Christopher Mapes Email & Phone Number

Christopher Mapes is currently Technical Lead for the Global Technology Services Enterprise Tools team at Verizon. This team supports system administrators, application teams, and other internal IT customers with comprehensive IT Security/SOX/PCI audit and vulnerability remediation, automated tools and application deployment, server configuration compliance, provisioning, and patching for level 1 DC systems across the physical, private (VMware, Oracle Cloud) and public clouds (AWS, VMware Cloud). Chris has been a constant driver of innovation by regularly evaluating and re-evaluating 3rd party and open source tools and technologies, finding creative ways to solve new and existing problems, and filling in gaps with custom integration and development as needed. In his first 5 years alone, he realized $35 million in soft-dollar savings at Verizon through automation.Chris' role includes facilitating communication and cooperation between stakeholders at many levels. He is a team player that is regularly sought out for special projects and troubleshooting of perplexing issues. Contributions range from troubleshooting, brainstorming, and assisting in architecture to full development and integration with various tools and APIs, posting on and moderating the internal Stack Overflow site, and creating and participating in open-source projects outside of Verizon. He also writes tools to report on and remediate zero-day vulnerabilities in Verizon's enterprise-wide server footprint.Chris has over 25 years of experience in the Information Technology industry. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, with a minor in AI, and specialization in Databases, Operating Systems, and the Japanese language. He is currently working on a Masters of Cybersecurity with specialization in Information Security at Georgia Tech.Chris has a wide array of technical experience: AIX, HP-UX, Linux variants, Solaris and Windows; Python, C#/VB/ASP .NET, VBA, JavaScript, Java, PHP, VBScript, Perl, bash, C/C++; MSSQL, Oracle, Postgres, MySQL and Vertica; IIS and Apache; Server Automation, Operations Orchestration, OM/i, Marimba, CyberArk, Jenkins and Ansible; writing and consuming custom APIs both as a server and a client; Excel, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, OBR; EIAM including setting up users and roles, attesting to them, and managing synchronization between LDAP, Active Directory, etc.; AWS Security Groups, firewalls, UDP and TCP; Wireshark, Microsoft Message Analyzer and tcpdump.

Listed skills include Perl, Unix, C, Windows, and 15 others.

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  Distinguished Member Technical Staff

  Verizon

  Decatur, Ga, Us