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Andrew Birner

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Principal Cyber Security Architect at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas
📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States

Andrew Birner is a Principal Cyber Security Architect with over three decades of experience in IT. He specializes in enterprise security, information assurance, and network architecture for Blue Cross and Blue Shield. He holds an MBA in International Business from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

Outside of his professional work, Andrew is an active musician. He plays both the acoustic guitar and electric bass for Second Chance, the contemporary worship band at his local church in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

Unique fact: Andrew is the bassist and a guitarist for his churchs contemporary worship band.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Principal Cyber Security Architect
Location
Greater Chicago Area, United States
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Cybersecurity Architecture
As a Principal Cyber Security Architect at a major health insurer, this is his primary area of professional focus and expertise.
Enterprise IT Security
His career includes long tenures focusing on large-scale IT and application security at corporations like W. W. Grainger, Inc.
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Career

Work history

10-2021
Principal Cyber Security Architect
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas
10-2014 - 11-2015
Systems Security Architectural Consultant
HCSC (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma & Texas)
2014 - 9-2014
IT Professional -- Security, Enterprise Architecture, Networks
Eagerly anticipating the next chapter in my career!
W.W. Grainger, Inc.
17 yrs 1 mo
Zenith Electronics Corporation
17 yrs 1 mo
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Education
2007 - 2011
MBA
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management
1985 - 1991
MS
Illinois Institute of Technology
1976 - 1981
BA
Hope College
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