Chris Stephan
About Chris Stephan
Chris Stephan is a Professional Services Engineer at Arista Networks with extensive experience in network security and telecommunications.
Title and Current Position
Chris Stephan is a Professional Services Engineer currently working at Arista Networks. He began his tenure at Arista Networks in 2021, where he applies his extensive expertise in network engineering and security. His role involves providing professional services to clients, ensuring robust and secure networking solutions.
Professional Background
Chris Stephan has held various significant positions throughout his career. Prior to joining Arista Networks, he served as Sr. Network Security Engineer at Norlem Technology Consulting from 2020 to 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He also worked at ONEOK as Sr. Telecommunications Systems Engineer for seven years, from 2013 to 2020, and at Williams Company in multiple roles including Sr. Network Analyst/Network Field Support from 2010 to 2013 and Network Engineer from 2006 to 2008. Additionally, he has experience as Sr. Network Engineer/Architect at Oklahoma State University from 2008 to 2010 and as a Network Specialist at ConocoPhillips from 2001 to 2003.
Business Ownership
Chris Stephan owned and operated iNGyn Technology Group from 2006 to 2021. Over these 15 years, he garnered substantial expertise in various aspects of network engineering and security, providing consultancy and networking solutions tailored to client needs. His role as owner allowed him to deeply understand business enablement through automation and minimize service outages.
Education and Certifications
Chris Stephan completed his Bachelor of Science degree at Oklahoma State University between 2010 and 2016, and an Associate's degree at Tulsa Community College between 2006 and 2008. He holds numerous professional certifications including PCNSE, PSE-STRATA-PRO, CCNP, CCDP, MCSE, ACMP, JNCIP, and N+. These certifications underscore his expertise in network security, telecommunications, and various programming languages.
Areas of Expertise
Chris Stephan has extensive expertise in security segmentation of industrial automation networks and specializes in scalable internet route policy and highly available WAN/LAN carrier-agnostic transport. He is proficient in an array of programming languages including TCL, Python, Lua, C/C++, C#, VB.NET, Ecmascript, Java, Linux, and FreeBSD. He has a strong focus on business enablement through automation and minimizing service outages, particularly within the energy industry where he has 17 years of experience.