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 - PresentSenior 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 2025Drove 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 2021Enterprise 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 2019Led 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 2016Designed 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 2008Level 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 2007Only one year
Bachelor, Network orientation
Sep 2003 - Jun 2006Great Distinction