Tim’s professional background includes security capability strategy planning and development, information security capability framework design and implementation and security awareness strategy design and implementation. He has developed a security professional development framework for a global top ten oil and gas company, delivers training as a member of the QA and Firebrand faculties and, as a thought leader, regularly presents at summits and conferences.

In 2013, he participated as a Subject Matter Expert and Steering Committee member for the design of the new GIAC certification, the GICSP certification. As part of his work he contributed questions for the certification exam and worked on the skills and competency framework for the certification. In addition, he is an Assessor and Interviewer for the Chartered Institute for Security Professionals (CIISec) for potential new members.

Tim has recently designed and delivered ICS security training and awareness for CPNI/NCSC (as part of the UK National Cyber Security Strategy) as well as ENISA and other National governments and global companies. He is also a Visiting Lecturer on Business Risk at the University of Buckingham.

Tim is a Full member of CIISec, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), a Senior member of the International Society of Automation (ISA) and is the holder of the GIAC Security Leadership (GSLC) and GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC) Certifications. Between 2017 and September 2018 Tim was an elected member of the Board of Directors for the Institute of Information Security Professionals (forerunner of CIISec) with the Board portfolio of IS skills and competencies.