Security leader with over 6 years of extensive experience in application security who’s self-motivated, versatile and dedicated. Uses a cooperative project management approach that has proven effective at gaining support, buy in, and resources.

Security Engineer @ 1. Project managed the security team across all of 2K Games, Inc. and devised annual roadmaps for security that covered all areas of the business include information, network, application and IT 2. Drafted and delivered technical policies and standards that improved our overall security process and compliance posture 3. Helped to define and create the incident response team and built strategic plans for handling various incidents 4. Managed over a $3 million dollar security budget including negotiating purchases and organizing external services 5. Contributed security subject-matter expertise and risk assessments for critical infrastructure and applications From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Principal Engineer, Board of Directors @ 1. Architected, designed and implemented the overall core logic of the product 2. Managed a small remote team of developers in building out functionality 3. Reviewed business documents and collaborated on various business decisions From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Web Security Administrator @ 1. Designed, implemented and rolled out a web security process in the SDLC 2. Reviewed and audited our WAF protections to work towards full coverage and harden our web front 3. Executed penetration testing, code reviews and developed code fixes 4. Designed and implemented a third party bug notification system for all our applications 5. Inventoried and migrated the web front to a more secure environment 6. Pushed for a ubiquitous process across dev teams From May 2013 to September 2015 (2 years 5 months) Security Researcher @ 1. Web application penetration testing 2. Performed code reviews 3. Designed and implemented various application fuzzers and testing tools 4. Triaged numerous external vulnerabilities and performed bug analysis 5. Took part in threat modeling other team’s applications 6. Used numerous security tools 7. Interviewed and helped mentor newly hired interns From June 2009 to May 2013 (4 years) Computer Developer @ 1. Project lead of a team that designed and implemented a testing structure to simulate an automated web user 2. Worked on a various components of our main java application From 2006 to 2009 (3 years) San Luis Obispo, California AreaQuality Engineer Intern @ 1. Designed and implemented a distributive test framework 2. Created Win32 and Flex Web Applications 3. Wrote websites to collect metrics From June 2008 to September 2008 (4 months)

Advanced Computer Security Certificate, Computer Security @ Stanford University From 2011 to 2012 Computer Engineering, BS @ California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo From 2004 to 2009 Christopher McCown is skilled in: Application Security, Information Security, Penetration Testing, Web Application Security, Computer Security, Code Review, Threat Modeling, Web Security, Python, Fuzzing, Hacking, Vulnerability, Xss, Security, Reverse Engineering, JavaScript