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Lead Security Architect
United Kingdom
Summary

An Expert in Digital Transformation Projects.

Implementing Highly Available & Redundant Infrastructure: Firewall-Email-Endpoint Security, routers, switches, network storage arrays, HA physical server clustering, Virtualization-hypervisors, VM's, wlan, global vpn, ospf, mpls. 2FA-MFA, Cloud Computing Building & Maintaining Infrastructure On-Premise-Hybrid-Cloud.

Security Policies & Controls: PAM-IAM-MFA-SSO-DLP-AV-CASB-Zero Trust Exchange-Vulnerability & Cyber Risk Management.

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Latest Project Aug 24 to date.

Last Major Project April 2022- Completion in 15 of 36 Months. Implement latest technologies to migrate/build infrastructures – greenfield sites & keep risk to Production DC at minimum.

Mimecast Web-Email-App Security.
Specops, Falcon-Crowdstrike, Rapid7, Duo MFA, Cyberark-PIM/PAM/Safes, Cloudfare-ddos & WAF, Fortigate-FW/WAF, Helpsystems-Intermapper/Event Manager (SIEM).

Azure DC & Private DC Builds.
Design vlan network for greenfield sites, Routing-Switching, hyperv cluster builds, DC migration, Express Route & Custom DNS.
Build infrastructure with Public-Internal Load Balancers, HA-Fortigate FWs, HA WAFs.
GoAnywhere SFTP Build

2x Dell Powerstore Config with DR Storage Replication, 2x QNAP Storage configuration.
2x Hypervisor Implementation & Clustered Hosts.

Windows Servers & Linux/Suse flavour builds. AD, DHCP, Split DNS, Group Policy, IIS, CA Management-PKI, SCCM/SCCM Cloud gateway builds, Duo-MFA server builds, CyberArk server builds, VM conversions 'vmware 2 hyper-v' (Suse Linux).

SECURING:
Windows End User Logon – Duo MFA
Windows Servers Logon – Duo MFA
Linux Server Logon – Duo MFA
SSL-VPNs – Duo MFA
Office365 Logon- Duo MFA
CyberArk Portal Logon – Duo MFA
Mimecast Portal – Duo MFA
IT Admin & Service Accounts – CyberArk
Azure/Duo Portal – CyberArk
Privileged Access Management – CyberArk
RBAC – Role Based Access

Domain Services Migration:
FSMO Roles, AAD Connect, ADFS-Farm-SSO to Azure-SSO, Securelink.

Encrypted Backup -OnSite -Cloud
SDWAN Migration Project.

FAILOVER of:
DR – Colocation
MPLS
Routers
Firewall HA
Datacentre Switches
Internet Breakout
Storage Node Volumes
Hypervisor Failover – VMs
S2S-VPN
SSL-VPN

Failover back to Production DC, test Replication back to Primary Storage Node & all DR above.

Azure DC – ASR Region FO

BAU -MS365 -Miraki -Azure DCs -DC Domain Services
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30 years+ experience

Identify single point of failure
DR Site Testing
BCP Solutions

Interests: SDWAN, Network Automation, Cybersecurity.
Defensive/Offensive: Blue/Red Teaming.

Work experience
01/08/2024
19/12/2025
Lead Security Architect
01/07/2024
01/08/2024
Airport Engineer
01/08/2023
01/02/2024
Senior Consultant
Education & certifications
01/01/1995
01/01/1997
Higher National Diploma
Business Information Technology
Open to relocate
Skills
Cybersecurity Information Security Network Security Penetration Testing Vulnerability Assessment Incident Response Risk Management Cryptography Cloud Security Business Continuity Zero Trust Architecture Security Operations Center (SOC) Threat Hunting Security Awareness Training CISSP CompTIA Security+ Security Risk Assessment Security Incident Management Threat Detection Vulnerability Management Security Risk Management Security Awareness Risk Assessment Cyber Threat Intelligence Security Training & Awareness Security Incident Analysis QRadar Google Cloud Security Problem Solving Team Collaboration Security Incident Triage API Security Testing Cloud SIEM Integration SaaS Security Assessment

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