Chris Brannon
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Wilderness First Aid
MEDIC SOLO Disaster+Wilderness Medical School
2019 : 2023
MSIS
Information Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1995 : 1997
BA
Political Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1988 : 1992
2022 : Present
Cisco
Head of Security, Information Security, AppDynamics Business Unit
• Integrating AppD with Cisco security capabilities, while enhancing Cisco’s security service offerings
• Responsible for cloud and application security for $380M business.
• Responsible for AWS public cloud security hardening, Identity and Access Management, VPC governance, Control Tower, infrastructure scanning, instance security, etc.
• Manage Threat and Vulnerability Management process for all customer distributed software, including management of SCA, SAST and DAST scanning as well as third party assessments.
• Operate Identity & Access Management, Logging and other services for commercial & FedRAMP SaaS environments in AWS and Azure.
2021 : 2022
Cisco
Director, Security Engineering, AppDynamics Business Unit
• Led transformative new initiative to secure several thousand internally deployed enterprise business applications across IT, Supply Chain, etc., and managing associated tool chain.
• Evaluated and qualified 3rd party cloud service providers for use in Cisco’s internal business and offers
• Application security architecture consulting & automated security assessments for Enterprise applications
• Led internally sourced penetration testing team.
• Nominated for and participated in Cisco’s one year “LEAD Plus” program for high potential talent.
2018 : 2021
Cisco
Leader, Application Security, Security & Trust Organization
• Modernizing the software development pipeline for products like ASA firewall and Firepower/Snort
• Driving program to componentize monolithic code base and to optimize build times
• CI/CD team implementing an end to end Continuous Integration pipeline with “pull request” reviews, automated per commit build and testing, and artifact distribution using tools like Jenkins and Artifactory
• Tools team responsible for data store, dashboards, source code management, etc.
• Lab InfraOps team providing global services for 1600+ developers : Infrastructure as a Service (33k VMs), Lab Management (1100 racks at 11 locations), Helpdesk, Storage and Hosted Applications
• Build Framework team responsible for optimization of the Firepower build.
2016 : 2018
Cisco
Leader, Software Infrastructure, Security Business Group
Part of a team that has delivered a product called Virtualized Managed Services. This is a platform to deliver virtual networking as a service to service provider customers which they can resell to their end customers. I manage teams responsible for three main functions :
• Operations (all build, operate and support activities following a DevOps model)
• Service Assurance development for VMS and all development for Cisco's Prime Performance Manager software (part of the Prime suite)
• Solution Test/QA team for VMS
2016 : 2016
Cisco Systems
Director, Network Function Virtualization business unit
Skills
Business Continuity, CCNP, Cisco IOS, Cisco Systems Products, Cisco Technologies, CISSP, Cloud Computing, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Data Center, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Software, Firewalls, Go-to-market Strategy, High Availability, Information Security, Information Security Management, Information Technology, Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP), IP, ITIL, IT Management, IT Operations, IT Service Management, IT Strategy, Managed Services, Metrics, MPLS, NAS, Network Architecture, Networking, Network Security, Perl, PMP, Program Management, Routing, SaaS, Security, Solution Selling, Storage, Storage Area Networks, Switches, TCP/IP, Vendor Management, Virtualization, VMware, VoIP, VPN, WAN
About
IT Director with in-depth experience in Information Security, Operations and Development / Engineering. Can dive into details without losing sight of the big picture. Highly effective leader and manager of strong, motivated and empowered teams responsible for Cloud technologies including OpenStack, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service, as well as Network Function Virtualization. Extensive experience leading teams that design, deploy, operate and support IT Data Center Infrastructure including UNIX/Windows, Compute hardware, Networking and Storage, as well as application development. Proponent of instilling a DevOps culture and highly effective in optimizing processes and tools that drives productivity improvements in a secure, scalable and efficient way. Committed to managing security responsibilities including proactive hardening, third-party audits, incident response and driving internal adoption of security policies. Effective communicator and problem solver who is energized by a broad portfolio, setting strategic direction and focusing intensely on areas of need.
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