Christopher Thurlow Email & Phone Number

Greater St. Louis Area

Senior manager for ICAM Federated Single Sign-On (SSO) National Security System-designated services to US Army, US Air Force, and USTRANSCOM global transportation systems. Supports and multi-factor authenticates 800,000+ military and commercial users worldwide; manages access to 100+ systems/applications across domains and encompassing critical DOD transportation, financial, business, in-transit visibility (ITV), and scheduling information.Also directs team delivering a comprehensive set of capabilities for Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA); Helps organizations migrate to API-driven enterprise software design principles focused on ‘enterprise value’. Drives development, sharing, and sustainment of enterprise capabilities, application services, and APIs. Streamlines capabilities such as service hosting and proxying, API wrappers and management, message mediation, service security, throttling and analytics. Delivers unified approach to enterprise development, distribution, access and governance of enterprise services to achieve true distributed systems integration.API Gateway / API Publisher Application / API Store Application / Identity and Access Management / Key Management / Enterprise Integration / Message Brokering / Business Process Services (Workflows) / Web Application and Web Service Hosting / Data Analytics

Greater St. Louis Area

Illinois

Senior manager for US Transportation Command Program Executive Office (PEO) Subject Matter Expert for Capabilities Integration and Systems Development Life Cycle process. Extensive experience directing multi-disciplined teams in management of global, multi-million dollar technology project portfolios from initiation through closing. Program enabler focused on system integration & technology transition. Responsible for project/resource management, estimating, planning, and control. Crafts acquisition, cybersecurity, configuration, and risk management strategies for ~$94M IT program portfolio enabling global supply chain operations. Proven ability to collaboratively define customer requirements, and apply technology solutions to improve business process efficiency and effectiveness, and realize cost savings. Disciplined approach ensures initiatives are on-time and budget, and meet or exceed customer requirements and expectations (cost, schedule, performance)

Illinois

Senior IT manager responsible for 638-member staff. Conducted systems planning and program management for Department of Defense’s Command, Control, and business systems delivering mission-enabling communications and information capabilities. Developed, tested/certified, integrated, hosted, and sustained software applications and other systems via Agile/Scrum/XP development and continuous process improvement principles and processes supporting 173K customers.

Illinois

Managed communications planning and budget for organization with $3.1B in capital assets and $15M/year in operations and maintenance expenditures. Created strategic plans, identified technology gaps, translated strategies into requirements and engineered solutions. Developed standards, practices, and procedures. Generated plans for testing, verification, and customer acceptance. Directed Continuous Process Improvement Program for 984-person organization. Taught Lean Six Sigma concepts. Developed Key Process Indicators/Balanced Scorecards. Led Kaizen/Rapid Improvement, Strategic Alignment Deployment sessions.

Soto Cano Air Base, Republic Of Honduras

Directed operations at busiest US forward operating location in Central America. Managed 284 personnel in joint and allied air operations at 24 locations/43K square miles driving counter-transnational organized crime, humanitarian, disaster relief efforts. Exercised general supervision and leadership for 400+ personnel across 38 diverse occupations. Principal adviser on strategic planning to align operations with organizational goals and objectives.

Illinois

On behalf of Air Force CIO, managed all Air Force IA/Cyber Security policy, process, guidance, & enforcement in organization of 386 experts. Evaluated cyber & intelligence systems on security matters related to design, integration, & sustainment. Enforced IA/Cyber Security strategy/standards & certified systems. Advised IA/Cyber Security experts from DOD to base-levels; maintained institutional compliance.

Illinois

Integrated capabilities/standards into government acquisitions through test, analysis, and verification prior to system fielding; throughout lifecycle. Advised 19 regional divisions worldwide. Determined manpower and training requirements for 47K IT professionals

Illinois

Devised command, control, communications, computer, and Intelligence operations event assessment, notification, re-direction and recovery plans synchronizing DoD responses/actions. Delivered 140 classified enterprise status briefings to senior leaders with full-spectrum operations expertise arming key decision-makers with 24/7 situational awareness of the $337M and 75K+ user enterprise. Tracked 12 stateside and 34 deployed location airfields as well as 18 command and control systems. Delivered visibility of operations impacting global missions to United States Transportation Command, Air Mobility Command, The Defense Information Systems Agency, and 18th Air Force enabling rapid global mobility in support of United States interests worldwide.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Project Management

Activities and Societies: National Honor SocietyMBA program w/ Program and Project Management emphasis

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Administration, Management And Operations, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Student Senate PresidentBusiness and Operations Management

Associates Degree, Information Technology

Associate'S Degree, Electronics Technology