About

I have been involved and led civil, criminal and corporate investigations since graduating university in 2006 after completing an MSc in Information Security and Computer Crime. Working with UK law enforcement and various global agencies I have been involved in work surrounding online infiltration of organised criminality to obtain evidence and have encountered a wide range of digital environments and attended multiple crime scenes from a digital perspective that resulted in giving evidence in court. Following on from that beginning in 2010 I worked for large organisations in Gas and Oil and later Financial Services among others. As a result of this exposure has had to respond to incidents from normal office environments to Oil platforms in the middle of the ocean. Involved in incidents ranging from internal HR (Policy, Fraud) issues to SPAM and targeted malware/hacking attempts. While in these environments has had to also consult and respond to a wide range of Information Security issues from strategy to incident response at all levels within the organisation.

Academic Engagement:

In 2012 I became a STEM ambassador and worked with colleges and secondary schools to show case my working life to encourage the younger generation to take up the skills.

I have also applied this to local universities and have been working with Universities to deliver lectures and practical lab sessions on Digital Forensics and Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis and Digital investigations which led to the creation of an Investigative Forensics module. I have become an Associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University sharing my knowledge and experience with Degree and Masters students supporting them in my spare time.