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Chris Cline

Network Security Engineer with 10+ years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining secure network infrastructures. Expert in architecting Zero-Trust environments and high-availability security systems for enterprise-scale operations.

Professional History

Senior Solutions Engineer

Bedroc / Change Healthcare

2024 – PRESENT
  • • Architected and deployed secure network infrastructure with comprehensive segmentation across 100+ healthcare facilities.
  • • Designed Zero-Trust network zones reducing lateral movement risk by 65%.
  • • Developed security automation using Ansible reducing deployment time by 87%.

Network Security Lead

Seven Seas Water Group

2023 – 2024
  • • Architected security infrastructure across 25+ critical infrastructure facilities.
  • • Deployed Wazuh SIEM platform monitoring logs for real-time threat detection.
  • • Performed vulnerability assessments reducing critical exposures by 75%.

Senior Network Engineer

HCA Healthcare ITG

2018 – 2023
  • • Maintained next-generation firewalls and F5 security solutions across 180+ hospitals.
  • • Monitored network and security logs using Splunk SIEM for incident investigation.
  • • Participated in root-cause analysis reducing security incidents by 45%.

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Core Competencies

Security Architecture

Palo AltoCisco FirepowerFortiGateZero-TrustIDS/IPSSegmentation

Infrastructure

BGPOSPFCisco ACISD-WANVLANsVXLAN

Operations

SplunkWazuhPythonAnsibleNIST CSFPCI-DSS

Certifications

CCNA
CCNA SECURITY
LINUX+
PROJECT+
A+
NETWORK+
SECURITY+

Education

B.S. Information Technology

Information Security & Assurance

Western Governors University | 2019