Patrick O'Connor Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Independent research on cyber security topics and ethical hacking.Regular contributor to British Computer Society on security topics.

London, United Kingdom

Specialist in EPP/EDR, encryption, IAM and security compliance. Spoke at industry conferences including Gartner, PCI and vendor-specific events.

Engaged to help integrate the BA TPF systems into the Amadeus infrastructure, involving OS modifications, large patching projects (PUTs) and complex operational coordination. Designed and wrote the main input message switch (The Blackbox) to intelligently direct all input to BA systems to either local processing on BA or remote on Amadeus. Allowing a.

Worked on a variety of projects in TPF including OS Upgrades, large patching projects (PUTs), maintenance and development of an assembly language and C trace/debugging tool (SST). This included coding support in assembler for tracing the C implementation in TPF.

Originally brought in as technical consultant with vast experience of Loosely Coupled and Tightly Coupled TPF systems. Helped design the Visa implementation of parallel processing for their two main US data centres providing card verification for Visa and other brands with 100% uptime. Then became the Project Manager responsible for the master planning and.

Worked as a technical consultant on Walgreen's TPF system. Modified their File Recoup package to optimise performance and reduced run time by 40%. General troubleshooting and support, including dump resolution, patching and operating system program maintenance. Acted as a consultant as they began working towards transitioning from TPF systems to Unix.

Manager of a combined TPF Systems and Comms team of 25 while Galileo migrated systems from Swindon, UK to Denver, USA. All usual departmental responsibilities along with preparing staff for the transition (for those moving) and helping those that would leave to manage their separation from the company.

Manager of first level support team of 20 people. High volume transaction processing environment. System was in difficulties when I arrived and effective support was critical. Strict change controls applied and improved problem management structure implemented. System stabilised and hardware and software upgraded to provide more robust operating environment.

Worked with IBM Professional Services team In Fort Worth, TX to analyse and bid on a services contract with a large in-flight catering company. Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions with the company board and senior leaders to outline a complete restructuring of their IT infrastructure. Authored the successful proposal worth >$4M.Working in St..

Team leader and technical consultant. Using assembly language on the SABRE Reservation system. Led the Database team then Control Program (kernel) team during migration from ACP4 to TPF2.4 to TPF3.1. Teams of 8-10 working on OS-level coding in assembly language with debugging/dump analysis. Largest ever migration project in the airline industry at the time.

Programming in IBM Basic Assembly Language (BAL). Taught dump solving courses.Team Leader for system migrations and major system upgrades. Teams of 5-6 in a highly technical environment, low-level control program programming on mission-critical, high volume transaction processing systems.

Bsc., Physics

Organisational Behaviour

(Distance learning, part of MBA pogramme)

Managing Information Systems

(Distance learning, part of MBA programme)