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Group Chief Information Security Officer

SSE PLC provide the energy people need in a reliable and sustainable way.

Profile Cyber Risk and Resilience professional with over 20 years experience, mostly gained in multinational corporations. Possesses excellent mix of risk based strategy development and delivery, architecture, technical security, policy, procedure and risk management skills developed in multicultural international environments. Expert in analysing and delivering secure, cost effective architectures for complex high value business requirements. Over my career I have attained CISM, CCSK, TOGAF, CISSP, MCSE, Security+, Certified Ethical Hacker, CCNA etc qualifications, backed up by many years of practical experience in all aspects of information security, as well as infrastructure design, deployment and management within ITIL and ISO 27001 compliant global FTSE & Fortune organisations. Experienced as CISO, enterprise security architect, technical consultant, team lead and IT manager leading multinational / multicultural teams, project managing the delivery of IT security and operational architecture and strategy to support multi $Bn mega projects worldwide. Soft Skills Initiating and Driving change. Delivering increased security awareness and vision. Capturing and realising Risk Appetite. Working in a virtual multicultural distributed environment. Stakeholder management. Aligning information risk management with business goals and objectives. High level business and in depth technical report writing. Problem solving and analytical skills. Presentation skills and influencing to CxO and board levels. Communicating IT Strategy and Vision to a non IT audience. Real world security program development and delivery with a variety of global FTSE & Fortune clients and partners.