Education & Professional Experience

Christopher has studied at Colorado State University-Global Campus in Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance between 2017 and 2020, then at Denver Technical College in Computer Information Science between 1992 and 1994, then at University of Colorado in Computer Information Science between 1986 and 1988.

Christopher worked for Oracle as Senior Director - Cloud Security Architecture & Technical Integrations between Dec 2013 and Feb 2017, for SANS Institute as SANS Security Courseware Author/Instructor between Dec 2002 and Dec 2013, for Compassion International as Information Security Specialist between May 2012 and Nov 2013, for Qualys as Director - Product Management between Oct 2011 and May 2012, for VMware (via Configuresoft-EMC acquistion) as Senior and Executive Product Management and Strategy roles between Nov 2003 and Apr 2011, for Fortisphere as Director of Product Strategy between Jan 2008 and Jul 2008, for NetIQ as Security Systems Engineer & Product Manager Roles between 2001 and 2003, for Intrusion.com as Product Manager between 2001 and 2001, for Bindview as Systems Engineer between 1999 and 2001.

 Skills & Competences

Christopher has the following skills : Program Management, Business Continuity, Penetration Testing, Virtualization, Enterprise Architecture, Product Management, CISSP, Cloud Computing, Information Security, Product Marketing, Strategy, Vulnerability Assessment, IT Service Management, Start-ups, Computer Security, Information Security Management, Disaster Recovery, Competitive Analysis, PCI DSS, Security.

Christopher graduated from the following courses : Oracle DB 12c admin, MGT414: SANS +S Training Program for the CISSP®, Crucial Conversations, SEC504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling, SEC401: Security Essentials, SEC579: Virtualization and Private Cloud Security.

Christopher has earned the following certifications : Creating Splunk 6 Knowledge Objects, delivered by Splunk; GIAC Payment Card Industry, delivered by GIAC; Searching & Reporting with Splunk 6, delivered by Splunk; DevOps Foundations: DevSecOps, delivered by LinkedIn; GCIH, delivered by GIAC Certifications; GSEC, delivered by GIAC; CISSP, delivered by (ISC)²; Advanced Searching and Reporting with Splunk 6, delivered by Splunk.