Christopher Ford, Mba, Cissp Email & Phone Number

Tomball, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Mentorship and management of CenterPoint Energy's 24x7x365 cyber security operations center. Activities include:* Threat intelligence and collaboration with government entities and energy sector partners (TSA, DOE, FBI, DHS, CISA, E-ISAC, CRISP, AGA)* Cyber incident response lead for both internal incident management and third-party engagements* Digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) management for cyber incidents and HR/legal cases* Talent development for CSOC Analysts* Threat and Vulnerability management, patching triage and penetration testing

Houston, Texas, Us

* Incident commander of CIRT (cyber incident response team), authored policy and procedure for cyber incident response* Lead and mentored 24x7 security operations team in areas of threat monitoring, detection and response* Performed security risk assessments using NIST 800-30 based model, including vulnerability identification and corrective control creation, implementation and auditing including SOC 2 report auditing* Directed implementation of IT security controls resulting from risk assessment findingsToolset included:* Proofpoint email gateway (including Advanced Threat Protection and Threat Response modules)* McAfee ePO v4.6 and v5.3 (DLP, HIPS, Virus Scan)* Splunk Cloud* Cylance endpoint protection* Qualys vulnerability scanner* Windows and *nix shell scripting, SQL, data analyticsKey accomplishments:* Configured and deployed Cylance endpoint protection for 20K endpoints resulting in lower admin overhead and improved endpoint security posture* Proofpoint Engineering – lead implementation of Proofpoint email gateway including Advanced Threat Protect and Threat Response resulting in the elimination of ransomware events in enterprise and net gain 1.5 FTEs* Transformed SecOps team using a disciplined ITIL-based approach to alert triage, communication and incident response

Houston, Texas, Us

Principal technical architect and manager of Enterprise Architecture practice. Secure design and engineering in areas of infrastructure, databases, business intelligence and networks. Translated business processes and technical requirements into enterprise solutions. Led cross-functional teams in evaluating applications' fitness for purpose and maintainability within current environment .Extensive experience with TOGAF, ITIL and COBIT.Key accomplishments:* Designed large-scale enterprise infrastructure architectures in the areas of messaging and collaboration, materials management and project controls* Performed strategic infrastructure planning and maintained 5-year roadmap of business applications* Created business-focused reference architectures to minimize overhead costs and time to deliver * Re-chartered EA group to focus on business outcomes and speed of service delivery

Houston, Texas, Us

Key decision maker and leader of global infrastructure and network operations group. Supervised 24x7 operations of an 130 node MPLS cloud with locations in 19 countries, data centers, server infrastructure, SQL and Oracle databases, document imaging and global VOIP systems. Created and championed disaster recovery program, vendor relations, and department-wide SOX audits and control implementation. Direct supervision of 30+ IT professionals.Key accomplishments:* Transformed department from reactive resource monitoring to proactive availability management via use of ITIL principles* Implemented infrastructure incident management process including formalizing incident reporting, communications and escalation procedures* Reduced unplanned outages by implementing company-wide infrastructure change management process* Managed multi-million dollar budgets

Houston, Texas, Us

* Principal DBA and manager of six Oracle and SQL Server admins* Performed secure code review for SQL Server TSQL and Oracle PL/SQL to mitigate security risks* Implemented SOX security controls for in-scope systems* Subject matter expert in DB tuning and performance optimization* Standardized code promotion process resulting in decreased downtime due to app dev rework* Oracle PL/SQL and SQL Server T/SQL programming

Houston, Texas, Us

* Identity and access management for Oracle ERP 11i - creating access roles, custom menu permissions, and rights management* Security incident investigation regarding access roles and responsibilities* Threat and vulnerability management for Windows and IBM AIX / Linux database environments* Backup and recovery, performance tuning, database design, monitoring and troubleshooting of 100+ Oracle and SQL Server database instances and 25 concurrent Oracle ERP 11i environments totaling 56 TB total database size* Oracle PL/SQL and SQL Server T/SQL programming* Extensive Redhat Linux and IBM AIX shell scripting to automate maintenance and monitoring tasks* Developed and administered payroll & AP check printing system handling 200,000 items and $80 million per month of volumeTool set included:* Identity and access management for Oracle Financials* Linux, AIX shell scripting* Oracle PL/SQL programming* T-SQL - stored procedures, triggers, SQL integration services* Windows scripting and automation* Formscape

* Chief technical architect in charge of all phases of the secure software design lifecycle* Led app dev team consisting of eight software engineers and Oracle database admins* Defined project milestones and software release schedules* Designed secure Oracle-based client-server solutions using role-based security, and data segregation at DB level* Responsible for defining and mitigating project risks* Managed software regression test planning, unit testing and user acceptance testing

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Oracle and SQL Server backup and recovery, security and performance tuning. Data warehouse design and implementation and ETL authoringThreat and Vulnerably management of in-scope systems specific to highly sensitive dataData Security: Encryption, permissions and user management, access controlsDesigned extract/transform/load (ETL) data migration processes between SQL Server v6.5 and Oracle 8iCustom application development with Visual Basic v5.0

Middleware application development with C/C++, Visual Basic and Microsoft SQL Server. Extensive experience with all phases of the software development life cycle.

Mba, Information Systems, Management

Bs, Computer Science