Experience

BSides Lancashire

• United Kingdom
• Computer and Network Security
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of technical Advisory

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  Bsides is a community event for technical cyber specialist Bsides is a community event for technical cyber specialist



North West Cyber Resilience Centre

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Cyber Security Expert Group

  • Jan 2021 - Present



Secure by Design

• International

• Senior Information Technology Security Consultant (Director)

  • Sep 2018 - Present



UK Civil Service

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Cyber Security

  • Feb 2022 - May 2023



LIVERPOOL COMMUNITY ADVICE LIMITED

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Information Security officer (Director)

  • Oct 2019 - Feb 2022



N Brown Group

• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Group Cyber Security Manager

  • Sep 2020 - Jan 2022

  As the senior cyber security professional at N Brown, I ran the design and implementation of the cyber security strategy. I was responsible for eight reports: Cyber security analysts. security engineer, and a security architect. The team develop and assist, N Brown, in all areas of business critical technical security. • Building the cyber function • Build and deploying Secure by Design Strategy including SSDLC • Assisting the GRC function • Creation of 2-year road map to deliver significant cyber security transformation. • Running the Infosec team (8 members) • Building on the 3rd party vendor process • Budget management • Standing up the ISMS (ISO 27001 w NIST controls) • Engaging with the C suit to predict and assess future problems Show less



Gamma

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Information Security Officer

  • Sep 2018 - Sep 2020



LIVERPOOL COMMUNITY ADVICE LIMITED

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Info/Sec GDPR Controller: Consultant

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2018

  Infosec/GDPR-DPA consultant LCA Liverpool | Liverpool | June 2018 – Current Being a senior managing consultant, reporting directly to the CEO and board,. Responsible for creating and deploying a high performance, best practice data protection environment. Infosec/GDPR-DPA consultant LCA Liverpool | Liverpool | June 2018 – Current Being a senior managing consultant, reporting directly to the CEO and board,. Responsible for creating and deploying a high performance, best practice data protection environment.



Orchid Haze Ltd

• United Kingdom

• Head of information Security

  • Aug 2014 - 2018

  Testing website security and consulting with clients to secure compromised public facing systems. Developing and rebuilding websites, database management systems and servers pre and post malicious attacks. Key Achievements: Created testing labs to create a fully replicated environment for testing websites Developed content security policies for cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Developing scripts to scan for locating malicious code. Tested and reverse engineered malware. Designed highly successful protocols to assist in cross-Origin resource sharing. Developing counter measures for sql injection. Currently designing new methods to breach https. Designed highly successful protocols to counter attacks on cryptography and encryption. Show less



University of Liverpool

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Information Assurance and Security Consultant (contractor)

  • Jan 2013 - Jan 2015

  Responsible for the integrity of clinical trial data sets in sub Sahara Africa Responsible for the integrity of clinical trial data sets in sub Sahara Africa



United Nations

• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• NGO - Senior information Security and Intelligence Officer (Senior Management Role) contractor

  • Jun 2006 - Feb 2009

  Senior intelligence analyst providing risk management and auditing services. Delivering robust and bespoke measures to protect and mitigate risk. Senior intelligence analyst providing risk management and auditing services. Delivering robust and bespoke measures to protect and mitigate risk.



TASK International Limited (Part of The Inkerman Group)

• United Kingdom
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of Operations (Senior Management Role)

  • Oct 2003 - Jun 2006

  As a member of the Management buy out team, raising 1.2 million for the purchase and funding of Task International, I assumed the roll of Director of Operations. I was responsible for the tendering for, development of and running of day to day operational contracts. Key Achievements: Responsible for the tendering process of government and private contracts Recruiting, training and management of close protection and Residential Security Teams projects Development and management of Standard Operating Procedures concerning electronic counter measures (ESM, ECM, and ECCM) Development of security strategy to encrypt and protect clients data. Development of Counter Attack Teams and strategic engagement policies. Delivering training to friendly foreign military. Managing the relationship of private third party air support and ordnance disposal units . Developed and performed physical and digital penetration testing of all assets and locations. Show less



British Army

• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intelligence / Security / Defence

  • Feb 1992 - Aug 2003

  Defense, Security and Intelligence. Defense, Security and Intelligence.



Humanity

• England, United Kingdom

• Baby hacker and general ASPIE!

  • Jul 1980 - Jun 1992