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Chief Information Security Officer

The Digital Asset Platform delivers flexible infrastructure for regulated financial institutions to share processes and data securely, on a need-to-know basis, without the need for reconciliation. It combines a permissioned Distributed Ledger with a powerful financial modeling language to ensure that each institution operates from a single source of truth.

CISO and Senior Technology Manager with experience managing global teams of technologists and application developers, deploying solutions for systems and network infrastructure, and application monitoring, fault and performance management, telemetry, operations automation and job scheduling. Focus on operational efficiency and effectiveness through appropriate use of technology. Integration of fault management with Incident, Problem and Change Management, driving transparency of impact to business. Budgetary responsibility for headcount, and capital and expense management. Vendor selection and negotiations. Staff development and coaching. Successfully delivered Digital Asset through SOC2 Type 2 and ISO 27001:2013 examinations. Focus on improving risk management and treatment across the organisation. Vendor risk management. Secure SDLC and DevSecOps through cloud based CI/CD. Open-source projects. Cloud Security. Zero Trust Managing IT across multiple cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure, VMWare and Oracle) and 120+ Saas Providers including Google Workplace and Microsoft Office365. Automation and self-service options for help desk requests. Previous responsibilities have included Identity Management, provisioning, web portals, security, directory, and system integration. Broad and in-depth understanding of development process and technology architecture. Direct experience on directory (Active Directory, OpenLDAP), security (Kerberos, Netegrity, Neoteris, firewalls, PAM/NSS), identity management/provisioning, web development, database development (PostgresQL, MS SQL, DB2, Oracle) and enterprise messaging projects (MQ Series/Tibco RV). Specialties: Informaton Security and Risk Management, Technical Controls assessment and implementation, DevsOps & CI/CD (Azure DevOps & CircleCI), Security Testing, Cloud Services and Cloud Hosting, BigData Analytics, Fault Management, System/Network Monitoring, Metrics and Analytics, Directory, Auth and Identity Management products. Managing technical architects/engineers, inc program/project management, technology strategy/roadmap. Solid programming expertise (Python, Java), databases, LDAP directories. Messaging/Middleware. Security access control products, PKI/HSMs, Kerberos. Networking. Vendor negotiation/Product evaluation.