Presented research on OSINT @ Bsides London 2023

Presenting my research into OSINT and promoting good operating security and data hygiene

Promoted to Lead Architect @ BBC InfoSec

Worked on assessing risk for BBC’s critical systems and evolving BBC’s security strategy. Continued building the security community, assisting in incident response and being the BBC’s security subject mater expert for AWS, GitHub and Kubernetes.

Gained the Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) qualification

Personal data stores research paper won best technical paper award @ IBC

The research paper covered the work R&D did into personal data stores with my contribution to the paper focusing around the security of such devices and the trials we ran.

Presented web archiving work @ MozFest 2021

Hired as Senior Architect @ BBC InfoSec

Worked on building security champions communities, threat modelling, C4 architecture, incident response, application security, policy & guidance and assessing risk for BBC’s digital estate.

Role changed to focus on security @ BBC Research & Development

Brought onto the personal data stores project to focus on security to minimise InfoSec risk classification to acceptable levels. Using: Kubernetes, BASH, reverse engineering. Also produced a Pentesting report for the public facing VM clusters in R&D.

Presented adaptive storytelling toolkit work @ IBC 2019

Presented the technical aspects of my work whilst in BBC Research & Development on the adaptive storytelling toolkit project (StoryKit).

Promoted to Engineer @ BBC Research & Development

Worked as full-stack developer on AWS, NodeJS, GoCD, React, REST, GraphQL, Docker. Focused on building security awareness within department through workshops, communication and threat modelling.

Attachment working on web archiving @ BBC Archives

Designed and deployed a system for ingesting and indexing TBs of web archives so they can be searched and retrieved by BBC Staff.

Hired as Trainee Technologist @ BBC Resarch & Development

Worked on Machine Learning problems leveraging neural networks and traditional machine learning techniques. Using: VMs, BASH, Ruby, C++, Python.

First started experimenting with Hypervisors & Virtualisation

Started experimenting with running baremetal hypervisor Xen and passthrough technologies such as Intel GVT-g and VT-d. Simultaneous booting of OSX, Windows and Ubuntu.

Hired at Warwick Manufacturing Group

Working as Intern, Project Assistant & Project Coordinator assisting small businesses in electronics, software and manufacturing problems.

Graduated First Class in Master of Mathematics (Mmath) @ Warwick University

First Commercial Software Release

After many iterations of user testing, interface design and development, the first commercial version of Photon Game Manager was released. Reception to software was very positive with many paying customers.

Started to Lead the Technology Volunteers Group

Coordinated with schools to run Arduino and Scratch lessons. Organised volunteers at the university to facilitate these sessions. Designed and ran the sessions and managed the budgets for equipment.

First website deployed

Started managing the website and SEO for David Preece Builders website

First website developed

Started to reverse engineer websites to understand what HTML tags do. Used this knowledge to start coding new websites

Started coding

Started using variants of BASIC to create games, tools and websites