Risk Reduction - Prevention - Detection - Resilience

I am an executive leader specialising in operational resilience, enterprise risk, and the stability of complex, high-consequence systems.

Over the last 15+ years, I have worked across healthcare, enterprise technology, and regulated environments, leading multi-disciplinary teams responsible for incident response, security operations, vulnerability management, identity governance, and platform resilience.

My work sits at the intersection of technology, operations, and risk—supporting organisations through acquisition, integration, transformation, and disruption.

I have operated in environments where system failure has real-world impact, and where clarity, structure, and decision-making under pressure are essential.

Alongside my professional career, I am an active member of a Mountain Rescue team and hold FREC4 qualification, reinforcing my practical experience in structured response, leadership under pressure, and coordinated incident management.

I am particularly focused on roles where operational resilience, critical systems, and organisational stability are central to mission success.

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Google (WIZ) 2023 - Current

Senior Security Consultant 

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Act as a strategic technical advisor to enterprise organisations operating in regulated industries, supporting operational risk reduction, cloud security posture, and resilience improvement initiatives.

Engage with senior stakeholders to translate technical and operational risk into clear decision-making inputs for executive teams.

Support organisations navigating cloud and Ai transformation and improving security and resilience across complex environments.

ESO 2022-2023

DIRECTOR CYBER DEFENCE

Led enterprise cyber defence and operational security across a multi-entity healthcare organisation actively acquiring and integrating multiple businesses.

Responsible for Security Operations, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, and Security Awareness across five organisations.

Accountable for enterprise incident response coordination, including high-severity security events affecting critical services.

Established executive reporting frameworks and operational resilience metrics to support board-level visibility of risk, incidents, and system stability.

Supported integration of security operations across acquired entities, improving governance consistency and operational resilience maturity.

Worked directly with executive leadership teams to align operational risk with organisational priorities.

Hashicorp - 2001-2022

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT

Supported global enterprise organisations in designing resilient, secure, and scalable cloud operating models.

Advised executive and technical stakeholders on infrastructure transformation, security architecture, and operational resilience design.

Translated business requirements into secure, automated platform solutions across regulated industries.

Allstate 2015-2021

LEAD IAM SECURITY ENG / PLATFORM DEVOPS ENGINEER

Held progressive roles across identity, platform engineering, and operational reliability functions.

Led enterprise secrets management implementation and identity governance initiatives across cloud environments.

Supported production observability and platform resilience through monitoring, automation, and operational tooling.

NICTU Belfast, 2012-2014

DATA MANAGER,

Proposed and Developed Business Case & Plan to link clinical record systems for Trails across all regional Trail Centres.

Manage Project Initiation to Post Project Evaluation within timeline budgets.

Analysing Data Management Functional requirements from Broader Customer Requirements.

Create Database Design Interfaces to inform build and unit testing for developers.

Develop test plans, design reviews, encoding of attributes, variables, error handling procedures in accordance to project specifications.

Build and Maintain key stakeholder relationships with Clinical Leads, Lab team, Statisticians, Clinical Nursing Staff and Ethical monitoring teams.

Adhere to client confidentiality, data security, privacy codes &  ethical codes  at all times acting with integrity.

Belfast Trust, 2010-2012

FINANCE PROJECT MANAGER

Responsible for a range of finance project management tools such as Prospect CRM, Xperience Opera, Sage, Quickbooks, Infermed Macro, SPSS, Pegasus XRL, SQL data querying and data mining .

Overhauled and implemented new financial systems and processes freeing up 2 staff positions in the processing department.

Implemented Employee Management Programme including training, supervising and staff management, linked to performance indicators and criteria for performance management.

Liaised with third party software supplier to create automated CRM reports, customising database to link customer database to payroll and accounts Opera Systems through Pegasus XRL reporting systems.