Experience

KuppingerCole Analysts AG

• Germany
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Analyst

  • 2010 - 13 years

  Industry Analyst with a focus on cyber security related to cloud computing and the Internet of Things. I write thought leadership and research reports on this area. I give keynote presentations at UK and international events.



The University of Salford

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Lecturer

  • Feb 2014 - 9 years 11 months

  My responsibilities are to teach information security technology and information security management modules to MSc students and 3rd year degree students in the school of Computer Science and Engineering. I am standing in as a temporary replacement for a member of staff who moved to another position.



CA Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Consultant Security Management EMEA

  • Apr 2008 - Jun 2009

  Produce marketing material relating to CA security management software products and services. Act as spokesperson for CA EMEA on information security to the press, at conferences as well as at other events.



CA Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• 2003-2008 Director Brand Strategy

  • 2003 - 2008

  Define and communicate the technical strategy for CA’s security management product line. Produce marketing material relating to CA security management. Act as spokesperson for CA EMEA on information security to the press, at conferences as well as at other events. Work with selected customers to help to define their Information Systems Security needs, running the Security Management Product Advisory Board, made up of senior staff from within CA’s major customers, and… Show more Define and communicate the technical strategy for CA’s security management product line. Produce marketing material relating to CA security management. Act as spokesperson for CA EMEA on information security to the press, at conferences as well as at other events. Work with selected customers to help to define their Information Systems Security needs, running the Security Management Product Advisory Board, made up of senior staff from within CA’s major customers, and responsible for managing beta tests of new security management products in EMEA.

• VP Development

  • 1999 - 2003

  Responsible for the development of CA’s Identity Management security products including X.500/LDAP directory, X.509 certificate registration and status checking, centralized user provisioning and security administration. These tools form part of CA’s Identity and Access Management product suite. Responsible for 4 development centres: one in Paris with 9 technical staff, one in Los Angeles with 20 technical staff and two in Melbourne with 21 technical staff.

• Assistant Vice President, Research and Development

  • 1997 - 1999

  Responsible for development of software tools which provide easy and cost-efficient administration of users and resources across multiple security system types and geographically dispersed directories. These tools form part of CA’s Unicentre TNG and Security product lines. Responsible for 3 software development centres: one in Paris with 5 technical staff; one in West Haven CT with 12 technical staff and the third in Inglewood CA with 19 staff. His role is to ensure that software… Show more Responsible for development of software tools which provide easy and cost-efficient administration of users and resources across multiple security system types and geographically dispersed directories. These tools form part of CA’s Unicentre TNG and Security product lines. Responsible for 3 software development centres: one in Paris with 5 technical staff; one in West Haven CT with 12 technical staff and the third in Inglewood CA with 19 staff. His role is to ensure that software products are developed on time and within budget that meet the market requirements of CA. He also acts as champion for these products within CA and its customers.

• Product Manager

  • Nov 1994 - 1997

  Product Manager for CA’s software delivery products. This involved promoting Unicenter Software Delivery Option, which is one of CA’s most successful software products.



ICL

• Systems Designer

  • Aug 1967 - Nov 1994

  During my time with ICL I worked on a variety of projects starting with the paged 1904E, through development of the 2900 series and then as a founder member of the Knowlege Engineering group working with the Reveal Fuzzy logic system. Finally I worked on the Open Systems Management Centre.

• System Designer

  • 1967 - 1994