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Professional History

Sep 2021Present

Senior Threat Intelligence Consultant

SecAlliance
  • Led CBEST, TIBER, iCAST, FEER and CTRA Threat Intelligence across financial services, banking, government, nuclear, heavy industry and military contracting.
  • AI and LLM-based development with CSIS and SecAlliance Artificial Intelligence Working Group, advising European finance leadership and developing in-house AI tools for the Cyber Threat Intelligence problem space.
  • OSINT technical reconnaissance and automation supporting Red Team engagements including MITRE ATT&CK TTP specification.
  • Threat analysis and landscape projection for European National Central Banking Generic Threat Landscape industry reporting
  • Senior Consultant advising UK Government transportation sector and policy
  • Lead research and RFI delivery on the impact of AI and Large Language Models, Digital Twins and Autonomous Plant
Mar 2018Aug 2021

Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst

Nettitude, Advisory Services Team
  • Led Threat Intelligence delivery as Senior Analyst for dozens of CBEST, TIBER and STAR engagements across industrial manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, multinational commercial and investment banking including two major international stock exchanges.
  • Led development of successful TI products including Threat Intelligence-based assessment and protection of key executives.
  • Published commercial Threat Intelligence research relevant to Maritime & Offshore and Financial Services sectors.
  • Developed active & enhanced CTI reconnaissance analysis packages
  • Integrated 'Red Team' techniques into Threat Intelligence workflow and output
  • Performed competitive evaluation and integration of commercial TI sources
  • Developed automated TI data analytics, reporting and enrichment tools
  • Subject Matter Expert, scoping and debriefing to senior stakeholders
July 2016June 2017

Head of Security Operations (Acting)

University of Oxford, OxCERT
  • Primary Critical Incident Handler for Oxford University
  • Line management of University of Oxford CERT
  • Oversight of security operations business function
  • Senior Supplier for six-figure deliverables
  • SME to law enforcement and senior stakeholders
  • Threat actor profiling & briefing to C-level
  • Tender elicitation, specification and delivery
Feb 2014July 2016

Security Operations Lead

University of Oxford, OxCERT
    • Frontline SOC & IR technical leadership
    • Network vulnerability assessment & digital forensics
    • Bespoke SIEM & NSM engineering in Elastic Stack

    CIO Recognition Award for SIEM development

    Certifications

    SEC587 Advanced OSINT Gathering & Analysis

    SANS.org

    Researching sensitive and secretive groups, advanced image and video analysis, dark web and criminal underground investigations, criminal blockchain tracking, Operational Security (OPSEC), OSINT collection and analysis automation.

    July 2021July 2024

    Crest Certified Threat Intelligence Manager (CCTIM)

    CREST

    Threat intelligence team leadership, engagement management, knowledge in all areas of threat intelligence and proven experience in operational security, data collection / analysis and intelligence production.

    Mar 2015

    Digital Forensics, Security Management

    JISC

    EnCase  ▪  FTK Imager  ▪  SANS DFF  ▪ Volatility 
    SOC Leadership   ▪   Incident Management 

    Nov 2014

    TRANSITS I

    TERENA / GÉANT Association

    Incident Response   ▪   SOC Operations   ▪   ISO-27K

    20022006

    Physics BSc (Hons)

    University of Kent

    Faculty Excellence Award 3rd year