This Page isn’t a CV / Resume…

… but the following is a flavour of what it might have contained.

  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) expertise on Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS), experienced with Entrust Datacard and Verizon UniCERT products
  • Hardware Security Module (HSM) expertise with Thales / nCipher products, experienced with Gemalto / SafeNet products
  • Smart card management system expertise with Microsoft FIM CM (formerly CLM), very strong skills in Intercede MyID and HID ActivID (formerly ActivIdentity CMS)
  • Extensive Windows Server and Active Directory (AD) experience
  • Wi-Fi network security expertise with WPA2 and EAP-TLS
  • Expertise in two factor authentication with smart cards and experience of RSA SecurID
  • Key Signing Ceremony (KSC) directing and document authoring expertise
  • Developed solutions incorporating managed PKI services, such as Symantec (formerly VeriSign) managed PKI
  • Technical authoring expertise at all levels of design and engineering, including writing vendor white papers
  • Substantial experience of delivering PKI subject matter presentations, such as for Microsoft at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona
  • Authored Certification Practice Statement (CPS) and Certificate Policy (CP) governance documents
  • Authored tScheme approval profiles for applicants successful in gaining tScheme approved PKI service
  • Led / delivered PKI solutions for the UK military, national / local government institutions, FTSE100 businesses and European banks
  • IT project management and IT department management experience
  • Very good at explaining technical matters to a non-technical audience, e.g. stakeholders
  • Favourite professional quote related to my IT security skills: “CAs are easy – PKI is hard”

Certifications

  • BEng (Hons) Computer-Aided Engineering (First Class)
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)