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https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/David-Webb-6-3-scaled-e1635516368821-500x500.jpg David Webb Chief Executive Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-webb-6point6/ [email protected] David drives the strategic direction of 6point6. Since co-founding the business in 2012, his relentless focus on clients and quality has led the business to achieve impressive turnover growth year on year. Before that David spent over 20 years in the Financial Services and Government sectors leading large architecture teams including stints at HSBC Global Banking and the FCA. He also spent several years in Central Government as part of the Technical Design Authority. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Leadership
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-5-500x500.png Jeremy Vickers Chief Operating Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyvickers/ [email protected] Jeremy leads account management and delivery across all client engagements. Prior to joining 6point6 in 2012, Jeremy spent over 12 years working with highly scalable, distributed systems architecture and has extensive experience as a Lead Architect for major banking, financial services and government clients. Jeremy also has a significant background with major HM Government programmes, being responsible for leading and defining large scale digital transformation initiatives, encompassing online public services, global case working and business intelligence. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Leadership
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-6-500x500.png Maya Shah Chief Financial Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/maya-shah-6841853a/ [email protected] Maya leads all aspects of the firm’s financial affairs including risk management. Since she joined 6point6 in 2017, Maya has had a significant impact on the business, implementing new financial models, controls and building a talented team of finance professionals. For over a decade, Maya has gained significant experience in the technology and professional services sectors. Before she joined 6point6, Maya held many senior finance roles at international compliance consultancy Cordium. She is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Leadership
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-15-500x500.png Chris Porter Chief Corporate Development Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-porter-uk/ [email protected] Chris is responsible for driving business growth through strategic partnerships and frameworks. Chris co-founded 6point6 in 2012 as a hands-on technologist specialising in Enterprise scale integration, Agile delivery, software development, automated testing, DevOps and Cloud. He has been a Developer, a Product Specialist, an Architect and a Tester. Chris’s experience spans both the public and private sector organisations including Telecoms, Finance, Central Government and Media and Technology. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Leadership
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-3-500x500.png Gary Richardson Chief Digital Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardsongary/ [email protected] Gary leads our consulting team, ensuring the expertise and performance of our people wins business. The team brings a collaborative approach to helping businesses achieve secure transformation. Prior to his appointment as CDO, Gary headed up 6point6's data practice bringing innovation and scale to complex data transformation programmes. Gary has deep experience in data strategy and data exploitation and has held senior positions across the Big 4 and global system integrators. He is a subject matter expert in Big Data, Data Science and is also is an experienced Enterprise Data Architect, with a proven track record delivering complex programmes to multiple stakeholders. Gary comes from both a public and private sector background where he has headed up Data Science and Data Engineering teams. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Leadership
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Janet1-500x500.jpg Janet Coulthurst Chief of Staff https://www.linkedin.com/in/janetcoulthurst/ [email protected] Janet actively drives the company’s most critical projects, strategic initiatives and operational rhythm of the business, while supporting the business to scale. Janet brings a wealth of leadership and marketing experience from both the public and private sectors. Her career started as a PR for Pace Micro Technology where she was part of the team that ran comms through its IPO in the mid-90s. She went on to work in not for profit, retail and central government followed by several years running her own consultancy with interim clients including Grant Thornton, Serco and the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Most recently she was CMO of The Leadership Trust where she turned around an ailing 40-year-old business from a 55% net loss to a profit in two years, against a backdrop of significant cash flow challenges and legacy debt. Janet is also a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the trading subsidiary of Halo, a large social enterprise in the leisure sector. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Leadership
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-19-500x500.png Matthew Ferguson Chief Information Security Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewferguson-security/ [email protected] When it comes to cybersecurity, Matthew has seen it all. Creating enterprise security products as a developer and growing MSSPs as a product leader. His career started in HP’s research and development division. Moving in cybersecurity where Matthew lead global security research teams, developing technologies to stop the bad guys in their tracks. Then moving into financial services where he built modern cutting edge information security programs. With 6point6, Matthew works to grow and protect 6point6 from all threats. Graduating with an MBA from the Open University. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cyber Security,Governance Risk and Compliance,Leadership
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Sue-Carruthers1-500x500.jpg Sue Carruthers Chief People Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-carruthers-a25a35b7/ [email protected] Sue delivers a clearly defined strategy for people and culture to enable our great teams to make brilliant ideas happen. She does this by aligning the HR roadmap to employee success, ultimately driving profitability and growth. Working closely with the Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners and Leadership and Development, Sue is a highly experienced HR leader who has worked across different industries managing a range of global HR teams. With the aim of maximising the employee experience, she is passionate about the future of work, HR technology with a strong social conscience focused on extracting the very best from human-centred organisations. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Human Resources,Leadership & Development,Recruitment

