Chief security officer

Chad Skipper

CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER - BLACKSTRATUS

Austin, TX

Dynamic and well-rounded product management and marketing executive in developing
security intelligence technology, capabilities in detection, management, monitoring,
situational awareness and security intelligence mitigation solutions. Chad has a strong
understanding of network security technologies and key business drivers for the
enterprise, mid market, and commercial business segments. With 15+ years experience in
all aspects of Internet Security, product management and marketing of security
technologies, services, engineering, administration, and sales engagements with excellent
team collaboration.

Work Experience

CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER

BLACKSTRATUS

August 2011 to Present

Strategic executive management and delivery responsibilities of BlackStratus MSP product line
offerings of SIEM and Logging for direct, SaaS and channels.
• Direct executive leadership in execution of product launches, guiding and advising a cross
functional team from product management, marketing, engineering, sales, customer service, and finance teams.
• As the security authority for the BlackStratus product line, responsible for delivery of the vision and message to partners and channels.
• Developed vision, strategy, positioning, messaging, pricing, and licensing strategies.

Sr. Manager, Product Management

CISCO SYSTEMS

April 2008 to August 2011

Cisco Remote Management Services for Security
• P&L Ownership and Responsibility for Ciscos multi-million dollar Managed and Hosted security
services.($22M)
• Product managed from service inception to service release Cisco IronPort Hosted and Managed E-
Mail Security Services. The first Cisco security hybrid-hosted service competing and displacing
Google and Microsoft
• Managed Security Product Management team consisting of Product Management, Technical
Marketing and Product Marketing.
• Introduction of 24 new Managed Security Service technologies increased bookings 60% YoY.
• Product managed collaborative white-labeled security services platform producing security
situational awareness by leveraging tools, process and people to obtain 99% reduction of security
events into actionable security intelligence.

Product Manager

Cisco Security Manager & Cisco Security-MARS

April 2005 to April 2008

• CSM 3,000+ units for revenue since 4/06 FCS; FY07E: $6M -> $9M -> $12.3M; 140,000+ sold
device licenses. 57,795 device licenses in Q1FY08
• Product Manager for CS-MARS. CS-MARS is a family of high performance, scalable threat
mitigation appliances that fortify deployed network devices and security countermeasures by combining network intelligence, events correlation, and mitigation capability which empowers
companies to readily identify, manage and eliminate network attacks and maintain compliance.
• CS-MARS $50M and CSM $12M revenue supports Cisco STG $1B product line as the enterprise solution for management of Cisco IPS, PIX, ASA, VPN, FWSM, IDSM and other
routing and switching security technologies and third party security technologies.
• Responsible for all aspects of product marketing strategies and management, collateral,
requirements, industry insight, customer engagements, promotion, pricings, and customer
relationships surrounding CSM and MARS.
• Participate in setting direction and business strategy at business and developing levels of CSM and MARS
• Develop long and short term marketing objectives to solve marketing problems and aid in its
decision making

Software Engineer

CISCO SYSTEMS

December 2002 to May 2005

Cisco IPS and Threat Response
• Lead Dev-Test Engineer for Cisco Threat Response and Cisco IPS product lines
• Developed and maintained automation suite using Java, Sybase, and Tomcat
• Developed automation suite of live attacks against vulnerable and non-vulnerable targets
• Created master test plans
• Performed automated stress and performance testing with viewable process matrix
• Performed Dev-Test duties on the migration of CTR into Security Monitor

Security Contractor (Exploitation Engineer)

BLADE SOFTWARE - REDSEAL

September 2002 to December 2002

Developed new exploit architecture of their security assessment tools including IDS Informer and Firewall Informer

Manager, SQA Engineering

SYMANTEC CORP

November 1999 to September 2002

Manage a team of 16 SQA Engineers, consisting of two test departments within an extreme
programming environment (XP)
• Ensure full automated certification test coverage of all development products including
Host/Network IDS, VPNs and Firewalls
• Supported Symantec Security Response on all aspects of security updates for all products
• Development of 24-hour automated regression test framework to include full network bandwidth
saturation.
• Speaker Black Hat Conference 2001 - Polymorphism and IDS
• Speaker WebSec Conference 2001 - Polymorphism and IDS

Systems Administrator

TRIDENT DATA SYSTEMS

November 1997 to November 1999

Systems Administrator

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE

1994 to 1997

Education

BS in Management/Computer Information Systems

Park University

Skills

Product Management, Product Marketing, Executive Leadership, P&L, Forecasting, Visionary

Additional Information

Self-motivated and organized professional skilled in orchestrating tasks & details to achieve
overall project goals while effectively communicating project status, issues, oversight,
and future roadmaps at all organization levels: engineering & executive.