Filipe Alves

OT Cyber senior consultant | ISA/IEC 62443 Expert

Salary / Daily rate

Martigues, France

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

Cybersecurity

Languages

French (Native)EnglishPortugueseSpanish

About me

Intro

OT/IT Cyber senior consultant with experiences various industrial sector: Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Maritime, Energy, transports and luxury, banking... I support organisations to align their cybersecurity against standards (ISA IEC 62443, NIST), regulations, group standards & policies by assessing their maturity (risk assessment, gap assessment, audit, survey, readiness assessment), define roadmap, and conduct projects.

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Work experience

Readiness assessment to onboard OT sensors & decrease SOC false- positive alerts

Wine & SpiritFreelance

Sep 2025 - Present

1 year 2 months

Marseille, France

- Analyse documentation of Client 7 most critical plants - Lead interviews: Plants (OT network engineers, SME), Rockwell (main automation contractor), OT experts from HQ - Deliverable issuance: identify OT Use-cases to help focusing monitoring on critical & process integrity alerts, assess impact of OT Sensors placement, recommendation to add visibility on critical assets, identify additional sources to enrich logs, provide high level recommendation on LAN & Wi-Fi solutions, and a continuous improvement plan. - Reporting

Senior Cyber Analyst

Bureau Veritas | Marine & Offshore

Dec 2024 - Jul 2025

8 months

- Certification activities: Vendor documentation review for the UR E27 certification (IEC 62443-3-3 and subset of 4-1 requirements), supporting client with workshops & clarifications - Pre-sales activities: introduction of UR E27 & E26 standards (certification process, technical requirements), workload effort quotation - Training: delivered trainings to BV Surveyors, support during inspections - Definition of new series of requirements for the new Notation "Cyber Secure", developed for more demanding clients/vessels

OT Cyber senior consultant

Kudelski Security

Jan 2024 - Dec 2024

1 year

Cyber risk assessment (based on 6244-3-3, NIST CSF, Switzerland ICT minimum standard, ...) Readiness assessments to onboard MDR Claroty, Nozomi solutions. Cyber-Physical plant audit (based on 62443-2-1, 3-3 standards, vulnerability report, critical asset survey, interviews, threat modelling workshops). GRC development of OT policies & standards. Business development: pre-sales activities inc. client interviews, proposals writing, service offer development as 62443-3-3 system assessment, cyber-physical plant survey.

OT Cyber Security Consultant

Bureau Veritas Group

Sep 2023 - Jan 2024

5 months

13700 Marignane, France

Pre-sales support; Product assessment against 62443-4-1 and 4-2 standards; Webinar on 62443 standards.

Telecom Eng. - EACOP Pipeline Oil project (freelance)

EKIUM

Mar 2022 - Mar 2023

1 year 1 month

Marseille, France

In charge of the detailed enginneering including: coastal suveilance system (50m height mast, RADAR S-Band & X-Band, AIS, RACON, longwave infrared camera (LWIR)), master clock, Wi-Fi Wireless (Cisco Catalyst 9800 controllers, 200 Access Points). Issuance of deliverables: system specification (spec, HLD), block diagram, power & heat dissipation budget, FAT procedure, BOM, equipment list, datasheet, manuals, review & approval of installation & interconnection drawings...

Managing 10p - Eng. & Roll-out a secured supervision tool for French Nuclear plants (freelance)

MIOSFreelance

Jul 2021 - Mar 2022

9 months

Marseille, France

Project Director (freelance)

AxiansFreelance

Jul 2019 - Oct 2021

2 years 4 months

Marseille Area, France

Lead all projects of the major account CMA-CGM: > Answer RfP to update 43 sites in EMEA regions on ToIP Cisco CUCM (from legacy outdated version to newest one) > Projects : lead the roll-out of Cisco Meraki access switches for the HQ; Lead the roll-out of the 43 ToIP EMEA sites & HQ to Cisco CallManager v11.5; Lead deployment of new OOB solution for both Data Centers

IT Cyber consultant (freelance)