https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Team_Profile_500x500-1-22-500x500.png Paddy Byrne Chairman and Non-Executive Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/paddy-byrne-060434/ [email protected] Paddy is a highly successful business leader with a strong record of running and growing significant businesses in the FinTech space, notably at Target Group and Xchanging. Paddy has driven businesses with turnover up to £450 million and 3000 people. He has also demonstrated a strong ability to continually improve profitability as a proportion of turnover. Paddy has successfully managed service provision for key elements of the National Infrastructure, including the London Metal Exchange's trading platform and the entirety of the Lloyd's of London insurance market’s support services. Paddy has also driven significant relationship led deals at C-level; most of these deals have involved high volumes, transformations and complexity, all of which have completed successfully. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Leadership
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Colin-1-500x500.jpg Colin Evans Non-Executive Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/colin-evans-6b870460/ [email protected] Colin joined the 6point6 Board in 2019 and brings 25 years’ experience of the technology consulting and broader international security technology market to the company. Specifically, Colin spent 15 years at Detica Group plc which was acquired by BAE Systems in 2008 for £531m. Ending as Group COO, Colin was part of the team that increased revenues tenfold over a period that included Dotcom, 911, and the start of ‘big data’ era. Colin currently serves as Chief Executive of an AIM-listed security technology company, Thruvision. He holds a BEng in Aeronautics & Astronautics from the University of Southampton. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Leadership

https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-8-500x500.png Mathieu Martyn Lead Experience Designer https://www.linkedin.com/in/matm/ [email protected] A highly experienced hands-on full-cycle UX designer, taking projects from brief to a delivered product using solid leadership experience gained in well-known multi-national businesses. Mathieu is a researcher, design facilitator, team leader and contributes at strategic and business process levels. He balances user needs, business needs and technical constraints to deliver relevant, meaningful and effective solutions. Mathieu is experienced in applying a range of tools and techniques to help projects and organisations get the most value from experience design as well as adapting and developing new techniques to solve design and business problems to deliver quality digital experiences. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Design,Experience Design,Interface Design,User Research,UX Design
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-25-500x500.png Gavin Edmonds Experience Design Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinedmonds/ [email protected] Gavin is a design practice leader with more than 18 years of experience in bringing design thinking methods to shape the business opportunity to meet user needs. He brings the value of design thinking to the business, with user-centred design methods delivering digital solutions that ultimately solve genuine user needs and deliver business value. Gavin's experience design expertise includes user research, service design, UX design, interface design, content design & visual design. His relevant industry experience is as follows: colleague workplace, finance, social networking, mobile applications and mobile platform. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Content Design & Visual Design,Design,Interface Design,UX Design
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Lea-Munzer-10-500x500.jpg Lea Munzer Lead Experience Designer https://www.linkedin.com/in/lea-munzer-2a120b45/ [email protected] Lea is a Lead Experience Designer specialised in delivering end-to-end user-centred solutions. Her expertise is focused on user research, ideation and design to help businesses adopt digital technologies and transform the way they operate. She aims at striking the balance between business objectives, user needs and technical challenges to drive overall demand and improve performance. Lea's research background is in phenomenology and perception with deep knowledge of human behaviour. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ User Research,UX Design
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-21-500x500.png Iren Papp Business Analyst https://www.linkedin.com/in/iren-papp-502879170/ [email protected] Iren is a natural Business Analyst with an inquisitive approach and outstanding interpersonal skills. She approaches her work with genuine enthusiasm and dedication and can easily build rapport with all stakeholder groups. Her skills include all aspects of the Requirements Engineering Process, the application of BA techniques, stakeholder management, business process analysis and documentation, data management and analysis. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile,Business Analysis,Requirements Engineering,Waterfall and Lean methodologies
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/PhilBiggs1-500x500.jpg Phil Biggs Senior Business Consultant https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-biggs-9142b83a/ [email protected] Over the last 25 years, Phil has gained experience within Financial Services, Data Centre Operation, Construction and Procurement industries where he has been involved in the delivery of business change acting in roles such as business analyst, project/programme manager and supplier/relationship manager. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Business Analysis,financial services,Project Management
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Cristina3-500x500.jpg Cristina Cheng Product Manager https://www.linkedin.com/in/cristina-huahui-cheng/ [email protected].uk Cristina is a product manager passionate about identifying and solving business and market problems. Prior to joining 6point6, she worked within the Telecommunications industry in both consumer and business sectors leading on product and proposition development and go to market as well as managing in life product performance. She brings her expertise in launching and managing cyber security products into the market. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cyber Security,Product/software development lifecycles

