Rob Blakemore, Cissp Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Creator of Truly Immersive Adventures - experiences where teams discover a mysterious and magical world hiding in plain sight. Designed and delivered adventures from the 12-hour extravaganza of 'Midnight Madness', to immersive theatre at the Royal Opera House, and immersive puzzles for Constructed Adventures in Paris.Visit our website for the catalogue of.

* Conceived, designed and delivered Immersive Development Experiences (IDEs) within leadership and team development programmes for large corporate clients, including a leading Nasdaq firm.* The experiences combine the best of gaming, escape rooms, technology, and immersive theatre to create a new approach for accelerating leadership development.* All our.

* I'm officially appointed as Regional Contact in the UK for Burning Man (and a Burning Man member of staff). I formally sign off events on behalf of Burning Man organisation in America, ensuring each adheres to the 10 Principles of Burning Man. Burning Man is widely considered to be the leading participatory art and immersive event in the world today.*.

Also See Separate Entries For CGI-related Projects Below - Where Appended "(CGI)".

Here East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London

* I delivered CGI’s Cyber Escape Experience into London - providing day-to-day operational management, leading an onsite team, training staff, making technical component upgrades and gameplay adjustments, and working with the CEO and management team at ‘Here East’ on logistics and programming.* CGI’s 'Cyber Escape' is a mobile game housed in a full-sized.

London And Harwell (Science, Technology & Innovation Campus)

* I took the leadership in visioning a roadmap of demonstrations for a new 5G Innovation Lab installed at ESA’s UK HQ - to bridge 5G with satellite communications. I created the initial architecture plans for the 5G Innovation Lab, and then concentrated on developing and personally presenting a series of demonstrations in the lab to VIPs including ESA’s.

* Direct management of two Count Centres during the same Mayor of London and London Authority elections (the only person in history to do so). This was possible as 2021 counts took place over two (due to enhanced Covid-19 measures).* worked at the same level of both Chief Executives (and Returning Officers) in the constituencies of Lambeth & Southwark, and.

Angel investments into 70 startup companies, with a focus on the renewable and sustainable sector, fintech, and technology innovation generally. Success stories include FullyCharged.show, NakedEnergy.com, ArtICheck.com, CrowdProperty.com, Freetrade.io, CoinRule.io, GlintPay.com, INX.co, and Loowatt.com.

* I've built, choreographed, and performed in ground-breaking creative immersive theatre - from the award winning ‘You Me Bum Bum Train’ to ‘Secret Cinema’. I've created 12-hour immersive adventures across London, and acted in immersive experiences I’ve created all across London.* I was a drummer and performer in the Opening and Closing Ceremony of the.

London, England, United Kingdom

I work inside the House of Commons and co-administer the official Parliamentary group, as a key member of the Secretariat to the UK Parliament’s official All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Land Value Capture. We foster cross-party support for legislative change through a fairer taxation system. The Secretariat work is directly linked to my role on the.

* Department of Education (London HQ) - Cyber consultancy during a migration of HQ services to the cloud.* Bank of England - Security Architecture Consultancy, for a bid response to update to the Bank's core infrastructure, including their Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system.* Daimler Financial Services - Business Analyst. I carried out a series of.

* I was an Elected Representative on the UK Member Council, having been voted in to directly represent 500+ London constituents, and indirectly all 4000 UK members, to CGI’s UK Board. The Council is also the relevant body for Statutory collective consultation purposes, including for areas such as redundancies TUPE, Pension Changes, and other areas defined.

Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom

* I managed the successful delivery of the Scottish Elections Live Count, running an internal team, managing several subcontracting companies, and was ultimately responsible for the IT systems. I also trained approx 40 council staff, and worked with the top level of the Western Isles Council to culminate with providing results to the Returning Officer and.

Principally At Head Office In London, With Travel To The Whole UK Estate

* Solely created and ran a 2-day technical training course delivered to both senior BT engineers and CGI's top level management (and technical) staff at the centralised 'Shared Services' centre (managing systems for all CGI UK's projects). Training was on best practices in deploying and managing Robust Secure Wi-Fi integration to Government standards..

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

* I set up and technically managed Aberdeen City during the Scottish Local Elections in 2012 (one of the largest Count Centres in Scotland).* I managed all technical aspects for the Count Centre, including setup of all systems in a secure manner and the Elections Management software. I led a team of sub-contractors & council staff in the physical setup of.

* Presented the report I co-authored to the Heads of Spectrum Policy at MOD Main Building in London. I investigated all usage of UK Radio Frequency (RF) - civilian, governmental, and defence - in specific portions of the radio spectrum. It was created to assist Government in raising £multi-millions through the coordinated release of radio spectrum to the.

* Called in to troubleshoot a failing 3-year Government Research project, in its final year of development. The research integrated a propriety secure communications technique with an Avanti satellite link to find novel solutions to a Government problem.* With overrunning deadlines, financial stress, and a lack of trained staff, I agreed a new project.

