An amazing and appreciated time between roles with my family & friends, a few holidays, many jobs ticked off the list and maintaining engagement with industry and my pasion, cyber security.

Having joined the Blue Coat team as part of the Elastica acquisition, my focus was to develop the Blue Coat Cloud Security business throughout Australia and New Zealand.Elastica is the leader in Data Science Powered™ Cloud Application Security. Its CloudSOC™ platform empowers the companies to confidently leverage Cloud and SaaS applications while staying safe, secure and compliant. Elastica Apps on the extensible CloudSOC™ platform enable full life cycle of visibility & security for the Cloud and SaaS applications being used in your company:- Audit: Uncovers Shadow IT and highlights vulnerabilities in cloud apps being used by employees- Detect: Uses machine learning to detect intrusions and threats based on account activity in cloud apps- Protect: Provides defense against intrusions and compliance violations in cloud apps being used- Investigate: Enables forensic investigations on historic account activity on cloud apps being used For more info: http://www.elastica.net

Whether you’re figuring out how to make the best use of Cloud solutions and services, or an advanced user looking to step up or modify your approach, the secret to business success in the Cloud is working with experienced specialists. Get to know Envisian and you’ll quickly find out we’ve got lots to say about doing business in a Cloud designed for your business. That’s because we’ve been “doing Cloud” since before that trendy bit of jargon came about. We pride ourselves on being trusted advisors, so we carefully select world leading technology partners and regularly share our knowledge with our customers. We’re equally choosy about the team we put together, here at Envisian, to ensure we have storage, security, project management, Cloud experts and more – all working for you. We’re at the ready to solve problems, and to help create opportunities for your business success through technology.

At Imperva we’re focused on one thing: closing the dangerous gap in today’s enterprise security that leaves your business vulnerable to attack, theft, and fraud.What we do is called data center security. What we deliver is a new layer of protection that keeps the high-value applications and data assets in your physical and virtual data centers safe, yet accessible. And what we’re pioneering is a third pillar of enterprise security designed specifically for the modern, hyperconnected world.

I thoroughly enjoyed my time working with great people and fantastic technology at HP Enterprise Security Products, best of all was working with some fantastic customers.Having chosen a more challenging entry into HP by joining TippingPoint during the process of acquisition, I was rewarded with the opportunity to help bring these entities together at a business process, systems and people level. Throughout this process I maintained strong sales engagement & consistently delivered above sales quotas.As the HP Enterprise Security Product portfolio grew, I developed along with it, taking a diverse set of security technologies to market (ArcSight, Attalla, Fortify & TippingPoint) * Integration of the TippingPoint business into Hewlett-Packard business systems and processes* Instrumental in building TippingPoint product set from zero run rate in 2009 to a Growth Leadership award from Frost and Sullivan in 2011* Year-on-year over achievement on sales targets, highlight was results over 250% in 2010/11 (awarded HP Presidents Club)

I became aware that over the past few years I had been more focused on selling & managing accounts and loving it. I put a long held succession plan in place and moved to a full time sales role, looking after telco accounts within Australia and New Zealand.* Stabilised high risk accounts & delivered high growth* 130% of quota within first year of sales* Sales club attainment (with a nice trip to Greece)

My dream job before I left to work overseas with Dimension Data, was to return and join the team at Check Point. Thanks to Scott Ferguson and Michael Simpson this dream was realised. My role was initially around lead security solutions architect for Australia and New Zealand (focus on Banking + Finance & Telco), shortly after taking on the ANZ Engineering manager function, then having the fantastic opportunity to lead the APAC engineering group.During this time, I was appointed as Check Point's regional technical spokesperson, including media enquiries/briefings & regular presentations at large scale events.

First joining Com Tech Communications as a security engineer with a focus within the Telstra account, I then transitioned into a solutions architect role (including pre-sales) & spread my wings to work in Europe for Dimension Data based out of London.Three specific highlights during this period were: * Lead security solutions architect for Telstra account * Technical account manager for Vodafone and EMI, both international responsibilities * Pre-sales team leadership including opportunity forecasting & development

My first big break, joining the team at Colonial first in the desktop services group, I quickly specialised in email (mainly MS Mail, but also more odd banking messaging platforms), then leading the international migration from MS Mail to Exchange. My role also expanded to cover the security environment, where a long held passion was formed.