TANIN EHRAMI

Strategic Advisor

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Ask me about:

  • Agile Enterprise Architecture
  • Enterprise Governance
  • Digital Enterprise Operating Models
  • Cyberpsychology
  • Cognitive Cybersecurity
  • Governance, Risk & Compliance
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Location: The Netherlands
Phone: +31(0)6-46328914

  • Out-of-the-box
  • Active Listener
  • High Level Perspective
  • Creative
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Future Oriented
  • Curios
  • Coaching

My career has spanned over 2 decades of development, analysis, architecture, management, financial services and risk management experience with global organisations.

I founded Psyber in 2020 to consult with global professional services firms, governing bodies, brands, private equity investors, and risk and compliance professionals seeking guidance and insights on emerging risks and innovations, the impact of cognitive security challenges on business and society, AI ethics, digital transformations, agile governance and innovative digital enterprise architecture practices.

Services

Skills & Competencies

Languages

🇳🇱 Dutch​
Native / Bilingual Proficiency
🇬🇧 English​
Native / Bilingual Proficiency
🇩🇪 German
Professional Proficiency
🇫🇷 French
Elementary Proficiency

Experience

Tanin Ehrami experience

Roots & Routes

1994
Fractal inception
1994
Fractal inception

I teach myself how to code in BASIC in my bedroom on a old Spectravideo, building games, mandelbrot set simulations and 3D wireframe worlds.
1997
Trying something different
1997
Trying something different

Unaware of being neurodivergent, school is becoming increasingly challenging. I begin self learning and continuous learning instead.

1998
Genesis
1998
Genesis

Diamond Soft

Internship

Novel NetWare Systems administration / games testing.

Diamond Soft was a relatively small software distribution business where I learned the basics about product lifecycle management, support, systems management, software development practices, sales and marketing.

1998
The Oracle of Delphi
1998
The Oracle of Delphi

A.D.E.

Delphi DMS Developer

A.D.E. is where I learned object oriented programming in Borland Delphi, while building SQL classes and libraries, and defining the UI style for a document management system running on Oracle and used by a major Dutch energy provider.

1999
Frontier
1999
Frontier

I decide to move to Frankfurt, Germany.

1999 - 2005
Going places
1999 - 2005
Going places

SIEMENS AG

Sectors: Global, Conglomerate, Rail, Civil Engineering, Technology, Industrial Automation

Plan Manager

Plan Manager for the Cologne-Rhine/Main line (Neubaustrecke (NBS) Köln-Rhein/Main) high speed rail project.

(Cybersecurity) Developer

Developed and deployed a custom print service for industrial plotters.

Developed and deployed solutions and services for Step7 & SiMatic field engineers. 

Developed and deployed a security policy monitoring, visualisation and reporting tool.

Discovered and published vulnerabilities and exploits in Enterprise software.

Technology Consultant

Managing the technical merger of Demag with Siemens in the UK.

2001
Y XOR 32?
2001
Y XOR 32?

As a challenge to myself, within 48 hours, I manually reverse engineer a session security encryption algorithm used by a popular web content management platform and prove hundreds of websites used by a major record label vulnerable to hacking.

2002
Low key high profile
2002
Low key high profile

I discover and publish a major cybersecurity vulnerability in Citrix Metaframe and Microsoft Windows NT Server.
1999 - 2005
The abyss
1999 - 2005
The abyss

My nights are spent doing deep dives into evolutionary biology, physics, philosophy and web development. I build MagnaBlog, a security hardened Web Content Management System, complete with plugin capability, templating engine, URL shortening, image processing and sophisticated analytics, running my website.
2005
Delta-v
2005
Delta-v

I return to the Netherlands and notice many fascinating changes to the culture. The power information has over people becomes palpably clear. My autism seems to provide unique advantages. 

