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Christopher Scott
Director of Information Security Operations at Serta Simmons Bedding.
Lexington-Fayette, KY, United States
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Education:
BS in Information Technologies
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Southern New Hampshire University
2018 : 2021
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Southern New Hampshire University
2018 : 2021
Experience:
Leading the Information Security Operations team at Serta Simmons Bedding. Building the most effective team possible using the best people and the most advanced tools available. Looking forward to keeping the organization safe from outside and insider threats.
2023 : Present
Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC
Director, Information Security Operations
This role requires a broad skillset within the security field including technical and analytical skills. The role will report to the Director Information Security. This position will require a mix of soft skills (internal consulting, security subject matter expertise and security vendor management) as well as technical skills requiring hands on security tool configuration and administration. This position will be responsible for managing inputs and outputs from our MSSP (Managed Security Services Provider). The role will be responsible for attending and participating in security and business driven projects and change management committees. This includes interacting with business units and technical teams to understand their roadmap and how their projects can be designed and implemented with security in mind.
2022 : 2023
Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC
Cyber Security Engineer
Enterprise security architect responsible for providing strategic leadership and technical guidance for the design and development of strategies and solutions that mitigate risks to data, systems, and people while supporting business operational requirements.
Conducting technical requirement discovery sessions with a variety of roles to perform gap analysis of requirements, develop overall solution design based off recommendations and knowledge and lead the technical solution architecture. Also includes analyzing complex business processes and identifying efficiency opportunities and or solutions to resolve process gaps or related business challenges.
Designing and maintaining appropriate solutions to secure both internal and external-facing applications hosted in various IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS models. This includes ownership of security processes and procedures for application development by internal and contract developers. Implementing security systems by specifying intrusion detection methodologies and equipment; directing equipment and software installation and calibration; preparing preventive and reactive measures; creating, transmitting, and maintaining keys; providing technical support; completing documentation.
Assisting the business in understanding the effort, risk and effect of making changes to all security platforms and communicate the downstream impacts of any changes to the business. Overseeing management of enterprise scale projects with global deployments from ideation phase to steady state environment, including test plans, user acceptance testing, deployment and support.
Sharing best practices and be consultative to business partners throughout the duration of the project – act as a trusted partner. Tactfully working with internal business to address out of scope request and use business product owner to re-align expectations of seek additional scope/budget.
2016 : 2022
Valvoline Inc.
Cyber Security Architect
Systems Analyst and Desktop Engineer for Ashland Inc, located in Lexington Kentucky. I am responsible for security analysis and remediation for desktop users.
Responsible for enterprise Active Directory design and administration, group policy creation and administration.
Responsible for Symantec Endpoint Protection administration.
Full administration and design of Bit9 security platform for Valvoline Instant Oil Change.
Job includes parsing through data to identify at risk applications and machines, correct them. Creating new tools to administer desktops with higher granularity that a large enterprise needs.
Responsible for SCCM client health efforts, Qualys remediation and reporting.
2015 : 2016
Ashland Inc
System Specialist II
Systems Analyst and Desktop Engineer for Ashland Inc, located in Lexington Kentucky. I am responsible for security analysis and remediation for desktop users.
Responsible for enterprise Active Directory design and administration, group policy creation and administration.
Responsible for Symantec Endpoint Protection administration.
Job includes parsing through data to identify at risk applications and machines, correct them. Creating new tools to administer desktops with higher granularity that a large enterprise needs.
Responsible for SCCM client health efforts, Qualys remediation and reporting.
2015 : 2015
Unisys
System Analyst II
2023 : Present
Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC
Director, Information Security Operations
This role requires a broad skillset within the security field including technical and analytical skills. The role will report to the Director Information Security. This position will require a mix of soft skills (internal consulting, security subject matter expertise and security vendor management) as well as technical skills requiring hands on security tool configuration and administration. This position will be responsible for managing inputs and outputs from our MSSP (Managed Security Services Provider). The role will be responsible for attending and participating in security and business driven projects and change management committees. This includes interacting with business units and technical teams to understand their roadmap and how their projects can be designed and implemented with security in mind.
2022 : 2023
Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC
Cyber Security Engineer
Enterprise security architect responsible for providing strategic leadership and technical guidance for the design and development of strategies and solutions that mitigate risks to data, systems, and people while supporting business operational requirements.
Conducting technical requirement discovery sessions with a variety of roles to perform gap analysis of requirements, develop overall solution design based off recommendations and knowledge and lead the technical solution architecture. Also includes analyzing complex business processes and identifying efficiency opportunities and or solutions to resolve process gaps or related business challenges.
Designing and maintaining appropriate solutions to secure both internal and external-facing applications hosted in various IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS models. This includes ownership of security processes and procedures for application development by internal and contract developers. Implementing security systems by specifying intrusion detection methodologies and equipment; directing equipment and software installation and calibration; preparing preventive and reactive measures; creating, transmitting, and maintaining keys; providing technical support; completing documentation.
Assisting the business in understanding the effort, risk and effect of making changes to all security platforms and communicate the downstream impacts of any changes to the business. Overseeing management of enterprise scale projects with global deployments from ideation phase to steady state environment, including test plans, user acceptance testing, deployment and support.
Sharing best practices and be consultative to business partners throughout the duration of the project – act as a trusted partner. Tactfully working with internal business to address out of scope request and use business product owner to re-align expectations of seek additional scope/budget.
2016 : 2022
Valvoline Inc.
Cyber Security Architect
Systems Analyst and Desktop Engineer for Ashland Inc, located in Lexington Kentucky. I am responsible for security analysis and remediation for desktop users.
Responsible for enterprise Active Directory design and administration, group policy creation and administration.
Responsible for Symantec Endpoint Protection administration.
Full administration and design of Bit9 security platform for Valvoline Instant Oil Change.
Job includes parsing through data to identify at risk applications and machines, correct them. Creating new tools to administer desktops with higher granularity that a large enterprise needs.
Responsible for SCCM client health efforts, Qualys remediation and reporting.
2015 : 2016
Ashland Inc
System Specialist II
Systems Analyst and Desktop Engineer for Ashland Inc, located in Lexington Kentucky. I am responsible for security analysis and remediation for desktop users.
Responsible for enterprise Active Directory design and administration, group policy creation and administration.
Responsible for Symantec Endpoint Protection administration.
Job includes parsing through data to identify at risk applications and machines, correct them. Creating new tools to administer desktops with higher granularity that a large enterprise needs.
Responsible for SCCM client health efforts, Qualys remediation and reporting.
2015 : 2015
Unisys
System Analyst II
Company:
Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC
Years of Experience:
17
Spoken Language:
English, German
Skills
Active Directory, Backup Exec, Carbon Black, Cisco Technologies, Citrix, CompTIA A+ Certification, Computer Hardware, Computer Repair, Data Center, Dell PowerEdge Servers, DHCP, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Electrical Engineering, Firewalls, GIAC, HP Procurve, HP Server Hardware, Hyper-V, Industrial Control, Information Security, Laser Printers, Managed Print Services, Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Exchange, Network Security, Outlook, Routers, Security, Security+, Server Administration, Server Architecture, Servers, Storage, Switches, System Administration, Systems Engineering, Technical Support, Troubleshooting, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESX, VoIP, VPN, Windows, Windows 7, windows 10, Windows Security, Windows Server, XP, Microsoft Certified
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Seasoned cyber security professional with years of experience, ready and willing to take your organization to the next level.
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