Guy Sudron

Standards & Compliance: NIST 800-53 NIST 800-171 Cyber Essentials

Subject specialist for cyber security services to promote sales, drive business development and support the account management team. Presenting the cyber security product portfolio at all levels with members, government, funders and suppliers, both nationally and internationally, and gathering market intelligence to help inform strategic decision-making within the cyber security division. • advised senior leaders within higher and further education to support their cyber security projects and strategies • established effective communication and support channels between the cyber security division and the account management function leading to increased take up and awareness of services • represented Jisc’s cyber security activities at regional and national events leading to increased awareness of services and improved relationships with members • established, developed and managed relationships with strategic partners and suppliers • leading role in internal product and service development activities, working and managing across teams, resulting in improved products and services

The Jisc shared data centres are a ground breaking initiative to drive down costs to research and education through aggregation, and create environments for innovative collaboration. The two shared data centres are tailored to supporting activities across enterprise, teaching and learning, and research priorities of research and education organisations. The data centres provide a cost-effective solution to co-locate systems and services, whilst enabling organisations to consolidate their in-house data centres in one place. • developed the service from launch to income of c£360k pa in less than 3 years, exceeding targets by more than 3 years • supported and advised senior leaders in education and research with their data centre strategies leading to successful re-location of services off-site • lead role in successfully procuring a second shared data centre to meet the strategic needs of northern universities • established and chaired a member forum to support members, drive improvements and meet developing needs of users • developed and embedded processes within the organisational quality management system to support the service and embed the service within ISO27001 scope

Janet is the UK's research and education network providing network services to 18 million customers across HE, FE, schools and research communities. • developed and managed relationships with senior IT leaders within education and research organisations to assist them to leverage the power of the Janet network and associated services to support their institutions • managed cross departmental activities to support members and customers resulting in increased member satisfaction • active involvement in the wider regional agendas so Janet might support or lead activities supporting research and education either regionally or nationally

LeNSE is a high quality, high bandwidth regional network covering the central south of England. I was responsible for engaging and supporting senior level IT and management contacts within the 70 +/- organisations connected to LeNSE to understand their current and future network and connectivity and network services requirements.

Founding Partner of a small, flexible, independent IT Support and Consultancy Company providing high level skills to small businesses. Enabled SMEs to leverage IT services to support their businesses, including DR/BCP, cloud services and strategic planning.

Responsible for the overall leadership of a team engaged in providing IT related functions to over 3500 members of the Institute. Lead role in the formulation of the Institute’s Information Strategy. Project Manager for all IT based projects and member of project teams where there was an IT element. Oversaw and managed contracts and relationships with key suppliers, developed requirements and procured new solutions. Chaired several cross-Institutional working groups and committees.

Administered a barrack wide network for the British Army in Germany.

Produced digital maps of gas exploration areas and siesmic surveys.