Christopher Fernando is a senior application security engineer with over 15 years of experience in UNIX administration, information security, and DevOps. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Sciences and certifications in Sun Certified System Administrator (Solaris 8 and 10) and GIAC GSEC. Fernando's experience includes roles at Alteryx, Sungard Availability Services, Symplified, and Vail Resorts, where he specialized in areas such as application security, systems engineering, and UNIX administration. He has expertise in technologies such as AWS, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, and network/security tools.
Christopher Fernando is a senior application security engineer with over 15 years of experience in UNIX administration, information security, and DevOps. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Sciences and certifications in Sun Certified System Administrator (Solaris 8 and 10) and GIAC GSEC. Fernando's experience includes roles at Alteryx, Sungard Availability Services, Symplified, and Vail Resorts, where he specialized in areas such as application security, systems engineering, and UNIX administration. He has expertise in technologies such as AWS, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, and network/security tools.
Christopher Fernando is a senior application security engineer with over 15 years of experience in UNIX administration, information security, and DevOps. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Sciences and certifications in Sun Certified System Administrator (Solaris 8 and 10) and GIAC GSEC. Fernando's experience includes roles at Alteryx, Sungard Availability Services, Symplified, and Vail Resorts, where he specialized in areas such as application security, systems engineering, and UNIX administration. He has expertise in technologies such as AWS, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, and network/security tools.
Christopher Fernando is a senior application security engineer with over 15 years of experience in UNIX administration, information security, and DevOps. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Sciences and certifications in Sun Certified System Administrator (Solaris 8 and 10) and GIAC GSEC. Fernando's experience includes roles at Alteryx, Sungard Availability Services, Symplified, and Vail Resorts, where he specialized in areas such as application security, systems engineering, and UNIX administration. He has expertise in technologies such as AWS, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, and network/security tools.
PEOPLE Some people I’ve worked with and where I’ve worked with them. Contact information will be provided, upon request. James Harrison - Symplified Terance Reed - Sungard Availability Services John Orndorff - Sungard Availability Services
PROFILE Bachelor of Science in Computer & Information Sciences, specializing in computer and network security & UNIX/Linux Administration. Senior UNIX administration skills. Proficient in analysis and implementation of security policy. Accustomed to working on a team of like-minded engineers. Able to coordinate tasks with various departments within an organization.
EXPERIENCE Application Security Engineer, Alteryx, Inc.; Plano, TX - 11/2018 - Present Mixture of application security, information security and DevOps responsibilities to ensure consistent, reliable and secure delivery of current and new products in the development pipeline. Working with DevOps/SecOps/Developers to ensure uniform development environments.
Team Lead - Systems Engineer, Sungard Availability Services.; Richardson, TX — 7/2017 - 11/2018 Remotely managed team of 4 Senior Systems Engineers (virtual office employees) to ensure on time delivery of customer requests and projects. Managed incidents and incident root cause analysis with direct reports to ensure customer SLA/SLR are met. Engaged in troubleshooting environment issues and worked with team to deploy sustainable remediation to ensure stability. Worked with both internal and customer management teams to improve processes and efficient handling of issues within the environment. Executed change tickets, request tickets, and incident tickets, as needed, to support the team. Continued shell and perl script automation research to deploy to customer environment to ensure stability.
Senior Systems Engineer (Solaris, Linux, Virtualization), Sungard Availability Services.; Richardson, TX — 10/2016 - 7/2017 Transferred to a dedicated customer support group in October 2016, handling one of Sungard Availability Services’ complex, government contractor accounts. High security and confidentiality required to work on the account. Worked with team to build environment from scratch, per customer requirements and transition to a run & maintain posture with complete documentation. Managed Oracle Consulting resources during build phase of project to ensure on time delivery of key milestones and overall project delivery. Assisted management in providing technical guidance for internal and customer teams to ensure a stable platform. Continued to work with other teams within SungardAS to ensure dedicated customer platform ran in parallel configurations to other customer environments to ensure consistency of platforms for ease of cross-team support. Built shell and perl scripts to assist with build automation to ensure consistency of delivery. Key technologies used in supporting this customer: Solaris 11, Oracle OVM x86, Oracle Enterprise Linux 7. Senior UNIX Engineer/Team Lead, Sungard Availability Services.; Richardson, TX — 7/2014 - 10/2016 Relocated to Richardson, TX in July of 2014. Same duties with SungardAS and promoted to UNIX Team Lead in April 2015. Duties as UNIX Team Lead include task assignment, technical escalation support for the team, project direction, service design review, service exception review, and mentoring current and new employees in the organization.
