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Chris Christian wiredforsound@gmail.com | 3312 NE Jessup, Portland,
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INFORMATION
SECURITY RISK AND AWARENESS EXPERT |
Immediate Value Offered
Creative and articulate leader: Successfully communicate complex
technical concepts while facilitating consensus between vendors, clients,
senior management/executive teams and colleagues.
Builder of custom security solutions/frameworks: Effectively balance business needs
with crucial information protection while being as flexible as possible for
future development and technological advances.
Industry leader with proven experience: Security risk management, optimizing
security assets and avoiding losses from security incidents to enhance decision-making
capabilities.
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Experience Overview |
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Five years Information Security
experience; eight years Network Engineering experience with a focus on DMZ and
Security; six years System Administrator with a focus on UNIX and Security.
Areas of Expertise: Security Architecture and Models; Policy
Development/Integration; Project Lifecycle Management; Security Awareness;
Training & Education; Security Incident Response Programs; IT Governance
and Best Practices; Custom Security Solutions Engineering; Business
Continuity/Contingency Planning; Physical Security and Access Control Systems;
Vulnerability Assessments; Audit and Compliance Management; Vendor and Client
Collaboration
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Career Progression |
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INTEL CORPORATION –
Hillsboro, OR
Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Intel Corporation is presently
the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker with 80,000
full time employees and 80,000 contractors worldwide.
Information Security Specialist, 8/2010 to Present
Overview: Specialist within
the Information Risk and Security Management (IRSM) organization; member of the
Secure Outsourcing and External Presence (SOEP) team within IRSM; Manage
cross-functional teams/working groups.
– Team lead for External Presence
policy, architecture and governance review.
– Distinguished as the corporate
expert on External Presence governance program.
– Project manager and
primary author for External Presence Information Security Policy.
– Security engagement
leader for Offshore Development Centers, Business Partners and Subsidiaries.
– Primary technical lead
for the Firewall Technical Design Review governance review and landing process.
Key Contributions:
§ Recognized
Corporate Expert, External Presence Governance Program: Creation of customer application
templates, security architecture engagements with developers, Security
Development Lifecycle management with software program managers, security
policy awareness training and technical design for a team that reviewed 900+ Internet/Intranet
application changes during 2012.
§ Security
Organizational Lead, Custom Security Solutions: Each project requires custom security
architectural engineering for unique customer, partner, vendor, merger,
acquisition or third-party joint project designs. Accountable for protecting
intellectual property, ensuring joint development is promoted and maintaining
confidentiality until the projects are publically announced.
§ External
Presence Policy Completion: Led
successful completion of Information Security Collateral Documents (and
co-authored five of the 25). Updated two Remote Connectivity Policies and
created three new Information Security Collateral Documents to better align
with current technologies and business direction.
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Company-to-Company Sharing Security: Recognized “go to guy” and Subject
Matter Expert concerning all functions associated with the management of data
sharing requests with partner companies. Partnered routinely with IT Legal on
each request and led the appropriate acceptance of sharing agreements between
departments and organizations.
INTEL CORPORATION –
Continued…
Information Security Analyst, 11/2008 to 7/2010
Overview: Information
Security Lead for Corporate Risk Information Security Policies,
Waivers/Exceptions and Security Engagement Requests.
– Oversee Information
Security Policy for the entire corporation: Policy Life Cycle Management,
Add/Modify/Change of Policy text, global organizational feedback,
regular/ad-hoc review meetings.
– Managed cross team
managerial approval: Final policy publishing and delivering notifications of
all changes to the corporate community.
Key Contributions:
§ Provided annual training, tool access
control, scheduling maintenance, hardware upgrade acquisitions and the
fulfillment of staffing needs for software upgrades in support of a tool used
for tracking all business approved temporary exceptions for Information
Security Policy.
§ Managed ticketing systems for all
Information Security Engagements for a 200+ person organization including
routing and assigning engagements to the correct sub-teams, rerouting misrouted
tickets, updating/realigning service queues after business unit reorganization
and a ticketing tool upgrade — in addition to reporting ticket throughput
metrics to management.
Network Security Engineer, 4/2000 to 10/2008
Overview: Network Operations
Lead for Enterprise Application & Utility DMZ, Enclave & Trusted Zone
architecture. Led projects including architecting and securing multi-tier
technology for External Presence applications.
Key Contributions:
§ Network Engineer contributing to
multi-layered network segmentation designs for secure Internet accessible
application deployments.
§ Frequent attendee of security
conventions such as DefCon, ToorCon, CanSecWest and Chaos Communication
Congress to keep current with the most recent technology vulnerabilities.
UNIX Security Engineer, 6/1996 to 4/2000
Overview: Operations Lead
for complex computing infrastructure of interconnected UNIX workstations and
file servers.
Key Contributions:
§ Development support for world’s first
Teraflop super computer, ASCII Red, which debuted on December 11, 1996.
§ Deployed common workstation builds,
with extensive patch management, data backup and recovery.
§ Built, maintained and managed common
tools suites utilized across multiple platforms with version controls.
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Education & Training |
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PURDUE UNIVERSITY – West
Lafayette, IN
Bachelor of Science: Management Information Systems, 5/1996
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Comic Collector, Tech Security Nincompoop, Stencil Documentarian, Whiskey
Aficionado, Corporate Slave. :) Open to Relocation | Willing to
Travel: Up to 25% |