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Chris Andal

Bowmanville,ON

Summary

Accomplished IT Manager with 25 years of experience. Applies advanced technical, business and interpersonal skills to lead cross-functional teams in the design and implementation of robust cybersecurity and infrastructure programs.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Security Operations Manager

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
05.2023 - Current
  • Manage team of security analysts to proactively detect and respond to security incidents.
  • Oversee vulnerability scans and penetration tests to identify at-risk systems and remediate issues.
  • Develop and maintain security policies and procedures
  • Ensure newly acquired companies are seamlessly integrated with corporate security standards.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Collaborated with Director of Cybersecurity to design and deploy IT security solutions.
  • Developed and deployed training programs and techniques to increase employee security awareness.
  • Oversaw deployment of tools to establish and maintain endpoint security and endpoint management.
  • Supervised deployment of SIEM technology to aggregate and analyze logs from hundreds of systems.

IT Manager, Cybersecurity and Data Centres

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
01.2021 - 05.2023

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Supervised migration to Office 365 for Outlook and Microsoft Office
  • Designed and deployed MDR solution for all endpoints
  • Deployed MFA for domain login to server and workstations

Supervisor | Architect | Engineer | Administrator

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
01.1999 - 12.2020

Education

Bachelor of Science - BSc -

University of Toronto
04.1998

Skills

  • Strategic Design
  • Risk Management
  • Team Leadership
  • Incident Response
  • Customer Service
  • IT Operations

Certification

  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - ISC2
  • VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV) - VMware
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Windows Server 2003 (MCSE) - Microsoft

Honors Awards

  • Order of the Golden Pen, 10/01/21, leadership award; navigated through a major security event.
  • Order of the Golden Pen, 10/01/18, leadership award; physical data centre migration.
  • Order of the Silver Pen, 09/01/16, leadership award; developed a formal cybersecurity plan.

Timeline

Security Operations Manager

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
05.2023 - Current

IT Manager, Cybersecurity and Data Centres

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
01.2021 - 05.2023

Supervisor | Architect | Engineer | Administrator

Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.
01.1999 - 12.2020

Bachelor of Science - BSc -

University of Toronto
Chris Andal