2005
Sabbatical
2005
Sabbatical

The world seems to grow larger and smaller at the same time.
2006
Mutually assured construction
2006
Mutually assured construction

The brilliant folks at Michael Bailey Associates connect me with IBM.
2006 - 2007
Mastering destiny
2006 - 2007
Mastering destiny

IBM

Developer

Contracted with IBM's Global Technology Services, building technology infrastructure for Delta Lloyd and deploying a new version of SAS.
2007
2007

The highly professional folks at Sapphire Technologies connect me to the Ministry of Defence.
2007
Virtually proven
2007
Virtually proven

Ministry of Defence

Technical Infrastructure Architect

[Confidential]

2008
2008

Capgemini via FourTop
2008 - 2015
Network Connection
2008 - 2015
Network Connection

Capgemini

Sectors: Consulting, Government, Education, Energy, Security, Legal, Commerce, Finance Notable roles & Projects:

Enterprise Architect

Canon - Developing global Tridion Disaster Recovery processes and systems.

Project Manager

First Data - Infrastructure migration Heineken International - HEINET2 Media-Saturn - Project VEGA

Solution Architect

Capgemini Retail Solutions -IAM Design Horizon College - Server Based Computing Raad voor Rechtsbijstand - SBC & Mail Rijksgebouwendienst - SBC 

Senior Consultant

Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) - Security Architecture Rijkswaterstaat (RWS), Licensing
2012
Worlds Within Worlds
2012
Worlds Within Worlds

Researching the physics and impact of information on cognitive systems in complex social networks. using biological evolution as a model.

2012 - 2013
Nomad
2012 - 2013
Nomad

Vega

Commuted between Amsterdam, Dusseldorf and Munich by train and by air every week for a year.
2015
You are the dreamer and the dream
2015
You are the dreamer and the dream

Wolters Kluwer

Global Operations Manager

2015
The Event
2015
The Event

Researching the psychological impact and applications of Artificial Intelligence in Global Governance systems. Exploring the cyberpsychology effects of AI/ML algorithms on global social networks.

2016
Quantum Entanglement
2016
Quantum Entanglement

Aranea

Senior Advisor Enterprise Architecture

2016
Change From Within
2016
Change From Within

OMRON

Information Architect

2017
Silently Screening
2017
Silently Screening

DLL

Lead Platform Architect

Working with stakeholders across Europe to develop the information and integration architecture of a European AML/CFT platform for a financial services provider. KYC, CDD, GDPR, Compliance, sanctioning, SAS.
2017
Nightwatch
2017
Nightwatch

My research is yielding an increasingly wider perspective on the interconnected intersection of Cybersecurity, Cyberpsychology and Cognitive Science.

2018
Refined Brew
2018
Refined Brew

Heineken International

Sectors: Global brands, Food & Beverages

Enterprise Architecture Governance Officer

Developed and deployed the Agile Enterprise Architecture Governance Framework, raising Heineken International’s global Enterprise Architecture practices and governance structures to a higher level. Fostered new Ways of Working and Agile communities. Coached stakeholders in Scrum and Agile practices. Conducted workshops on Enterprise Architecture Agility for managers and architects. Collaborated with teams in developing Emergent Design practices.

2019
Nubecula Minor
2019
Nubecula Minor

Weolcan

Managing Consultant Cloud Transformations

2020 - NOW
2020 - NOW

PSYBER

Founder

Leveraging decades of industry experience and research into cyberpsychology and cognitive security to deliver pioneering governance and cybersecurity services.

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Certification

Scrum.org Credential ID 221564

APMG Credential ID AG/NLP****960 

The Open Group Credential ID 47053

PSYBER Credential ID 000001B

PSYBER Credential ID 000002A

Education

MBI – Information Technology

Drenthe College, 1998

Continuous Learning

  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Cognitive Science
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Evolutionary Memetics
  • Machine Learning
  • Greek Philosophy
  • Applied Mythology
  • AI Ethics
  • Cyberpsychology
  • Theoretical Physics
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
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