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Crewe, England, United Kingdom

* Monitoring and investigating security incidents on endpoints, servers and networking devices within the whole group.* Assisting with incident response if/and when a critical situation arises.* Deploying and maintaining an Elastic Stack to monitor for any potential threats within the group.* Responsible for Creating and Managing ACL's to route traffic accordingly thoughout all the sites within the group.* Daily monitoring of corporate mailflow, reveiwing quarantined emails, creating and updating mail flow rules as per emerging threat space on all business within the group.* Managing and creating crucial Group policies within multiple AD Forests.* Overseeing Cyber Training and Testing withing the group.* Working towards achieving Cyber Essentials Plus for all the companies within the group.

Crewe, England, United Kingdom

* Responsible for maintainance, configuration and operation of internal endpoints, internal IP phone system, Servers and multiple switches across the group (POC for HJLea and DodsonandHorrell).* Managing and maintaining two major hybrid Microsoft 365/Azure AD architectures within the group.* Deploying Hybrid AD architecture and Hybrid Exchange for.* Deploying Cross-tenant synchronisation on Azure.*Provide on-call IT support for sites which run 24/7 on a rota basis

Crewe, England, United Kingdom

• Configuring and setting up devices according to employees needs• Providing support in setting up and configuring servers across various sites• Ensuring regular backups are being done on the servers across various sites• Monitoring server logs

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Contributed to implementing quality processes for company’s CREST membership application• Conduct data breach-related research and compile reports for the InfoSec community• Successfully completed company recommended cybersecurity and leadership training sessions• Participate in mentoring programmes• Assist sales and marketing team• Conduct basic security assessments• Researching and creating cybersecurity training content• Shadow senior members of staff

Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka

• Join the company’s Cyber Essentials IASME and ISO 27001 certification process• Conduct research and compile reports• Assist sales and marketing team• Conduct security assessments• Vulnerability management• Assist on the SHe CISO project

Sri Lanka

• Designing and developing an online information management system for Minor Irrigation System rehabilitation and household productive asset creation progress reporting.• Contributing to developing project activity work plans.• Building the capacity of government officials.• Providing support in visualizing the statistical data relevant to the resilience building activities• Assisting in field monitoring activities.• Providing overall functional support to the resilience building team.

Sri Lanka

The Boundary Yala is a Resort located in Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Key responsibilities - • Developing and managing the Main Website (via WordPress).• Managing Online Marketing and Social Media Accounts.• Managing Online Booking Systems.• Advising and taking steps to improve the digital footprint of the organization.

Sri Lanka

Sight Seeing Lanka is a small scale travel agency who arranges tours all around Sri Lanka, for foreigners and locals.My key responsibilities - • Managing the websites and databases of the organization.• Advising and guiding on how to increase revenue through online marketing and social media.

Msc, Computer Science, Distinction

Beng, Computer Networking And Security, 2:1

Activities and Societies: APIIT Cyber Security Club - Secretary (2017),Computer Networking and Security Bachelor's Degree awarded.

Business/Commerce, General

Activities and Societies: IT Society President (2014/15) Western BandG.C.E Advanced Level

Education record

Activities and Societies: Cricket, Basketball, Boy Scouts.G.C.E Ordinary Level