https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-500x500.png Ian Mitchell Chief Technology Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/mitchelli/ [email protected] Ian is a hands-on CTO leading our architecture practice and technical offerings. He specialises in leading the development of large scale enterprise architectures, IT strategies, transformation roadmaps and running Technical Design Authorities. Additionally, Ian ensures our go to market offerings are robust and technically sound. At 6point6 he has led large teams of architects to successfully deliver several enterprise architectures for significant Home Office programmes, including the critical programme set up to deliver the innovative EU Settlement solution for Brexit. Prior to 6point6, Ian has over 30 years of IT experience with 20 of those in senior IT architecture roles across various industries, such as finance, telecoms, retail, central & local government and logistics. Ian published several short books in 2012/3 on Cloud Adoption, Cloud Security and Big Data and is an expert in enterprise level Event Based Architectures and micro services. Recently having steered the development of an industry wide, event-based data sharing platform architecture. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile,Big Data,Business Architecture,Cloud,CxO Advisory,Enterprise Architecture,Event Based Architectures,Governance Risk and Compliance,Innovation,IT Portfolio Management,IT Strategy,Microservices,Product/software development lifecycles,SOA,Technical Architecture,Technology Modernisation,Value-based engineering
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-27-500x500.png Dnyanesh Kale Sector Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkale/ [email protected] Dnyanesh is a hands-on Enterprise Architect with over 23 years of all-round IT experience. He specialises in large scale enterprise architecture, strategy and roadmaps of complex transformation in initiatives and cloud implementations. Dnyanesh regularly leads teams of architects to advise CxO, deliver technology strategy and build and run an architecture function. He has recent experience working on a large public sector technology modernisation, process rationalisation and on the largest cloud migration program in Europe, including the design and delivery of a microservices-based case working platform and big data platform utilising open source technologies and AWS. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cloud,CxO Advisory,Data Platforms,Enterprise Architecture,IT Portfolio Management,M&A Tech Due Diligence,Open source technologies,Risk and Compliance,Strategy,Technology Modernisation
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-9-500x500.png Mike Openshaw Sector Director https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeopenshaw/ [email protected] Mike is a pragmatic Enterprise Architect specialising in multi-disciplinary architecture and thought leadership having undertaken key roles including CTO within central government, supported by a background in integration, application, business, infrastructure and data architecture across several sectors. He is TOGAF and SAFe qualified and has extensive knowledge of all architecture domains. Mike has a proven track record of delivering strategic business goals through business transformation programmes (£100M+) with complex interdependencies across the enterprise. He has over 25 years of experience in systems integration, business process re-engineering and standardisation over a wide range of heterogeneous technology environments, from hybrid cloud solutions to physical on-premise estates. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Architecture,Cloud,CxO Advisory,Enterprise Architecture,IT Portfolio Management,Scaled Agile (SAFe),Strategy
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-10-500x500.png Sebastian Trebaczkiewicz Head of Enterprise Architecture https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-trebaczkiewicz-8142756/ [email protected] Sebastian has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, spanning roles from Developer, Business Owner to Head of Enterprise Architecture. Sebastian has experience in designing, leading, and implementing cross-domain business and technology transformation projects. Recently, he led TOGAF-aligned architecture function on a large public sector innovation project transforming the landscape of over 100 cloud-based application services and developed medium to long-term IT strategies. Before 6point6, he successfully transformed businesses, created and lead IT departments, delivered strategic business and IT values to organisations. His experience spans financial services, telecommunications, media, retail, and public sector services. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cloud,Enterprise Architecture,IT Portfolio Management,Open source technologies,Strategy,Technology Modernisation
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-3-500x500.png Sam Rea Security Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/samrea1/ [email protected] Sam is a security consultant with a breadth of experience across public sector digital transformation and cyber security. He has experience across multiple domains of security, including cloud security architecture design and reviews, serverless and microservice architecture, threat modelling to drive out protective monitoring / SIEM requirements, intelligence analysis, incident handling and response, embedding technical and procedural security in CI/CD, risk advisory and management, and enterprise cyber security strategy design. Digital transformation experience through product management and delivery management, with a focus on agile principles and scrum. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Architecture,Cloud security architecture,Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery,Cyber Security,Enterprise Architecture,Microservices
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-19-500x500.png Chandana Paila Business Analyst [email protected] Chandana is a highly skilled and experienced Business Analyst with a Master's degree in Business Systems Integration and in-depth experience in the Financial and Aviation industries. She is proficient in all aspects of requirements elicitation techniques from stakeholder interviews to conducting workshops and shadowing SMEs. Chandana is comfortable in the full life cycle of project delivery, using waterfall, the v model and agile methodologies. Chandana also has vast experience in system integration and user acceptance testing. She can demonstrate various testing methodologies such as equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis and decision tree testing to ensure good coverage and that a value-added iterative product is delivered. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Business Analysis
