Responsibilities:

• System types tested: Web Apps & External Infrastructure.
• Managing multiple clients to ensure a seamless delivery of back-to-back penetration tests.
• My first ever penetration test I conducted received a report of the month award.
• Creating tools to automate mine and my colleagues workflow.
• Continuous research in my spare time to keep up to date with emerging threats.

Subset of tasks completed during my placement:

• Presenting methods to my team of how we can integrate automated testing and building with continuous integration, showcasing a working example of a Jenkins setup
• Extracting components of an existing product into a separate development library to increase productivity and maintainability
• Using SCADE to create head down display pages that have then been integrated into an existing demo application my team shows off to potential customers
• Using Enterprise Architect to create class diagrams
• Using DOORs to write high level requirements
• Conforming to specialised coding standards, and using code verifiers, like Polyspace to check this

Highlights:

• Within the first year I received the employee of the month award and subsequently the employee of the quarter award (out of approx. 100 employees)

Responsibilities:

• Keeping the store clean and to a high standard
• Meeting time deadlines under pressure
• Communicating with the public
• Dealing with complaints and resolving issues
• Working within a team whilst still using my own initiative where appropriate

• With Diploma in Professional Studies.
• Modules including: Cyber Security, Robotics, Data Mining & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Advanced Networking, Web Programming, Embedded Systems Programming, Object Oriented Programming.

A Level Grades

• Computing – A
• Economics – B
• Mathematics – B

GCSE Grades

• Computing – 9
• Mathematics – 8
• Science – 9 | 8
• History – 7
• Graphics – B
• English Literature – 6
• English Language – 5
• Sociology – C