Christopher S Fountain
**** ******* **** *** ******. NC 27704
**********@*****.***
https://tinyurl.com/chris-fountain
University of Maryland University College. Adelphi, MD
Masters Business Administration- [3.75] -May 2018
Education
MS. CyberSecurity Policy- [4.0] -Dec 2016
North Carolina Central University. Durham, NC
BS. Mathematics- [3.5] -May 2014
Objective
Seeking a challenging leadership role in cybersecurity that utilizes my network
and security background, troubleshooting skills and leadership experience.
Skills, Applications and Competencies
•Windows OS. MacOS. Linux. Unix. Microsoft Azure. Microsoft O365.
•Cisco IOS/CatOS/Nexus/ASA/IDS. Palo Alto Firewall. Meraki.
•ZScaler Proxy. Cisco Umbrella.
•Zenoss. EMC Ionix. Prognosis. Manage Engine. Nimsoft.
•McAfee SIEM. Splunk. LogRhythm. Sophos Endpoint Security.
•Incident Response. Security Vulnerability Triage and Remediation. Security Awareness.
•Tenable Nessus. Visio. Wireshark. Python 3. Shell Scripting. NMAP. NCAT. Metasploit. Owasp.
Professional
Skills
Advance Protocols
•SSL. IPSEC. SNMP. Encryption. TCP/IP. EIGRP. Spanning Tree. Netflow. Syslog. SD-WAN.
Certifications and Courses
•ITIL-F. CMNO. GIAC GCIH. SANS 504. CISSP (In Progress)
•CCNP(Expired). CCDP(Expired)
Standards, Frameworks and Regulations
•PCI DSS. HIPAA. GLBA. SOX. GDPR. FISMA.
•NIST 800-30. ISO 27001. CIS Critical Security Controls. Mitre CVE. NIST CVSS.
Professional Memberships
•RTP Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
•International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
•National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
Ipas, Chapel Hill, NC [ Contract via Vaco, Inc. ]
Sept 2018 - Present
Manager, Network and Security
•Responsible for global network and security architecture, endpoint protection, content filtering and security incident management across 5 continents
•Design and deploy zero-trust security architecture across network and cloud infrastructure
•Implement security awareness training across organization
•Utilize a variety of tools to perform vulnerability assessments via vulnerability scans, penetration tests and network analysis to identify gaps in security and controls
•Deploy security controls to address security gaps and threats to environment
•Outline comprehensive security program based from security assessments that addresses gaps in user education, controls, policy, and network, cloud and endpoint security
•Develop security operations processes for incident response and remediation
•Perform vendor evaluation and management
Presidio Network Solutions, Durham, NC
July 2011 - Sept 2018
Professional
Sr Security Engineer
Experience
• Engineering Team Lead for Managed Services team supporting global client
• Identify, investigate and respond to network security events and threats
• Develop and implement security architecture to meet business requirements
• Conduct network vulnerability assessments and plan remediation
• Monitor and manage enterprise SIEM, firewalls, IDS and cloud proxy
• Perform technology audits and risk assessments
• Develop patch management program for OS consistency and software lifecycle
• Advise on security architecture to enhance threat visibility and monitoring
• Perform forensic investigations for cyber and network related activities
• Member of Security Incident Response Team
Business Technology Manager
•Network and Security technologies advocate and consultant
•Manage team of engineers to provide problem management for technical and business critical customer problems
•Utilize ITIL methodologies for development, monitoring and improvement of support, operations, and processes to enhance MTTR and customer satisfaction
•Develop standards for asset and inventory management
•Perform technology audits and risk assessments
•Develop and deliver trainings for Manage Services team
•Develop solutions for process gaps utilizing cost effective technology
Sr Network Engineer
•Dedicated Managed Services Engineer for healthcare provider
•Proactively monitor and manage voice, data and security networks for service impacting faults, vulnerabilities and anomalies
•Partner with customer engineering teams for problem resolution to ensure project and network implementation success
•Develop network best practice standards to increase network stability and adequately forecast for future network growth
•Deliver reports to gauge network and security issues and trends
Cisco Systems. Inc, RTP, NC
Jan 2001 - July 2011
TAC Customer Support Engineer III
•Subject Matter Expert for Cisco LAN and Security products and technologies
•Solve high complexity LAN, Security and VPN problems
•Submit DDTS reports and online documentation
•Focal for critical account problem resolution
•Team training coordinator and mentor for new CSEs
•Advise customers on proper deployment, architecture and implementation of network and security configurations