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-9-500x500.png Phil Fordham Solution Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-fordham-b64770150/ [email protected] Phil is an experienced infrastructure, security and solution architect with a demonstrated history of working in private sector information technology and service industries and public sector. He is skilled in IT Infrastructure Management, Windows Server, Active Directory, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, open source technologies and .NET Framework. CISSP, MCP and AWS architect certified information technology professional with a Master's degree in Software Engineering from Kingston University. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Cloud,IT infrastructure management,Open source technologies
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Paren-Parikh-34-500x500.jpg Paren Parikh Enterprise Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/parenparikh/ [email protected] Paren specializes in Digital Transformation, designing and delivering scalable open-source architecture. Expertise in facilitating the making of portfolio-level decisions, ensuring that they are made based on the best information and are aligned with stakeholder needs Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Architecture
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/JamesGaby2-500x500.jpg James Gaby Graduate Technology Analyst https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-gaby-35a1421b9/ [email protected] James is Graduate Technology Analyst currently working within Architecture. He has a background in physics and is now learning new technical skills as well as gaining exposure to different roles in architecture, with motivation and enthusiasm. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Architecture
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/MilesMorris1-500x500.jpg Miles Morris Domain Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/miles-morris-a932a3172/ [email protected] Miles is a Technical Architect who specialises in Application Architecture. Prior to joining 6point6 in 2021, Miles was a Cyber Security Consultant for 2 years at PwC. Miles has experience of working with a broad range of clients across the Private, Public and Financial Services sectors on a variety of roles ranging from designing microservices architecture to conducting vulnerability research. Miles has an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Bristol and a Masters in Computer Science from Queen Mary University of London. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Architecture,Cyber Security,financial services

https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/JulianTaylor2-500x500.jpg Julian Taylor Director of Software Engineering https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-taylor-823076202/ [email protected] Julian has over 20 years' experience in developing and maintaining complex enterprise systems in both the public and private sectors. He has been at the helm of several high-profile projects, some within critical national infrastructure and understands what it takes to create and deliver high performance, robust, reliable and maintainable software. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile Software Development,Cloud-native applications,Containerisation and container orchestration,Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery,Microservices,Process automation
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-17-500x500.png Maximillian Jefferson Software Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-jefferson-6163a918b/ [email protected] Max is a software developer with a first-class degree in computer systems engineering. At 6point6, he has worked with a variety of technical stacks. Max has experience with full-stack development, integration testing frameworks and automated pipelines. He has also worked as a support engineer for mission-critical systems in production - creating full integration test suites to prevent regression issues when implementing fixes. Max is passionate about learning and relishes the challenge of taking on new technologies. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Camunda,Full Stack Development,Integration Testing Frameworks,Java,Javascript
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Samprit-Bains--500x500.jpg Samprit Bains Software Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/samprit-bains-9388a1104/ [email protected] Samprit is a Software Engineer who primarily specialises in Java. He has over 4 years of experience in consulting, with a educational background in Computer Science. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile Software Development,Java
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Craig-Shepherd-500x500.jpg Craig Shepherd Tech Lead https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-w-j-shepherd/ [email protected] Craig is an accomplished software engineer, having over 15 years’ experience in developing and maintaining business-critical software systems. He brings broad expertise gained from a variety of industries, including Fintech, Live Entertainment, Tertiary Education, and Market Research. He has successfully led Agile cross-functional teams, has contributed as a senior member of development project teams, and has acted as an individual contributor for key proof-of-concept spikes. As well as thriving on learning new technologies and having a determination to find more productive ways of working, Craig enjoys the momentum engendered by working with a team to achieve a common goal. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile,Fintech,Software Engineering

https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-11-500x500.png Peter Barnsley Director of Cyber Security https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbarnsley/ [email protected]t6.co.uk Peter has over 10 years' of experience in Cyber Security and another 10 years' in wider Information Technology areas. His experience covers a wide range of IT disciplines including Information Assurance, Governance, Infrastructure (cloud & on-prem), software engineering, web development and networking. Peter has run several large engagements focused on Security Architecture across the public and private sector in sensitive environments. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ CISSP,Cloud,Cyber Security,Governance Risk and Compliance,NCSC Certified Consultancy Head Consultant,NCSC Certified Cyber Professional - Lead Security Architect,Networking,Software Engineering
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-10-500x500.png Venny Nikolova Senior Cyber Security Analyst https://www.linkedin.com/in/venny-nikolova-ba6929111/ [email protected] Venny is a qualified Cyber Security Analyst with hands-on experience working on several public sector projects. She comes from a background in Psychology and statistics. Venny has a keen analytical mind and an eye for detail when it comes to both numbers and people. She is highly skilled in communication, relationships and internal politics. She holds CompTIA Network+ and 7safe Certified Security Operations Centre Analyst (CSOCA) certifications. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ 7safe CSIR (Cyber Security Incident Responder) qualification,Cyber Security,Penetration testing
