Hi, my name is…

What was your very first job?

A theme park attendant.

 Think part ride-wrangler, part queue-whisperer, part human “yes, that is the exit” sign. I kept the wheels turning, the wristbands scanning, and the chaos (mostly) contained… all while surviving on pure adrenaline and the faint smell of popcorn.

If you could swap jobs with anyone for a day, who would it be?

I’d swap with a Formula 1 race engineer for a day.

Not the driver, the person in the pit wall chair with 200 live data feeds, a headset full of chaos, and the power to say “Box, box, box” like it’s the most dramatic sentence on earth. I want one day of making split-second calls, pretending I understand tyre deg by vibe, and feeling like a wizard because I moved someone from P6 to P3 with a perfectly timed undercut.

Then I’d hand the headset back before anyone realises I was basically guessing and go back to my normal job with a newfound respect for spreadsheets that don’t go 300 km/h.

If you had to give a TED Talk on something random, what would it be?

It’d be all about those weird life skills you pick up against your will: like knowing the exact fastest supermarket self-checkout, becoming fluent in printer error codes, or being able to spot phishing emails the way birdwatchers spot rare owls.

 The punchline would be: none of us choose our niche… our niche chooses us. And somehow, that’s where half our confidence comes from.

What’s one thing you’re looking forward to learning here?

I’m looking forward to learning how things really work end-to-end here – the people, the rhythms, and the “this is how we actually do it” stuff you can’t get from docs.

If you could invent one office perk, what would it be?

A snack portal that delivers exactly what you’re craving before you even know you want it.

What’s the most exciting part of your role at SysGroup?

Getting to dig into real client risk problems and turn messy, high-stakes security questions into clear plans people can actually act on. Also, every week is different, new environments, new threats, new puzzles. Keeps it interesting.