What is your job title?
Forensics Manager

What do you do?
I have overall responsibility for the quality of the forensic work produced by CCL-Forensics and for making sure we are equipped to meet the ever growing, ever evolving challenges that face all of us working in the Digital Forensics world.  I also line manage our computer analysts and our dedicated quality manager as well as providing support to our sales and marketing team with both technical advice and literature.

How did you get here? 
My previous job was managing the Digital Forensics Group of H.M. Revenue & Customs.  Before that I was an investigator for Customs before training as a digital forensic analyst.
 
Favourite part of the job?
Digital Forensics is at the front line against those who abuse and exploit children.  As disturbing as it is to work with this material I get enormous satisfaction from knowing that our work directly contributes to fighting this.

Who do you look up to?
Art Pepper - for his talent and his unflinching honesty
Tony Sammes - for being inspirational
John Wilkes - one of the greatest of all Englishmen - for many excellent reasons and some not entirely creditable!

How do you spend your spare time? 
I'm inclined to say ‘what spare time?', but what little I have I spend playing the saxophone, walking my mad Springer spaniels and getting under my wife's feet!

What's been the worst job you've ever had? 
Making bullets by hand (don't ask)

What's your best joke? 
I seem to be incapable of remembering jokes no matter how funny so I used Google to find what is (apparently) the world's funniest joke -

Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do?" The operator says: "Calm down, I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead." There is a silence, then a shot is heard. Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what?"

Quite disappointing I'm afraid!