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-15-500x500.png Laurie Graham Director Cyber Intelligence https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurie-g-018a7614/ [email protected] Laurie has spent the last 20 years' in intelligence, security and risk management roles around the globe. Laurie is currently the Director of Cyber Operations at 6point6 leading red teaming, blue teaming, cyber operational resilience, and threat intelligence. Before joining 6point6 Laurie worked as a regional security manager for Lockheed Martin – covering the United Kingdom, Europe and Eurasia. He was responsible for maintaining the full spectrum of security risk management, crisis management and due diligence to customers assets and mergers and acquisitions. Laurie’s experience spans the full breadth of cyber and security and has assisted his clients in gaining ISO27001/22031, Cyber Essentials +, CREST Certified Penetration Testing, CHECK and List X status. Additionally, Laurie has also designed and led security operations, information assurance functions and global emergency operations centres. He is an expert in counter intelligence, operational resilience and intelligence collection. Some of his other work highlights have been managing security of defence critical assets, looking into insider threats, security advisor to the British Ambassador to Iraq and has advised COBR (civil contingencies committee which leads responses to national crises). Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cyber Security,Governance Risk and Compliance,Penetration testing,Red teaming
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-8-500x500.png Misha Newman Head of Red Team https://www.linkedin.com/in/misha-newman-56522656/ [email protected] Misha is a well rounded, high performing and qualified penetration tester with over 7 years' experience in the industry working on incident response, network security monitoring, risk management, security testing and auditing. Misha now leads the Red team which conducts all the security testing performed by 6point6. He has experience working across a range of sectors including telecommunications, financial services, government and pharmaceuticals. Misha is active in the penetration testing community and regularly attends penetration testing conferences. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cyber Security,Incident response,Infrastructure Pen Testing,Mobile Application Pen Testing,Red teaming,Web App Pen Testing
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-12-500x500.png Naz Markuta Cyber Lab Analyst https://www.linkedin.com/in/naz-markuta/ [email protected] Naz is a professional hacker, his technical background involves years of real-world experience which allows him to think differently and solve extremely unique challenges. He is experienced in Cloud service solutions such as AWS, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure and Splunk. Naz is actively researching current advanced threats to gain an enhanced understanding of techniques, procedures and processes that modern attackers use to compromise organisations. His recent research project involved how Emergency Alert messages can be spoofed in LTE networks, and security testing a network device provided by a major UK ISP. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Cyber Security,Dark Web,Kubernetes,Microsoft Azure,Splunk
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Jim-Wright-1-1-500x500.jpg Jim Wright Cyber Assurance Manager https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-wright-ma-cism-crisc-cipp-e-13810052/ [email protected] With over 15 years' of experience in security, Jim specialises in leading ISO 27001 audits, developing data protection policies and processes, and implementing governance structures. He is an experienced Deputy CISO, Jim currently leads the security assurance of multi-billion digital transformation projects including one supporting 2.6 million annual users. He is familiar with certifying and aligning security management systems with industry standards, delivering secure cloud-based systems, and leading security transformation programmes. Jim has worked in the intelligence, telecommunications, legal and public sectors. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Cyber Security,Governance Risk and Compliance
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-12-500x500.png Yvette Salmon Quality Assurance https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvette-salmon-7a0375182/ [email protected] Yvette is a highly motivated and dedicated Information Technology professional with over 30 years of information assurance, quality management, data privacy, project management and technical software authoring experience. Yvette has a proven ability to quickly understand complex IT systems and specifications and can translate this understanding to assure information security aspects relating to the client’s data, resources and systems that meet the business needs. As a privacy and security assurance professional, Yvette can review and interpret various types of data sharing agreements, analyse technical documentation for privacy implications and respond to correspondence regarding privacy, security and data sharing concerns. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Data Privacy,Governance Risk and Compliance,Information Assurance,Project Management,Quality Management
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Chris-Cambell-40-1-500x500.jpg Chris Campbell Cyber Security Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-james-campbell/ [email protected] Chris is a cyber security professional with a current focus on Identity and Access Management (IDAM). He has extensive experience as a solutions architect within large public sector projects, helping to design and provide information assurance to help secure comlex microservice architectures. Chris has a keen interest in AWS technologies and is an AWS Certified Professional. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Cyber Security,Information Assurance
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Alex-Davies-9-500x500.jpg Alex Davies Audit Manager https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-davies-68a59793/ [email protected] A hands-on information assurance professional with over 17 years of Audit, Security and Information Technology experience from installing and maintaining communication networks, planning audit engagements, evidence gathering, analysis and investigation to report writing and risk remediation/ treatment plans. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cyber Security
