Chris Ferraro

About Chris Ferraro

if you\'re interested in a passionate, technically-savvy, security-minded engineering leader with proven people development, product improvement and technical skills, look no further. I\'m interested in positions that will allow me to leverage my passion and the breadth of my skills and experiences to lead and shape a technology organization, providing innovation balanced with common sense to improve the technological experience across the enterprise while reducing cost and risk.Specialties: people/talent development, incident management, engineering management, disaster recovery, site reliability engineering, infrastructure architecture, platform/production engineering, security engineering, security management, regulatory compliance

Experience

1. VP of Platform Engineering

   Garner Health

   Jun 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Garner’s mission is to transform the healthcare economy, delivering high-quality and affordable care for all.I\'m passionate about securing customer and company data and responsible for our Security, Platform, and IT departments. My platform remit is to optimize spend (600k reduction in cloud spend my first calendar year) and implement ongoing spend efficiency plays to support our rapid growth.I founded our Security and GRC functions, improving the security of the products we create, advancing our compliance posture (HIPAA/HITRUST/ISO27001/SOC2), while improving the developer and employee experience.I established accountability for the programs I own via company-wide OKRs and departmental KPIs and metrics.At present, I manage multiple managers and a team that’s grown from 2 to over 25 employees.

Education

• Northwestern University

  Bachelor of Science, Biomedical Engineering

  1996 — 1999

Skills

• Microsoft Technologies
• Disaster Recovery
• Vmware Esx
• Netscaler
• Infrastructure
• Data Center
• Storage
• Cluster
• System Administration
• Hyper-V
• Dns
• Integration
• Load Balancing
• Storage Area Networks
• Powershell
• San
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Vmware
• Windows Server
• System Center
• Windows
• Sql
• Linux
• Sdlc
• High Availability
• Security
• Enterprise Architecture
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Scom
• Virtualization
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Vbscript
• Microsoft Exchange
• Netapp
• Sharepoint