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Reading, England, United Kingdom

Reading, United Kingdom

• Management and leadership of I.T. support team• Provide I.T. services and support to Computer Science, Information Security and Mathematics departments• Incident response, including acquisition of data, analysis and communications• Consolidation of hardware, software and security services across the three departments• Implementation of security controls to mitigate against risks and vulnerabilities • Monitoring of existing security controls and network and system availability • Implementation of redundant HA firewall configuration• Provide advice on I.T. security matters and best practice to central I.T. function• Penetration testing and audit of internal and external facing systems• Document technical requirements, architecture plans and training to support new projects, implementations and staff training

• Led the restructuring of the support team in 2009 to provide a single I.T. support function across the Mathematics Department and Information Security Group• Developed new I.T. polices and procedures, including; I.T. security acceptable use and password policies, helpdesk support, asset disposal and software and patch management• Project managed a number of key I.T. projects, including migration to a UTM firewall appliance, network restructure, server consolidation and virtualisation, remote VPN access and centralised file storage• Monitored service levels and key performance targets• System and network administration of a wide range of network technologies and systems• Delivery of firewall training to postgraduate M.Sc. students• Development of penetration testing and forensic analysis laboratories for M.Sc. course• Procurement and implementation of enterprise redundant storage platform and network infrastructure, providing improved backup, and disaster recovery capability

• Systems Administration of Linux and Windows Servers, Apache HTTP and MySQL server• Management and deployment of desktop systems, including: Windows, Linux and Solaris• Provided desktop support to staff and Students within the Information Security Group and Mathematics Department

• Network administration of Solaris and Linux secure engineering network, including maintaining backups and providing support to other engineers• Digital logic design (VHDL), implementation and testing of a FPGA based data packager for a high grade encryption system for use on an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV)• Worked on a wide range of individual and team based software development projects, predominantly coded in C and C++• Knowledge of military tactical data links, and software decoding of Link-11 messages• Software and hardware design documentation and test procedures • Participated in critical design and peer reviews• Responsible for designing and implementing an embedded TCP/IP test server software suite in C, targeted to a Lynx OS (Unix) based data link product• Gained knowledge and experience in developing software for embedded systems with limited hardware resources• Worked closely with test systems to produce a Windows GUI test software

• Worked on a variety of electronics and software projects, both team based and individual work• Produced software and documentation to company standards• Participated in a week-long field trial of a development project at a government site• Developed communication and social skills to participate fully in a team environment

Master’S Degree, Information Security

Bachelor’S Degree, Electronic And Computer Engineering