Christopher Lowder Email & Phone Number

Anaheim, Ca, Us

Manager of product security for entire business products and solutions.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

- Manage a team of 9 engineers for air vehicle product cyber security architecture and design.- Lead bi-weekly meetings with USG through Cyber Working Group.- Work with program and Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) on the initial proposal effort that consisted of a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), a full Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), other required documentation to give USG confidence in our ability to manage this project over a 10 year period.- Participated in answering of Evaluation Notices (ENs) from USG towards the Final Proposal Request (FPR).- Derived Bell Tier 1 requirements specification from the USG System Performance Specification (SPS), Annex, FVL Architectural Framework (FAF), and Airworthiness Advanced Qualification Program (AQP) specification.- Derived and allocated Tier 2 requirements for approximately 34 subsystems within the FVL air vehicle platform along with the requirements for the off-board system.- Successfully briefed USG on Product Cyber Security content and status through two major milestones (Delta-IDRR and IDFR).- All program and architectural design content being driven through an engineering systems modeling approach (SysML).- Continuous interfacing and collaboration with the different IPTs (Systems Engineering, Air Vehicle Systems and Mission Systems) and their subsystems.- Ensured delivery of product cyber security contract deliverables during this Competitive Demonstration & Risk Reduction (CD&RR) phase(s).

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

- Initial scrub of and additional revision of Tier 0 requirements from USG against existing revision.- Review of all USG delivered Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation for product cyber security implications o Preparation of Statement of Work (SOW) questions to USG and requirement rework.- Promoted to program lead position within two and a half weeks.- Product Cyber Security interface to all program level duties to include: o Preparation and briefing PowerPoint slide status to Bell leadership and USG o Preparation and status tracking of Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) o Attendance and statusing within all leadership level meetings.

Anaheim, Ca, Us

- Worked with third party compliance laboratory and development engineering on Common Criteria artifacts for entry towards certification.- Prepared and guided products throught JITC process for approval and certification onto the DoDIN APL.- Gave initial guidance on cybersecurity for SaaS potential product(s).- Gave guidance on cybersecurity requirements necessary for control product design platform.

Anaheim, Ca, Us

• Created and cultivated relationships in a Systems Design Engineering Business Development role.• Created new account and strengthened existing accounts. • Supported customers through system level designs plus product and/or engineering questions.• Customer Base: - Federal government- all branches of military, courts, NASA and many of the 3-letter agencies - State and local government offices - Healthcare- hospitals and suppliers - Corporate- oil & gas, insurance, and law firms - Commercial and general aviation• Supported military trade shows such as NCSI and AFCEA.• Helped guide cyber architecture, engineering, and Product Development efforts for Extron branded platform(s) utilizing regulatory compliance IAW: DoD Unified Capabilities Requirements (UCR); ISO/IEC 15408 (NIAP/Common Criteria); ISO/IEC 15288; ISO/IEC 27000; ISO 31000; NIST SPs 800-37, 800-53r4, 800-90x, 800-131A, 800-133, and 800-160; FIPS 140-2, 197, and 200; DISA STIGs/SRGs; FISMA; HIPPA; GLB; PCI DSS; and SOX.

• Successfully led our team in directing the Department of Defense Information Network (DoDIN) Approved Products List (APL) Certification & Accreditation (C&A) process for a $3.2 million project comprising three independent AMX branded Video Distribution System suites and over 50 products. Oversaw and supported Cybersecurity and interoperability testing that occurred in 2017 at SPAWAR, JB Charleston, SC. • Successfully led our team in directing the Unified Capabilities (UC) APL C&A process for legacy AMX product suite of over 25 products. Cybersecurity and interoperability testing occurred in 2013 at the JITC, Ft Huachuca, AZ.• Guided cyber architecture, engineering, and DevOps efforts for AMX branded platform(s) combining Product Managements marketing requirements and regulatory compliance IAW: DoD Unified Capabilities Requirements (UCR); ISO/IEC 15408 (NIAP/Common Criteria); ISO/IEC 15288; ISO/IEC 27000; ISO 31000; NIST SPs 800-37, 800-53r4, 800-90x, 800-131A, 800-133, and 800-160; FIPS 140-2, 197, and 200; DISA STIGs/SRGs; FISMA; HIPPA; GLB; PCI DSS; and SOX.• As vendor, developed original artifact documentation in support of SPAWAR Risk Management Framework (RMF) cyber engineering effort. Supported control families included Access Control (AC), Audit and Accountability (AU), Identification and Authentication (IA), Maintenance (MA), System and Communications Protection (SC), and System and Information Integrity (SI).• Supported US Army Certificate of Networthiness (CoN) C&A efforts for AMX software packages. • Supported Harman International Government/Military sales team as senior application and network engineer. Directly influenced over $20 million in sales to USN SPAWAR, NCSI, USAISEC, NASA, and other USG customers worldwide, including both legacy and network-based video systems sales.• Directed AMX brand compliance for financial service cybersecurity (FINSEC) for multiple customers, including Bank of America.

• Managed two teams, integration test engineering and verification test engineering, for the Access Inteleflex product and First Mile Manager product.• Developed a new process to introduce and include integration as a phase of test through development engineering. • Redesigned the regression lab to creatively test all features in a limited amount of time with limited amounts of test equipment shared by all engineers. • Performed integration and verification of hardware/software for the Access Inteleflex product (ATM over SONET) and the GUI management interface, First Mile Manager.

Performed platform and system level integration of hardware and software components of the RCP-700 media gateway product plus organized and performed in-house customer demos.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

• Managed a team of 12 engineers developing our team’s charter, scope and responsibilities for the ATM over SONET/SDH Virtual Path Switched Ring product. Utilized MS Project for maintaining the team’s schedule.• Created a mentor program where each engineer had the task of training the rest of the team on an assigned feature. • Led the team in putting together a proposal for an automation platform that would encompass any existing automation within the Cellworx product. • Planned and coordinated training efforts for the entire engineering development staff. • Performed integration of hardware/software for ATM over SONET/SDH Virtual Path Switched Ring including the following: Access Interface cards carrying ATM with data rates of T1, T3, M13, OC3, OC12, OC48, ADSL, and T1/E1 Frame Relay down to the SNMP level. • Technical sales support for onsite military demo of the OC48 hardware/software feature.

• Performed integration and automation of hardware/software/firmware using electrical transmission data rates E1 and T0-T3 for narrowband cross connects, T3 and STM1, optical transmission data rates STM4, OC3, and OC12 for SONET/SDH broadband cross connects. • Led cross connect test effort at a T0-T3 rate from system level down to component level, team leader of yield improvement team, and generated test procedures for newly released functional test stands for SONET/SDH at board level.

Performed testing and troubleshooting of F-16 flight simulators from system level down to component level.