Professional Profile
Practicing Company Meat Inspector with comprehensive experience enforcing food safety regulations, standard operating procedures, and Risk Management Programmes (RMPs) across both multi-species lines (sheep, lamb, bobby calf) and dedicated beef processing facilities. Uniquely backed by a professional background in IT systems administration, cybersecurity, and digital access control within regulated environments.
Areas of Expertise
Compliance & Food Safety
- Multi-Species Processing (Beef, Sheep, Lamb, Calf)
- Regulatory Compliance (Animal Products Act)
- HACCP & Risk Management Programmes (RMPs)
- ISO 22000 / ISO 9001 Systems Alignment
- Audit Readiness & Documentation Control
IT & Systems Security
- Active Directory & Microsoft 365
- Network Security (Splunk, Wireshark, Nmap)
- ERP Fundamentals (SAP Materials Management)
- Access Control & Incident Response
Work History
Ample Meats
- Execute precision processing operations on high-throughput beef slaughter lines in strict alignment with site standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Uphold absolute structural compliance with New Zealand food safety legislation and rigorous beef carcass dressing hygiene parameters.
- Maintain close communication with QA and inspection teams to ensure continuous execution of Zero Faecal Tolerance (ZFT) protocols.
AFFCO New Zealand Limited
- Verified compliance with New Zealand food safety and export regulatory frameworks, specifically managing sheep, lamb, and bobby calf multi-species lines.
- Conducted strict verification activities across slaughter and processing operations, adhering to Zero Faecal Tolerance (ZFT) standards and HACCP principles under the Animal Products Act.
- Maintained accurate, traceable inspection records and audit evidence in line with ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 documentation principles.
- Supported ongoing audit readiness for internal reviews and external regulatory verification bodies.
University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital
- Supported compliance operations within a regulated healthcare environment governed by strict data protection and HIPAA-aligned privacy principles.
- Maintained controlled user access to sensitive hospital systems, managed role-based permissions, and supported internal audit tracks.
- Participated in regular risk assessments, incident reporting, and corrective action logging to guarantee documentation accuracy and traceability.
UPTH Technical Services Division
- Managed deployment and network configuration updates across site-wide terminal systems to ensure infrastructure reliability.
- Administered Active Directory access parameters, auditing user groups to prevent unauthorized privilege creep.
- Delivered fast-turnaround technical incident mitigation, keeping network downtime to an absolute minimum.
Technical Projects & Simulations
Enterprise Incident Response & Threat Mitigation
Simulations: Telstra, AIG (Shields Up)
- Simulated end-to-end incident response for active malware attacks; analyzed attack vectors, conducted post-mortem isolation, and engineered strategies to bypass active ransomware.
- Developed and deployed rapid patching strategies to counter critical zero-day exploits within production environments, minimizing potential downtime.
Cyber Risk Governance & Threat Intelligence
Simulations: Datacom, ANZ, Mastercard
- Analyzed the systemic impact of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) breaches on enterprise information security architectures.
- Formulated comprehensive cybersecurity risk assessment frameworks to identify operational vulnerabilities and align security postures with business objectives.
- Conducted digital and social engineering investigations; designed corporate phishing email simulations and interpreted behavioral data to improve organizational security awareness.
Application Security & Data Integrity
Simulations: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
- Designed and developed secure access management systems to tighten control over sensitive enterprise information, preventing unauthorized privilege creep.
- Analyzed large, complex datasets of financial payment services to detect anomalies and flag fraudulent activity.
- Applied application security fundamentals to web environments and engineered machine learning email classifiers (Spam vs. Ham) to mitigate inbound vector threats.