Provenance

2024–presentactive
Jones EngineeringSolutions architect
Integration and security architecture across a multi-site engineering group, including HRIS and payroll migration work where correctness is not a decorative feature.
2020–presentactive
Dublin Business SchoolPart-time lecturer, held concurrently
Postgraduate cybersecurity teaching across secure development, penetration testing, cryptography and forensics. Explaining a topic to sharp students is a reliable way to find the part you only thought you understood.
2025–presentactive
AqualiaProducts, consulting and personal builds, held concurrently
Aqualia is the company vehicle with Steve George. The bench is where the product experiments start: some as company ideas, some as personal tools, all kept here with the evidence and the awkward lessons attached.
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2022–2024
daaIT security architect
Security architecture for airport systems, from baggage and CCTV to vendor reviews and early internal AI work. Operational technology is a good cure for hand-waving.
2019–2022
Ward SolutionsSecurity consultant, then principal
Penetration testing and security assessments for state and commercial clients. Later, pre-sales and delivery review meant scoping the work properly before anyone had to suffer through it.
Acquired by Ekco
2018–2019
University College DublinMSc, digital investigation and forensic computing
Digital forensics taught the habit that still shows up here: reconstruct what happened, preserve the evidence, and be able to defend the conclusion.
2016–2018
Tech MahindraSoftware engineer
Started in enterprise delivery and troubleshooting. It was a useful way to learn how systems fail when they leave the tidy diagram and meet real users.