I’m Clinton. I work as Head of Operational Technology at Scott Total Security, an asset protection firm based in Gloucestershire. We protect people and hard assets, and CCTV and access control are a big part of how we do it. I’ve spent about a decade in the UK security services industry, starting out as an IT Technician and working my way up through operations into the technical leadership side.
My job sits in the gap between the people out on installations and the people running the business. I’m rarely the person actually mounting a camera, but I’ve always had a hand in the infrastructure underneath — network equipment, servers, workstations, and the systems that tie it all together. Day to day that means things like network architecture for larger deployments, VMS troubleshooting when a vendor’s software does something unreasonable, integrating access control with the rest of the estate, and building internal tooling so the team isn’t doing everything by hand in Word.
Outside work I’m interested in the areas where security technology is starting to intersect with machine learning — things like anomaly detection in CCTV feeds, and retrieval-augmented generation for internal technical documentation. I build my own workstations, run a small home lab, and am currently poking at Rust-based AI agent frameworks to see what they can actually do.
I write here when I learn something worth writing down. Most of it will be technical. Some of it will be about motorbikes, or travel, or whatever else is on my mind. The two don’t really need separating.
If you’re working on something interesting and think I might be useful, the contact page has the details.