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United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Working with the Engineering teams to ensure that secure development processes are being followed at early stages, overseeing architecture designs and decisions, and assisting the teams in utilising Threat Modelling to ensure that any security risks or concerns are identified and mitigated before they are exposed. Responsible for working with the DevOps team to assist in CI/CD automation by introducing security testing processes and researching tooling used within those pipelines - currently a mix of Open Source and Commercial testing tools are in use to ensure we have a good coverage of everything from IaC scanning / drift detection, SAST and DAST tools through to policy & compliance checks.

Responsible for creating and implementing the IT strategy and identifying future improvements to IT processes and systems through the gathering and analysis of existing information whilst maintaining day to day operations of the department. Provided IT direction for BBC Children In Need, ensuring staff have the correct IT equipment and systems ranging from end user devices to technology systems.

Salford

Provided Information Security guidance and architecture input to key areas of the business (Broadcast, Digital and News) to ensure that their products and project security considerations are built in from the beginning, and are in line with the BBC Information Security Strategy. This technical role is to support the BBC Lead Security Architect to ensure that Information Systems deployed on behalf of the BBC are architected and deployed in accordance with the needs of the business and according to Information Security principles of confidentiality, integrity and availability, and to drive the business towards solutions that are “Secure by Design”

Salford

Supporting the delivery of the Information Security Strategy across the BBC. Responsible for ensuring that data within the BBC is protected, in accordance with the needs of the business and according to Information Security principles of availability, integrity and confidentiality, and providing advice and Security Consultancy to all areas of the BBC and its Third-Party Partners.

Salford

Worked as a member of the Sports and Live Services team supporting and enhancing the platform used for hosting the BBC's main content pages - /news, /sport, /weather. etc.Worked on the Redis sharding process, splitting the main cache from a vertical stack to a more horizontal one.

Salford

Platform API - Entertainment Syndication. Working with external partners to ensure delivery of BBC content to set top boxes. Developing a new Scala based segmentation service to allow fast addition of content segments for online audio / video content.Security Champion for the team - ensuring that Security best practises were followed and that new threats were made aware to the rest of the team

Salford

Working on the Test Tools and Infrastructure Team to create test tools and software for use by the whole department. Created the mobile component of Hive-CI, the BBC's Open Source multi-device testing toolset as well as working on improving software security across the organisation and improving the BBC's Open Source contributions.Software utilised: Ruby, Rails, Calabash, Appium, Objective-C, Javascript, Java, Python

Salford, Uk

Writing automated testing tools and supporting software for the iPlayer Radio team. Worked with the teams Business Analyst and Project Manager to develop and implement a set of feature files for the product using BDD principles.Created audio testing tools to ensure that the iPlayer Radio experience was consistentSoftware utilised: Ruby, Calabash, Appium, Java and Objective-C

Wakefield, United Kingdom

Worked on various projects throughout the Force as part of a small development team. Projects included:Warrants system: Integrating the warrants with the Court systems and ensuring that actions were updated securely.Digital Interview Recording: Saving records from the Digital Interview Recorders directly into NicheFingerprint Management System: Created a system to ensure that the evidence was stored in a secure manner with all relevant meta data preservedRole utilised: C#.net, ASP.net, SQL Server

Heslington, York

Created various sites for use within the Science Learning Centre organisation, including reporting tools to generate KPI reports.Role utilised: PHP 5, PostgreSQL, Oracle

Howden

Worked with a graphic designer to develop MVC-based sports results sites for clients such as William Hill, Eurosport, Daily Telegraph, etc. Later was responsible for a 3 man team developing sports portals for clients.Role utilised: PHP 5, Smarty, Prototype, jQuery, Perl, MySQL, Informix

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

PHP developer - creating websites for clients such as the Daily Mail, Disneyland Resort Paris as well as internal sites used to record data retrieved from handheld devices used by external agents to perform 'Mystery Shopper' and stock checking visits.Systems administrator dealing with both internal and external users on a variety of Windows and Linux based machines

Horsforth

Part of the web development team working on online booking systems, repeat prescriptions and intranet sites for practices. Development languages used were primarily Delphi with some MUMPS required for the existing systems.