CURRICULUM VITAE AS AT 4th OCTOBER 2007
IT SECURITY CONSULTANT. RSA SECUR ID, CHECKPOINT, FORTINET AND F5 CERTIFIED ENGINEER.
MICROSOFT ID 3338001. Certified since 2000
CISSP 112141
OBJECTIVE
With over fifteen years experience in IT Network Security Support, Project Management, Pre-sales and Training in the UK, US, South Africa and Europe, I now work as a security consultant to industry and government bodies.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
NATIONAL BANK OF BELGIUM, BRUSSELS
POSITION: SECURITY CONSULTANT
DURATION: JUNE 2007 to Present
My most recent contract involved managing various projects, including carrying out all the technical work, for this large institution. Projects included roll-outs of Nokia / CheckPoint, Bluecoat proxies, RSA SecurID, Big IP, Juniper SSL VPN, Terros and Infoblox DNS appliances. This work was done in English and French.
COMPANY: ERNST AND YOUNG ACCOUNTANTS
POSISTION:SECURITY CONSULTANT
DURATION:MAY 2007
EY employed me via Vistorm to conduct a security review of their UK operations.
COMPANY: INTEGRALIS (SC Magazine Top 20 Global Security Company)
POSITION: SECURITY CONSULTANT / ANALYST
DURATION: MARCH, 2007 to MAY, 2007
This was an 8 week 2nd / 3rd line support contract providing Checkpoint, Nokia, F5 Big IP and RSA support in French and German to UK and European household names such as Audi, and BAA. Working at Integralis was a privilege which gave me unprecedented access to Checkpoint and Nokia.
COMPANY: ALLIANZ CORNHILL INSURANCE / VISTORM
POSITION: SECURITY CONSULTANT / ANALYST
DURATION: JANUARY, 2007 to MARCH 7th, 2007
This was a short-term contract as a senior security analyst and involved security consultancy to the Systems Development Projects Team and the management of all the Company?s Checkpoint and Cisco Pix firewalls.
COMPANY: FRESH EGG NT (DISTRIBUTION), LITTLEHAMPTON
POSITION: IT SUPPORT MANAGER AND PRE-SALES SECURITY CONSULTANT
DURATION: OCTOBER, 2006 ? JANUARY, 2007
In this position I managed the internal network and staff and also conducted Pre and Post-Sales engagements. Frequently, this would involve specifying reseller and end-users requirements and costings and also installing the appliances themselves and training the end-users. Certifications and experience gained in this position include:
Fortinet 3.0 FCNSA and FCNSP
F-Secure Message Security Gateway Certified Engineer
Mirapoint and Razorgate Certified Engineer
Array SSL VPN (appliance) Certified Engineer
eiQ Networks NSA and ESA Certified Administrator
COMPANY: BLUE CUBE SECURITY, SURREY
POSITION: SUPPORT MANAGER AND SECURITY CONSULTANT
DURATION: FEBRUARY ? SEPTEMBER 2006
This was my first permanent security role after many years of self-employment and involved managing the local network (10 servers with Exchange 2003, SQL 2000 and a Nokia Checkpoint Cluster) and also carrying out support, pre-sales and post-sales for the following products to our customers:
RSA Secure ID (I am a qualified RSA Certified Systems Engineer)
F5 Big-IP (Advanced Qualification held)
Imperva Application Protection Firewall
Postini Email Security (all current training courses attended)
Tipping Point X-505 and IPS (advanced certifications held)
During my time with Bluecube, I also became an expert on the new Tipping Point series of IPS / UTM devices and conducted demonstrations and installation of both the IPS series and X-Series appliances to businesses and academic institutions.
COMPANY: EAST SURREY HOSPITAL, REDHILL
POSITION: Short term project
DURATION: DECEMBER 2005 / JANUARY 2006
This was a project contract for my local NHS hospital providing advice on Group Policies and Infrastructure issues and security (CheckPoint, ISA and Sonic Wall).
