John McCarthy

Current

• Consultant - Senior and Executive Resourcing at Green Light Australia

Past

• Recruitment Specialist - Security and Risk at RSP Recruitment Australia Pty Limited
• Recruitment Manager, IT&T at Trinity
• Recruitment Team Leader at Greythorn

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Education

• Jordanhill College School - Glasgow

Recommended

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Connections

249 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• AISA

John McCarthy’s Summary

National resourcing specialist in the Technology/Information Security and Risk arenas (including Governance, Compliance, Audit etc).

Major clients in the financial services arena (i.e. Big 4 local banks and Global Investment Banks) and also Telco, FMCG, Utilities, System Integrators and Global Vendors.

Candidates with extensive local and often global experience (UK, USA/Canada, RSA, Asia Pac, Middle East).

John McCarthy’s Experience

• Consultant - Senior and Executive Resourcing

  Green Light Australia

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — Present (9 months)

  Green Light is a technology professional services business specialising in delivering Technology Projects, Technology People and a Senior/Executive resourcing facility.
  
  Green Light specialises in Information Security, Networks and Project/Systems Management. Our coverage extends across Australia, SE Asia, UAE and the UK & Ireland.
  
  CORE AREAS OF EXPERTISE;
  
  SECURITY - Audit, Risk, Compliance, Security Consulting, Identity Management, Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing, Network Security.
  
  NETWORKS - Voice, VoIP, IPTel, Cisco, Nokia, Nortel, Juniper, Alcatel, Checkpoint, Firewall, MPLS, Network Security.
  
  PROJECTS/SYSTEMS - project delivery within industry accredited methodologies, PMBOK, Prince2, ITIL, Six Sigma. Projects include Apps (Java, .Net) and Systems (Windows, Unix/Linux), RDBMS, ERP, Business Analysis, Testing.

• Recruitment Specialist - Security and Risk

  RSP Recruitment Australia Pty Limited

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  October 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 2 months)

• Recruitment Manager, IT&T

  Trinity

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years)

• Recruitment Team Leader

  Greythorn

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  2001 — 2004 (3 years)

John McCarthy’s Education

• Jordanhill College School - Glasgow

  1976 — 1987

Additional Information

John McCarthy’s Websites:

• AISA

John McCarthy’s Interests:

fishing, snowboarding, music, cooking, classic cars, photography, technology, engineering, the natural world, castles, kite flying, people and Australia.

John McCarthy’s Groups:

AISA, NAB

•    SecurityJobs
•    Information Security Expert Center
•    Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems) User Group
•    CISO: Meaningful Metrics
•    Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
•    Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP)
•    Black Hat
•    IT Governance
•    Information Security Community (30,000+ Members)
•    ASIS International
•    Identity Management Specialists Group
•    Security Regulation
•    CPUG: The Check Point User Group
•    National Information Security Group
•    IT SECURITY EXPERT
•    Jericho Forum
•    ISACA Professionals
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    Australian Information Security Association
•    Global Security Professional
•    SecurityMetrics
•    PRMIA - Professional Risk Managers' International Association
•    Information Security Experts
•    Risk Managers
•    OpRisk & Compliance
•    ISO 27000 for information security management (2000+)
•    Security Industry Group
•    Information Security Network
•    Fraud, Phishing and Financial Misdeeds
•    Governance, Risk and Compliance Management (GRC)
•    Identity Theft
•    Security & Privacy Technology Professionals
•    Trade Finance
•    Oceania CACS 2009
•    Information Security - Compliance - Risk Management Jobs
•    Fighting Fraud: Collaborating for Change
•    Information Technology Risk Management Institute (ITRMI.org)
•    InfoSec Careers
•    PCI Asia-Pacific
•    Computer Security Institute (CSI)
•    Security Horizons

John McCarthy’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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