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Sajawal-Kiani-1-500x500.jpg Sajawal Kiani Cyber Security Analyst [email protected] Saj is an established Cyber Security Professional highly skilled in MDR (Manage Detect and Respond). Saj is an experienced MDR consultant with both technical and client-facing exposure. He is a skilled Threat Monitoring – Managed Detection and Response, Computer Science and programming analyst, with hands-on experience working with large MDR projects across the private sector supporting them manage security as they rebuild, redesign and strengthen their cybersecurity posture. He’s highly skilled in communication and emotional intelligence which he utilizes to adapt to client requirements. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Blue Team
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Tim-G-10-500x500.jpg Tim Gbadebo Junior QA Engineer [email protected] Tim is a degreed IT professional with over 3 years’ experience in software quality assurance, application testing as well as requirements gathering of both large, mission critical systems and web applications in client server environments. He is experienced in building Automation Framework in Selenium using Java, building WebDriver and testNG Framework, as well as implementing Exploratory Testing in an agile environment. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile,Process automation
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Phoebe-Swindon-27-500x500.jpg Phoebe Swindon Cyber Assurance Manager https://www.linkedin.com/in/phoebe-swindon-91a995b9/ [email protected] Phoebe is a cyber security and information assurance professional with experience in the private and public sector. Experience includes governance, incident response, risk management and compliance. Phoebe works within the information assurance team, supporting businesses and projects through development to launch by providing security assurance. With a background in Law, Phoebe has a keen interest in cyber regulation, compliance and assurance. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cyber Security,Governance Risk and Compliance,Information Assurance
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-14-500x500.png Orson Mosley Cyber Security Researcher [email protected] Orson is a hands-on Cyber Security researcher currently specialising in software reverse engineering. His love of reverse engineering started at 17 with an interest in hacking video games. Over the next few years, he has dived into understanding CPU architecture and reverse engineering custom data and compression formats from old school JRPG's. He started in the security industry as a cyber security analyst and has developed skills to include security engineering, programming, automated infrastructure deployment and firewall configuration. He has also presented live hacking demos to audiences throughout his time in the industry. Recently he's delved back into computer architecture and low-level system functionality, producing papers on malware writing and reverse engineering. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cyber Security
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Dean-di-Pasquale2-500x500.jpg Dean di Pasquale Head of Cyber Audit https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-di-pasquale-89600016/ [email protected] Dean is a skilled and professional cyber security practitioner and specialises in cyber governance, risk, and compliance. Dean has been in the industry for fourteen years and has worked previously in both consulting and the private sector. Dean leads the Cyber Audit team within 6point6 and is passionate in helping organisations balance their compliance obligations with business needs in order to achieve a sustainable and compliant environment. Dean is also familiar with many regulatory frameworks across several industries, and he has technical hands-on experience with global frameworks including ISO27001 and NIST. Qualifications include: CISSP, CISM, CISA, ISO27001 LA Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ CISSP,Cyber Security
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ravi-Dholakia1-500x500.jpg Ravi Dholakia Domain Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravi-dholakia/ [email protected] Ravi is a Technical Architect who specialises in Application Architecture. Prior to joining 6point6 in 2020, Ravi was a Graduate Network engineer, at BT, for 1 year & a Cyber Security Specialist - Team Lead, at Darktrace, for 2.5 years. Ravi has experience of working with a broad range of clients across the Private, Public, Industrial and Financial Sectors. Ravi has a Masters degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from the University of Nottingham. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS
Alexander van der Padt Cyber Security Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-van-der-padt-61594a33/ [email protected] Alexander has over 5 years’ experience working in the cyber security industry at UEBA and EDR vendors in highly technical subject matter expert roles, managing and delivering implementation projects. Example industry verticals include finance, insurance and manufacturing. Alexander is OSCP certified and uses this to consult on secure design, common attack surfaces and detection and response. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Cyber Security,Project Management
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Karan-Mann1-500x500.jpg Karan Mann Graduate Technology Analyst https://www.linkedin.com/in/karan-mann-b0a149180/ [email protected] Karan is a Graduate Technology Analyst; he is currently developing his information security skills through security analyst practice. Karan has a particular interest for Microsoft Azure security and incident management within a cloud environments. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/

https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Jamie-Whittingham-1-500x500.jpg Jamie Whittingham DevOps Consultant https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiewhittingham/ [email protected] Jamie specialises in the build and deployment of microservices on enterprise-grade container platforms such as Kubernetes; provisioning and configuring public cloud services using infrastructure as code; cloud, container and application security best practices and improving platform reliability. He has over 3 years of experience as a DevOps Consultant working on demanding client-facing agile projects using a variety of DevOps toolkits; with experience building well monitored, reliable, resilient infrastructure and build pipelines for a variety of applications hosted in public cloud and on-premise data centres. Jamie's experience includes building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, TeamCity and Octopus, automation and configuration as code using Ansible, Puppet and Terraform and extensive experience using Amazon Web Services. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Cloud,Containerisation and container orchestration,Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery,DevOps,Kubernetes,Microservices,Tableau