COMPANY: GENESIS HOUSING GROUP (with Badenoch and Clark)
POSITION: Migration Project Consultant
DURATION: OCTOBER ? NOVEMBER 2005, Short Term Contract
Genesis Housing Group employed me to provide project management and technical consultancy on their migration of 1650 users over 3 physical sites from NT and Exchange 5.5 to Server 2003 / Exchange 2003 with full use of FSMOs, Routing Groups, ADMT, Schema Design, DNS, DHCP scopes with VMWare for labs and Dameware / GPMC for consolidated management. Duties also included:
Building, configuring and monitoring c. 50 generic and IBM 346 and Compaq Proliant DL140 and DL 380 2U racked E-Servers
Ground-up building of 2 new Terminal Servers
Troubleshooting, reconfiguring and maintaining over 100 printers on 3 servers
Monitoring mail with Mail Marshall
Managing security with a Cisco Pix firewall
Configuring and monitoring enterprise backups with DLT 4 and Ultrium tape drives
Configuring and monitoring Blackberry server for 30 users (v. 4.0)
Recovering from RAID disasters with Powerquest v2i
Oracle / SQL / Agresso monitoring and backup
VoIP configuration of AlwaysOn Virtual Telephony
Assisting the help desk team and helping to ensure SLA designates are met
COMPANY: RESPONSE TEAM LIMITED, BURGESS HILL
POSITION: TECHNICAL CONSULTANT ? NETWORK MIGRATIONS
DURATION: JULY to SEPTEMBER 2005, CONTRACT
In July, I took a three month contract with Sussex based network consultancy www.rteam.co.uk in order to upgrade the networks of the following companies: www.Facelift.co.uk Drey Precision Engineering, www.FMSLtd.co.uk www.EmcelFilters.co.uk www.Photek.com Challenge Educational Services and www.Ricochet.co.uk (makers of Supernanny, Risking it All et al) and www.ApexManufacturing.co.uk. The work for these companies included:
Rolling Out Dell / Fuji servers across NT networks to AD with Exchange 5.5 to 2003
Setting up of firewalls and DMZs? Fortigate, Checkpoint, Watchguard and ZyWall
Active Directory migration, creation, troubleshooting and monitoring
Public Folder, OWA, and OMA creation / design
Running the help desk for the coordination of the systems with RDP and VNC
Setting up multi-site Terminal Servers in 2000 / 20003 including printing
Full integration of anti-virus products, DATs et ceterae
Where necessary working in French (Challenge Education) and German (Ricochet TV)
Installation and management of switches, cabling et ceterae
Installation and management of UPS ? predominantly APC Powerchutes
Backups to Travan and DAT with, predominantly, Backup Exec
A typical project was the upgrade of Apex Manufacturing. This firm had 30 PCs and 2 Compaq Proliant ML350 Servers on 2 sites running on a NT PDC with an MK database running on 2000 Server. I planned and upgraded to AD on an SBS 2003 box and migrated the SIDs / permissions , Mailboxes (from Mail Enable to Exchange with Outlook 2003 clients) and the other hardware and software settings on all servers and PCs. I then installed 10 printers and set up the redundant NT box as an Office Terminal Server with printing for the firm?s mobile users. Total time including handover and monitoring ? 3 days.
When in the firm?s head office, I also acted as a third line escalation point for any networking or general IT is staff who needed assistance.
APRIL 2003 TO JULY 2005
Until July 1st, I ran my own Sussex based IT Network Support company - Crawley Network Services - and also worked as a senior technical trainer for London based www.britannia-it.co.uk .
As a support engineer and consultant, my work with local firms included:
Security (Penetration) Testing and consultancy
Many Project Based Rollouts and Upgrades. A typical example would be a small two-weekend project for a firm in Lille, France, upgrading their systems from NT4 to 2003 including Exchange 5.5 to 2003 and installation of Citrix Meta XP and Checkpoint NG.
SLAs for small, local firms? networks
Local hardware fixes and backup services for Windows networks
Exchange 5.5 / 2003 administration
Remote Assistance
Maintenance and control of inventory of both hardware and software (licenses).
Hardware experience includes x86 PCs, Routers and Switches (DSL / Cisco) and Servers (IBM, Dell and HP)
At Britannia, I trained students from varied backgrounds ? from total beginner to senior systems Administrators for :
- COMPTIA A+ Hardware, A+ Software and N+ with Microsoft?s MCSE (2003) track
- XP (including ghosted roll-outs, unattended installations with Sysprep / Riprep etc)
- Active Directory modules including Schema Design, Replication, DNS Namespace Design, DC placement et al
- Network Infrastructure (including RRAS, DNS, Server Clustering and Net Load Balancing, Terminal Services et al)
- Exchange 2003 Administration (including migration from 5.5 / 2000 and FULL admin skills)
- Citrix Metaframe XP FR1, FR2 and FR3 (Presentation Server) to CCA standard with NFuse / Web Interface, ICA Clients etc.
