My Resume

Senior Cybersecurity Domain Consultant for Cortex, Network Security & Cloud

Professional experience, certifications, education, and technical skills

Professional Summary

Close to two decades in cybersecurity, from network security engineering and infrastructure architecture to senior pre-sales consulting. Since 2021 at Palo Alto Networks I have led complex, multi-country technical engagements across EMEA, with escalation support into APAC and North America, taking enterprise customers from executive-level discovery through Proof of Value to production adoption.

I work the breadth of the portfolio: NGFW and Zero Trust network security, Cortex XDR endpoint and SecOps, and Cortex Cloud. I am as comfortable framing technical strategy with a CISO as running a hands-on XQL workshop for 50+ partners, or writing the automation playbook that unblocks a stalled migration. I also close the loop back to Product Management and R&D on what the field actually needs.

Years in cybersecurity
18+ Years in cybersecurity
Multi-regional coverage
EMEA Multi-regional coverage
Portfolio domains: Cortex, NetSec, Cloud
3 Portfolio domains: Cortex, NetSec, Cloud
Engineers led
20 Engineers led

Professional Experience

EMEA Senior Solution Architect, Cortex Cloud

Oct 2025 - Present
Palo Alto Networks Belgium

Senior technical lead for Cortex Cloud engagements across EMEA, guiding enterprise customers from early discovery through Proof of Value to production adoption.

I work across the security portfolio, covering cloud security, application security and endpoint, and architect solutions for large multi-country environments. Alongside customer engagements I run enablement sessions and technical workshops for customers and partners, and feed field experience back to our product teams.

Cloud Solutions Architect

Sep 2021 - Oct 2025
Palo Alto Networks Belgium

Drove technical strategy and adoption of Prisma Cloud across multi-cloud enterprise environments in EMEA, working the full pre-sales and post-sales cycle with security, platform and DevOps stakeholders.

I led customer engagements from discovery through to production rollout, delivered partner enablement and hands-on workshops across the region, and built automation that embedded security directly into customer cloud and DevOps operations.

Public Cloud Enterprise Architect

Nov 2019 - Aug 2021
NRB Liege

Enterprise architect for public cloud across Azure, AWS and GCP, responsible for the secure, scalable reference architectures used by delivery teams across the organisation.

  • Authored and maintained cloud reference architectures encoding security, resilience and performance best practice.
  • Designed secure landing zones, reviewed existing designs and delivered strategic recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Assessed emerging technologies such as Kubernetes and container platforms, and set the organisation's adoption direction.

Team Lead, Network and Network Security

Jan 2017 - Oct 2019
NRB Liege

Led a team of 20 network and network security engineers through a full transformation of core infrastructure, combining people leadership with hands-on architecture ownership.

  • Owned network and security architecture for new datacentre builds, delivering scalability, resilience and segmentation by design.
  • Executed a complete replacement of core routing and switching, and drove integration of Palo Alto Networks NGFW, F5 load balancing, Splunk monitoring and BackBox automation.
  • Delivered critical infrastructure upgrades against strict business-continuity and security requirements, presenting plans, trade-offs and risk positions to senior management.

Network Security Designer

Jan 2009 - Dec 2016
Engie Brussels

Designed and delivered large-scale network security infrastructure for a multinational energy group, across a broad multi-vendor estate including Check Point, Juniper, F5, BlueCoat and Cisco.

  • Led the design and deployment of an internet access infrastructure serving 50,000+ users, built on Check Point virtual systems, Juniper firewalls and SSL VPN, and F5 BIG-IP load balancers.
  • Delivered a secure remote-access (Outlook Anywhere) infrastructure with client-certificate authentication behind F5, solving significant secure-access and load-balancing challenges.
  • Ran complex, multi-site security projects end to end, from design through to production handover.

Network Security Engineer

Sep 2007 - Dec 2008
BNP Paribas Fortis Bank Brussels

Level 3 support and engineering for critical network security components (firewalls, proxies and load balancers) in a tier-1 banking environment.

  • Led the migration of an international branch onto an entirely new network and security infrastructure.
  • Developed automation in Perl and Expect to standardise command execution across a heterogeneous device estate, improving operational consistency.

Education

Master, IT

Sep 2006 - Sep 2007
University Liege

Only one year

Bachelor, Network orientation

Sep 2003 - Jun 2006
HEPL - Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège Liege

Great Distinction

Certifications

PCCSE Prisma Certified Cloud Security Engineer Palo Alto Networks
CKA Certified Kubernetes Administrator The Linux Foundation
EX280 Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration Red Hat
AZ-400 Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert Microsoft
SAA AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) Amazon Web Services

Technical Skills

Network Security

Palo Alto Networks NGFW / PAN-OS Expert
Network Security Architecture Expert
Zero Trust Architecture Advanced
SASE / Prisma Access Intermediate
Check Point, Juniper & Cisco Advanced
F5 BIG-IP Advanced

Cortex & Security Operations

Cortex Cloud (CNAPP / CDR) Expert
XQL Query & Detection Engineering Expert
Cortex XDR (Endpoint) Advanced
XSOAR Playbook Automation Advanced
Custom Dashboards & Reporting Expert
Cortex XSIAM Intermediate

Cloud & Application Security

Kubernetes & OpenShift Security Expert
AWS Advanced
Microsoft Azure Advanced
Application Security & CI/CD Advanced
Cloud Compliance (CIS, AWS FSBP) Advanced
Google Cloud Platform Intermediate

Consulting & Go-To-Market

Proof of Value Leadership Expert
Partner & Customer Enablement Expert
Technical Pre-Sales Strategy Expert
High-Level Design & Architecture Advanced
Executive & C-Level Engagement Advanced
Multi-Regional Engagement Leadership Advanced
RFP / RFI Response Advanced

Automation & Engineering

Terraform Expert
Python Advanced
Ansible Advanced
Docker Advanced
API & SSO Integration (Okta, SAML) Advanced
Git Advanced

Software Development

PHP / Laravel Advanced
JavaScript Advanced
MySQL Advanced