Summary
Christopher Horner is an Information Security Program Director in San Diego with 11 years of IT and security leadership experience and a prior decade of military communications and readiness management. He designs and operationalizes enterprise security architectures and SOC operations, leading migrations to O365/Azure, identity and endpoint defenses, pen-tests, and deployment of advanced tools like CrowdStrike, Darktrace, CyberArk and LogRhythm. Comfortable at the intersection of technical delivery and executive planning, he represents IT on senior management teams and drives disaster recovery, vendor risk assessments, and cross-domain integration. His background spans hands-on engineering, project leadership, and people management—from leading an eight-person infrastructure team to managing high-priority Office 365 incidents at scale. A self-described "hacker and slacker," he pairs a pragmatic, sometimes irreverent approach with formal credentials including a master's in IT management and a graduate certificate in information security.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information Systems Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Systems Technology at Seminole State College of Florida
Masters Information Technology Management, Masters Information Technology Management at Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
English