I spent two decades in the operating seat. Coaching is how I use that now.
This page is the reason to trust the work — not a biography for its own sake.
I have spent more than twenty years building and leading security functions inside organisations that cannot treat cyber as a side project: large resources companies, major banks, a national airline, energy producers, a large health insurer, large retail, and Australian state government agencies. The work covered governance and risk, program delivery, and security operations — including SOC transformation and incident response at a scale where the numbers are not theoretical.
I am a CISSP. I hold a Master of Business Leadership. I teach risk and project/agile delivery as a sessional academic at Murdoch University. Those credentials matter because the people I coach are judged on evidence, not on enthusiasm.
I completed a Certificate IV in Mentoring and Coaching with the Global Coaching Academy in 2010, built on ICF core competencies. I have delivered more than 500 hours of individual and group coaching. I am currently pursuing the ICF PCC credential. The coaching craft is trained, supervised, and accumulating hours — it is not a second career I invented after leaving the industry.
I came to this work because I watched capable security leaders leave roles they were good at — not because they lacked a framework, but because the decision load, the board, and the pace were unmanaged.
Accountability at scale, across sectors
Large multi-national resources company
Senior Cyber Security Consultant from 2017. Embedded SOC transformation: tuning a SIEM estate that processed billions of daily records down to a manageable high-severity caseload, with threat hunting across IT, OT and IoT.
Major energy utility
Security Services Manager, 2015–2017. SIEM implementation, SOC establishment and critical incident response design for a large Western Australian energy business.
Large retail business
Rebuilt the information risk and security function, 2012–2015. First quarterly board report to an ASX-listed parent. Security council representative for the group.
Major telecommunications company
Progressive leadership from large delivery teams through to principal consulting. Managed security solutions work with board-level investment review exposure.
Those roles are why the coaching holds. I have tuned a SIEM estate measured in billions of events, stood up a SOC, rebuilt a function, and written the first quarterly board paper to an ASX-listed parent. The work now is the judgement, the board conversation, and the pace that decide whether that kind of program survives the person in the seat.
Also: ITIL Foundation, PRINCE2 Foundation.