Christopher Hoell

A challenging progressive management position in information security SOC/NOC requiring trouble-shooting, networking, innovation and communication skills

I am an honest hard working Manager who loves a challenge. I have excellent communication skills and develop a good working relationship with everyone I encounter. I am not afraid to reach outside my area of expertise to resolve a problem or if I feel I can add value.

Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.

• 29 Years IT experience configuring, deploying and supporting Servers, Workstations and Network Infrastructure including but not limited to:
• Juniper SRX/Netscreen Firewalls, CheckPoint Firewalls, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Cisco Firepower, cisco GSS
• Juniper Secure Access SSL VPN Gateways
• Nortel VPN Gateways
• ArcSight logger and connector appliances, Splunk log management and correlation
• BigIP load-balancers, Cisco LocalDirector load-balancers
• Cisco IronPort Mail Security Appliances
• InfoBlox DNS Appliances
• BIND on Sun Solaris
• Cisco switches and routers
• MS Windows server and workstation

• Managed the relocation of an active primary datacenter without any impactful outages
• Managed the relocation of 2 active computer rooms at remote locations, without any impactful outages
• Managed the onboarding of Accenture contract team to support infrastructure operations
• Manged a team of 4 full time engineers and 96 contractors