Christopher Prewitt Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Westlake, Ohio, Us

I’m working to help build out new security services and products for our customers, to help improve security strategies and outcomes.

Identifying new market opportunities, building new services, and helping to improve solutions portfolio.

Boston, Ma, Us

Sharing insights on cybersecurity with ForbesTechnology Council, an invitation-only organization for successful senior-level technology executives.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Member of the IT Advisory Committee to Cuyahoga Community College. Also a member of the Cybersecurity Subcommittee.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

★ Spearheads and supports client strategy development and solution architecture while performing maturity, privacy, and other assessments for clients. ★ Delivers consulting services and administers the complexity and sustainability of technology while empowering employee performance and reducing business risk.

New York, Ny, Us

★ Reported to Senior Management, Risk Management, Internal and External Audit, and Compliance functions while overseeing financial management, staff management, and policy development. ★ Devised a program to align with ISO27001, supporting regulatory compliance to General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), NY DFS Cybersecurity Framework, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), and other regulations.

Strongsville, Oh, Us

Fairlawn, Oh, Us

★ Established the advisory practice, including governance, risk, compliance, payment card industry (PCI), and Office of CSO services in addition to identifying process improvement activities in sales cycle, engagement processes, and project management efforts.★ Assisted in formulating a new marketing strategy to improve online presence and social media strategy while optimizing service messaging and branding.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

★ Served as the Director of Enterprise Security and held overall responsibility for the Global IT Security program, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, financial audits of IT systems, and disaster recovery program.★ Acted as a member of the IT Governance Committee to discuss risks, compliance issues, and other IT strategy initiatives while providing leadership on IT risks that could potentially impact business operations (as a member of the Corporate Risk Council).★ Examined and updated corporate policies, including social media and IT acquisition policies, regularly attended security conferences and meetings with the FBI, supported the team with role audit reviews, and streamlined the role audit process.★ Formulated and implemented an external IT services program to reduce risk when moving to cloud services, instituting the basis for the Vendor Risk Management Program.★ Coordinated the development of an incident response program and a breach response/management program while directing the design and implementation of a global SIEM system for log correlation and event notification.★ Created needs analysis for an Identity Management solution and developed ROI and a business case for the purchase and implementation of IDM.★ Redesigned the edge network and globally implemented the next-generation firewall architecture while leading the design and execution of a new web filtering system consisting of real-time threat prevention.★ Conducted a global security review with external consulting companies, providing security status and recommendations while instituting performance metrics requirements to determine the baseline effectiveness of a security program.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

★ Administered enterprise infrastructure security, Data Center Operations, Global Disaster Recovery, network/wireless/Intel systems, Windows servers, Active Directory, VMWare, backups/recovery, Linux/UNIX systems, and system monitoring/reporting.★ Managed hardware refreshes, including the VMware platform/enterprise storage, while directing network redesign, upgrade, and campus wiring upgrades, including a migration to the Cisco Nexus platform as the core switching technology in the data center. ★ Instituted performance metrics requirements to determine the effectiveness of infrastructure and identify problems and future planning and resource exhaustion.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Manager of infrastructure team. Responsibilities include local and wide area networks, network security, storage, intel (VMware and Windows), UNIX, Linux, backup/restore, database administration, datacenter operations, and Global Disaster Recovery.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

★ Oversaw enterprise applications, including SAP BASIS, Oracle database environment, UNIX, storage, system monitoring, system and application backups, Lotus Notes collaboration environment, Blackberry server environment, and data center operations.★ Led the Oracle 9i to 10i database upgrade on all enterprise systems, including SAP and SAP bolt-ons, while project managing the Lotus Domino Notes 8 upgrade, including client rollout.★ Spearheaded multiple technical SAP module upgrades, including HR, BI (BW), PI (XI), and CRM, while coordinating SAP R/3 system changes to prepare for R/3 Core Upgrade to ECC 6.0 and orchestrating the Tivoli Director upgrade.

Valley City, Ohio, Us

★ Managed technical infrastructure with overall responsibility for data/VoIP network, server systems, and data security architecture for a 40 site/4000 node international outdoor power equipment manufacturer.★ Directed the enterprise data center's day-to-day operations and 10 full-time technical professionals with diverse IT backgrounds at multiple locations.★ Executed, coordinated, and successfully completed a two-year project to bring the enterprise to industry-standard and best-practice compliance for operations and information security.★ Developed and implemented a new enterprise data network topology based on Cisco technologies while supporting the infrastructure for Oracle RAC/Dataguard Databases and Oracle applications on Intel/Linux platforms.★ Assisted in designing, planning, and sizing the new IBM pSeries/AIX environment for Oracle 10i using both RAC and Dataguard for high availability and failover.★ Designed and executed the Internet firewall, DMZ, and Fractional DS3 connectivity to increase internet web presence performance and security issues.★ Created disaster recovery and business continuity processes to ensure system uptime and continued business operations while reducing or eliminating single points of failure in network/systems design.★ Planned and oversaw the migration of Corporate Data Center facility to a new configuration while designing and implementing SONET technologies to provide redundant network paths from corporate Data Center to DR “hot site” facility.

Solon, Ohio, Us

★ Headed an infrastructure overhaul using VARs and technology leases that include EMC Storage, Brocade San Switches, Sun Solaris systems, Cisco gigabit backbone, IBM xSeries systems, and Blade Chassis.★ Administered the LAN/WAN security and corporate VPN remote access while migrating PIX firewall systems to current release and feature set and streamlining a firewall ruleset to enhance firewall performance and reduce log size.★ Architected the firewall and DMZ design for internally hosted web services, including a customer portal, while managing Network Architecture redesign and implementation of VLAN architecture.★ Selected and executed a comprehensive monitoring, alert, and reporting solution, helping the infrastructure group proactively manage Oracle, Sun Solaris, Peoplesoft, MS Exchange, MS Windows 2000, BEA Weblogic, and network environments.★ Oversaw the upgrade for Active Directory, including the design and implementation of group policies to secure workstations and servers, significantly reducing the call volume and ticket volume of the Help Desk. ★ Upgraded server systems to new servers with Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 servers, designed and managed a desktop standardization project for the entire enterprise, and coordinated Desktop Support and internal Help Desk staff.★ Led server consolidation projects, including Blade center and Virtual Computing environment, while directing the cluster design and implementation for Windows environment for mission-critical servers.

Provided enterprise network design and engineering services to various organizations throughout Northeast Ohio. Provided design, implementation, and post-implementation support for a variety of network and server technologies. Configured and installed firewalls, network equipment, and servers.

Windows NT Network Administrator. Novell Netware Administrator. Checkpoint Firewall-1/ Watchguard Firewall Administrator. File, Print, and Messaging Services. Lotus Notes Administrator. Help Desk: Operating System and Application Troubleshooting for 275 users.

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Windows NT Network Administrator. Novell Netware Administrator. Checkpoint Firewall-1/ Watchguard Firewall Administrator. File, Print, and Messaging Services. Lotus Notes Administrator. Help Desk: Operating System and Application Troubleshooting for 275 users.

Mba, Finance

Bba, Information Systems

As, Pre-Engineering