Christopher Lipford, MBA
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Pfizer
Director Secure Business Enablement
2019 :
Pfizer
Director
• Manage IT Network Security Internal and External Audit activities from an IT perspective. Ensure that all audit findings are resolved or mitigated promptly and satisfactorily. Act as a liaison between other teams within IT to ensure their audit findings are also resolved promptly and satisfactorily. Achieved 1st satisfactory audit for King
• Implement security controls and operational procedures routinely as required to increase security levels. Maintain strict patching schedule for Windows Updates, and supporting documentation for exceptions to the schedule
• Primary support role for BlackBerry Environment. Responsible for implementing and maintaining a highly available BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.2 environment supporting over 550 clients within King Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Oversee and maintain patch levels across the enterprise to ensure computer system vulnerabilities are mitigated to the greatest extent possible without compromising system uptime
• Manage SOX auditing activities from IT perspective. Collect and ensure all SOX required information is completed and accurate prior to submission. Act as a liaison between other teams within IT to ensure their audit findings are also resolved promptly and satisfactorily
• Routinely involved in litigation searches as required by King’s Legal department or outside council
• Coordinated UNIX/SAP patch strategy development including Highly Available, standard, and low priority systems
• Research, develop, and implement system vulnerability detection and reporting solution within King Pharmaceuticals. Routinely perform security vulnerability scans across the enterprise to detect and remediate Operating System or application vulnerabilities
• Design and implement a security domain necessary for supporting the physical access control system within King
2007 :
Pfizer
Senior Manager IT Information Security
• Provide on-site enterprise level support to all Intellithought clients as required to resolve issues ranging from :
security vulnerabilities, server hardware/application and telecom infrastructure to client hardware and applications
• Perform end-to-end routine patch maintenance to client environments holding active maintenance agreements
• Assess client network vulnerabilities and offer remediation/mitigation strategies for customer base
• Experience with Sonicwall and Cyberguard firewall solutions and network monitor tracing on Windows platforms
• Experience designing, implementing, securing and maintaining various wireless network infrastructures
• Responsible for research, implementation, and maintenance of disaster recovery measures designed specifically to achieve each client’s recovery goals
• Experience implementing and maintaining anti-virus and anti-spam solutions utilizing Trend-Micro products
• Experience designing, implementing, and securing Windows Small Business Server 2003 infrastructures
• Provide 24x7 support for email and web hosting environment serving 200+ active domain registrations
2006 : 2007
Intellithought
Network Administrator
• Provide helpdesk support for ~15,000 Windows 95, XP, NT, and Windows 2000 Professional based desktop systems
• Implement and maintain service to proactively monitor all infrastructures associated with Eastman Chemical Company’s e-Commerce while training new employees. Worked intensively in firewall environments to implement monitoring
• Work independently with Eastman’s Systems Analysts to install infrastructure to facilitate migration from Novell 4.0 to Windows NT/2000. Once migrated the Windows 2000 environment was secured using Active Directory groups
• Implement global Windows 2000 infrastructure : 30+ Domain Controllers configuring and securing as necessary
• Implement Operations Manager to proactively monitor server health in a 1,500 server environment. Also monitor application health of Active Directory, SQL Server, IIS, Exchange, and other mission critical in-house applications
2000 : 2003
Intellithought
Systems Analyst
About
Dynamic career reflecting exceptional Information Technology, Security Administration, Systems Administration, customer service, organizational, and analytical skills. Proven team leadership capabilities while, at the same time, maintaining ability to interact with other teams efficiently. Experience, skills, and activities include:
• Currently hold extensive professional certifications in security, messaging, carriers, operating system platforms, and protocols
• 10+ years’ project / team management experience
• 15+ years’ experience supporting desktop, server and laptop computers as well as supporting various network medium including Type II, RG 6, RG 58, Phone, Category (5)-(5E)-(6), Fiber-Optics
• 13 years’ experience with various networking services including DNS (Standard and Active Directory Integrated), WINS, and DHCP as well as networking topologies (TCP/IP, NetBIOS, IPX/SPX, and ATM)
• 8 years’ experience designing, implementing, securing, and supporting Windows 2000/2003R2 Active Directory
• 5 years’ experience patch review/patch implementation processes and maintenance window practices
• 15+ years’ experience installing, configuring, and securing all Microsoft platform operating systems including Windows XP, NT, 2000, 2003, 2008(R2), Vista, and Windows 7 platforms. Install, secure, and support various Microsoft Application Server services
• Achieved programming experience while enrolled at East Tennessee State University in Java Script, Oracle PL-SQL, Microsoft Visual Basic .Net, XHTML, ASP and PHP
• Experience installing, configuring, and scripting Linux. Attended 2 week intensive course on HP-UX and 1 week course on Compliance Log Warehouse
• 7 years’ experience securing networking environments from end to end
• 5 years’ experience designing, configuring, securing, and supporting Exchange 2003 and 2007 environments
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