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\subsection*{Core}
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    \begin{description*}
        \item[GitHub:] github.com/christopherkeller, github.com/datanexus
        \item[Languages:] C, Python, Go, Unix Shell, \textsc{SQL}
        \item[Data:] My\textsc{SQL}, Postgre\textsc{SQL}, NoSQL, Cassandra, Kafka
        \item[Virtualization:] AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, Linux KVM, Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker
        \item[DevOps:] Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform
        \item[Concepts:] technical strategy \& leadership, mentoring, distributed systems, data, infrastructure, automation, configuration management
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\subsection*{Patents}

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    \item
    \headerrow
        {\textbf{(submitted) 2018 Orchestration of cloud based data collection, integration, and routing} {\emph{Co-Author}}}
        {\textbf{DataNexus}}
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\subsection*{Certifications}

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        {\textbf{2022 CompTIA Security+}}
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        {\textbf{2013 CSC Solutions Architect, National Public Sector}}
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\subsection*{Experience}
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      \item\
          \headerrow {\textbf{ASRC Federal}} {\textbf{Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL}}
          \headerrow {\emph{Fellow in Information Engineering}} {\emph{Since October, 2021}}
          \begin{itemize*}
            \item Assist OCTO IR\&D development of RIOT data platform
            \item Provide technical foundations for D\&I RFI responses
            \item Serve as expert technologist for both D\&I and ITS executive leadership
            \begin{itemize}
              \item Advise OCTO on setting up and using Enterprise GitHub
            \end{itemize}
            \item Develop and maintain relationship with commercial technology vendors: Red Hat, Databricks, Confluent, Elastic
            \item Set up and mainting cloud labs, budgets, and usage guard rails: AWS, Azure
            \item Participate in corporate engineering initiatives
            \begin{itemize}
              \item Present at internal technical summits to peers and leadership: 2022, 2023
              \item Participate in Centers of Excellence
            \end{itemize}
          \end{itemize*}
          \headerrow {\emph{DISA UCSA Technical Lead}} {\emph{Since March, 2022}}
          \begin{itemize*}
            \item Own technical architectures and future strategy across all UCSA projects
            \item Lead ASRC and sub-contractor engineering teams in design \& implementation of customer requirements
            \begin{itemize}
              \item platform engineering: physical and cloud infrastructure, networking, tooling
              \item application engineering: Big Data Platform, Centaur, JIMS, Kafka, Splunk, Enterprise
              \item data engineering: observability, data \& analytics
            \end{itemize}
            \item Serve as expert technologist to both customer and ASRC PMO
            \item Facilitate knowledge transfer and training in the form of staff hackathons for both ASRC \& partner engineers
            \item Mentor ASRC staff in both technical and internal career development
          \end{itemize*}
          \headerrow {\emph{DISA UCSA Executive IT Consultant}} {\emph{Since October, 2021}}
          \begin{itemize*}
            \item Enhance Kafka \& NiFi reliability through best practices in capacity planning, performance tuning, architecture and automation
            \item Establish documentation for 100+ data pipelines, data onboarding requirements, data integration with IBM Watson
            \item Mentor ASRC \& partner team in terms of training, skill sets, technical career path
          \end{itemize*}
          
      \item\
          \headerrow {\textbf{Slower, LLC}} {\textbf{Costa Mesa, CA}}
          \headerrow {\emph{Pre \& Post Sales Architect}} {\emph{May, 2021 -- October, 2021}}
          \begin{itemize*}
            \item Work with clients from initial proposal stage to final delivery for technology engagements: Disney, Honda Racing
            \begin{itemize}
              \item Financial success story: promote to production first non-Confluent Multi-Region Kafka cluster \& data pipelines for Capital Group
            \end{itemize}
              \end{itemize*}
      
      \item\
          \headerrow {\textbf{Keller Technology Ventures, LLC}} {\textbf{Simpsonville, SC}}
          \headerrow {\emph{Partner}} {\emph{Since 2019}}
        	\headerrow
            {\emph{Consulting Architect}}
            {\emph{February, 2020 -- April, 2021}}
          \begin{itemize*}
            \item Work with Slower, LLC and their clients as both remote and on-premise resource for data platforms, cloud infrastructure, automation, and data platform architectures and implementation
            \begin{itemize}
              \item Entertainment success story: develop Terraform v0.12+ automation for containerized Airflow in AWS production environment for Riot games, develop initial proof-of-concept work in migrating large AWS data platform to GCP
              \item Automotive success story: deliver automated Kafka based data platform for Advance Auto Parts, deliver CI/CD pipelines and associated tooling for ingress and egress of data
              \item Finance success story: deliver fully automated low-latency, multi-region Kafka based data platform for Capital Group
            \end{itemize}
              \end{itemize*}
     
      \item\
          \headerrow {\textbf{DataNexus, Inc}} {\textbf{Guffey, CO}}
          \headerrow {\emph{Co-Founder \& Chief Technology Officer}} {\emph{December, 2016 -- April, 2021}}
          \begin{itemize*}
            \item Responsible for product architecture and engineering of distributed streaming data platform
            \begin{itemize}
              \item Automated installation \& configuration of core components, networking, and API web services centered on infrastructure as code: Go, Python, Ansible, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Kafka, Solr, Elasticsearch, Hadoop
              \item Commercial overlays offering TLS encryption and key/certificate lifecycle management 
              \item Integration and intelligent orchestration with public and on-premise cloud offerings and components: AWS, Azure, OpenStack, Openshift, KVM, S3, Azure IOT Hub
              \item Develop in-stream MDM approach utilizing filtering and masking: multi-process Python, KSQL
            \end{itemize}
            \item Architecture for DataTrust blockchain to address consumer data privacy laws (GDPR): Hyperledger
            \item Work with C-level and VP-level clients to upscale workforce: mentorship, open source, CM, CI/CD, DevOps, and embracing a culture of change
            \item Insurance success story: migrated to a hybrid cloud architecture and installed multi-cloud MDM data platform
            \item Healthcare success story: increased data throughput by a factor of five and reduced time to deploy by a factor of twenty utilizing overlays from DataNexus platform
            \item Education success story: deploy DataNexus platform for University of California San Diego
          \end{itemize*}
  	
