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Chester, England, United Kingdom

England, United Kingdom

Many enterprises rely on a small number of complex, business-critical applications that have become incompatible with modern Windows platforms. This often means they are unable to upgrade to these platforms or migrate to the cloud, leading to security and productivity issues as well as creating unnecessary cost.Cloudhouse is a platform that allows you to secure and migrate applications by discovering, verifying, controlling, integrating, automating compliance and manging configurations drift. Cloudhouse is the only solution in the market that allows clients to rapidly and securely package older enterprise applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments in a fraction of the cost to repurchase, refactor or re-engineer the applications.Responsibilities:- Act as an escalation point for Cloudhouse Professional Services- Planning, designing, creation, amending, verification, testing and documentation of software components in order to deliver agreed value to stakeholders- Mentor, teach and advise other employee’s in best practice and new products- Collaborate with Engineering team to design, build and deploy new product features and capabilities- Influence and suggestion ideas around the strategic direction of the Product and Services- Shares industry developments widely within Cloudhouse- Expertise in debugging and reverse engineering client and server applications on historic and current platforms- Understanding of AWS and Kubernetes

Manchester, United Kingdom

In 2018, Bomgar acquired Lieberman Software, Avecto, and BeyondTrust. The combined companies are now operating as BeyondTrust.BeyondTrust is the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, offering the most seamless approach to preventing data breaches related to stolen credentials, misused privileges, and compromised remote access. Responsibilities:- Provide hands-on technical leadership across multiple teams, ensuring that software is designed, developed and tested according to good software engineering principles.- Work alongside Scrum Masters and Lead Developers to coach individual team members as required to drive up delivery capabilities. - Collaborate with the Agile teams to define new and extended product functionality, assessing technical risks and dependencies. - Actively share thoughts and views on technology with an open attitude to information sharing. - Help drive continuous improvements to the product codebase including the recovery of technical debt and the introduction of best practices, where applicable.- Support, coach and develop teams through 1:1s and encourage setting of SMART objectives to help individuals to develop professionally and personally.- Continuously improves productivity using software development tools, design methodologies and better practice. - Keep abreast of security and technology trends and how they could be applied in BeyondTrust. Put forward suggestions for improvement to development processes or tools where applicable.- Provide customer support for deep technical compatibility issues using tools such as Sysinternals suite, WinDbg and IDA Pro.- Ensure teams follow Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) - Certified Scrum Master

Manchester, United Kingdom

Avecto is an innovator in endpoint security. Founded in 2008, the company exists to protect businesses from cyber attacks.Its endpoint security software, Defendpoint, is a multi-layered prevention engine that stops malware at the endpoint. It takes a proactive approach, uniquely integrating three core capabilities of privilege management, application control and content isolation in one lightweight agent.This unique and award-winning combination makes prevention possible, allowing businesses to build solid security foundations that protect over 8 million endpoints at many of the world’s most recognizable brands. This proactive strategy is advocated by analysts, industry experts and security professionals alike.As Head of Research at Avecto, I am responsible for overseeing cutting-edge innovative projects that propel Avecto forward as a leader in the industry. With over 20 years of experience in the software industry, the last 10 years I have been dedicated to providing software security solutions for the world's largest brands. I have extensive knowledge of Windows and other operating systems, and have a number of granted worldwide patents.

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As the Research Manager at Avecto, I am responsible for overseeing cutting-edge innovative projects that propel Avecto forward as a leader in the industry. With over 20 years of experience in the software industry and extensive knowledge of Windows and other operating systems, I am relied upon to provide technical insight and assistance in developing solutions to complex challenges. Being a market leader, I am aware of the importance to protect Avecto’s intellectual property and ensures new innovations are protected by worldwide patents.

Technical Lead of UIA, virtualization product for enterprise managed desktops.As virtual desktops have gained popularity, the need to centralize and standardize has become generally understood and therefore the management of User Installed Applications becomes a considerable challenge which AppSense addresses with this new product.

Senior engineer developing a security product called SafeSpace, which incorporates virtualization of the file system, registry and system objects. SafeSpace is developed using a combination of; MFC, C/C++, C#, .NET, and assembler. As part of my development environment I use; Visual Studio, DDK, SourceSafe, Virtual PC and WinDbg

Software Engineering ManagerSoftware Engineering Manager for Chromatography Data Systems group in Thermo.My key responsibilities were:• Manage design and development of projects using C++, ATL, MFC, DCOM and XML• Team management• Career development and mentoring of team members• Technical support for customers, Sales & Support teams• Technical presentations at conferences in Europe and US• Participate in audits from internal and customer auditors as well as regulatory bodies