Same responsibilities as position held 2010-2012. Key technologies used in supporting assigned customers: Solaris 10, Solaris 11, Solaris Logical Domains, Solaris Zones, ZFS, VMWare ESX 3.5, and RedHat Linux 5.
Participated in the design, implementation, deployment, verification, and monitoring of Symplified’s production architecture and office networks. Worked alongside partners and customers performing pre- and post-installation and management of Symplified’s SinglePoint Identity Routers within complex customer networks and environments. Managed a variety of systems and services including database backups, network performance testing/tuning, and vulnerability scanning. Advised the Customer Support team as they configure and deploy new customer implementations. Developed and integrated in-house systems to fulfill internal needs for various Symplified departments and projects, leveraging open-source solutions where possible/practical. Participated in an on-call rotation for critical issues which arise outside of normal work hours.
Developed and installed cost effective, operationally supportable solutions that meet complex customer requirements and SLAs. Maintained deep technical knowledge of multiple technologies within a customer’s environment. Provided direct operational support of Sungard’s largest managed services customers and maintained ownership and a deep technical knowledge. Provided clear technical documentation and procedures to ensure other members of Sungard delivery could assist in monitoring, troubleshooting and changing complex customer environments. Was responsible for direct customer communication, working closely with other central operations technical teams and customer service teams. Provided assistance/training and leadership to other engineers. Performed weekly and monthly maintenance activity as required. Participated in the on call rotation for after-hours support. Actively re- architected customer ZFS configurations for best practices as well as maintainability. Key technologies used in supporting assigned customers: Solaris 10, Solaris 11, Solaris Logical Domains, Solaris Zones, ZFS, VMWare ESX 3.5, and RedHat Linux 5.
IT Systems Analyst II Senior, Vail Resorts Management Company.; Broomfield, CO — 6/2008 - 4/2010 Administered, managed and tuned all tiers of production e-commerce application running on Progress OpenEdge and Solaris 10. Tasks included scripting, backup, recovery, patching, performance monitoring and tuning. Worked closely with members of the database, security, web and network teams as well as provided on call support. Utilized Sun LDOM (Logical Domain) technology to extend hardware platforms. Maintenance of testing environments utilizing Solaris Zones. Developed monitoring services utilizing Nagios, MRTG, and custom checks for Progress OpenEdge. Automated system tasks and working with vendor to improve quality of deployed applications. Enhanced security of operating systems for PCI compliance. Worked with business to accomplish long term needs and establish on-going strategy for expansion of services.
E D U C AT I O N The University of Delaware — Bachelor of Science - Computer and Information Sciences, 2006
C E R T I F I C AT I O N S Sun Certified System Administrator, Solaris 8 - April 2002 Sun Certified System Administrator, Solaris 10 - April 2009 GIAC GSEC - February 20202
SKILLS Senior UNIX administrative experience with Solaris (2.5.1 – 11.3), FreeBSD (2.2.7 – 5.x, 8.1+), MacOS (System 7 – OS X 10.15, OS X Server 10.3) and Linux (OEL/RedHat). Familiar with various network and security tools such as nmap, and Wireshark. Programming and scripting experience with the following languages and UNIX shells: C, Perl, C-Shell, Bourne-shell.
Hou-Cheng Huang PHD, BSC, MSC, Asif S. Usmani PHD, BE, MS (Auth.) - Finite Element Analysis For Heat Transfer - Theory and Software-Springer-Verlag London (1994) PDF
