DANIEL THURSTON

Experience

Professional Development

Professional Development · Sep 2024 - Present

Remote

Ongoing upskilling (Masterschool AI Cybersecurity) combined with hands-on trainee experience in infrastructure hardening, external testing support, and reporting.

Key Achievements

  • Continued structured training and projects across SIEM, detection, incident response, and compliance.
Python
Linux
SIEM fundamentals
NIST CSF
ISO 27001
GDPR

Cybersecurity Engineer (Trainee)

Closed Door Security · Sept 2025 - Present

Remote

Supported secure infrastructure builds and hardening, assisted with scoped external testing tasks, and produced QA-ready customer-facing reports.

Key Achievements

  • Supported secure server installation, configuration, and hardening under guidance; deployed VMware and Proxmox plus pfSense.
  • Assisted on black box external penetration tests by executing scoped test tasks, capturing evidence, and validating findings with senior testers.
  • Independently authored clear structured customer-facing security reports; passed internal QA and were released to customers.
  • Shadowed senior testers and joined customer engagements, building methodology and client-facing communication.
VMware
Proxmox
pfSense
Linux
Windows Event Logs
Burp Suite
Nmap
Nessus
OWASP ZAP

Project Manager - Operations & BD

BRUBAKER · May 2021 - Oct 2024

Germany | Netherlands

Scaled operations for an eCommerce platform using system upgrades, process automation, and data-driven forecasting.

Key Achievements

  • Scaled operations into a €2M+ eCommerce platform through system upgrades and process automation.
  • Implemented data-driven forecasting, reducing stockouts by 30% and excess inventory by 25%.
  • Optimized workflows and integrations, lowering costs by 15% and improving delivery speed by 20%.
Operations
process automation
forecasting
stakeholder communication

Telecommunications & Infrastructure Specialist

MJ Quinn · Jan 2013 - Nov 2020

United Kingdom

Delivered fibre infrastructure projects, managing procurement and coordinating large engineering teams to deliver KPI performance.

Key Achievements

  • Delivered 15+ fibre infrastructure projects, expanding broadband access to ~100,000 households and businesses with minimal disruption to end users.
  • Managed £1M+ procurement budgets per project and coordinated 250+ engineers to hit operational KPIs and maintain low failure rates.
Project delivery
procurement
team coordination
KPI management