15+ years of experience in information security, IT infrastructure & development. MBA with CISSP, MCSE, ITIL and ScrumMaster certifications. NACLC security clearance pending.
Senior IT Architecture Analyst, Information Risk Management & Security Operations @ From September 2015 to Present (2 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaSenior Security Engineer @ - Worked with technical teams, business units and external law enforcement to resolve security issues
- Provided guidance and oversight in assessing the security infrastructure, network and systems design to ensure system/network security
- Researched, advocated and implemented new technologies, architectures and solutions for Allina Health’s information systems
- Performed risk assessment and analysis of Allina Health information systems; wrote policies and procedures; assisted with unauthorized disclosure, use and access investigations
- Project leader for Archer GRC deployment & privacy and security audit with a national legal firm
- Experience using Symantec DLP, Splunk, Nagios, Tenable SecurityCenter, Nessus, ServiceNow & Cisco IronPort From December 2014 to August 2015 (9 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaProject Manager, Security and Compliance @ - Projects completed include Windows 7 IPSec implementation, administrator account management within Active Directory, endpoint network access control, Oracle and SQL database privileged-access monitoring agents, RSA NetWitness implementation and SIEM integration (ArcSight & Splunk)
- Audit compliance in accordance with PCI, HIPAA, GLBA and SOX standards
- Provided financial analysis and capital planning per project
- Leader for internal gaming network at Target: played an active role in outreach, community engagement, recruiting, advertisement, event planning and business partner management From April 2013 to December 2014 (1 year 9 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaSoftware Project Manager @ - Completed over 20 projects in 5 months, utilizing .Net, PHP, iOS, Android, Java & Drupal, to create websites viewable on Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox and mobile devices (iOS & Android). Managed software development teams of 2-10 people for each project.
- Overall project performance was >90% on budget or under budget and >95% on time. Accomplished via strict adherence to scope, time and cost, early identification of risk & open and frequent communication.
- Managed 4-8 projects in parallel with multi-million dollar budgets for Fortune 100 clients.
- Consistently scored high on customer satisfaction surveys (Average score 4 out of 5) From September 2012 to January 2013 (5 months) Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul AreaDirector of Network Services @ - Planned, purchased, installed, configured and administered all of the hardware & software required to secure the network. Advised and guided senior level management on department planning, I.T. policies and procedures
- Monitoring and tuning of IPS/IDS systems: Wrote scripts and did command-line level work in Cisco IOS and in Linux via iptables, monitoring using Snort and Wireshark, setup event logging, did e-discovery work for legal & experience with incident management
- Owned Association’s HIPAA, PCI and data security/privacy compliance; performed frequent audits of the entire I.T. infrastructure
- Administered servers, workstations & network equipment, managed day-to-day I.T. activities, resolved issues and completed as-needed maintenance and upgrades
- Experience implementing & supporting VMWare ESX, Ubuntu Linux DNS servers, Microsoft Exchange, Python scripting, AD/Group Policy & OpenSSH servers From April 2001 to August 2012 (11 years 5 months) Saint Paul, MNLead Server Support Engineer @ - Hired as Desktop Support, promoted twice to Server Support, then to Lead Server Support Engineer
- Demonstrated proficiency diagnosing problems with desktop, laptop and server systems, management of staff and resolution of escalated customer issues, which resulted in repeated promotions
- Creation of step-by-step, detailed training documentation for installation of multiple server operating systems on each of the 10+ server platforms we sold, with the final versions being posted publicly on our website From September 1997 to May 2001 (3 years 9 months) Roseville, MN
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) @ University of St. Thomas - Opus College of Business From 2009 to 2012 Bachelor of Science, Information Technology @ Saint Mary's University of Minnesota From 2007 to 2009 Chris B. is skilled in: Network Security, IT Management, Healthcare Information...