- Project Management (General, MS Project 2003 and PRINCE2)
- Checkpoint NG Firewall security to CCSE (Management II) standard
- Provide support through own skills and knowledge; responsible for dealing with advanced non-Help Desk issues.
SEPTEMBER 2001 TO MARCH 2003
SOUTH AFRICA
After my contract with Ford, Germany (below), I decided to take some time out to gain a Private Pilots License and I did this in South Africa. Whilst there, I married an SA Citizen and I started an IT Network Support and Training company in Pretoria. This ran very well and in early 2003 my wife and I decided to move back to the UK with our two young children.
COMPANY: FORD MOTOR COMPANY, GERMANY
POSITION: PROJECT MANAGER - EURO CURRENCY PROJECT
DURATION: JUNE 2000 to AUGUST 2001. 14 Months. Contract.
As one of a Europe based triumvirate of Finance ? IT Project Managers on this hugely complicated and important project, we managed to transform all of Ford Europe?s Finance-IT systems to a point of Euro currency compliance. This contract involved:
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APRIL 2000
VIBRANT-IT. MUMBAI, INDIA
STUDENT - MCSE (NT4).
COMPANY: MELLON BANK US (London Office)
POSITION: PROJECT MANAGER
DURATION: APRIL 1998 to JANUARY 2000. 21 Months. Contract.
This contract was my first major contract back in the City after University. As the Project Manager on this major US Bank?s Y2K Project, I was awarded three extensions and two generous loyalty bonuses. Duties included:
- Designing, building and maintaining the stand-alone test environment, replicating over 40 mission-critical banking applications including NT 4 and GEAC?s Smartstream
- Training of end-user accounting staff for software testing
- Necessity to become very rapidly familiar with over 100 IT systems
- Responsibility for all systems testing
- Responsible for liaison with the FSA, SFA (NY) and British Bankers Association at the highest levels.
- Extensive UK wide liaison with major clients including Nationwide, Halifax, CSFB and Lloyds Bank Capital Markets
- Involvement with the bank?s world-wide migration to PRINCE2
- Liaison with other I.S. specialists within the Mellon group, to ensure effective communication of system requirements and changes.
- Working closely with Functional Managers to ensure an IT understanding of their business requirements.
- Managing other assigned European IT projects, including rollout of upgrades, system changes etc and user training.
COMPANY: CLERICAL MEDICAL, BRISTOL
POSITION: SOFTWARE TESTER THEN JUNIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
DURATION: SEPTEMBER 1997 to APRIL 1998 8 months. Contract.
Working as a networking technician for Clerical Medicals head office, I gained experience of the NT4 client/server environment, Unisys A-Series mainframes, corporate printers and GroupWise.
BRISTOL UNIVERSITY
POSITION: Undergraduate reading Single Honours Russian Studies.
DURATION: OCTOBER 1995 to JUNE 1997
For two years, I enjoyed reading Russian Studies at Bristol, however with both a year abroad in Siberia and a £10,000 loan beckoning I decided to return to the world of work after this two year mature-student sabbatical.
COMPANY: COMMERCIAL UNION
POSITION: Trainee Accountant and Project Coordinator
DURATION: MAY 1987 to AUGUST 1995. 8 years. Permanent.
For 8 years I was a member of the Company?s London Market Marine Facultative Re-insurance team. Before leaving CU for University, I managed such projects as the role-out of as new accounts reconciliation system for the Baltic Exchange offices of this most British of insurance houses. Duties included:
- Learning about accountancy, business law and auditing
- Assistance with the development and implementation of new systems policies - both hardware and software.
EDUCATION.
Purley School for Boys and Shaftesbury Independent School, Purley.
QUALIFICATION GAINED / COURSES ATTENDED
CISSP
Bristol University ? Single Honours Russian. 2 years
PRINCE 2 Practitioner 1998
AAT ? Association of Accounting Technicians
MCSE NT4 (Vibrant IT, Mumbai, India)
MCSE 2003 (MCP Modules)
Checkpoint
COMPTIA A+, N+, S+
Access to Higher Education
7 O-Levels including English Language and Mathematics
LANGUAGES
I am able to converse in German and French and I have used these languages during my contracts with Ford, Germany, Integralis, UK and the National Bank of Belgium. I also still try to keep up my university Russian
REFERENCES
Excellent references can be provided at the appropriate juncture.