James Cave

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About James Cave

Highly skilled and widely experienced across big enterprise, government & defence, small & medium businesses, cloud & SaaS providers, platform and infrastructure providers. Long-term experience with stakeholder management including C-level, program directors, mid management and project management staff. 20 years leading, mentoring & supervising analysts, developers and engineering personnel. Honest and effective communication skills spanning executive reporting, technical documentation, pre-sales engineering support, presentations & training, as well as end-user & customer communications. Impeccable attention to detail and exceptional problem-solving skills across enterprise technology, systems management, data processing and software lifecycle. Approachable & trustworthy. Uncanny intuition for tech problems & solutions. Known for unwavering integrity & making even the most stoic laugh. Confident & convincing in business interactions, always happy to dive deeper & always ready to walk the talk. 25 years technical experience across all aspects of programming, database design, information processing, statistics & analytics, software development, web-based applications, application security & vulnerability management, infrastructure operations & SRE, devops & IaC, CI/CD & automated testing, cloud & hybrid-cloud, networking & SDN, data centre systems, servers & VMs & storage, firewalls & proxies, databases & unstructured data stores, logging & monitoring, COTS & open-source, enterprise systems, desktop & mobile device management, identity & access control, plus application, system, solution & data architecture. and more. In the last 5 years, my focus has been on: Policy & compliance - both governance & implementation (now introducing "policy as code" and "continuous assurance" alongside CI/CD). Uplifting management understanding of modern cybersecurity risk, managing cultural change in developers & engineers, reinforcing the importance of RACI & shift-left strategies, balancing business velocity with secure-by-design practices. Managing teams & contributing hands-on to deployment & maintenance of security controls in cloud (PaaS & SaaS & IDAM), servers & containers (on-prem, cloud & hybrid), desktops & BYOD. Development, adoption & tuning of SDLC tooling in CI/CD with integrated security control sets providing guard-rails for developers & devops engineers across dev & system management. Relentless & incessant loathing of tech debt, nicely balanced by a visceral satisfaction paying it off.