Chad Simmons
Cyber Defense Incident Commander at Humans in the Loop
South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChad Simmons is a Cyber Defense Incident Commander at Microsoft with nine years of experience orchestrating response to high‑severity security and reliability incidents across Microsoft services. He specializes in incident command, triage, and cross‑functional escalation—translating complex telemetry into clear decisions and rapid, actionable updates for engineering, legal, communications, and executives. Chad has built IR playbooks aligned to regulatory frameworks like NIST and HIPAA, led ransomware and APT investigations, and shaped internal comms for service, privacy, and data‑loss events. His background spans hands‑on operations, stakeholder communications, and training—he’s even designed neurodiversity workshops for cybersecurity teams to improve inclusion and performance under pressure. Based in South Carolina, he pairs operational rigor with a knack for simplifying chaos into reliable processes. Outside work he’s known on GitHub for a playful Microsoft Endpoint consultant persona that blends ConfigMgr, Intune, PowerShell — and cookie metaphors — into practical automation.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
German
Github Skills (77)
intune10
sccm10
windows10
yubikey10
microsoft-azure10
security10
api-requests10
keepass10
microsoft-sql10
windows-application10
linux10
active-directory10
azure10
configuration-manager10
deploying10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ChadSimmons/Scripts
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Scripts for Microsoft technologies such as ConfigMgr (SCCM / MECM / MEMCM), WSUS, Windows, Active Directory, etc.
Contributions:1 review, 56 commits, 7 PRs in 5 years
mdtwsuswindows-serviceadministratormicrosoft
robertomoir/remove-sccm
Oct 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 2 months
pcsagentsccm
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