Sam Xi Chen

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About Sam Xi Chen

A seasoned IT/IS Professional, actively CISSP certified, who has 15+ years of progressive experience with full life cycle IT projects starting from gathering requirements, providing solution and architecture, developing detailed functional specifications to knowledge transfer and presentation delivery of educational materials; Experienced with project management and practices, security policy, intrusion detection and system hardening, risks and threats assessment, business continuity planning, vulnerabilities research & assessment, impact of Threats to Critical Assets evaluation and Risk Evaluation Criteria creation, System and network penetration test, vulnerabilities scan and security & privacy assessment; Expertise in Security network architecture, network infrastructure & security design and implementation, system confidentialities, integrities and availabilities analysis, implementation and improvement, VPN, firewalls, proxies, ATM switches, servers and network devices configuration and maintenance; Experienced with Cryptographic methods and algorithms, PKI, SSH, SSL/TLS, Digital Signature, digital certificate; Knowledge of security industry practices and standards (ISO 17799, PIPEDA, COBIT, SAS70, Sarbanes-Oxley); Expertise in various firewall systems including Checkpoint, Cisco PIX, Nokia series, Gauntlet, hands-on knowledge of range of IDS, including snort, Intrusion.com, nCircle, Cisco; Mastered different network analyzer tools and network security protocols, such as Sniffer, NMap, tcpdump, ethereal, RSA SecurID, SSL Certificates, RADIUS; Also a vivid team player, independent contributor, efficient consultant and leader, who is adept at relationship management, problem solving, and conflict resolution;