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Biography
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

1980 - 1983

Kirkcaldy College of Technology

HND in Engineering (old style 3 year degree equivalent sandwich course)

Final year subjects taken were:

  • Manufacture
  • Design
  • Project
  • Industrial Management
  • Microprocessors in Engineering
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EDUCATION

1972 - 1977

Buckhaven High School

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001 - present

National Australia Group Europe Services Ltd

Glasgow

Re-joined September 2001 as Information Security Analyst.

2001 - 2001

Scottish & Newcastle plc

Edinburgh

Joined late February 2001 as Security Manager.

1989 - 2001

Clydesdale Bank plc/ National Australia Group Europe Services Ltd

Glasgow

Joined Bank as a Research Analyst and was promoted to Leading Research Analyst 1991. My work has been varied and for a couple of years I concentrated on PC technical support particularly in the areas of local area networking, PC viruses and PC security. More recently I have moved into the IT Security section. This has meant significant involvement in RACF on MVS. I have programmed in most languages, particularly assembler, but not COBOL.

1984 - 1989

National Engineering Laboratory (Government Research Laboratory)

East Kilbride

Joined as Scientific Officer to work on robotic vision systems. Achieved promotion to Higher Scientific Officer in 1987. Work included commissioning a Unix system (AT&T System V), developing applications on DEC LSI and PDP computers as well as using ALL-IN-1 on a central VAX Cluster facility.

1982

Admiralty Marine Technology Establishment (Naval Research Establishment)

Rosyth, Fife

6 month placement as sandwich course student working in non-destructive materials testing laboratory.

PUBLICATIONS

Article entitled How RACF handles passwords which was published in RACF Update November 2003 by Xephon.

Co-authored scientific report entitled A Model Based System for Component Recognition in Visually 'Noisy' Scenes with J D Todd which was published by Department of Trade and Industry, May 1988 (NEL Report No 713).

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
[CISSP logo]Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) 2002 - 2005
Fellow of The Institution of Analysts & Programmers (FIAP) [IAP Coat of Arms]
[BCS logo]Member British Computer Society (MBCS)
Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP)

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