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Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Do you need an Information Security resource to provide advice, to help with a security program, to oversee a security project or to establish assurance from security technologies already in place, then lets chat.

Auckland, New Zealand

Providing security consulting services to Defend customers.- Performed Project Security Assessments within the Insurance, Banking, Utility, and Health industries.- Created Project Security Assessment structure for repeatable objective project security assessments for the Utility and Health industries.- Performed Third Party Security Assessments within the Insurance, and Health Industries- Created Vulnerability Management practice including policies, standards, guides as well as implemented tagging, and automated reporting to measure effectiveness of the Tenable toolset within the Health industry.- Created multi-year cyber security roadmap based on external assessment within the health industry.- Proposed operational framework for capture of cyber security metrics of existing toolsets to gain visibility on control effectiveness within the utility industry.- Provided consulting sounding board from previous experience to customers for their current challenges.- Produced a full formal set of polices and standards as part of a clients policy refresh engagement off the back of a NIST assessment.

Auckland, New Zealand

Company acquistion and name change ... same seat

Auckland, New Zealand

- Pre-sales consultant- Delivered vCISO security advisory services for customers with reference to security frameworks including ASD/PSR, CIS-CSC, NIST CSF and ISO27K.- Assisted customers to introduce ICT Security Governance and Risk Management- Performed information security assessments- Assisted customers to deliver technical security reviews and remediation projects- Performed ICT security management planning- Established a formal ICT security governance framework to ensure wider business support for the security program.- Improved the maturity and risk profile of ICT risks by establishing and managing an ICT risk register that allowed prioritising of risks from a threat-centric perspective.- Helped create and improve service offerings to customers, utilising my customer focused background.- Created and carried out desktop incident response exercises.

Auckland, New Zealand

Optinet was purchased by Origin IT in 2015 and officially merged with Origin IT in 2018. Name change to Origin IT... same seat

Auckland, New Zealand

- Developed and introduced ICT security operations capability.- Reduced the business continuity risk by developing a framework for ICT that established regular testing of the systems and processes to ensure the failovers worked. - Established ICT security maturity baseline by carrying out an independent risk assessment. This lead to board support, the creation of a 3-year ICT security plan and approved funding.- Established a formal ICT security governance framework to ensure wider business support for the security program.- Improved the maturity and risk profile of ICT risks by establishing and managing an ICT risk register that allowed prioritising of risks from a threat-centric perspective.- Created a capital plan to address SKYCITY’s top assessed risks in order to get approved funding. - Increased the maturity of the information security behavioural improvement program (i.e., security awareness) and created capital plan to increase the maturity further in the coming FY.

Auckland, New Zealand

Project managing half a million dollar construction project.Responsible for - liaising with all vendors, suppliers, trades, stakeholders and compliance - setting up contracts with trades, - managing overall financials - managing overall timetable - overseeing the full end to end solution including some design elements

Auckland

- Identity & Access Management Business case with programme. - Implemented workflow for self-service provisioning. - Proposed and drafted AD naming convention standards for infrastructure to own.- Authored technology strategies including Platform Services Strategy, LOB application Strategy.- Consulted on Service Management strategy and Cloud Strategy – moving to the cloud.- Created several improvement proposals including IS Meta model proposal and master data management related to personnel information.

Auckland, New Zealand

- Operational subject matter expert for most of the systems.- Key source of business systems knowledge used by all parts of the wider IS team.- Good understanding of business needs allowing for ease of designing conceptual solutions. Changing a vendors design proposal for a project led to a saving of $100K- Leverage existing capability before considering purchasing new technology.- Team player actively participating in wider project team to deliver business objectives.- Provided operational efficiencies to service desk by understanding the end to end information flows and ensuring information captured into the repository was in a consistent manner to enable automatic production of operations guides.- Performed risk assessment to optimise the business outcome of solutions.- Provided recommendations through the use of business case’s, and/or cost benefit analysis to management and the business on solutions.- Instrumental in setting up an architectural repository to hold all of the logical and physical components of systems.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

- Established comprehensive guidelines for the diverse tiers of the application stack, incorporating key project infrastructure components. This encompassed features like error and debugging functionality, with a strategic focus on seamless integration with testing software, including Test Director.- Engaged actively with business stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of their needs, ensuring alignment between technical solutions and overarching business objectives.

Bromley, United Kingdom

- Functioned as the technical lead for a team spanning both the UK and India, providing design governance for integration solutions.- Conducted performance reviews for a team of UK-based staff, ensuring alignment with organisational goals.- Fostered collaboration with other project teams to comprehend and fulfil integration requirements.- Formulated integration patterns for team-wide use, along with helper packages for streamlined utilisation of Oracle’s Advanced Queuing technology across multiple versions of the Oracle Database.- Accelerated the delivery of interfaces to various teams and ensured consistency for ongoing support and maintenance by implementing a process to enforce consistency in interface development, incorporating design and peer-coding reviews.- Supported the release management team by educating developers, enabling code releases from checked-in code rather than duplicating the development environment, thereby enhancing efficiency in the release process.

Auckland, New Zealand

- Architected and executed a Job Control System to oversee operational data upload jobs, drastically reducing error turnaround time from approximately 5 days to just a few hours.- This system proved instrumental in identifying and rectifying data issues originating from various source systems, particularly in aggregating Air New Zealand data feeds from systems such as Departure Control, Flight Scheduling, and Flight Operations into the Group Database.- Contributed as an analyst and developer for the Air Points loyalty system of New Zealand's national airline.- Successfully devised and implemented a travel card system for the national airline. This innovative system, akin to a credit card but exclusively for travel-related expenses, included an operational monitoring design for efficient data uploads.

Auckland, New Zealand

- Integral member of the development team for the ORA*CARE Patient Management system at a hospital, focusing on key modules such as Blood and Theatre management.- Provided ORA*CARE expertise to CSC Australia in Perth, contributing to tasks such as unit testing, problem analysis and resolution, and effective communication with team leaders and clients.