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-9-500x500.png Phil Fordham Solution Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-fordham-b64770150/ [email protected] Phil is an experienced infrastructure, security and solution architect with a demonstrated history of working in private sector information technology and service industries and public sector. He is skilled in IT Infrastructure Management, Windows Server, Active Directory, SQL Server, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, open source technologies and .NET Framework. CISSP, MCP and AWS architect certified information technology professional with a Master's degree in Software Engineering from Kingston University. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Cloud,IT infrastructure management,Open source technologies
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Piotr-Prochal-14-500x500.jpg Piotr Prochal DevOps Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/pprochal/ [email protected] Piotr is a DevOps engineer with over 3 years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Operations. He has automated environment provisioning using CloudFormation and has extensive knowledge in Amazon Web Services platform, which included maintaining IaC. Piotr’s skills include managing CI/CD pipelines, as well as working with both linux and windows machines. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Cloud,DevOps
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Hartnell-Forster-12-500x500.jpg Hartnell Foster DevOps Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/hartnell-foster-641ab815/ [email protected] With over a decade of experience in the build/release/environment space, Hartnell is a seasoned DevOps engineer and automation advocate, who lives to make the complex as simple as possible. Hartnell's skill set is based in a strong understanding of Linux and has grown to include the major Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Native technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker and Serverless. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,DevOps,Microsoft Azure
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Mark-Debney-3-2-500x500.jpg Mark Debney Director of Cloud https://www.linkedin.com/in/debney/ [email protected] As an innovative and widely published thought-leader, Mark transforms enterprise cloud and development practices. He introduces operations methodologies that maximise clients' cloud value to achieve secure, high performant development teams and systems governance. With over 20 years' experience across media, finance, professional services and public sector, Mark is skilled in delivering strategic business and IT practice optimisation. He utilises techniques such as Automation, Platform Ops and Continuous Delivery to embed best practice and create a culture of learning across operations teams responsible for cloud platforms, reliability, observability and security. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Architecture,Cloud,Containerisation and container orchestration,Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery,CxO Advisory,DevOps,IT Portfolio Management,Microservices

https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Andrew-Morgan-1-500x500.jpg Andrew Morgan Director of Data https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-morgan-8590b22/ [email protected] With over 25 years of experience in the data industry, Andrew is a Chief Data Engineer / Architect / Scientist. He has worked across many industry sectors building data teams, designing data products, and delivering production data solutions. He is the author of “Mastering Spark for Data Science”, one of the key textbooks used to teach Spark. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Big Data,Business Intelligence,Continuous Intelligence,Data Analytics,Data Architecture,Data Modelling,Data Platforms,Data Science,Data Strategy,Deep Learning,Machine Learning,Statistics
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IsobelDaley2-500x500.jpg Isobel Daley Data Scientist https://www.linkedin.com/in/isobel-daley-0966b849/ [email protected] Isobel's mission is to make AI accessible to all businesses, regardless of size or industry. She has experience in data acquisition, data modelling, statistical analysis, machine learning, deep learning, and NLP. Combined with a background in business leadership, consulting and economics, Isobel is a highly commercial Data Scientist. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Big Data,Data Analysis,Data Modelling,Data Platforms,Data Science,DataOps,Deep Learning,Machine Learning
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-1-500x500.png Dr. Daniel Alexander Smith Head of Data Engineering https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielsmitheu/ [email protected] Daniel is a hands-on technical architect and data strategy consultant experienced in enterprise architecture and solution delivery from requirements gathering through to a deployed prototype, proof-of-concept, pilot and production. He is experienced in project lifecycles, communication and expectation management to senior management, and in assuming an autonomous technical leadership position on projects. Daniel specialises in the architecture of large-scale multi-model data platforms and has recent architecture experience working on data platforms, data integration and modelling, using big data and machine learning techniques to add value to enterprise data. Daniel's expertise focuses on the development of knowledge graphs of large distributed data estates, to create considered views of siloed data, and to semantically enrich unstructured data. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Artificial Intelligence,Big Data,Business Intelligence,Continuous Intelligence,Data Architecture,Data Engineering,Data Platforms,Data Strategy,DataOps,Feature Stores,Graph Databases,Knowledge Graphs
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Neil-Murray-2-500x500.jpg Neil Murray Lead Big Data Architect https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-murray-57555171/ [email protected] Neil has over 16 years experience in software engineering, solution architecture and data wrangling. As Lead Big Data Architect, Neil is focused on the creation, implementation and delivery of modern Big Data Platform architectures and Big Data projects. Drawing on 6point6’s heritage of implementation of Big Data architectures both on premise and in the cloud. Neil comes from a product development background where he has headed up development, architectural and engineering teams. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Big Data,Data Architecture,Data Engineering,Data Platforms,Streaming Data
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/DanBudden1-500x500.jpg Dan Budden Head of Data Consulting https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-budden-phd-6b814623/ [email protected] Dan is a data leader and architect who brings together cross-functional teams to help organisations do amazing things with data. His mission is to build trust at every step in the journey to become data-driven, by demystifying the data strategy, and bringing use cases to life especially in advanced analytics, machine learning, geospatial data, and graph analytics. Dan has twelve years experience in technology and data consulting for major clients in financial services, and he has a PhD in the History of Political Ideas. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Graph Databases,Machine Learning
