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IT Director

ALL.SPACE

Consultant to board on strategic IT through the lense of team dynamics, cost reduction, and security.

CIO

Uptake Strategies

Consultant to board on IT and Digital strategies, with a particular focus on information security.

• Led team through internal firewall setup to ensure separation of conflicting teams and data when working for competing clients.
• Framework for and management of Project Management tool selection.
• Framework for and management of HR tool selection.
• Migrated ~2TB of Microsoft Teams and Sharepoint data to new private, secure framework.
• Operating as subject matter expert for senior management to validate MSP solutions and plan strategic company goals.

CIO

Clarify B2B

• Defined and recruited for Data & Insight team to use technology (Elastic, Kibana, Tableau, Snowflake, FiveTran) to turn corporate data into actionable insight.
• Review of incumbent MSP provision and exit of contract.
• Recruitment of internal IT Team (IT Manager, technicians) to provide daily on-site support to growing company.
• Information Security consultancy to sales team, specifically to answer queries from prospects around use of their data.
• Extensive work around GDPR, PII and protection/acceptable use of data.

CIO/CISO

Imprima

• Took failing security function (due to staff attrition) and reworked ISMS and IT systems inside 45 days to remove non-conformances from external ISO 27001 audit.
• Identified and mitigated security issues in Azure deployment while also reducing Azure hosting cost by a third, saving approx. 60K pa.
• Review of incumbent MSP provision and rationalizing of requirements to reduce costs and improve service, validation of and contract with new MSP to provide new services.
• Planned decommissioning of co-lo datacentre hardware and rerouting of global network traffic to support new ways of working.

CTO

FISCALTec Group

• Built robust ISMS, training and processes to prove certification to the requirements of ISO 27001.
• Recruited and managed engineering team (~20 people), working with them to build, deliver, host and support software that subsequently won the Queen’s Award for Innovation.
• Pioneered lowercase “a” agile behaviours in the engineering team, reaping the benefits of an engaged team with strong autonomy, mastery and purpose. Teams became self-organising, and their practices spontaneously spread to other teams within the business.
• Migrated a legacy on-prem customer base (>200 installs) to a new cloud platform; working with sales and providing expert information security assurance to satisfy customer concerns.
• Ensured financial stability through budget planning, invoicing processes, and cash flow management.
• Engaged potential clients through technical pre-sales.
• Efficiently managed a diverse team, fostering collaboration and driving high performance.
• Acted as an escalation point, promptly resolving complex issues and ensuring satisfactory resolutions for clients.
• Acted as CISO and owner of the ISMS. Point of escalation for complex security queries from customers and prospects.

Information Security Consultant

FISCAL Technologies Ltd

Consultant to board and development team on secure deployment of Microsoft technologies.

• Architect of strategic move and company focus from on-prem software to SaaS solution.
• Mentoring junior members of the team.

Security Consultant

Microsoft UK

Subcontracted to MoD to review security aspects of their delivery partner's design.

• Subject matter expert for MoD use of Microsoft technologies.
• Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of UK Defence networks.

Director, Principal Consultant

Durdle.com ltd

Vehicle for long term security consultancy contracts with Microsoft, Ministry of Defence, Specsavers et al.

• Developed concept for software startup for innovative worldwide in-car satnav voices.

Founder, Technical Director

Locutio Voice Technologies

Created the concept and market for 'voices for satnav'.

• iOS App from idea to market inside 4 weeks
• Negotiated deal with MGM for licence for Stargate properties.

IT Provision

The Yateley Society

Provided IT guidance and support to local environmental and historical society.

MSc

Royal Holloway, University of London

Information Security

• Security Management
• Standards and Evaluation Criteria
• Advanced Cryptography

BSc

University of Surrey

Computer Science

Queen's Award for Innovation

HRH Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the UK’s most prestigious business awards, given only to companies or individuals who are outstanding in their field.