Responsible for the delivery of all perimeter security services [both on-premise and cloud based] throughout the service life-cycle. Taking architectural and strategic input from appropriate teams and having full responsibility for Service Engineering, Transition, Management and Delivery for in-scope services. Responsible for the management of a multi-national team of security technology professionals operating globally. Part of the Network Services leadership team.Develop solutions utilizing the appropriate standards and architecture, based on solid engineering principles and have the ability to incorporate both enterprise and strategic requirements into the designs producedDocument and transition solutions into production ensuring Operational runbooks are created and published.Ensure the service catalogue is correctly built and maintained.Responsible for full Service Delivery and Management lifecycle, including capacity and budget planning Ensure effective and consistent communication within the team, with peers in other service towers, strategy and architecture teams, the leadership team and resources in other IT groups. Proactively raise issues to other Global Management at all levels.

Responsible for the overall design, engineering, fourth level and early life support for all security infrastructure related projects. Responsible for the management of a multi-national team of security technology professionals operating globally. Part of the Infrastructure Security Services management team. Drive build consistency and ensure that new solutions are handed over seamlessly to the Infrastructure Service Delivery teams. Drive the creation of designs based on solid engineering principles and have the ability to incorporate both local, enterprise and strategic requirements into the designs produced Develop solutions utilizing the appropriate standards and architecture.Increase technology component reuse; platform, environment and product consolidation. Ensure effective and consistent communication within the team, with Engineering peers, the leadership team and resources in other IT groups. Proactively raise issues to other Global Management at all levels.Build a Global integrated and standardised engineering function for;Endpoint Protection [anti-virus, full disk and removable media encryption, personal firewall]Platform AV [SharePoint, NAS]Perimeter Protection and Internet Gateway [Firewall, Intrusion Detection, Proxy, DMZ etc]Manage and champion a functional cross-border organisation with a single mature culture

Formerly Regional Security Operations Manager for EMEIA. An Internal re-organisation has transformed the Security Operations group from a regional structure to a functional Global structure.Build and combine Security Operations Protection Services functions into truly Global services.Provide input into the Global information security policies, standards, processes, product strategy and roadmapDevelop IT Operational roadmap for Security OperationsManage and champion a functional cross-border organisation with a single mature cultureDrive standardisation, automation and consolidation/centralisationBuild a Global integrated and standardised support service for;Endpoint Protection [Anti-virus/anti-malware, Removable and Full disk encryption and Personal Firewall etc]Internet Gateway [Firewall, Intrusion Detection, Proxy, URL Filtering, Gateway AV, DMZ etc]Security Event management in line with the Global incident response plan

Building and managing the [virtual] Security Operations team to operate within the European Data Centre, based in Frankfurt.Staff located in Stuttgart, Berne, Paris and London.Infrastructure and Security Assurance Centre Service management and consulting Integration Consulting to projects/countries that want to integrate into the EDCSpecific areas of responsibility of the team; European antivirus definition deployment and reporting infrastructure Internet gateway management including firewalls, DMZs, proxy servers etc Vulnerability and security patch evaluation and advice to European Countries. IT investigation services IT Security awareness training for IT infrastructure

Broad remit involving technical and policy based security solutions for infrastructure and application delivery.Architectural design of Infrastructure projects, specifically focused on the security best practice, compliance and network infrastructure pieces, but I often have input into the entire project design.Liaison with the Business Sponsor and Project Managers for technical design input, oversight and review on projects in various stages.Often used as a supplementary resource to the Information Security Team on internal projects for the infrastructure or application security suitability. Coming from a technical security background my secondment to the Information Security Team uses my skills in an advisory and service management capacity.Co-development and maintenance of the Internet Access and Secure Web hosting security policies in conjunction with the UK Information Security Officers.

Team Lead for the research, implementation and support of the firm’s national domestic electronic mail system.Part of a team who designed the firm’s e-mail naming convention for both internal and external messaging.Support and development of the firm’s e-mail mail gateways [X.400 and SMTP].Working with Ernst & Young Global for the development of international e-mail links.Part of the team responsible for the design and on going migration the next domestic messaging system (Notes). Finished at the end of December 1998Management of messaging related projects within Ernst & Young UK

Installation and support of local area networks.Consultancy and specification of file servers (Novell Netware) for Ernst & Young offices and business units.Installation of multi protocol routers for IP, IPX and AppleTalk.The expansion and support of the main firm wide national network.Research and development of new networking products.Part of a team responsible for the ongoing support of the firm’s dial-in service including RSA SecurID tokens.

Small project work, including research and evaluation of hardware, and software.Basic PC and Apple Macintosh hardware support.Software support for the firm’s standard software set.

1st and 2nd Line Helpdesk support; PC hardware support. Network supportSmall systems development using DataEase. Novell Netware network installations.Researching into new hardware and software including liaising with suppliers for the acquisition of review equipment.