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Juan-Armond-10-500x500.jpg Juan Armond Data Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanarmond/ [email protected] Juan is an established Data Engineer with industry experience in the private sector working on building modern, scalable data platforms and Cloud Technology. His expertise is in cloud computing, data manipulation, infrastructure maintenance, and writing production-level code. Juan's full-stack involves AWS, Databricks, CI/CD with Git Actions, and Docker. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Cloud,Data Platforms
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/David-Robertson-20-500x500.jpg David Robertson Data Business Analyst https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-robertson-156a25109/ [email protected] David is a recent graduate of the University of Cambridge with two years of experience working in data both in the private and public sectors. He has completed projects in both engineering and analyst roles which has allowed him build an impressive technical skill set using SQL, Python and Java both on local systems and in the cloud on GCP and AWS, whilst also developing strong communication and stakeholder management skills. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ AWS,Java,SQL
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/EdwardsJones1-500x500.jpg Ed Jones Data Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-jones-02680b147/ [email protected] Edward is a Data Engineer with a passion for driving value from complex data to solve challenging business questions. He enjoys implementing new technologies to deliver pragmatic solutions for clients. Edward graduated with a MSci in Geophyiscs from the University of Southampton. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Data Analysis,Data Engineering
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Mohamed-Al-kaisi-1-500x500.jpg Mohamed Al-Kaisi Graduate Technology Analyst https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohamed-al-kaisi/ [email protected] Mohamed is a Graduate Technology Analyst with a First-class degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Big Data and Business intelligence with Distinction. An ambitious, strong team player with analytic intelligence. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Big Data,Business Intelligence,Data Analytics
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Rhys-Copperthwaite2-500x500.jpg Rhys Copperthwaite Data Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhys-copperthwaite-1769549b/ [email protected] Rhys is a Data Engineer specialising in delivering automation tooling to increase the speed and reliability of the data pipeline development and deployment processes. He is adept at designing and implementing pragmatic solutions to increase team productivity whilst having a keen focus on data. Rhys graduated with a MSc in Information Security at University College London(UCL), and BSc in Computer Science with Multimedia from Queen Mary University of London(QMUL). Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Process automation

https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Jon-Salmon-1-500x500.jpg Jon Salmon Senior Delivery lead https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-salmon/ [email protected] Jon is a hands-on delivery manager with over 12 years’ experience of successful project delivery across many different industries and sectors. He is experienced in full lifecycle project management, often in complex, multi-supplier environments. Jon is a good communicator, used to working closely with all levels of seniority. He has a pragmatic approach to project delivery, using best practice to implement the right delivery approach for the right environment. Jon is experienced in several delivery frameworks including agile scrum, Scaled Agile (SaFE) and waterfall and proficient in a wide variety of project management tools. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile,Governance Risk and Compliance,Project Management,Scaled Agile (SAFe),Scrum,Waterfall and Lean methodologies
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Lucy-Johnson-2-1-500x500.jpg Lucy Johnson Delivery Lead https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucyejohnson/ [email protected] Lucy is a motivated delivery lead, specialising in the management of cyber security projects and transformation programmes, with particular focus in the fields of cyber security risk and maturity, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, privileged access management and security education and awareness. Due to her wide-ranging experience in project management and hotel management, Lucy has excellent communication and problem-solving skills, which allow her to effortlessly manage teams, stakeholders and any issues that arise. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile,Cyber Security,Governance Risk and Compliance,Project Management,Scrum
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-21-500x500.png Maria Ball Delivery Lead https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-ball-marija-balle-a3494a15/ [email protected] Maria works alongside professionals at the forefront of cyber security delivering exceptional value to organisations across various industries and making a tangible contribution to the running of their business. Prior to joining 6point6, Maria worked as a 24/7 operations team lead and software development project manager in online gaming, public broadcasting and finance industries. Within her project management career, she's applied various methodologies, putting in place processes that optimise efficiency of software development teams and help them achieve brilliant results. She completed her MBA degree in Brunel Business School in 2013. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile,Kanban,Lean methodologies,MBA,Project Management,Scrum,Waterfall
https://6point6.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Team_Profile_500x500-1-1-20-500x500.png Emma-Jane Girling Delivery Lead https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-jane-girling-86911348/ [email protected] Emma-Jane is a highly organised and driven delivery professional with strong communication skills having worked alongside all levels of seniority. Her first projects at 6point6 were internal having found and moved us to a new office and delivering our new learning platform before moving onto more technical projects within the private and public sectors. Let's start a conversation https://6point6.co.uk/contact-us/ Agile,Scrum

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