Pete Stokes

Fusing business and technical goals into SIEM & Security across strategy, planning, deployment, operations.

Building consulting partnerships with select clients, ensuring their business requirements are met with performing and secure technology solutions. Helping clients save costs whilst protecting revenue streams.

Engage on Security, Infrastructure, Risk, Business Development & Operational projects direct or with associates. Built & operate teams. Consultancy across EU.

- Leading Security & IT implementation for a Financial Services start-up.  - Building and operating teams across EU. Hands-on full scope of Enterprise IT. - Responsible for building and managing EU IT teams to deliver the business service. - Pragmatic solutions, using IT tools to monitor and improve business revenue. - Building Enterprise resilient private clouds, leading 3rd parties. - Ensuring solutions and security posture are in line with business requirements.

● Short term requirement, join a team working on global datacentres, systems, policy, process. ● Responsibility for external datacentres. Oversight and steerage on internal datacentres. ● Leading audit interpretation, RCM creation and reporting methods. ● Projects: Strategy for new SIEM implementation, S/MIME, PKI, Web SSL. ● Mediator for teams. Umbrella and technical perspectives.

Chairman of local estate Management Company, circa 200 units, 80k per year revenue. Lead the company to a new management and operation structure. Reduced operational costs by 30% whilst increasing service provision. Set a platform to ensure financial security of the Company.

Short term Agile project. Major public deployment for their client. Designed and implemented SIEM in the Amazon cloud. Lead a small team. Help management define the Security and SIEM strategy. Perform the SIEM design and initial phase of technical implementation of AlienVault. Security consulting across the cloud, linux servers, application, 3PPs. Demonstrated how to use SIEM to build revenue channels.

Advising clients on IT Risk, Information Security, ISO 27001, COBIT, BC/DR. Quantifying business risk and technical/process design & implementation.

Partnered with a number of seed & start-up businesses to perform a discovery process across the Baltics.

CTO at Russian start-up, responsible for building a technical strategy, managing corporate risk, leveraging IT techniques to build the business channels, a little implementation when needed.

Advising on strategic business, security and technology risks for a gaming company.

Appointed to lead Aviva Ireland's Business Protection Information Security requirements. Responsible for leading SOX 404 compliance needs for internal controls, their interpretation, design, testing, remediation, auditing and reporting to comply with Group, data protection, and external auditor requirements. Including all aspects of IS, physical security, BC/DR.

The lead Information Security & technical resource for Quinn Insurance and also looking after the manufacturing Group of companies. Internet, core, edge networking, architecture, implementation, and security awareness. Understanding biz requirements and delivering them technically across EU to Russia and India. Security, internet, resilience, failover, loadbalancing, networking, DR, audit & compliance.

Java J2EE Consultant working for financial, travel and retail companies in architecture, development, trainer and team leader roles.