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London, Gb

Providing information security consultancy as a trusted advisor to a multi-million pound project stack and to business colleagues at UK’s largest long-term savings, retirement business.

Birmingham, -, Gb

Rejoined Birmingham City Council to improve, develop the Cyber Security department following August 2019 IT insource transition from Capita. Trusted Cyber Security advisor to IT, business colleagues and customers. Highlights:· Deputising for the Head of Cyber Security. 2020 Cyber Security Strategy and roadmap formed, rewritten and realigned to reflect current threat landscape· Cyber Security Cabinet Paper produced and approved Feb 2021 to secure Cyber Security Strategy and funding· Cyber Lead for Commonwealth Games 2022 - security assurance on stadium OT (operational technologies)· Development of security metrics and reports for senior leadership, IT strategy,Cyber,Information Assurance Boards· Providing oversight on cyber strategy themes/workstreams (design, operations, culture, access, new technology)· Security technology controls architecture discovery documented. Review completed to justify new procurements (Endpoint Detection Response, Network Defense as a Service, Realtime vulnerability management)

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Joined PwC midlands cyber security practice to provide trusted value security engagements to midlands and national clients. Trusted security advisor specialising in cloud security, security technology architecture [Intrusion Prevention, vulnerability, endpoint management solutions]. Sharing my knowledge and industry experience to my cyber business unit colleagues when required and keeping abreast of new security threats and technology. Midlands Cyber Lead for Internal Audit work. Engagements covered Retail, Law, Public, Healthcare sectors and IT Managed Service Providers.

Northampton, Northamptonshire, Gb

Travis Perkins plc, one of the UK’s leading companies in the builders'​ merchanting and home improvement market, operating over 2,000 outlets with a workforce of 28,000 employees structured across 20+ major brands.Joined Travis Perkins and helped develop the Information Security function across the group, promoting information security significantly in the Group by engaging stakeholders at all levels, developing strong relationships with our IT teams, business colleagues and suppliers.2016 - Awarded "Keeping People Safe" TP Cornerstone prize

Birmingham, West Midlands, Gb

Provided IT Security governance and assurance across Housing and Care 21 one of the largest providers of housing and care services in the UK• Owned and developed the information security plan to establish the security baseline and priorities. • Cloud security assurance provided for a number of new external hosted systems. • Reviewed the current security policies recommending a proposed information security policy framework and policy rollout.• Security controls reviewed against ISO27002:2013.• Security awareness provided to all departments including advice on external threats and UK government best practice [10 Steps to Cyber Security].

Birmingham, Gb

Provided information security consultancy for existing/new services and new/current technology.Management and continual development of the penetration testing service this included completion of in-house and commissioned pen tests. Produced detailed reports and tracking vulnerabilities to closure including cost recovery.Managed multiple complex work streams including: external remote access, data sharing governance; risk assessing KPI’s, new design architecture, change approvals; IT policy compliance; external mail management; security incident casework; investigations; ISO20000 preparation; maintenance of pen test plan and tools; completing audit actions; monthly/quarterly security service reporting.• Security lead in new technology encompassing market tenders, proof of concept pilots and implementation. Endpoint data encryption, Mobile Device Management, Email platform, Firewall refresh, Single Sign-on and solutions meeting Government requirements.• Reduced and saved customer costs by establishing in-house penetration testing service, corporate management of SSL Certificates • Managed Information Security license renewals strategically saving costs • Represented Security team at meetings and at external events.• Conducted security reviews engaging all stakeholders including KPI risk assessments managed and completed for ISO20000. Reviewed IT Policies - aligned to ISO27001, Council, Capita Group Policies. • Managed and organised third party external remote access and data sharing. Created third party access, data transfer registers, procedure and checklist, communicated to all staff.• Reduced security audit report actions over a year. Managed, mitigated, completed all outstanding audit actions from all audit sources.• CEO personal recognition award received for successful Lord Mayor website project. • GEM (Going-extra-mile) award received for key contribution towards achieving ISO20000 accreditation in less than 2 years from project initiation

Birmingham, Gb

Managed the Change Management process and continued the development of its alignment to ITIL/ISO20000 service management standards. Managed and communicated complex technical changes to customers including major outages and upgrades. Managed change team and reviewed team members' work.SME member of IT Service Management toolset tender project, supplier RFP criteria set, responses scored and assessed. Selected toolset implemented with new processes documented, users and team trained. Blackberry Enterprise v4 major software upgrade planned and implemented, aligned Blackberry security to CESG standards. Lead liaison to Asset & Config team successfully building the config management database relationships for all KPI systems for ISO20000 audit.

Birmingham, -, Gb

Established change function, implemented online web system [installation, development, administration, documentation, training] to manage change requests. Completed risk and technical assessments liaising with business, technical teams when managing changes. Chaired Change Advisory Board, major and emergency change meetings. Produced reports and analysis for management. Additional responsibilities:Managing Blackberry Enterprise service - infrastructure upgraded for service resiliency [500 users]. Running change management function by myself [Sept 2005 - Sept 2006].

Birmingham, -, Gb

IT support for high profile customers and successfully delivered a number of business critical projects. Birmingham Register Office IT refresh - replaced all hardware and software upgrades in time, with minimum service disruption, maintained security of information. Completed departments Windows 2000 Active Directory migration.Department’s specialist in corporate mobile wireless technology. Providing support, and implementing solutions liaising with suppliers enabling VIP customers to have live real time secure access to their email and calendar. These included PDA, IPAQ, GPRS/3G, Blackberry solutions delivered to Chief Officers, Directors, Councillors, and were documented, knowledge shared to all support teams.

Birmingham, -, Gb

IT Support for 3,000 customers located over 300 sites working in a team resolving complex calls to SLA.

Birmingham, -, Gb

Provided 2nd line IT support to 1000 customers. Placement project - Year 2000 project inventory desktop audit completed [2500 pc’s, 75 locations] created project plans; managing and training team members; organising site visits; delegating tasks and ensured these were completed within specific deadlines. Birmingham’s Year 2000 Project was one of the first to be rated 'Blue Status' and was recognised nationally as a model of excellence by the District Audit Service. Planned and implemented departments desktop migration to Windows ’95 and Office’97 [60 users].

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba Hons), Business Studies

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