Tom C. Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Spearhead a 24/7/365 Global Security Operations Center (GSOC), ensuring proactive identification and communication of worldwide risks and threats with a focus on potential impacts to Alphabet personnel, operations, events, and critical assets.Provide strategic leadership to a 200+ member, globally dispersed team of Regional Managers, Operations Managers, Program Managers, Shift Supervisors, Shift Operators, Open Source Intelligence Specialists, and Vendors across four regional SOCs and a network of local Security Service Centers comprising the GSOC ecosystem.Cultivate strong cross-functional collaboration and influence, partnering extensively with other Alphabet teams and peers, including regional leads, legal teams, investigations, enterprise resilience, crisis management, business continuity, and supply chain security leaders.Lead response efforts to complex, high-impact security incidents and crises with global implications, including COVID-19, Ukraine War, Israel/Hamas War, and numerous other business critical incidents.Drive operational consistency across all SOCs, encompassing infrastructure requirements, training, planning, testing, communications, and command & control protocols.Ensure operational resilience and complementary capabilities across all SOCs, while focusing on the ongoing development and growth of the GSOC ecosystem through technology adoption and an evolving security strategy.Direct all vendor sourcing, contracting, and implementation across the GSOC ecosystem, with full budgetary oversight.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Scoped, designed, and delivered Google's inaugural Regional Security Operations Center in EMEA, setting the benchmark for future facilities. This involved defining the operational scope, designing a state-of-the-art security architecture, and overseeing the successful implementation and launch of the SOC. Additionally, I provided ongoing leadership to ensure the SOC operated at peak efficiency, leveraging cutting-edge technology and best practices to deliver best-in-class security outcomes.Served as the Deputy Global Lead for the Global Security Operations Center (GSOC), providing strategic direction and operational oversight in the absence of the Global Lead.Oversaw day-to-day GSOC operations, ensuring the real-time monitoring, analysis, and response to potential and active security threats. This encompassed:Threat Intelligence: Coordinated collection, analysis, and dissemination of threat intelligence, ensuring proactive identification and mitigation of risks.Incident Response: Led incident response efforts, ensuring rapid triage, escalation and response.Security Awareness: Fostered a culture of security awareness across the organization, providing training and education to employees.

Westminster, London, Gb

Progressed through various roles and ranks over an 11-year tenure, demonstrating exceptional leadership and operational expertise across diverse policing disciplines:Territorial Policing - Gained foundational experience in frontline policing, responding to a wide range of incidents and community engagement.SO15 - Counter Terrorism Command: Served in the UK's premier counter-terrorism unit, contributing to the prevention, detection, and investigation of terrorist threats and activities. Previously DV vetted.SO20 - Protective Security Operations: Led a liaison team responsible for the CT engagement in one of Londons busiest boroughs with a focus on CT prevention across critical infrastructure and major events ensuring the safety and security of key assets.Public Order - Served on police command teams spanning some of the largest events during my time in the police. Of note - London Olympics 2012 & The Royal Wedding 2011.