DEPARTEMENT DES BOUCHES DU RHONEFreelance

May 2018 - Jul 2019

1 year 3 months

Marseille Area, France

Projet DMZ > INITIALISATION PROJET Budget primitif & définitif 600K€, collecte des besoins (interviews, schéma directeur) et cadrage, analyse des impacts réglementaires (RGS, ANSSI, PGSSI-Santé) et interne (RSSI, PGSSI), plan projet (allotissement, planning, organisation), soutenance en CODIR, rédaction du marché et commandes > PILOTAGE PROJET - lot "Audit de conf." : déf du périmètre (équipements externes Palo Alto PA-4020, Juniper ISG1000, Switchs HPE, CentOS, Bind DNS, routeurs BGP Cisco ASR1002, Netscaler MPX, F5), consultation, approbation des livrables avec le référant, restitution, analyse de risque des vulnérabilités (méthodo RGS et interne PGSSI/EBIOS v2). - lots "Maquette" et "Déploiement" : pilotage projet PILOTAGE des Changements MCS/MCO Cleaning des règles de FW, migration NTP, upgrade Netscaler MPX, renouvellement Palo Alto 4020, WoL pour SCCM/Windows 10, ... Projet WIFI Budget primitif, consultation constructeurs et définition des besoins (Guest Access, densification/évènementiel, géolocalisation, alternative au filaire)

Technip

Feb 2015 - Oct 2017

2 years 9 months

Lead Telecom engineer (contractor) on Yamal LNG project (freelance)

Aug 2016 - Oct 2017

1 year 3 months

- Team Management of 5 senior specialists - Telecom contract budget 90M€ (22 packages) - Customer relation management (Russian) - Coordination of eng. in 2 Operating Centers (Japaneses), other disciplines (Proc, expediting, purchasing, HVAC, instrum, elec, certif...), construction field & yards - Challenge, Monitor, plan activities of THALES Subcontractors (France, Spain, Russia) - Detail design engineering (Fibre Optic, Structured Cabling, ToIP, LAN, cabinets, TETRA UHF, PAGA, Siren, CCTV, ACS, etc...), overall support for the 22 packages, FAT attendance - Coordination of claims and re-purchasing

Telecom engineer (contractor) on YAMAL LNG project (freelance)

Feb 2015 - Aug 2016

1 year 7 months

Paris Area, France

- Detailed engineering (Structured Cabling, IP Tel, Data, WiFi, FW, data room, entertainment, Visio-Conf, IP-DECT, cabinets, IT Servers, FO, sirens) of > 300 docs (functional spec, block diagram, datasheets, location layouts, earthing & elec diagrams, cabinet cooling/arrangement, installation manuals, power consumption, PreCom/Com sheets, FAT procedures…) - Technical deviations validation - FATs, inspections attendance - Offer review - KOM & workshops with Client & Subcontractor

Telecom engineering - EPC contract for a pipeline / Nigeria (freelance)

SPIE Oil & Gas ServicesFreelance

Dec 2012 - Mar 2015

2 years 4 months

Paris Area, France

Engineering of ToIP / Data network / FO.SCN and ACS systems including the following tasks... General documentation: Telecom Philosophy, Interface and General Block Diagram documents. Basic Engineering documentation: Cisco DATA & ToIP system and FO.SCN. Detailed Engineering of Cisco DATA & ToIP, FO.SCN: Technical Specifications, Block diagram, Equipment List, Power Distribution diagram, Interconnection & Termination diagram, Jumpering specification, Cable Schedule, Datasheet, Operation & Manual documents. FAT procedure, Precommissioning / Commissioning and SAT procedures Technical approval of VENDOR quotations for this systems. Follow-up VENDOR progress and inspection until FAT. Supervision and Correction of VENDOR deliverables.

TEM (Telecom Expense Management) & bid analysis (freelance)

SNCF

Jul 2012 - Dec 2012

6 months

Paris Area, France


Education

ESIEE MLV

Engineer's degree

1997 - 2000

4 years

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