Christopher H. Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Responsible for maintaining and improving the security posture of AIG by leading a highly technical team that conducts security assurance operations, validates the effectiveness of security controls and configurations, and performs security research and testing by simulating cyber adversary behavior. This role provides guidance, strategic direction, and drives accountability of risk-based information security testing and assurance across global business and technology teams in an increasingly complex environment.This role collaborates with security leaders, security teams, infrastructure services, business CIOs, compliance/regulatory teams, and business partners combining strategy, leadership, planning, with clear communication to develop assessment plans and track execution.Maintains an understanding of what is going on in the business and specific dynamics that drive trends and decision both internally and externally as it relates to security, risk reduction and the value proposition. Ensures security is relevant while working to streamline communication and provide process improvement through automation.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Responsible for the management of teams of Information Security Engineers who perform information security assessments and penetration testing of Line of Business applications.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Assigned as and performed duties (consulting, reviews, etc.) of Security Architect for Wells Fargo DCG line of business.Reviewed, refined, created, and approved architecture designs with Digital Channels Technology Application Architecture team.Maintained and analyzed alerts from Web Application Firewalls.Provided subject matter expertise to create and maintain security policies, standards, and baselines.Participated in enterprise level design decisions by teaming with Enterprise Information Security architects at Wells Fargo.Partnered with and provided guidance to Digital Channels Group Security Consultants for application/system reviews. Researched security vulnerabilities and worked with cross-functional teams to develop mitigation strategies.Created and delivered presentations of complex security topics to diverse audiences. Responsible for incident management analysis and response for application layer attacks.Participated in projects to overhaul the design of the major fraud and security components for the Wells Fargo Internet/Mobile channel. Designed system to identify and share fraud data between channels.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Assigned as and performed duties (consulting, reviews, etc.) of primary Security Architect for Wachovia eCommerce line of business.Designed many repeatable information security solutions for Wachovia eCommerce.Assisted Wachovia eCommerce to create Security Strategy and roadmap.Helped to create First Union Corporate Information Security ethical hacking program.Refined application review process within First Union Corporate Information Security by creating Security Questionnaire.Mentored new team members and members of other teams within Wachovia Corporate Information Security.Provided subject matter expertise to create and maintain security policies, standards, and baselines.Provided subject matter expertise to review and create Enterprise Architecture Standards and Patterns.Experience responding to Audit findings.Provided security consulting to the External Threats and Solutions team to identify and prevent fraud and malware.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Designed, coded, and implemented the “Cyberbanking” Online Banking application. This application allowed customers to perform several account inquiry functions as well as some account maintenance functions and money movement functions over the World Wide Web.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Designed, coded, implemented, and maintained the “Account Information Machine” (AIM). This kiosk allowed customers to perform several account inquiry functions as well as some account maintenance and money movement functions in more convenient locations and was designed to reduce the time of both the customer and the branch employee in performing these tasks. My responsibilities included both client and server tasks.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Designed, coded, implemented, and maintained programs for both the Retail Platform and Branch Automation systems. The Retail Platform System was the vehicle for branch entry of most new accounts and for a wide range of account maintenance. The Branch Automation System provided online inquiry to both monetary and non-monetary information on many different kinds of accounts.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

Developed functional specifications, technical specifications, code, and test plans for the Branch Automation system. This client/server system ran in 300 branches in 4 states with interfaces to 10 mainframe systems.