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Completed a BSc Ethical Hacking & Network Security Degree achieving a 1st with honours. A confident, reliable and proactive individual, who will drive individual tasks, but very effective within a team environment. A developing skill set with the personal ambition to learn and develop further. My project/dissertation was based around password security and the development of new...

Completed a BSc Ethical Hacking & Network Security Degree achieving a 1st with honours. A confident, reliable and proactive individual, who will drive individual tasks, but very effective within a team environment. A developing skill set with the personal ambition to learn and develop further. My project/dissertation was based around password security and the development of new password storage, focusing on distributed credential methodologies.Information Security Sales Engineer & Penetration Tester @ The primary technical resource for the sales force. Actively driving and managing the technology evaluation stage of the sales process. Working in conjunction with the sales team as the key technical advisor and product advocate for products and services. Actively generating new business. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Expert Penetration Tester @ • Ensuring Web Applications are secure. • Testing infrastructure in line with the latest methods and vulnerabilities • Reconnaissance gathering through the eyes of a hacker. • Socially engineering target locations. From July 2013 to Present (2 years 6 months) BI Consultant (interim) @ -Completing data processes to ensure all relevant departments are refreshed with most up to date data. -Documenting processes to capture the content, appropriate procedures and protocols in relation to the process. -Report documenting and testing. Checking the accuracy of the reports and the data contained within. -Requirements capturing. Collecting all aspects of the requirement and then taking steps to implement them into a workable solution. From January 2013 to June 2013 (6 months) Northampton, United KingdomProject Office Assistant @ • Quality control, regressive and accuracy testing reporting services reports, creating and completing test plans insuring the stability of the reports. • Report writing, using MYSQL planning and developing basic to intermediate reports to query the applications database and returning valuable information for the customer. This also includes maintaining pre-existing reports. • Setting up demos for customer viewing/testing. Setting up a life like environment within the application, containing data and information management would be used to working with on a day to day basis. • Consultancy Support, investigating issues directly affecting the customer, resolving the issues where possible. From June 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 2 months) Milton Keynes, United KingdomGeneral Store assistantCashier @ handling tens of thousands of pounds a day. Communicating with customers, so they had no issues while shopping with us. Working within a team helped me gain a strong respect for other people and their views. Delegating responsibility to other colleagues so that we had effective working throughout the work place. Organisation of time allowed for the completion of all tasks that needed doing, either by me or another member of staff. Extracurricular Activities From September 2007 to May 2011 (3 years 9 months) Head Student librarian @ Managed the entire 'Filming and Photography' department within the school. This included filming drama GCSE's, Filming field trips and on occasion, pictures for the school newspaper. Delegating responsibility to other librarians, so that all necessary tasks were completed, this allowed me improve my communication skills helping me build the confidence to talk to anyone. Library catalogue maintenance. This meant taking note of what we had and updating the computer system that we used within the library, also allowing me to create new profiles for new students. From September 2002 to July 2007 (4 years 11 months) Telephonist @ Communication with customers to book jobs. Scheduling of work load for the whole office. From February 2006 to May 2007 (1 year 4 months) IT Support @ Problem determination eliminating possible faults to find the one responsible. Root cause analysis on technical issues finding where the problem originated and solving it. Process improvements for building PC's which resulted in standard ways of doing things, which cut down on the build time by 35% (a standard build and deployment process was the result) First & second level team support for all IT technical issues for all departments. From March 2007 to April 2007 (2 months) Bachelor of Science, Ethical Hacking & Network Security, 1st Honours @ Coventry University From 2009 to 2013 BTEC National Deploma, BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners (Software Development) - Games Development @ Uxbridge College From 2007 to 2009 Lee Cates is skilled in: Databases, Linux, Network Security, Security, Penetration Testing, Testing, Business Intelligence, Computer Security, SQL, Java, MySQL, Operating Systems, Software Documentation, SharePoint, Information Security