Gordon Greeff

Experience

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  Internet Africa

  Jan 1996 - Jan 1998

  Helpdesk Consultant

  Helpdesk consultant for the Internet Africa dial helpdesk.

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  UUNET

  Jan 1998 - Feb 2001

  Responsible for the design, deployment and maintenance of all UNIX systems. Involved in founding the first NOC for UUNET/Internet Africa with 3 other people and developing all the systems and monitoring and reporting tools to enable us manage the network effectively.

  • UNIX Systems Administrator

    Mar 2000 - Feb 2001

  • Network Operations Centre Engineer

    Jan 1998 - Mar 2000
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  UUNET

  Apr 2001 - Aug 2002

  UNIX Systems Administrator Manager

  Responsible for a small team of systems administrators.

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  Verizon Business

  Sept 2002 - May 2006

  Performed a technical pre-sales role to uncover opportunities and design network and infrastructure solutions for customers. Network and NOC manager for UUNET/Verizon .

  • Solutions Architect

    Jun 2004 - May 2006

  • Network Manager

    Sept 2002 - Jun 2004
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  Internet Solutions a division of Dimension Data

  Jun 2006 - Aug 2016

  Responsible for C-level client engagement and consulting to understand, uncover and translate business requirements into actionable short, medium and long term technology strategies and roadmaps. Producing both the high and low level designs for the networking, systems and security components of a clients’ environment. Producing business cases detailing TCO and where possible ROI, to assist clients with board level motivation for expenditure. Writing certain components of client contracts and service level agreements. Providing consulting services to large corporates to assess their current environment, understand their desired future mode of operation and then the development of all the necessary transition architectures to enable them to meet the agreed objectives and track against technology roadmaps.Leadership role in recommending appropriate public and private cloud providers as well as infrastructure and technology recommendations. Scope often included perimeter security recommendations, covering firewalls and IPS, local and global load balancing strategies, CDN, application and database high availability and disaster recovery solutions, as well as compliance and governance requirements, like PCI-DSS. Often for clients that were deploying their first public or internal, three tier web application or service.Providing oversight, leadership and guidance for both internal teams and external vendors and third parties to ensure that projects and systems adhered to the agreed architecture principles and governance structures put in place. Show less Still fulfilling the role of a solutions architect as well as taking on the management responsibility for a team of solution architects. Primarily working on large strategic clients and responding to high value tenders and RFP/RFQ’s. Providing feedback and insight into the product development teams. Identifying market trends feeding them back in the various business units. Consulting with clients to assist with developing their technology strategy by providing industry insight and though leadership. Show less

  • Principal Architect

    Nov 2014 - Aug 2016

  • Solutions Architect Manager

    Jun 2009 - Aug 2016

  • Solutions Architect

    Jun 2006 - Jun 2009
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  [techjunkie]

  Nov 2009 - Nov 2023

  Founder and Owner

  Technology review and opinion blog.

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  Spark Digital NZ

  Sept 2016 - Jul 2018

  Solutions Consultant
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  Spark New Zealand

  Jul 2018 - Oct 2019

  Cybersecurity Agile Product Owner

  An exciting role where I influence the direction of Spark’s commercial and TaaS security portfolios. Working on both the product development aspects and the back-end system and infrastructure design components. Also some focus on optimising existing services and infrastructure by building and enabling automation to improve turn around times for customers and reduce internal TCO.End-to-end life cycle responsibility for the portfolio of services below:• Secure Internet (including managed DDoS services)• Managed next generation firewall services• Application publishing services• Web Security Services• Security Management Services (SIEM)• Vulnerability Assessment• Cloud Acess Security Broker (CASB)• Endpoint SecurityAlso led an initiative to design, build and launch a portfolio of cyber security services suitable for the New Zealand SME (Small/Medium Enterprise) market. Show less

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  Computer Concepts Limited

  Oct 2019 - Jan 2022

  • Head of Information Security Management

    Apr 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Security Architect Manager

    May 2020 - Apr 2021

  • Security Architect

    Oct 2019 - May 2020
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  CyberCX

  Jan 2022 - now

  Director Security Integration and Engineering