Christopher Cooper
Cybersecurity Practice Lead @VetsEZ
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WORK HISTORY
Cybersecurity Practice Lead @VetsEZ
Lead supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise-level Health DevSecOps (DSO) project. This role focuses on implementing a scalable solution to support accelerated site deployments, while at the same time supporting integration with additional VA systems and sustainment of current integrations. • Ensure the overall security posture of the network. • Analyze and advise on the risk and remediation of security issues based on reports from vulnerability assessment scanners, patch management tools, and emerging threat information. • Propose, coordinate, implement, and enforce information systems security policies, standards, and methodologies. • Evaluate divisions Cybersecurity program and posture, provide recommendations to government clients and senior leadership on changes and improvements to improve the organization\'s overall health and security posture. • Responsible for coordination with multiple groups, both contractor and government staff, to conduct security assessments of various networks and components and ensure that all systems, applications, and networks meet compliance to remain operational. • Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Cybersecurity, Certification and Accreditation, advising the government CIO and Deputy CIO on the Risk Management Framework process, creating policy and procedure to improve efficiency and improve the overall security posture of division. • Responsible for direct oversight of a group of contractor personnel who have technical expertise in the design, configuration, and operation of web servers, databases, and application development, and who also have expertise in technical writing, maintenance, and testing of the systems and applications. • Collect metrics, prepare weekly/monthly status reports for senior-level management and the government client, report on system and network compliance, FISMA Compliance score, status of ongoing projects and efforts, and recommend way ahead for problems and issues.
EDUCATION
Hanahan High School
Engineering / Computer Science
Western Governors University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology - Security
Western Governors University
Master of Science - MS, Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Trident Technical College
Telecommunications Systems Management
SKILLS
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COOPER
Chris is a Charleston, South Carolina Native with over 15 years of work experience…
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