Summary
James Wright is a Lead Cybersecurity Architect with 11 years of hands-on InfoSec and systems experience at Ansys, progressing from Senior Systems Administrator to senior security roles and current leadership in architecture. He blends deep defensive and offensive skills—internal penetration testing, risk assessments, SIEM analysis, incident response, and vulnerability management—with network and firewall expertise from managing a global VPN mesh and routing infrastructure. Comfortable scripting in Python and Bash, he automates security and ops tasks across heterogeneous Windows and Unix environments and has practical experience with BGP and multi-vendor networking. James is driven by curiosity, regularly tackling experimental security projects that bridge policy, tooling, and deployment, and he brings a pragmatic, auditor-friendly approach to securing complex enterprise systems from his base in Indialantic, Florida.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Programming and Psychology, Programming and Psychology at Keene State College
Monadnock Regional High School