I have over 30 years experience in designing, building, supporting and testing secure applications with industry leading companies including RBS, Sun Microsystems and Oracle Corporation. I have taken lead roles in critical incident recoveries, post mortems and mitigation for critical production systems. For the last 12 years my focus has been on security troubleshooting and testing, first as escalated customer support for configuration and product problems and then as a lead QA tester working with Oracle Base Development in India and the US. I am passionate about security and now work freelance, researching security issues in production and open source code alongside helping companies with their security reviews.

Outside of work I enjoy walking, wild swimming and dogs - particularly my pug who is a law unto herself but very cute.