I find the challenge of delivery in difficult circumstances the most enjoyable part of my role. My professional philosophy includes that learning is possible in any situation. With this in mind I encourage my teams to learn from their own mistakes and successes whilst observing others. I summarise this with a look forward, look back and look across mentality. We all have coaching moments in every day life, I believe firmly we should take these moments and communicate not only the negative feed back, but the more important praise at every opportunity. It is my personal aim that my primary three key attributes are communications, leadership and empathy. The style of leadership I employ is one of inclusiveness and of empowerment. We all have the ability to do more, it simply needs to be recognised and nurtured.

Senior Manager - Cyber Security Operations @ From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Founder And Ceo @ As an independant contractor I started to build this company in the UK in 1999. I have built the business on a no nonsense approach to consulting, With a growing client base I am looking to expand North Beach consulting in the coming years. From August 1999 to Present (16 years 5 months) melbourne area, australia; london, united kingdomGeneral Manager Operational Security (Contract) @ People Leadership | Security Strategy | Capability Development | Stakeholder Management | Vendor Management | Intel Management | Industry Engagement | Threat Communication | Finance Management The role of GM - Operational Security for Australia’s largest infrastructure programme is the single most challenging role to date in my career. The areas of responsibility are wide and range from NBN’s long-term satellite solution through Data centres and the Active NBN network. During my time at NBN I have succeeded in delivering a leading edge Security Operations Centre in short time, with advanced detection and incident management being developed under my direction and involvement. Strong stakeholder management skills are required in my role, with a diverse range of stakeholders ranging from Government agencies to internal stakeholders with the key goal of 20 million happy homes by 2020. This has driven the security operations to be a business enabler and help deliver the NBN to Australia. From January 2014 to July 2015 (1 year 7 months) Security Programme Manager (Contract) @ This was a 6 month role to cover Security Programme Governance over a AUD12M programme of works. From August 2013 to January 2014 (6 months) Security Programme Manager (Contract) @ Digital Security | Programme Management | Large virtual team | Key Skills Project Leadership – Relationship Management - Trusted Adviser - Security Advocate - Business Integration | Budget AUD11M In November 2011 I was seconded to the role of Security Programme Manager for the IBM Outsourcing Agreement, being responsible for the all aspects of the Security Services elements of this large-scale outsourcing arrangement. The role requires excellent influencing skills, leadership, large programme financial forecasting and resource planning. This programme posed many critical challenges, which I had to manage via escalation from many stakeholders, both external and internal. A key factor in this role is the 3rd party management and engagement, which is crucial to the successful delivery of security services to the programme. The programmes scope was to delivery the banks new IT Infrastructure and the subsequent migration to that infrastructure. This was done with a framework of 27 sub-programmes with many projects in parallel. This role was very challenging allowing me to further develop my project and programme management skills. From November 2011 to June 2013 (1 year 8 months) Security Integration Manager (Contract) @ Digital Security | Fluid Virtual Team | Key Skills Project Leadership – Relationship Management - Trusted Adviser - Security Advocate - Business integration Engaged as a Security Integration Manager (SIM) I was seconded onto an Enterprise Security project due to my background, during this time I successfully managed the business case development and two pilot deployments of a single sign on facility into various banking environments. My core role as a SIM is to currently to manage and facilitate, security services into a portfolio of projects. The role requires excellent influencing skills, leadership and the early identification of issues and equally efficiencies that may be applicable to benefit the the bank from a Digital Security Perspective. This role allows the banks security services to act as and enabler to the business to function securely and to work with the business to identify the optimal paths using a pragmatic risk based approach. An example of the projects I have worked on in this role include ● NAB annual report (online) ● NAB.COM.AU migration ● Virtual call centre creation ● Data loss prevention, ● Core finance messaging bus system upgrade ● Enterprise single sign On ● Data centre relocation ● Information loss protection ● Ubank - Mortgages / Self Managed Super Fund During this engagement, I took part in trusted advisor training to improve my interpersonal and relationship management skills and techniques to enable better engagement and influence with the non-technical business focused customers. From July 2009 to November 2011 (2 years 5 months) Security Project Manager (Contract) @ Digital Security | Budget AUD 650K | 7 Direct Staff (technical) | Key Skills Project Manager – Mentor - People Leadership I was contracted to IBM as a Senior Project Manager to work on the BHP-Billiton Account and was responsible for the overall Project Management and accountability of numerous projects and staff. My primary role is to lead and manage the development of the Digital Security Policies and Procedures that enable the activation of Digital Security as a service for the account on a global basis for the client. Another major project I am also responsible in parallel for is the activation of the Intrusion Prevention Server devices in the IBM managed BHPB data centers. This project is requires a high degree of technical knowledge whilst balanced with project management skills. This utilised my experience gained in earlier contracts in the deployment of Digital Security infrastructure. My underlying role has been to manage and be accountable for a team of junior project managers to deliver in a difficult environment. This has been very challenging and has been a successful mentor based model with numerous sub projects being closed out successfully. From January 2009 to July 2009 (7 months) Consulting on Solutions Architect / Project Manager (contract) @ QM Codes Contract | Budget AUD 300K | 4 Direct Staff | Key Skills Solutions Architect – Project Manager - People Leadership I was engaged by a start-up venture QMCodes Pty Ltd[1], which is developing new technology for the mobile industry to enable print media to become interactive. This role is extraordinarily challenging with tight budgets and many key stakeholders. I was engaged as both the Project Manager and Solutions Architect for the project and I was responsible for the full Software Development Life cycle (SLDC), as well as designing a platform to fulfill both the CEO’s and angel investors’ vision. I also built and managed the development team. My responsibilities included the budget and scope development of this project, focusing on forecasting and finance tracking and reporting to investors at each project milestone. From July 2008 to January 2009 (7 months) Consulting on Data Management @ Consulted to CNC projects on Data management and Knowledge management. Built a custom designed Sharepoint portal to manage the Civil Project information From November 2007 to December 2008 (1 year 2 months) Finance Manager @ I was responsible for the fiscal Management of the centre, implementing business process and oversight for the day to day financial management. During my time in this role I developed a five year plan and an accompanying implementation plan. From April 2004 to November 2007 (3 years 8 months) Technical Architect / Project Manager - Retail Systems Project (Contract) @ BUDGET USD 750K | 5 Direct Staff (technical) | 3 Indirect (business) | Key Skills Technical Architect (application & infrastructure) – Project Manager - Project Leadership The goal of this project was to design and build a Disaster Recovery capability for a card acquiring system and the associated debt management platform. This system had been neglected for some years and very little knowledge was available on its workings or interfaces. After conducting a full analysis at both business and application levels, I was further engaged to design a solution to create a disaster recovery capability and manage the upgrade of hardware and operating system on this critical business infrastructure. This was in conjunction with the implementation of a replication solution catering for the transactional based audited applications and system level replication. The completed system reduced recovery time from 130+ days to 6 hours, by means of data replication, process improvement and creation of a detailed disaster recovery plan. This project was celebrated globally within BP as the risk mitigation achieved had not been done previously on this platform. My role included: ● Technical Architecture (application and infrastructure) ● Procurement negotiation – RFP ● Budget management ● Stakeholder management ● Technical ownership of overall project ● Technical design & coordination ● Design authority From January 2006 to December 2006 (1 year) Digital Security - Technical Project Manager (Contract) @ BUDGET AUD 2.5M | 4 Direct Staff (technical) | Large stakeholder base | Key Skills Solutions Architect (infrastructure & application) – Project Manager It was a part of the BP's digital security strategy that a common set of tools should be created for use by security consultants and local security administrators for risk management. I architeced and managed the deployment of three of the five tools selected. The streams included: ● Firewall policy compliance tool (Firemon) ● Monitoring of third party firewalls, internal firewalls across 76 external and internal firewalls ● Vulnerability management tool (lightning + snort) ● Linux based project | 15 nodes across 9 countries ● Creation of a BP global standard for vulnerability management ● Creation of a fully repeatable automated build process and associated infrastructure ● Procurement negotiation – RFP, Vendor Selection, Contract Management, Budget management, Project delivery ● Policy Compliance and reporting ● The project was fully delivered and created a new ability for BP to measure policy compliance against numerous industry standards (SOX, VISA, CERT) identifying systemic and acute risk ● Deployment of 82,000 agents across 18 countries and 7 platforms ● Implementation of regional based silo architecture (with reporting feeds to single reporting infrastructure) ● Implementation of global web based ESM reporting server ● Budget – AUD 2.1M From August 2002 to December 2006 (4 years 5 months) Technical Architect (Contract) @ BUDGET AUD ~11.4M | 4 Direct Staff (technical) |Liaised with over 30 other technical teams | Key Skills Technical Architect / Compliance Knowledge - Project Leadership - People Leadership I joined a team of 2 systems administrators early in the project life cycle. After a short period, I was asked to create a new project bias team. This grew to a team of 4 people. I was responsible for the technical architecture of the infrastructure to be delivered across the globe. The application being developed was an energy trading system (Oil); hence high availability was required and strict adherence to regulatory requirements. Due to regulatory requirements, foundation security was a high value goal in the build process and accordingly was incorporated in the jump start process. A critical component was placed for tender and I was also a member of the review board. Achievements included: ● Successful roll out of infrastructure across Singapore, Chicago and London ● Creation of flexible development and test areas of considerable size ● Creation of a team of people with complementing skill sets ● A very high level of documentation to be used in operation From January 2001 to August 2002 (1 year 8 months) Security Consultant - Mynet Project (Contract) @ I was recruited as the Solutions Architect, being responsible for the infrastructure design and implementation, providing web based mail application services to Freeserve (Now Wannado) for over 1 million email accounts. During this time I designed and implemented a three tier Sun Micro systems infrastructure with a standard Oracle Database back-end. I was also acting as the security consultant on this project and was responsible for the implementation of a Checkpoint Firewall 1 (4.1 SP1) with fail over to a Cisco 3509 router infrastructure. The role was very challenging and I gained a great deal of experience in the dot.com environment. From 2000 to 2001 (1 year) Technical Architect (Contract) @ ● Solaris technical specialist to install, configure and performance tune high load Web Proxy, LDAP, Firewall and DNS Servers. During the process I became responsible for the security of the host’s operating systems and network connectivity. This was a complex implementation and its successful delivery was a personal achievement. ● I was responsible for the recommendation on the specifications of many of Chase Manhattans projects. Each of the recommendations made, had to be quantified to the business using predictive capacity planning. I also assisted in many tier three problems, which had become critical to the business. ● During this period I was given 5 projects simultaneously and was autonomous between all of the projects. The projects included an expansion of hardware for the bank’s Intranet infrastructure. Other projects included E-commerce and Streaming Video to the desktop. From August 1999 to December 2000 (1 year 5 months) UNIX Systems Adminstrator @ The standard UNIX role, becoming responsible for the overall management and administration for the MIS Unix Systems. From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) UNIX Systems Adminstrator @ This was my first consultant role, I consulted on UNIX (Solaris) systems and the associated systems administrator policy and processes. From January 1997 to November 1998 (1 year 11 months) Systems Adminstrator @ Provide UNIX Technical Support to the server farm providing Real Estate Data. From 1996 to 1997 (1 year) Combat Systems Operator @ This role was to assist in the "fighting" of the ship in the three theatres of warfare. From 1989 to 1994 (5 years)

ASSOC DIP, Businesss @ Gateway Institute of Technology From 1994 to 1995 General Education @ Liverpool Boys High School From 1983 to 1987 Heckenberg Primary From 1976 to 1982 Grant McKechnie is skilled in: Security, Integration, Project Delivery, Program Management, Disaster Recovery, Stakeholder Management, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, Risk Management, Data Center, Firewalls, Infrastructure, Management, Incident Management, Requirements Analysis