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Boulder, Co, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Driving vision, direction and technical excellence for ForgeRock identity cloud.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lead PM for administrative APIs, devops and management tooling. Managing vision and requirements for secure and scalable interaction between users, microservices and things on cloud Kubernetes platforms including GCP GKE.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Maintaining high availability of a production cloud service, using Kubernetes (GKE), Google Cloud Platform (GCP).Development of bespoke cloud and infrastructure orchestration tooling for ForgeRock cloud services.Product owner and scrum master: Incubated, developed and launched customer facing secrets management facility.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Designed infrastructure and devops/deployment tooling used to run the official Open Banking Reference Implementation, for use by most banks, retailers and the fintech sector in the UK. This was initially deployed on AWS EC2 VMs but later migrated to deployment using Docker, Kubernetes (GKE) and Helm.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Design and consultancy work for ForgeRock customers in fintech, shipping and media sectors (>20m identities): HSBC, the BBC, Maesrk and various European government entities.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Delivering technical consultancy and providing technical leadership, mentoring and guidance to ForgeRock’s customers and partners.Delivered of Professional Services (PS) packages to ForgeRock customers: designing solutions; installing, configuring and customising ForgeRock Open Identity Stack products Mentored and assisted in the development of internal and external PS delivery resource.Worked as an examiner for the ForgeRock Open Identity Stack accreditation exams.

Providing cyber security advice to UK law enforcement agencies and collaborating with key players to define IA strategy and advance the detection of cybercrime.

Technical SME - MOD ISS DCNS Multi Tenant GatewaysResponsible for the delivery of an automated next generation firewall provisioning service, using the latest security appliances from Palo Alto, Juniper and Cisco. Designed and implemented DevOps services using Ansible and Ansible Tower; developed custom Ansible modules written in Python and Powershell. Deployed spunk for SIEM and capacity monitoring with custom searches, reports and dashboards.Identity & Access Management SME - MOD ISS DCNS Deployed Identity & Access Management project Oversaw interoperability between UK armed forces and coalition partners through the use of PKI, strong authentication, federation and SSO technologies. The project implemented identity management in high latency / low bandwidth environments using the Forgerock IRM stack.Identity & Access Management SME - MOD ISS DCNS Identity & Access Management projectTechnical lead on a large identity and access management (IdAM) proof of concept demonstrator, using CA SiteMinder, CA IdentityMinder, Intercede MyID, ForgeRock OpenAM, ADFS and Active Directory. The project demonstrated a smart card authenticated users with single sign on (SSO) to Liferay Portal and Office 365.Systems SME - MOD ISS DCNS Use of cloud servicesEngineered a hybrid cloud based Citrix XenDesktop VDI solution, which provided a secure CWE and teleconferencing services (Lync 2013 Cisco Jabber). The solution observed CESG best practice, incorporating architecture designed to be resilient to modern cyber-attacks and prevent the loss of sensitive business data (DLP).

Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Gb

Acting as the key liaison between security, telecoms and I.T. engineers for our clients, I provided documented solutions to meet customer business requirements and won lucrative contracts for the consultancy. • Project managed the implementation of a Call Recording system on a critical government communications network• Deployed a large two factor authentication system using Secure ACS 5.3, Radius and RSA authentication manager • Designed and implemented an application for Cisco IP phones• Wrote a suite of reverse proxy applications for analysing MTOSI SOAP transactions over HTTPS• Designed a Cisco Prime NMS suite using the NGN architecture for a major military service provider• Developed a proof of concept tool for brute force cracking the TACACS+ protocol

• Carried out V&V, requirement proving and systems integration on a complex military communication project• Worked in a team, jointly designing test scenarios for network management systems, routers and servers• Defined security policy and configuration for a Windows Server based management system• Developed test harnesses using custom hardware/software and virtualized server environments.• Programmed automated test software to simulate failures, intrusions and attacks on the system• Developed software for performing DSCP marking on specified traffic emanating from Windows 2003 server

Blagnac Cedex, Fr