James Taylor Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Australia

Apollo Secure is an automated cybersecurity platform that targets small and small-medium businesses, including start-ups, not-for-profits and financial services. The platform quickly lifts cyber maturity and simplifies security compliance, including policy management, staff training, vulnerability scanning, dark web monitoring, risk/information asset/third-party supplier registers, and tracking progress against your chosen framework. To complement its platform, Apollo offers a targeted virtual CISO service that rapidly delivers value by accelerating your cyber security strategy.I'm pleased to join Apollo as CISO, where I will build their services practice and serve as a strategic advisor to the business and product.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Research & Development Tax Credit Submission (7-figure claim)

Australia

TeamForm helps organisations to plan, form and manage cross-functional teams to improve work outcomes and reduce costs. A member of the executive leadership team. Accountable for all company operations, SaaS agreement negotiations and pricing, customer success and service delivery, Information Security (as CISO), Legal and Marketing. Key successes: * Fiscally sustainable growth over 8 years, including transitioning from services-only to a product and services business * Signing multiple multi-year multi-million dollar agreements with Australian Tier-1 ASX top 20 organisations, trebling SaaS ARR. * Restructure of Customer Success as the company scaled * Leading the organisation through the Information Security SOC 2 Type II certification process. * R&D Tax concessions to maximise benefits * Driving the diversity charge and achieving our initial diversity target of 35%, up from 11%. This was not good enough, but only the beginning.

Sydney, Australia

A member of the senior leadership team. I stepped back from client-facing consulting in 2018 to focus on scaling the company and TeamForm SaaS.Accountable for customer success, commercials/pricing, company operations, marketing, legal, IT operations and information security (as CISO). As a growing 'scale-out', if it needed to be done, one did it! For the initial 3 years, I provided senior consulting services predominantly in procurement/contract negotiation, agile organisational design, and incorporating information security into modern agile and software delivery organisations.

Sydney, Australia

Bid Partners enable effective partnerships between the IT consumer and their suppliers. As companies become more reliant on outsourced/utility IT services and IT suppliers struggle to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive market, Bid Partners is a boutique consultancy providing sound trusted advice and delivery services.Bid Partners specialises in providing pragmatic advice in IT strategy, web/cloud hosting services, infrastructure/technical architecture, and best practices in IT Service Management, Information Security risk management and IT sourcing strategies. We also offer services to manage IT procurement including business case, bid/tender lifecycle management, and contract review/negotiation.We provide 'Suppliers of IT services' with support in their IT submissions and strategic account planning, response review, and pre-sales support. We translate 'product-features' into unique differentiators and value adding 'services'. We develop IT Managed Services frameworks to deliver manageable, scalable and profitable services to IT consumers.We assist 'Consumers of IT service' by providing advice on how to run IT departments better including management of risk, clarity in services and delivery efficiency, organisational transformation, IT cloud/hosting strategy, Agile Operations, IT procurement and contract lifecycle services. Bid Partners offers a 'Virtual CTO' service to startups within a flexible working model.

Sydney, Australia

Accountable for the strategic plan to consolidate ninemsn/Mi9 technology platforms. Internal consultant on information security risk matters and Content Management System redevelopment.

Sydney, Australia

Accountable for all technology operational and infrastructure matters for internet facing web services and internal IT systems.

Sydney, Australia

ninemsn (now Mi9 - a Microsoft/Nine Ent. Co. JV), is the largest website portal in Australia with over 10 million unique visitors per month over 80 websites on 5 platforms. Accountable for all operational and infrastructure matters for internet facing web services including vendor and hosting partner management.

Sydney, Australia

Consulted to the enterprise, including:- IT Operational Best Practices (e.g. ITIL) & Risk Management- Sourcing Strategy Development- Information Security Risk Management- ICT Governance- Development of Managed Services (Internal)

Sydney, Australia

Consulted to the enterprise on matters of Information Security risk management and IT operational best practices, including:- ISO/IEC 27000/17799 ISMS development and assessment- Information Security Strategy- Post Security Incident Response, Recovery & Review- ITIL v2 Operational Best Practices- Perimeter Technical Controls Review - Patch Management Policy, Procedures & Tools- Development of Patch Management & Hardening Managed Service (Internal)

I rode a KTM from London to India and onward to Sydney.

London, United Kingdom

Implementation of a robust, secure, scalable technical architecture for the FT Internet Businesses to enable growth and meet continual changes in business requirements whilst being delivered at economic cost.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for launch and operational management of production websites (e.g. FTYourmoney.com and investorschronicle.com) and seamless integration of new applications/websites into production, management of 3rd party vendor relationships and the hosting partner based in France.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for operational management, design and engineering of a 1500 node 7-location Novell network incorporating 75% PC's/50% Macs, Internet trade ordering system, Intranet and and LAN databases.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Responsible for all aspects of LAN design and engineering, management, support and security for the Reed Oxford division.

Beng (Hons) 2:1, Computer & Information Engineering With European Studies

BEng (hons) Computer & Information Engineering with European Studies

Electrical And Electronics Engineering

OND Electrical & Electronic Engineering

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