Andy Battle

Current

Solutions Architect at Dimension Data

Past

Technical Consultant, Security at Department of Treasury & Finance
Technical Consultant at Dimension Data
Systems Analyst at WestNet Infrastructure Group

Security Manager at DNS UK
Lead Security Consultant at InTechnology PLC
Security Consultant at Allasso
Internet Consultant at Elcom
Security Engineer at Integralis Ltd

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Andy Battle’s Summary

10+ Year Network & Security background, working for End User, Reseller & Distribution, with strategic relationships with Vendors

Check Point CCSA/CCSE/CCSE+/CCMSE (3.0/4.0/4.1/NG/NGX)
Nokia NSA
IronPort Certified Engineer L1,L2
BlueCoat Certified Engineer/Administrator
Symantec Perimeter Security Trainer
Websense WCSE
SurfControl Mail & Web
RSA Certified Engineer (2.0/3.0/4.0/5.0)

Andy Battle’s Specialties:

Perimeter Security, VPN, SSL, AAA (RSA/ActivIdentity)

Product Specialities:
FireWall-1/VPN-1/UTM-1
Cisco ASA
Cisco Wireless (AP/WLC/WCS)
Blue Coat Proxy SG/MACH5
IronPort Email & Web appliances
Nokia IP/IPVPN appliances
Provider-1
Symantec Firewalls, BrightMail, Sygate, AV
Juniper
ClearSwift Family
RSA SecurID

Andy Battle’s Experience

Solutions Architect

Dimension Data

(Public Company; DDT; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

I now head up the Security Line of Business at Dimension Data, providing presales and consulting services to our customers. I am internally responsible for the WA Security number, tech sales forecasting and building pipeline.

We are currently building our Managed Services and Professional Services capabilities, including Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessments, Network Health Check, Network Optimization

Our Current Vendors are:-

Cisco, Microsoft, Check Point, RSA, Nokia, Blue Coat, IronPort, Fortinet, McAfee, Trend, Websense, Messagelabs, F5, Riverbed, VMware, NetApp, Symantec, Sun
Technical Consultant, Security

Department of Treasury & Finance

(Computer & Network Security industry)

2007 — 2009 (2 years)
Technical Consultant

Dimension Data

(Public Company; DDT; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 6 months)

My Role is to provide Consultative and Engineering resource to existing Dimension Data accounts, whilst providing pre-sales support for new engagements.

I focus on the following services and technologies:-

Cisco Security Portfolio
Check Point
Nokia
Ironport
BlueCoat
RSA
Trend Micro
McAfee

Wireless Assessments
Vulnerabitlity & Penetration Testing
Risk & Compliancy Assesments
Systems Analyst

WestNet Infrastructure Group

(Computer & Network Security industry)

2008 — 2008 (less than a year)
Security Manager

DNS UK

(Computer & Network Security industry)

January 2007 — May 2007 (5 months)

The position I currently hold is Security Manager to a team of fourteen Professional Services, Frontline and Support Engineers. The Professional Services team was established to provide value added services direct to our customers (resellers) that need technical assistance to sell and implement security solutions based upon DNS UK’s portfolio of products. DNS UK, an ARROW company is an European Security and Storage Distributor that focuses on products from a select choice of security manufacturers, including Check Point, Nokia, Juniper (Netscreen), RSA, Nortel, IronPort, BlueSocket, Websense, Celestix, Network Engines, Symantec, ActivIdentity, Aladdin, RiverBed, SurfControl and BlueCoat.
Lead Security Consultant

InTechnology PLC

(Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)

September 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 5 months)

See Allasso: InTechnology aquired the Allasso Security Distribution business. My Role is very much unchanged...for now.
Security Consultant

Allasso

(Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)

July 1999 — September 2004 (5 years 3 months)

IT Security Consultant and Team Leader to a team of four Professional Services Engineers. The Professional Services team was established to provide value added services direct to our customers (resellers) that need technical assistance to sell and implement security solutions based upon Allasso’s portfolio of products, including Checkpoint, Nokia, Netscreen, Symantec, ActivCard, RadWare, Aladdin, Finjan, Clearswift, WebSense, Packeteer and Blue Coat.

Team Leader
The role of Team Leader has provided me with a more managerial awareness of the security distribution business

IT Security Consultant
Installation and Consultancy is the main part of my position, and it is currently a wide and varied role.

IT Trainer
Teaching Check Point and Symantec Firewall courses.

Technical Pre-Sales & Post Sales
LAN, WAN, Internet, Firewall, Content Security, VPN, SSL Remote Access and Authentication
Internet Consultant

Elcom

(Computer & Network Security industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Security Engineer

Integralis Ltd

(Public Company; Computer & Network Security industry)

1997 — 1997 (less than a year)