Tim Ashton
Head Of Cyber Security at Fantastic Furniture
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolTim Ashton is a Head of Cyber Security based in Sydney with 11 years of hands-on experience uniting infrastructure engineering and security operations to protect complex retail and enterprise environments. At Fantastic Furniture he progressed from service desk to lead security, building the information security program, recruiting and mentoring teams, and balancing user-friendly controls with regulatory compliance like PCI-DSS and the Privacy Act. He combines practical infrastructure skills—firewalls, SIEM, SASE, SD-WAN and cloud security—with a bias for automation and pragmatic risk prioritization. Tim has led incident response, security architecture and compliance remediation while also driving cultural change to make security accessible across the business. Comfortable as both a technical escalator and a strategic leader, he consistently delivers measurable improvements in posture and customer trust. His background across managed services, large media infrastructure and retail IT gives him a rare blend of operational resilience and business-focused security.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in IT, Internetworking and Applications, Credit, Bachelor of Science in IT, Internetworking and Applications, Credit at University of Technology Sydney
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Github Skills (7)
winforms6
wpf6
xaml6
android6
forloop6
android-layout6
java6
Github contributions (5)
tim-ashton/Android-Port-Scanner
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes in 9 months
tim-ashton/CPP-Accessing-Private-Member-Variables
Mar 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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