Work with me

Everything I write stays free. What you can buy here is my time — an hour on your career, a proper look at your resume, or a group that keeps you studying when motivation runs out.

I said from the start that this site would be free, and it is. Every walkthrough, every study guide, every concept post — no paywall, no account, no email gate. That does not change, and it is not going to.

But writing scales and I do not. The questions I get most are the ones an article cannot answer: should I take this role, is my resume the reason nobody is calling back, why do I keep starting a certification and stopping.

Those need an hour and a real conversation. So that is what is for sale here — the hour. Not the knowledge, which stays where it has always been.

If money is the thing stopping you, email me anyway. I keep a couple of spots free each month for people early in their career or out of work, and I would rather give one away than have you not ask.

One to one

Sixty minutes on video, about your situation specifically. Bring the decision you are stuck on — the sessions that go best are the ones with a real question in them.

One hour, one problem, properly worked through.

Payments are not switched on yet.

You pick your time straight after paying.

For a move that needs a plan, not an answer.

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Use them at your pace within three months.

Sessions run evenings and weekends across most timezones. If the first session is not useful, tell me and I refund it — I would rather that than have you recommend me out of politeness.

Written review

Most security resumes I read are not badly written. They are written for the wrong reader — a hiring manager skims for six seconds and never sees the thing that would have got you the call. Send me the resume and the jobs you actually want, and I will tell you exactly what is going wrong.

A written review you can act on the same day.

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I do the writing, then walk you through every change.

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I will not invent experience you do not have, and I will not put a certification on your resume that you have not earned. If that is what you are after, I am the wrong person. Refundable in full any time before I start work.

Small group

Almost nobody fails a certification because the material was too hard. They fail because they studied for three weeks, life happened, and they never went back. This is the fix for that, and it is the least complicated thing on this page: a small group of people studying towards certifications, checking in every week, out loud.

Say what you will do. Come back and say whether you did it.

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Cancel any time, in one click.

Just over a dollar a day, and a lot less than the exam you keep rebooking. The study guides themselves stay free and always will — you are paying for the people, not the material.

I am a Lead Information Security Engineer, working on identity and post-quantum security. I sat every one of these exams myself, and wrote up how I passed each one. That is the same reason I can tell you what a resume needs — I have been on the reading side of them.

Amazon Web Services

Specialty-level exam on securing AWS workloads: identity, detection, incident response, infrastructure and data protection.

Amazon Web Services

Foundational AWS exam covering cloud concepts, core services, the shared responsibility model, billing and support.

GIAC

Hands-on incident handling: detection, containment, eradication and recovery, plus the attacker techniques behind each.

CompTIA

Behavioural analytics, threat detection, vulnerability management and incident response from the SOC analyst’s seat.

GIAC

Building a security strategy that survives contact with the business: strategic planning, writing policy people actually follow, and leading the team that delivers it.

CompTIA

The baseline security certification: threats, architecture, operations, and governance, risk and compliance.

Yes, and permanently. Every walkthrough, study guide and concept post stays free to read, with no account and no email gate. Nothing that is free today moves behind a payment later — if it ever did, the promise would have been worth nothing in the first place. What is sold on this page is time, which was never free.

No, and be careful with anyone who says they can. What I can do is tell you honestly why you are not getting past the first screen, help you pick the certification that actually matters for the roles you want, and stop you wasting six months on the wrong one. The applying is still yours.

The coaching, yes — quite a lot of it is people trying to work out where to start, or how to move across from IT, support or something unrelated. The resume review is more useful once you have something to review. If you are not sure, book a single session rather than the block, and we will see.

Not really, and I would rather say so than take the money. My background is cloud and defensive — AWS security, incident handling, detection, and the leadership side. If you want someone to coach you towards OSCP, I am not the right person and I will happily point you at somebody who is.

Tell me and I will refund it. That applies to the first coaching session and to any resume work I have not started yet. I would rather refund you than have a recommendation you gave out of politeness.

Yes. Plenty of people have a training or development budget and forget it covers this. Stripe will produce a proper receipt with your company details on it at checkout, and if you need an invoice in a particular format, email me before you book and I will sort it out.

Through Stripe. Your card details are typed on Stripe’s own page and never touch this site — this site never sees them and never stores them. You will get a receipt by email immediately.

Email me and describe where you are stuck. I will tell you which of these would actually help, and I will tell you if the answer is none of them.