Al Sutton

Director, Enterprise Data Safe Ltd.

Rochester, United Kingdom

Current
  • Director at Enterprise Data Safe Limited
Past
  • Consultant (Self-employed)
  • Senior Development Analyst at Reuters
  • Technical Manager at SECPay
  • Developer at Investia Ltd
  • Senior Developer at Jacobs Rimell
  • Senior Analyst, Global Bank Security Architecture at Chase Manhattan
  • Senior Analyst, Global Market Technologies at Chase Manhattan
  • Systems Administrator, Global Market Technologies (London) at Chase Manhattan
  • Contact Developer at Shatz Creations
  • Computing Officer, Department of Computer Science at Kings College, London
  • Undergraduate at King's College London
  • Contract Developer at Intelligent Research
Education
  • King's College London, U. of London
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Industry
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Al Sutton’s Summary

I have been working in IT for over a decade and have experience of a wide range of working environments and systems. I have been involved in the design, development, and deployment of systems for a range of companies including TelCos', ISPs, Financial institutions and Interactive television systems.

I'm now one of the directors of Enterprise Data Safe Limited who specialise in centralised web accessible secure storage software.

Al Sutton’s Specialties:

Software and Systems Architecture


Al Sutton’s Experience

  • Director

    Enterprise Data Safe Limited

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    November 2006Present (2 years)

    - Responsibility for all development, marketing, sales, and support activities

  • Consultant

    Self-employed

    (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2006November 2006 (11 months)

    I had responsibility for Argosy TelCrests' Enterprise Password Safe. After analysing the fit of the EPS in Argosy TelCrests' product line I put forward creating a separate company dedicated to the product.

    In November 2006 Enterprise Data Safe Limited was created with responsibility for the Enterprise Password Safe and I took a directorship with the new company.

  • Senior Development Analyst

    Reuters

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    February 2004December 2005 (1 year 11 months)

    - Design, development, and support of financial data testing system.
    - Porting system to Linux (SLES 8).
    - Administration of Windows, Solaris, and Linux servers.
    - Staff representitive during Reuters takeover.

    I started this position with Moneyline Telerate, but in June 2005 Reuters bought Moneyline Telerate and thus my employment was transferred to Reuters. In October 2005 reviewed the business units it had purchased and decided to close the group down and I took redundancy.

  • Technical Manager

    SECPay

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    April 2002December 2003 (1 year 9 months)

    - Responsibility for development and support (both internal and external)
    - Led the redesign of the core system architecture which improved throughput.
    - Led the move from in-house hosting to hosting at a data center.
    - Introduced multi-site DR measures.
    - Managed technical relationships with acquirers.

  • Developer

    Investia Ltd

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    September 2001April 2002 (8 months)

    - Design and development of software for interfacing with third party systems.
    - Design and development of condifitional loops and functions to in-house scripting language.
    - Porting system to Linux (RedHat 7.2)

  • Senior Developer

    Jacobs Rimell

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2000August 2001 (1 year 4 months)

    - Designed and developed XML Gateway into their flagship product
    - Designed and developed a usage policy enforcement tool for ISPs.
    - provided advice to other teams about system architectures involving Solaris and Linux.

    Jacobs Rimell suffered during the post dot-com bust, and as a result of this I was made redundant.

  • Senior Analyst, Global Bank Security Architecture

    Chase Manhattan

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

    February 2000May 2000 (4 months)

    Responsible for research into technologies relating to security (including PKI and Biometrics), and the running of projects throughout the EAME region.

  • Senior Analyst, Global Market Technologies

    Chase Manhattan

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Capital Markets industry)

    September 1999May 2000 (9 months)

    Improving disaster recover facilities due to internal concerns about DR capabilities. After a DR test the improvements I made were shown to have addressed the concerns.

  • Systems Administrator, Global Market Technologies (London)

    Chase Manhattan

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)

    June 1998August 1999 (1 year 3 months)

    I was responsible for managing the Development Unix infrastructre which consisted of over 120 Solaris machines. Under my management the infrastructure was standardised onto Solaris 2.6, and several machines were retired and their functionality consolidated onto fewer larger systems.

  • Contact Developer

    Shatz Creations

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    November 1997June 1998 (8 months)

    Design, development, and deployment of internet related systems and software in Java, C, and C++.

  • Computing Officer, Department of Computer Science

    Kings College, London

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 1996November 1997 (1 year 6 months)

    - Assisting the devlopment, deployment, and maintainence of system infrastructure (Windows, Novell, Linux, and Solaris).
    - Included 3 month, 3 days per week secondment to the Institute of Psychiatry to develop a distance learning tool in Java running on IRIX and Windows.

  • Undergraduate

    King's College London

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

    September 1993June 1996 (2 years 10 months)

    Studied for a BSc. in Computing in Mathematics and obtained a 2:2

  • Contract Developer

    Intelligent Research

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    June 1994January 1996 (1 year 8 months)

    Part time contract developing the desktop for Two Way TVs' interactive television set (written in C for a 68000 based architecture).


Al Sutton’s Education

  • King's College London, U. of London

    BSc. (Hons.), Computer Science and Mathematics, 19931996

    - Set up Student Premier Online Data Service with another student which offered students Dial-in access to the department and colleges facilities.
    - Gave some Human Computer Interaction talks relating to the Interactive TV system I was development for Intelligent Research at the time.

    Activities and Societies:
    Computing Society
    S.P.O.D.S. (See below)

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Al Sutton’s Groups:

Yahoo HP MV Group

  •    Security Crew
  •    Information Security Community
  •    Club ex-Reuters

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