Chris Scalise Email & Phone Number

Carnegie, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• Serve as the main contact for cybersecurity related activities and responsible for ensuring PennEnergy’s security posture meets the demand of a growing landscape. Responsible for implementation of global security policy, standards, guidelines, and procedures for PennEnergy. Work with employees, clients, and executives to implement technology solutions and processes to identify, analyze, manage, mitigate, and remediate security risk.• Document, investigate, and report on cybersecurity risks, concerns, and incidents allowing opportunities to be identified so business can decide on risk appetite. • Created and lead the change advisory board to coordinate and communicate effective and secure change management. Created awareness throughout the business of IT activities reducing frustration and a reduction of on-demand changes that was causing a reduction of work productivity throughout the enterprise.

Monroeville, Pa, Us

• Led a team of 12 individuals. Was responsible for managing security practices and processes for Advanticom. Worked with employees, clients, and C-level executives to identify risks, communicate recommendations, and provide full information technology and information security guidance at all levels.• Developed employees to identify risks and make security recommendations. Worked with employees to determine risk level and security risk identification, reviewing data and how to read logs, metadata, headers, etc. to identify any security concerns. Empowered and coached employees to communicate effectively with C-level executives to present clear and accurate data of findings and recommendations.

Monroeville, Pa, Us

• Selected as a founding member of a security practice build out team. • Created team infrastructure for internal practice team including creating job roles/responsibilities to improve efficiency, expand on SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), and internal team agreements and requirements to run team.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Executed full IT and Security assessment to create roadmap leading to a more efficient and secure infrastructure.• Responsible for completing security audits, proof of secure network, and proof of governance compliance such as NIST, COBIT, ITIL, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. • Managed a team of direct report, all vendors and contractors, and client IT relationships including the management of SSO integrations to SalesForce through SAML for client access. • Managed all partnerships with technology vendors, negotiated new MSP contract through streamlining by improving efficiencies, enhancing infrastructure, and user productivity by providing expectations and information. Reduced from $400k/year to $280k/year.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

• Managing a team of Database Specialists and the day to day IT functions and systems for PA 2-1-1 for 16 counties.

New York, New York, Us

• Managed ticket system to ensure no tickets became stale. I would review all open tickets on team and prioritize based on vulnerability to customer and activity on ticket. I would then follow up on highly vulnerable tickets on a regular basis until ticket could be closed.• Discuss with customer requested changes and do a detailed write up on how to perform the changes called a MOP (method of procedure). I would then review with customer to ensure their goals are being met and then schedule a time to have the change deployed based on customer’s request.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• At AT&T, assessed contact center infrastructure to create technology and security roadmap, provide direction, and execute projects. Completed two cycles with 100% success rate meeting budget and deadlines. Second life cycle restructured project to reduce cost of $2.2 million dollars to under $350,000 through negotiating and trimming unnecessary cost.

Ph.D. Candidate, Information Systems And Communications, Cybersecurity & Information Privacy

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business

Risk Management Graduate Certification

Masters Of Cyber Security And Information Assurance, Management Information Systems

Cyber Forensics And Information Security, Information Technology

Associate In Science, Business Administration

Microsoft Network Professional Plus Certificate Of Completion, Microsoft/Cisco Network Professional