Oliver Ng

Current

• Director at Covalence Group

Past

• IT Security Consultant at Deloitte
• Project Management & Development Lead at Research In Motion
• Research & Development at Redknee

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Education

• Queen's University

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Oliver Ng’s Summary

Oliver is an Information Security specialist with extensive experience in the field of Enterprise Risk Consulting assisting Fortune 500 Clients and public sector Clients in numerous areas of IT Security including Vulnerability management, Ethical hacking, Threat risk assessment and Application security.

He possesses a strong technical background and can effectively communicate technical terms to Business Executives and IT minded individuals alike.

Oliver has exceptional leadership abilities, attention to detail and project management skills resulting in timely and insightful Client engagement deliverables.

He has managed over 200 IT Ethical Hacking engagements in a responsible and controlled manner and successfully assisted International Clients with their IT Security concerns over the years.

Oliver Ng’s Specialties:

Provides consulting expertise in the specialized areas of:
- Application Security SDLC
- Source Code Review
- Penetration Testing
- Threat Risk Assessments
- Network level security
- Host OS security
- Wireless 802.11 security
- Payment Card Industry Audit (PCI)
- SOX Compliance

Technical expertise on:
- JAVA, J2EE, .NET, Classic ASP, C++, PHP, SQL
- MySQL, DB2, Oracle, MSSQL Server
- Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/Server 2003/2008
- Unix, Linux , Mac OSX

Oliver Ng’s Experience

• Director

  Covalence Group

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

• IT Security Consultant

  Deloitte

  (Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

  - Provided consulting services to Fortune 500 companies, successfully helped Clients internationally in developing improved security standards for their application development, network architecture and systems configurations by identifying issues from the perspective of a malicious intruder (i.e. hacker) whose intentions are to break into organizations and obtain sensitive data.

• Project Management & Development Lead

  Research In Motion

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RIMM; Wireless industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

  - Managed a major web based software distribution platform used to deliver RIM software to clients and partners worldwide.
  - Increased market outreach for software distribution, improved Partner relations with beta software program, optimized end-user experience for Blackberry software.
  - Led scoping, design and managing a team of programmers in delivering the final web product through an accelerated schedule.
  - Technology: JAVA, Struts, Websphere.

• Research & Development

  Redknee

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; RKN; Telecommunications industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  - Designed and programmed proprietary cellular SMS billing systems for major telecom providers in Canada.
  - Assisted Client with lowering costs and increasing market share for their SMS based services.
  - Technology: JAVA, C++, Nokia hardware interfaces.

Oliver Ng’s Education

• Queen's University

  B.Computing , Computer Science / Biomedical Science

Additional Information

Oliver Ng’s Interests:

latest fiction books, web2.0, mobile technologies, volunteer organizations

Oliver Ng’s Groups:

OWASP

•    Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP)
•    LION™ Worn with Pride! [Choose wisely ... ] < BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS >
•    DemoCamp
•    Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
•    Certified Information Systems Auditor
•    Queens University

Oliver Ng’s Honors:

Certifications / Credentials:
- CISSP, CISA, CPSA, Canadian Government Clearance

Presentations:
- Speaker at 2006 ISSA presentation on Voice over IP (VoIP) security.
- Speaker for Deloitte course on Web Application Security, Secure Coding,VoIP and Penetration Testing.
- Contributions to IBM AppScan eXtensions including the QuickSearch tool created for AppScan 7.0.

Oliver Ng’s Contact Settings

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