Slough, England, United Kingdom

Worked independently to Mars to deliver a wireless audit with solutions to fix problems they'd encountered with their Cisco 4402 Wi-Fi network at their Global HQ for years. Report included detailed spectrum analysis identifying several sources of RF interference.

Someset, Hertfordshire And Coventry Local Education Autorities

* Building Schools for the Future (BSF) was the UK Government’s multi-billion investment programme to innovate and improve secondary schools in England.* I pitched my Secure Wi-Fi blueprints into wider multi-million BSF bids at three Local Education Authorities (LEAs). I also co-created the wide area networking (WAN) architecture for deployment across all.

* I created CGI's Global Policy on wireless deployments.* As the Global Wireless SME I received calls from the Global Infrastructure Technical Managers requesting advice on best practice for implementing my designs in their country's network.* I was responsible for the successful deployment of the first system at CGI's worldwide head office in London.

* I created the material and presented at the Industry Conference with Cambridge Wireless. My 30-minute talk on the future direction of Secure Wi-Fi technology attracted an audience of senior Cabinet Office and Home Office staff, Police Gold Command, Ofcom, and other industry experts. This was followed by a live Q&A panel session. Feedback cited my.

Sunnyvale, California, United States

* I was flown out to the San Francisco headquarters of the leading global security Wi-Fi hardware manufacturer (Aruba), to advise and help them with formal security accreditation of their equipment.* Aruba had sought evaluation from the UK Government’s technical evaluation programme for IT equipment, known as the Common Criteria. CGI are one of only two.

• Project managed the accreditation process from conception to completion of the first accredited deployment of a wireless network into the UK’s Ministry of Defence, to the 'Manual Y' requirements.
• Solely managed two third-party subcontractors - the hardware vendor and a team of CLAS (UK Government Security) consultants. I led discussions with representatives from DSG (Defence Support Group – formerly ABRO), the.
• Responsible for all project planning, tracking and progress reporting to all parties. Also provided the technical leadership on the submitted design - in consultation with the hardware vendor. In addition to authoring.

• Contracted to troubleshoot a major Public Sector project at University College London Hospital (UCLH). Authored an extensive report analysing historical deployment decisions, documenting technical configurations with.
• In this period, I also co-designed and co-created a fixed mobile convergence solution (3G to Wireless) in a Laboratory environment, blending various new technology from upcoming global Wi-Fi vendors and integrated with.
• I co-presented to senior networking experts at BT on a low level technical networking training course our team delivered for them on Fixed-Mobile convergence. I also assisted with many technical bid responses on Wi-Fi.

Responsible for the production of an early prototype interactive mobile-TV video platform for ITV, coordinating work in Singapore, USA, UK and the Netherlands. I designed a demo with playback control functionality, and manipulated source video material using Adobe Premiere (Professional Editing Software), transcoding clips (for optimal delivery over the 3G.

• Designed and created the User Interface for a new application known as 'Bluesky', liaising with O2 users and third party BroadVision consultants.
• Managed four staff
• Following approved UI, I moved to the coding team working with using BroadVision 7.1, Java, JSP, and XML, and an Oracle 9.2 database.

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

• Led workshops attended by the client and O2's partners to establish business needs and exactly which customer data fields were required for migration from the O2's then external third-party customer data system - to an.
• Following successful completion of the work, became the Lead Interfaces Designer for the migration, gaining an in-depth understanding of O2’s entire system architecture (with special focus on payments processing). I.

• Managed the third-line support team for O2’s Online Mobile Phone Sales shop (five CGI/Logica staff members). I successfully reduced the call backlog, and escalated any service level failures. I created new technical.
• Whilst in CGI's Programme Office, I created 30+ proposals and quotes, both for fixed price/time & materials contract changes, generating new work.
• Seconded to manage the Business Process team for three months to determine and document all of O2’s Business Process flows for their Shop website, working directly to client Programme Manager.

Programming (C++, Pro*C, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms 4.5), testing (FAT Testing, Regression Testing, Scenario Testing), analysis & design, and production of user documentation.

London, England, United Kingdom

Solely responsible for a 250-page report documenting two UK-wide resource management systems. Interviewed management of each system to document the business objectives, and identified significant redundancy in the two database systems. Made recommendations to migrate over and fully decommission the weaker system (which were subsequently implemented).

Computer Science, B.Sc., 1St Class, +Dean’S Commendation For Academic Excellence.

Specialist modules included: Quantum Computing, Quantum Cryptography, Artificial Intelligence & Cognition, Neutral Network techniques.

Masters Degree - Certified Information Systems (Is) Security Professional (Cissp), Computing / It Security

Certification includes an uninterrupted 7 hour exam, 5+ years relevant industry experience, +post certification 40hrs annual Continuing.

Education record

Activities and Societies: • UX (User Experience) & Human Computer Design, CGI / Government Digital Service (Oct 2021) • Unconscious Bias.