Christopher Gallagher Email & Phone Number

Plano, Texas, US

Plano, Texas, US

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Lead/Manage the Information Security Team of security analyst with a diverse set of responsibilities
• Design and deployment of Centralized Log Collection and SIEM management encompassing all security devices, firewalls, OS, application, HTTP, and proxy logs for multiple datacenters using LogLogic, QRadar, and SPLUNK
• Design and deployment of a monitored Off-Shore access service to US based systems using Xceedium Gateway
• Developed and deployed Centralized Security Audit Documentation and policies Website.
• Piloted, Designed, and Deployed DB firewall tools from Imperva
• Perform Security Policy and Practice compliance reviews on current and new applications advising and recommending changes in architecture to comply with Verizon Security policies and practices.

• Instrumental in developing and implementing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans for the 5 main Mandalay Casinos in Las Vegas
• Designed Encrypted MS SQL clustering for player tracking system.
• Spearheaded creation of information-security departments, including Risk Assessment, Vulnerability, Penetration Testing, and Security Engineering services
• Evaluate, recommend and implement reasonable security controls and or procedures to mitigate identified network threats
• Cisco PIX Deployment and configuration.
• Setup Secure Gigabit MAN between 5 casinos on the Las Vegas strip.

• Management of SoniCast cloud based web distribution caching services, designed for content distribution and management
• Performance tuning, replication and capacity planning for multi-terabyte Network Appliance and EMC CLARiiON SAN storage solution
• Fault Tolerant SQL backend designed using MS Cluster services
• Website for content provisioning of advertising, pay-per-view, syndication, B2B video conferencing services, and digital right management
• Web-based customer monitoring and management tools
• Content tracking systems to collect end user billing information from network based on traffic sources, channels and applications

• Network and system infrastructure to deploy NT 4.0/2000-based products and multi-gigabit capable streaming data centers
• Performance tuning, replication and capacity planning for multi-terabyte EMC CLARiiON SAN storage and Network Appliance NAS solutions
• Management of ASP applications using IIS 5.0 as distributed load balancing service
• Layer 4 – 7 Web switches for Internet Traffic and Content management
• Web-based monitoring and management tools
• Real-time customer reporting services using SQL 2000 and WebLogic

• Designed, implemented and managed CheckPoint 1 Firewall and MS Exchange 5.5
• Directed the building and management of 4 30-server data collection centers nationwide
• Managed 20 node Frame-relay Cloud using Cisco routers
• Designed network infrastructure using OSPF Ring running under Windows NT (RRAS)
• Performed SAN tuning for Multi-Terabyte MS SQL databases
• Managed and maintained Alpha/Intel NT-based MS SQL databases

• Supervised network engineers, Web development, and help desk staff
• Designed and upgraded network infrastructure
• Developed, implemented and managed CheckPoint 1 Firewall
• Set up and managed remote LAN/WAN services to 6 locations
• Managed and Deployed WebHire.com Online B2B Corporate employment services system
• Set up and maintained Internet/Intranet sites with FRP and help desk services

• Configured and deployed Internet service products for Africa Online and Prodigy China
• Netscape Web and Mail services deployment
• Configured personalization serves for Africa Online customers
• Configured Dialup and ISDN remote access services for the Continent of Africa
• Setup first TUCOWS.com shareware sites in Africa and China