementation of processes and tools to measure and report on the security posture of products and squads across Business Services products. Other responsibilities included:• Conduct assessments from various scans and pen-tests, prioritise and pursue prompt resolutions by teams.• Create and maintain KPIs related to security vulnerabilities across the various security scans and Business Services products.• Conduct technical risk assessments of products/assets and drive the adoption of automated tools for static code analysis(SAST), OSS/3rd party library scans(Software Composition Analysis/SCA), dynamic web application scanning (DAST) and 3rd party / internal penetration testing.• Direct the response and resolution to Security incidents in collaboration with InfoSec and Security engineers and business stakeholders. • Technical Resilience, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning.• Contributing to responses to customer and 3rd party security questionnaires.• Develop and execute a progressive security program and associated software development / DevOps practices in compliance with the policies set by our parent company and CISO. • Collaborate with peers when required to respond to customer RFI’s with regards to security policies and the security controls applied by specific products. • Liaise with our Legal team on contractual security measures within the context of OSS usage within Business Services’ estate.• Support Product Development and the commercial priorities of our business as a member of the Technology Leadership Team.

Responsible for effective management of security programs and governance within various software development teams in Accuity. The role involves developing KPIs, metrics and implementation of processes and tools to measure and report on the security posture of products and squads across Accuity. Other responsibilities included:• Conduct internal audits and technical risk assessments of products/assets and drive the adoption of automated tools for static code analysis, OSS/3rd party library scans, dynamic web application scanning and 3rd party penetration testing.• Conduct risk assessment from various scans and pen-tests, prioritise and pursue prompt resolutions with squads in step with the goals of our business.• Overall risk assessment and management of products, assets and squads.• Direct the response and resolution to Security incidents in collaboration with InfoSec and Security engineers and business stakeholders. • Review “false positives” submitted by teams and provide appropriate guidance and takes actions to accept or reject the submitted false positives.• Develop and execute a progressive security program and associated software development / DevOps practices in compliance with the policies set by our parent company and CISO. Ensure all staff are provided with security awareness training.• Collaborate with peers when required to respond to customer RFI’s with regards to security policies and the security controls applied by specific products. • Advice and support our Legal team on contractual security measures within the context of OSS usage within Accuity’s estate.• Support Product Development and the commercial priorities of our business as a member of the Technology Leadership Team.

Director of Software Engineering with experience of leading development teams of 20+ covering Developers, Test Analysts, Architect, and Business Analysts. Responsibilities included:• Effectively managing the commitments of the development team.• Define and maintain the software development strategy, methodology and approach in-line with industry best practices.• Manage and encourage the introduction of new technologies within the development team.• Define, develop and support modern agile development methodologies using Kanban/SCRUM.• Management of skills and training within the development team.• Define and implement software development life-cycle processes and improving efficiency in development.• Define and implement innovation process within the development team.• Line management including setting objectives and managing performance.• Resource identification, recruitment, interviews and making selection decisions.• Oversee and agree the development approach for each project that I am assigned to. • Monitor development activities across all relevant projects to ensure that they are being executed in an efficient and responsible way, and to the defined standards.• Provide leadership and drive to ensure that my development team consistently meets its objectives on time, to budget, to quality standards agreed. • Ensuring that the development team establishes and maintains a good working relationship and expectations with all relevant stakeholders within Reed Business Information and other development teams.• Managing and signing-off of all software releases and projects in terms of how the solution has been implemented, technical documentation and the ability to support the solution – within the team.• Identifying and Influencing the selection of off-shore development partners for a cost effective development programme.

1. Create and implement software development strategy2. Ensure efficient and high quality project delivery 3. Ensure high standards of support for production systems 4. Staff leadership and development 5. Process management

As a Lead Developer, I was involved in development related tasks including system analysis, design, development, testing, deployment to production environment and project management tasks including meeting customers, conducting workshops, capturing requirements, project plans, progress monitoring.During by employment with Tarantula.net for over 5 years, I worked on various technologies including ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, Visual Studio 2003, SQL–Server 2000, XML/XSL, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, COM/ActiveX, ASP, VBScript, Visual Basic, Visual Source Safe and Microsoft Analysis Services.

While working for ITC Infotech, I had carried out various assignments for clients – Trustmarque International Ltd and Nissan. I was also given the charge of Quality Manager to assist the organisation for ISO 9001 Certification.