Christopher Barker, M.S., PMP, ACP

Education: Master of Science - MS

Cybersecurity

University of Maryland University College

2016 : 2018

Professional Certificate in Strategic Management



The Wharton School

2021 : 2021

Bachelor’s Degree

Cybersecurity

University of Maryland Global Campus

2005 : 2008

Associate’s Degree

Management Information Systems, General

University of Oklahoma

2000 : 2002

Experience: 2023 : Present

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Director of Cybersecurity & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Engineering and Operations lead (GS-14) at the Department of Justice, Asset Forfeiture Management Staff, involving 13 federal agencies across 3 departments of government. Helps manage the DOJ Assets Forfeiture Fund, the Consolidated Asset Tracking System (CATS), and government-wide contracts for administrative and professional services that employed over 1,000 people nationwide.

Directed a program providing maintenance and information management services for 17 accredited enterprise level products and 9 interfaces with external systems. In addition, supervised the network security and service maintenance required to support them.

Evaluated and adopts new technologies to meet agency’s needs to maintain a positive security posture. Also, oversees network maintenance, anti-virus detection and eradication, and hardware build outs. Works with the DOJ’s OCIO to mitigate and identify risks, perform security testing, and certify disaster recovery readiness.

Provided oversight to a cross-functional team of 150 contractors comprised of system engineers, network architects, PKI specialists, configuration managers, programmers, analysts, testers, database administrators, customer service personnel and a training development team.

2021 : 2023

Department of Justice

IT Specialist (Sysanalysis) - Engineering and Operations Manager (AFMS)

IT Specialist (SYSADMIN), GS-14 at the Program Analysis and Evaluation Directorate, Program Budget Data Management Division at HQDA DCS G-8.

Assisted in the oversight of the the Army Resource Cloud environment and the management of all IT systems that provided support during the DoD Planning, Programming and Budgeting process culminating in the annual submission of the Army’s portion of the President’s budget.

I was the lead Program Manager over the Army’s cPit application. cPit allows PEG users to augment user reported IT data to define how IT is represented in the POM. Specifically, cPIT served as the primary application used by PEG users to interface with SNAP-IT, which is used to publish the Army’s IT Budget Estimates to Congress.

I approved maintenance, enhancement and sustainment to the cPit application. I also gathered new requirements as identified by the Programming community, turning these requirements into enhancements.

2020 : 2021

HQDA DCS G-8

IT Specialist (Sysadmin)

IT Specialist (GS-13)

Assigned to the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA)/Force Protection Technology Division (FPTD) managing daily operations and projects encompassing IT in a Public Safety Access Point/First Responder environment (i.e. Emergency Operations; Police; Fire; etc.).

Incident / Problem Management :

IT Operations and Services specialist managing and ensuring confidentiality, availability,

and integrity of PFPA IT systems, network, and resources. Helps manage staff of 36 Contractor personnel responsible for service desk, network operation, systems administration, and asset management.

Change Management :

Member of the Change Advisory Board; proficient with reviewing requests for change (RFCs) from

multiple PFPA directorates in an effort to control and protect services.

Policy and Procedure Implementation :

Skilled and experienced in development of policies and processes with regard to the Operations

Management Branch, the FPTD, and overall PFPA IT Management. Ensures the integration of all systems components; e.g., procedures, databases, policies, software, and hardware to ensure system can integrate into the current environment.

Leadership and Supervision :

Manage and direct subject matter experts (SMEs) to support and deliver technical solutions for customer requirements. Monitors security-related issues with major defense policy, national security, or international security implications to inform future leadership decisions to meet PFPA’s long-range strategic plan

Project Management :

Ensures the accuracy and thoroughness in the development and implementation of complex technical solutions from inception to deployment. This includes collaborating with many of the PFPA’s federal and local mission partners (i.e. Arlington Police and Fire, DHS, FBI, etc.); reviewing, making recommendation, and approving engineering designs, plans, schedules, and project changes.

2018 : 2020

Pentagon Force Protection Agency

IT Specialist (Customer Support)

IT Specialist (GS-12).

Worked as lead System Administrator (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Database Administrator on the Enterprise Management Team.

Hand-selected as as Acting Section Chief leading the team through the deployment of Splunk throughout the Enterprise and modernization of multiple applications.

Assumed duties as Government Task Monitor; provided technical progress of contractor employees to contractor officer's representative ensuring continued success of team's projects.

Identified as subject matter expert on a contract source selection committee; Provided insight on the technical evaluation team of a multi-million-dollar contract therefore ensuring the future requirements of the organization are met by selecting the best fit applicant

Gathered and documented all user requirements from external and internal users to best support the GCCS-J mission. Led team through all facets of the project process.

Utilized DISA STIGs to ensure compliance on all Enterprise Management Linux, Solaris and database systems. Led the team through multiple Command Cyber Readiness Inspection (CCRI) inspections with an average score greater than 95% on all entrusted systems.

Participated in all aspects of policy, process, procedures, and strategy in delivery of multi-discipline IT networking services

Provided advanced technical guidance, interpretation, and implementation oversight of applicable information for security polices, processes, and practices

Ensured that the organization's network is capable of providing a wide range of services that are vital to the mission

Created and implemented custom scripts in support of the organization's mission requirements.

2009 : 2018

Defense Information Systems Agency

IT Specialist (Sysadmin)

Company: Executive Office for Immigration Review

Years of Experience: 22

Spoken Language: English