Christopher Barnett Email & Phone Number

Reston, VA, US

• Executive lead driving corporate-wide scientific and technology strategy for a $550M firm in the areas of cyber security, artificial intelligence / machine learning, life sciences, model-based systems engineering.
• General Manager responsible for the multi-million dollar internal research and development (R&D) portfolio, aligning scientific and technical research to client outcomes and strategic growth objectives.
• Conceptualized, launched and manage five Research and Innovation Centers focused on scientific and technology innovation in the domains of artificial intelligence / machine learning, cyber security, counter weapons of.
• Launched the Cyber Innovation Research Center (CIRC) developing a host of services and analytic solutions to counter cyber threats facing our Clients
• Built or transformed eight scientific and technology lab, test, and evaluation environments
• Engage clients across Defense, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, and Federal Civilian accounts, providing exceptional experiences while selling our services and solutions.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Launched and executed cyber-security, cloud, application development, and mission analytics strategy and technology initiatives for $1.4B division and $5B IT business unit.
• Provided leadership, oversight, and technical expertise for GDIT to include: - Increasing General Dynamics’ market share in security and cloud-based services and consulting. - Enhancing cross-divisional coordination.
• Representing General Dynamics on industry and government panels and supporting cyber security and cloud-services marketing campaigns.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Drive cyber-security strategy and technology initiatives for $1.2B division and $5B IT business unit.
• Led transformation analysis for the General Dynamics Security Operations Center (GDSOC), refocused mission from basic response to intelligence collection, threat fusion, and adversarial activity analysis.
• Providing leadership, oversight, and technical expertise for GDIT cyber security activities to include:o Increasing General Dynamics’ market share in security services and consulting.o Enhancing cross-divisional.
• Direct and participate in technology pilots on 25,000-person enterprise in the areas of insider threat, fraud detection, and indicator/intelligence sharing platforms.
• Mentor mid and junior-level cyber security technical staff; function as a catalyst for attracting and retaining cyber security talent; develop staff training and retention plans with Human Resources.
• Developed methodology for organizations to adopt the Risk Management Framework (RMF) per associated NIST 800-53 and 800-37 guidance.

• Led security control analysis and mitigation selection efforts for various programs and the Federal cloud line of business
• Led Federal government initiatives for adoption of network defense, host security and insider threat solutions
• Spearheaded initiative across the 16 agencies of the Intelligence Community developing the operating model for sharing computer network defense information and coordinating activities in the face of cyber attack
• Executive Manager for multi-million dollar portfolio of information security programs and services
• Technical advisor, cyber operations, at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and the Director of National Intelligence, Office of Chief Information Officer

Falls Church, VA, US

• Key member of the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative Task Force defining information security and risk management solutions to protect National Security; received CIO Stewardship Award for Excellence
• As senior advisor within the Office of the DNI CIO, spearheaded several concurrent programs to improve the information assurance and computer network defense posture of the federal enterprise
• Led or supported capture of opportunities to expand Northrop Grumman’s $6B global security, cyber and C4ISR businesses
• Drove conceptualization, development and launch of new security services and technology offerings across business units
• Leveraged research partnerships with universities and several small businesses in the areas of insider threat detection, threat alert services and intelligence analysis
• Led deployment and integration of company-wide PII/intellectual property protection suite and various custom analysis capabilities

Falls Church, VA, US

• Led operations and defense of Department of Defense networks and information across strategic, operational, and tactical boundaries at the Joint Task Force Global Network Operations (now US Cyber Command)
• Senior scientific advisor on multiple digital security/defense and policy efforts impacting 3 million military personnel; led analysis of network threats and the changing technology landscape to improve DoD network.
• Tenaciously drove transformation of enterprise-wide sensor suite and cyber analyst tools
• Pioneered a high technology intelligence-gathering infrastructure; driving down budgeted customer costs while exceeding predicted end product capability
• Co-lead to Department of Defense-wide data at rest protection implementation effort; conceptualized mitigation roadmap, led deployment of solutions and implemented policy to protect the private information of 3.5.
• Coordinated information sharing among operations, intelligence, law enforcement, counter intelligence and the investigative community leading to unprecedented cooperation in arrests and prevention of cyber crimes

Mclean, VA, US

• Launched several key programs ensuring protection of globally dispersed, high risk customer data
• Led transformation of cross-enterprise laboratory to stand up red team/penetration testing and assessment services
• Served as evaluator, advisor and solution expert for government clients on a diverse set of technologies including advanced sensors, intrusion detection systems, VPN and incident/data warehousing solutions
• Developed test plans, configuration guides, security policy and product assessment documents
• Delivered policy framework, operational process plan, and first ever technical execution roadmap for deploying Computer Security Incident Response Teams within several government agencies

US

• Architected, developed and deployed four mission-critical distributed applications
• Penetration tester evaluating various Client applications and network security controls

Successfully launched two new product lines, led turnaround of software development product line and developed and executed plan for multi-phase rapid product development

Planned and managed system development, Web Service design/deployment and all business operations (sales, service pricing, marketing, etc.) of a start-up Internet Service Provider

Led analysis and forecast of federal budget focused on defense, macro economic and health care policy.

Transaction analyst and market forecaster, Mergers and Acquisitions group.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General

Engineer'S Degree, Information Security Risk Management

Master'S Degree, Information Systems-Comp Sci

Engineer'S Degree, Unix And C/C+ Programing

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics