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Wellington, New Zealand

Responsibility for conducting a wide range of security assurance activities for the Ministry. I provide subject matter expertise across a range of areas including in the delivery of security risk assessments, audits, technical evaluations and fulfilment of the security certification process.I provide expert input into the development of security policies, standards and practice and contribute to the development and delivery of awareness programmes, targeted training and guidance.- Conduct security risk management and assurance.- Provide quality assurance review of work delivered by third parties- Lead risk workshops with business and technical stakeholders- Lead scheduled security assurance activities such as access reviews and configuration reviews,- Lead the audit of technology solutions, services and platforms- Participate in security governance and reporting- Assist junior team members and manage relationships with key stakeholders

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Layer 9 develops and shares knowledge that helps organisations strategically optimise their information environment. They provide the tools, business processes, and energy required for clients to obtain continuous visibility, and implement coordinated and targeted security improvement. Their vision is that every organisation is able to make informed and proactive decisions about their security initiatives and leverage them as a strategic business enabler.- Strategy and Governance including development of policies and standards - Providing advice regarding technology and cyber security threat and vulnerability management, governance, risk, and compliance. - Designing multi-year security improvement roadmaps - Assessment of technology and infrastructure architecture and design capabilities- Security Risk Assessments - Security Risk Management, Policy and Compliance- Increasing the cybersecurity maturity level for organisations - Providing advice and guidance to operations personnel - Implementing and Enhancing Security Operations- Determining appropriate access control models to meet business security requirements- Technical and cyber security consulting including Entra ID and Microsoft 365- Leading security projects which include delivering and management of junior staff, ensuring projects are delivered within time and on budget

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Ensure effective security of the organisation's information systems and networks• Implement security and control techniques and technologies• Evaluate and make recommendations on IT security architecture, including new security products• Develop, maintain, and promote awareness of IT security policies, procedures, and standards• Identify IT risks/vulnerabilities and suggest practical enhancements to existing security products• Liaise with other business units in the identification of controls• Provide expertise and input on emerging security technologies• Incident Response for detection, discovery, and remediation of threats using the Microsoft Azure and Office 365 Security platform.• Increase the cybersecurity maturity level for the organisation• Improve cloud security posture by ensuring services are implemented and designed securely• Perform security assessments of organisation's cybersecurity controls and remediate vulnerabilities• Subject Matter Expert for Cloud and Azure SecurityAchievements• Raised cloud security posture using Azure Security Centre Secure Score from 46% to 94%.• Developed and implemented daily security review, using a security-focused solution-set• Designed, presented and implemented solution to replace legacy on-prem PAM with secure cloud-based product, increasing security awareness for the enterprise• Designed and implemented solution to allow instant view and analysis of security threat trends over time via Security Dashboard on PowerBI.• Set up for org SaaS service for Automated pentesting of web apps• Development of templates for Incident Response • Technical lead for Azure governance. Lead & develop governance and best practices in Azure. Implement strategies ensuring best practises are followed to mitigate ongoing cybersecurity risks.• Technical Lead for global deployment of Microsoft Teams telephony solution

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Secondment to managed team of Enterprise System Engineers and a project co-ordinator with responsibility for all IT operations at NZTE offices in 40 countries around the world.• Regularly engaged with key stakeholders, including CIO and other C-suite executives.• Translated technical requirements between system engineers and business.• Understanding problems and issues, finding key business opportunities to implement and solve business problems.Achievements• Completed successful project to implement multi-factor authentication solution across entire global cloud infrastructure. • Successfully removed dependency of email platform, previously from Hybrid Exchange, to fully cloud-based Exchange, resulting in a high-availability, scalable and modernised messaging platform.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Provided support for the networking and security components of the IT Infrastructure. I also provided strategic direction and management of the systems to ensure appropriate security measures and controls were in place that aligned with IHC’s security policies.• Technical assistance to other IT staff in the areas of technical configuration and best practice management of infrastructure for network and security devices.• Provided advice on, and maintained the architecture and design of the networking and security components of the enterprise environments• Responsible for availability of the network and security components of the enterprise environments and core infrastructure applications, including; switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, logging devices/systems and remote access portals.• Member of the security incident response team and responsible for the monitoring, logs and other alerting and evidential tools to support the team• Evaluated security policies on a regular basis and ensured that the appropriate controls and processors were in place to meet the requirements of the policies or flags risks if not implemented• Identified and defined system security requirements within the organisation• Developed technical solutions and new security tools to help mitigate security vulnerabilities• Provided understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols and applied these techniques, principles and protocols to the organisation where applicable• Responsible for network and security infrastructure build, operations, configurations, diagrams, replication, and disaster recovery procedures • Performed threat assessmentsAchievements:• Designed, presented and implemented solution to replace legacy on-prem PAM with secure cloud-based product.• Implemented and maintained Security Risk Register, covering all vulnerable assets and services.• Developed Incident Response Plan.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

The focus of this role was to provide assessment, design, implementation and support for all IT infrastructure underpinning IHC's business systems. My responsibilities included:• Provide advice on, and maintain the architecture and design of the enterprise environments, production, test and Dev• Availability of the enterprise environments and core infrastructure applications, including virtualisation, clustering, networking an SAN storage technologies.Achievements:• Designed and implemented high-availability, secure wireless infrastructure, which was a new feature for IHC New Zealand offices.• Designed and implemented monitoring solution for virtualisation and networking devices infrastructure.

Wellington, New Zealand

Day to day system support, management and administration of servers, storage and networking equipment. Manage infrastructure projects

Wellington. New Zealand

Responsible for IT maintenance, consulting and servicing of businesses ranging from not-for-profit and Academic Institutions to corporate and commercial businesses.

Wellington. New Zealand

Hardware enterprise support for DELL customers on the PowerEdge and PowerVault range as well SAN installations and maintenance.

Wellington. New Zealand

Responsible for providing desktop support to the staff at ACC corporate offices in the Wellington CBD, with special focus on being the single point of contact for the Senior Management and the CEO

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Desktop support for approximately 500 Parliamentary Services staff, including Members of Parliament

Auckland, New Zealand

Primary 2nd level support engineer

London, England, United Kingdom

Provide 1st line call resolution and logging/ 2nd line IT desktop support

London, England, United Kingdom

Manage and co-ordinate resources on GDL migration project

London, England, United Kingdom

Provide technical support for on-line calendar, email and document management system to members and employees of International sporting federations.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Provide 1st and 2nd level software, hardware and networking support to twelve corporate clients