Nicholas de Jong

Past

• Vice President Engineering and Operations at Julius Finance
• Chief Information Officer at Sensory Networks
• Vice President of Products at Sensory Networks

• Chief Security Analyst at Securify
• Security Consultant at Kroll O'Gara

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Education

• University of New South Wales

Connections

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Nicholas de Jong’s Summary

B.Eng, Co-Founder Julius Finance Corporation, Co-Founder Sensory Networks Inc. Extensive experience establishing, building and operating companies in Financial Services, Information Security and Consulting. Formerly Chief Information Officer, Sensory Networks. Chief Security Analyst, Securify (New York) and Security Consultant, Kroll O'Gara (New York). Blog located here http://www.nicholasdejong.com/

Nicholas de Jong’s Specialties:

Risk analysis, Risk management. Information system architecture, Security product design, Secure system design, Secure network design.

Nicholas de Jong’s Experience

• Vice President Engineering and Operations

  Julius Finance

  (Financial Services industry)

  2007 — 2009 (2 years )

• Chief Information Officer

  Sensory Networks

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

  Managed Sensory Networks' operational and computing requirements across Sydney, Palo Alto, Beijing and London. Managed the acquisition and integration of various businesses and open source projects into Sensory Networks under the GNTC brand. Developed the GNTC malware research lab supporting Open Source security projects. Designed and deployed high performance malware processing facility processing hundreds of thousands submissions daily. Developed worldwide mirror network infrastructure for distributing security updates to end consumer devices capable of handling millions of update transactions daily.

• Vice President of Products

  Sensory Networks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  2002 — 2005 (3 years )

  Co-Founded Sensory Networks Inc. with investment received from Deutsche Bank Capital Partners, Xilinx, Jafco Investments (Asia), Technology Venture Partners and Individuals Venture Fund. Established and developed the company's internal operations and procedures including the selection and establishment of the main offices in Palo Alto and Sydney with peripheral offices in Beijing and London. Developed and managed Sensory Networks product matrix, product feature roadmaps and engineering delivery schedule. Managed supplier and manufacturing relationships with Xilinx, Micron and Jabil to achieve shorter lead times and significant manufacture savings. Negotiated OEM contracts and terms and delivery schedules.

• Chief Security Analyst

  Securify

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  Chief Security Analyst for Securify's high profile SecureVantage customers, determining best strategies and architectures for customer installations of the SecureVantage network monitoring equipment. Technical sales engineer and sales strategist. New York City office operations leader.

• Security Consultant

  Kroll O'Gara

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

  Established the NYC office Information Security Group team. Performed network assessments, host assessments and architecture assessments for numerous large US banks, NYC law firms, large multinationals, tier one ISPs, e-commerce organizations and online trading organizations. Developed the network assessment consulting practice methodology and process. Mentored new employees and consultants.

Nicholas de Jong’s Education

• University of New South Wales

  BE , Mining , 1993 — 1997

  Thesis: Mining Stock Forecasting Using Media Sentiment as an Added Indicator