Chris Lawrence
Chief Information Officer, Chief Information Security Officer
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Lawrence is a seasoned C-level technology executive and security leader with 25+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale networks, contact center platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure across enterprise and service-provider environments. As CIO/CISO he has led teams through compliance, DevOps/SecOps automation, and vendor strategies for organizations with ~30 locations and 1,000 employees, driving over $5M in annual cost avoidance. His background spans product management and field-driven product development at Cisco and Vonage Business, where he helped grow product lines from millions to $100M-scale revenue. Chris combines deep hands-on expertise in WAN/LAN, data center migrations, UC/CC architectures, and real-time multimedia systems with board-level advisory experience on AI, blockchain, and go-to-market strategies. He’s equally at home authoring playbooks and SOWs as he is in the console—able to translate complex technical migrations (including mainframe consolidations) into measurable business outcomes. Based in Phoenix, he brings a pragmatic blend of operational rigor, sales-aligned product insight, and security-first thinking.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration, Business Administration at University of Phoenix
Github Skills (18)
puppet10
r10k10
puppet-enterprise9
gitlab8
bolt7
release-management7
deployment-automation7
pcf7
maintenance6
logging5
github5
infrastructure-management4
gateway3
testing3
forge2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chlawren/control-repo
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
A control repository template
Contributions:19 PRs, 399 pushes, 12 branches in 9 months
template
chrislorro/cloudfile
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 month
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