Chris 'Chip' Chiapusio

Current

VP Consultant System Engineering Messaging Hygiene at Bank of America
Co-Founder at Distributed Computing Technologies

Past

Secure Messaging Engineer at Bank of America
Contactor at Sapphire Technologies
Network Developer II at Office Depot, Inc.

Instructor at National Institute For Technical Education
Security Architect at Sportsline.Com
Database Operations Analyst at Hiway Technologies, Inc.
Network Engineer at Netrox (Bridge.Net)

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Chris 'Chip' Chiapusio’s Summary

Experienced technologist forged by the Internet. I am comfortable designing and implementing secure, scalable solutions for any situation.

From startup Internet service providers to the worlds largest web-hosting provider to Fortune 500 companies, I can find ways to leverage my knowledge to effect improvements, efficiencies, and security.

Chris 'Chip' Chiapusio’s Specialties:

Linux system administration, CheckPoint Firewalls, Internet Services, Open Source Software, IP Networking, IP Network Design.

Chris 'Chip' Chiapusio’s Experience

VP Consultant System Engineering Messaging Hygiene

Bank of America

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAC; Banking industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Primary engineer for DMZ email and Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus systems. Provide second level support, capacity planning, and designing solutions to improve availability. Lead Engineer supporting sender authentication efforts including internal infrastructure maintenance and outside email partners implementing sender authentication measure to comply with bank policies.
Co-Founder

Distributed Computing Technologies

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

February 1997 — Present (12 years 10 months)

I am a founding board member and the current Board member of Distributed Computing Technologies, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit research foundation dedicated to the continuing development of distributed computing. Relying solely on volunteer participation, distributed.net runs a 250,000 machine network of internet-connected computers. This network, running distributed.net software, is able to harness the power of each participating computer and apply them to massive projects. We currently have about 25 core developers across the world developing and deploying software for a wide variety of projects. The distributed.net network is presently capable of calculating at over 17 teraflops, which is faster than the 15 largest supercomputers in the world combined. Developed software for maintainig 13,000 member mailing list service.
Secure Messaging Engineer

Bank of America

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAC; Banking industry)

August 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Responsible for guiding business partners through implementing enforced TLS (Transport Layer Security) for guaranteed secure email transmission. Increased implementation rates through refining processes and applying breadth of knowledge to enhance partners understanding of TLS implementation. Performed expert diagnosis of a commonly deployed email appliance enabling vendor to provide updates to their customers, Bank of Americas business partners, allowing timely and secure transmission of customers sensitive information. Lead project to enhance project tracking system to enable better tracking of pertinent partner data and reduce implementation times.
Contactor

Sapphire Technologies

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; VDOR; Computer & Network Security industry)

August 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Full time Information Security contractor, currently on contract at Bank of America corporate headquarters in Charlotte, NC.
Network Developer II

Office Depot, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ODP; Computer & Network Security industry)

July 2001 — July 2006 (5 years 1 month)

Responsible for Global eCommerce and browsing firewall infrastructure, including North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. Other duties include managing North American Proxy, content filtering, and DNS infrastructures. Managed project to migrate from Microsoft Proxy 2.0 to ISA server in tandem with content filtering systems replacement. Migrated pubic DNS to new hosted service, improving performance, availability, and manageability. Planned, tested and coordinated OS and software upgrades on global firewall infrastructures with remote teams. Provided Linux/UNIX support to teams implementing Solaris and VMWare ESX
Instructor

National Institute For Technical Education

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

November 2000 — June 2001 (8 months)

Provided instructor services for the LPI 101 and 102 certification courses. Classes covered Linux installation and device configuration, filesystem layout, devices, pipes, advanced RPM usage, kernel building, vi, lpr, boot scripts, run levels, TCP/IP, inetd/xinetd services. Configuration, operation and log maintenance for Apache, mysql, wu-ftpd, BIND9, SAMBA, DHCP, NFS, sendmail, Basic scripting using bash, sed, and awk. Host and network security including intrusion detection, log monitoring and firewalling are also covered.
Security Architect

Sportsline.Com

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; SPLN; Computer & Network Security industry)

February 1999 — April 2001 (2 years 3 months)

Determined security needs for the number one sports web site (ranked one of the top 50 sites on the Internet). Assist in network redesign and implement secure architecture. Design enterprise wide VPN based on CheckPoint VPN-1 including installation and management of 15 firewalls. Reduced remote access cost through client-to-firewall VPN technologies. Acted at primary authority for all Linux system roll outs including initial system design for www.pgatour.com.
Database Operations Analyst

Hiway Technologies, Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1996 — February 1999 (2 years 3 months)

Maintain, upgrade, and support fast growing network of over 120 Silicon Graphics web servers. Developed software to enable unlimited scalability of high volume web hosting platform. Initiated security programs and authored corporate security policy and several Standard Operating Procedures. Responsible for 100% uptime of in-house and offsite Sybase database servers, including installation and maintenance of Sybase software and underlying operating systems. Other responsibilities include management of data center and perimeter security systems, Plan and implement migration to new data center with minimal downtime.
Network Engineer

Netrox (Bridge.Net)

(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1995 — December 1996 (1 year 11 months)