Summary
James Woolley is a penetration tester with 13 years of hands-on IT experience, currently testing and hardening networks at Aristi after progressing from junior tester to lead pen tester. Based in Hereford, he brings deep practical knowledge from roles as an on-site IT administrator and NOC technician, where he ran autonomous support for servers, call centre infrastructure and network equipment. He combines core skills in hardware repair, incident troubleshooting and network security with a pragmatic, customer-focused approach developed running a local computer repair business. Comfortable operating end-to-end—from physical diagnostics to exploit testing—he excels at turning operational pain points into auditable, secure solutions. Colleagues rely on him for clear remediation plans that balance technical depth with real-world constraints.
13 years of coding experience
BSc (Honours), Information Technology and Computing, BSc (Honours), Information Technology and Computing at The Open University
BTEC Level 3 National award for IT Practitioners, BTEC Level 3 National award for IT Practitioners at Hereford College of Technology
English