Christopher Payne Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Tampa, Florida, United States

Chris leads a team of client success managers specialized in managed cybersecurity services. Delievers expertise in multiple EDR & SIEM tools, including Crowdstrike, Splunk, and AI integrations, always focusing on increased growth, client retention and satisfaction rates. Maintain influence with channel and alliance partnerships across leading security industry vendors on go-to-market strategies throughout the release of Deepwatch’s Next-Gen Managed Endpoint Detection and Response service. Always functions as a cybersecurity advisor to clients, offering strategic guidance on cyber incidents and breaches by delivering time sensitive support via Deepwatch’s Advisory Tactics and Intelligence team (IR Retainer).

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Deliver fusion Managed / Security Operations Center (SOC) Services including identifying unauthorized activities and intrusions in clients' networks in real time. Primary service representative and client point of contact for Fortune 100/500 companies. Utilizes a deep understanding of the presence of malicious activity, characterization and forensic engineering of compromised systems, operations security, compliance, mitigation, and analysis through tools that detect advanced threats. Experience withincident response with the ability to assess risk given information on IOC’s and vulnerabilities.

Joint Special Operations Command | Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Executive level leader within a 10K person enterprise; Directly responsible for the execution of 12 global exercises involving 600+ personnel across partner organizations, $38M annual budget and management of cyber cloud & physical infrastructure acquisition, risk mitigation and implementation.Led development, testing & evaluation of advanced cyber exploits; Managed deployment across disparate, on- prem, and multi-cloud environments delivering over 2K exploitable events and capabilities to the customer.Senior liaison to the Pentagon and joint forces to coordinate operational deconfliction for the employment of offensive cyberspace capabilities conducting +2000 successful intelligence operations against nation state actors.

Naval Special Warfare | Virginia Beach, Virginia

Led a special collections division of 120+ cryptologic, cyber and data scientists responsible for providing support to multiple SEAL Teams deployed globally. Managed $25M+ equipment/training/technology budget to conduct special operations missions at a 40 percent cost decrease year-over-year.Combat leadership of 32-person team of technical experts with annual budget of $12M in the planning andexecution of clandestine intelligence missions; guided the team through nine foreign countries, customs procedures and contract negotiations resulting in collection of 26TB of crucial data for the U S Intelligence Community.Developed a clearly defined and compelling digital transformation for clients and international partners, leading to acquisition of advanced 2.4GHz/5GHz wireless systems and training of 75 team members on WAN/LAN network survey, data analysis, processing and technical reporting.

National Security Agency | Augusta, Ga

Led a 1100-person organization in intelligence data analytics, signals collection and intelligence reportingoperations supporting national security efforts. Expertly triaged 7 major events which were sent to the White House situation room utilizing critical time-sensitive decision-making skills.Curated 1000+ data intercepts per day employing leading-edge cloud management tools and techniques, in addition to event mitigation, prevention and prediction. Directly responsible for the impact and outcomes of National Security events. Extremely comfortable managing fast pace and high growth environments.Given performance record, asked to assess framework for defining roles resulting in top-tier teams and projects leveraged throughout the enterprise; increased qualifications on the 24/7 SOC by 40 percent.

Navai Special Warfare | Virginia Beach, Va

led special operation teams on combat missions around the globe providing highly technical targeting support. This included leveraging extensive knowledge in wireless communications (Wi-Fi, Satellite, GSM, UMTS, CDMA) and other radio frequency spectrum technologies. Indepth knowledge of cyber operations and systems engineering processes.

National Security Agency | Augusta, Georgia, United States

Conducted data analytics research and reporting against global data repositories finding THE "needle in the haystack". Discovered both large and hidden trends utilizing data science techniques. Worked on a team of 75 specialized SIGINT and Cyber professionals to report and convey time sensitive intelligence to senior leaders at the Pentagon and Whitehouse on matter of national security.

Naval Security Group Activity | Norfolk, Va

Deployed on board 3 U S Naval Combatant vessels in support of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Operated highly technical signals collection systems to gather time sensitive intelligence which assisted in combat operations. Developed extensive knowledge of the Radio Frequency Sprectum and Frequency modulation within ELF to EHF.

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Bsl, Liberal Arts And Sciences/Liberal Studies