Christopher began his career in the Marines doing communications and has worked for Unitel, MCI/MCIWorldcom/Verizon Business as a Senior Lead Network Engineer in the Chicago market, Ryerson Steel as a Senior Network Engineer, and is currently Network Services Team Lead at Acadian Companies.
Christopher has helped design and build the networks for companies like Nasdaq, USPS, SSA, FAA, FBI, etc., while working for MCI. Projects at Ryerson included redesign/implementation of core/data center switching, Implementing Identity Services Engine (ISE), all while supporting over 300 locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China, including data center and disaster recovery operations. Recent projects for Acadian include implementing ISE and all of the Cisco security products that are in use at Acadian, supporting 5 x 911 communications centers, and overseeing data center operations, 300+ ambulance stations and 10 air crew/flight locations.
In his current role, Christopher works with route/switch, wireless LAN controllers, ISE, Prime Infrastructure, Firepower Management Console, ASAs, Firepower Threat Defense Firewalls, AMP, Umbrella, Stealthwatch Enterprise/Cloud, SecureX, Cisco Registered Envelope, Cloudlock, Security Management Console, Cisco Cloud Email Security, Defense Orchestrator, Cognitive Threat Analytics, Threat Grid and SolarWinds products, to name a few.