    \item
      \headerrow
      {\textbf{ClimateMonkeys}}
      {\textbf{Damascus, MD}}

      \headerrow
  		{\emph{Advisor}}
  		{\emph{May, 2015 - February, 2017}}
  	\begin{itemize*}
  		\item Technical and business advisor to founding team; primarily focused on building a climate data platform emphasizing hybrid-cloud scalability and optimizing operational costs
  	\end{itemize*}
  
    \item\
        \headerrow {\textbf{CSC}} {\textbf{Falls Church, VA}}
        \headerrow {\emph{Senior Principal Architect, Office of the CTO Global Infrastructure}} {\emph{January, 2016 -- November, 2016}}
        \begin{itemize*}
            \item Devise and implement technical strategy for offerings
                \begin{itemize*}
                  \item Focus on infrastructure, scaleable configuration management practices, and development automation: Enterprise GitHub, Ansible Tower, Docker
                \end{itemize*}
        \end{itemize*}
        \headerrow {\emph{Senior Principal Architect, Office of the CTO Emerging Business Offerings}} {\emph{January, 2015 -- December, 2015}}
        \begin{itemize*}
            \item Serve as backup for the CTO focusing on: training \& enablement, big data, cyber security, mobility, social, IoT, cloud, next generation infrastructure
            \begin{itemize*}
              \item Build out data center for CoE for Emerging Technologies in Austin, Texas
              \item Solve and deliver PCI, FISMA, HIPAA compliance certifications for Cloudera \& HortonWorks
            \end{itemize*}
            \item Evaluate and recommend acquisition targets based on alignment with global strategy
            \item Responsible for integration of partner and vendor technologies into CSC reference architectures and go-to-market strategies    
              \begin{itemize*}
                \item Dell, Dispersive Technologies, EMC, Intel, Lenovo, Cloudera, DataStax, Docker, HortonWorks, RedHat, Arista, Brocade, Cisco
              \end{itemize*}
        \end{itemize*}
        \headerrow {\emph{Principal Architect, Office of the CTO Big Data \& Analytics}} {\emph{July, 2014 -- December, 2014}}
        \begin{itemize*}
            \item Primary architect for the Big Data Platform as a Service: Infochimps Hadoop, AWS, OpenStack
        \end{itemize*}
        \headerrow {\emph{Principal Solutions Architect, Big Data \& Analytics}} {\emph{April, 2013 -- July, 2014}}
        \begin{itemize*}
            \item Assist in the design and creation of a big data solution and delivery center: Hadoop, Infochimps
            \item Lead architect for ClimatEdge\texttrademark\ : Python, C, MySQL, R, Jenkins
            \item Lead architect on SOR data acquisition project for internal analytical platform
        \end{itemize*}
        \headerrow {\emph{Principal Systems Security Leader}} {\textbf{NASA Ames Research Center, CA}}
        \headerrow {} {\emph{November, 2007 -- April, 2013}}
    \begin{itemize*}
        \item Mentor staff, lead implementation efforts, deliver strategy, and ensure on--time delivery of all projects while maintaining adherence to all Federal compliance mandates: FISMA, FDCC, NIST 800-53
        \item Architect and build a scalable event management system: Cassandra, Python, Jenkins, Rails
        \item Design virtualized infrastructure, ReSTful APIs, and web services to deliver security relevant data in real--time: Xen, Puppet, Python, PHP
	\end{itemize*}

  \item
    \headerrow
        {\textbf{Advanced Management Technology, Inc}}
        {\textbf{NASA Ames Research Center, CA}}
  	\headerrow
  		{\emph{Senior Systems Architect, Information Security}}
  		{\emph{August, 2006 -- November, 2007}}
  	\begin{itemize*}
          \item Develop a perimeter security architecture for protecting NASA Top 500 supercomputers: Linux, C, Shell
          \item Oversee ARC first certifications for NIST, FISMA, and HSPD--12 compliant security systems along with NASA first ArcSight SIEM installation
	\end{itemize*}
  
  	\headerrow
      {\emph{Senior Systems Architect, Tools \& Infrastructure}}
      {\emph{January, 2004 -- August, 2006}}
      \begin{itemize*}
          \item Refactor tools group with a focus on practical applications of technology to NASA, efficiency and cost savings: MySQL, Sybase, Python, CMMI, OTRS
      \end{itemize*}

    \headerrow
    {\emph{Senior Software Engineer, Information Power Grid}}
    {\emph{September, 2003 -- January, 2004}}
    \begin{itemize*}
        \item Develop NASA’s Information Power Grid and Marshall Space Flight Center ISS science portal: Globus Toolkit
    \end{itemize*}

	\item
    \headerrow
    {\textbf{Interclypse}}
    {\textbf{San Jose, CA}}
    \headerrow
		{\emph{Founder}}
		{\emph{August, 2003 -- December, 2004}}
	\begin{itemize*}
		\item Founded company to provide an aggressive open source migration strategy to U.S. DoD: Linux kernel tuning, Oracle RAC, Solaris
	\end{itemize*}

	\item
	\headerrow
		{\textbf{BeamReach Networks, Inc}}
		{\textbf{Sunnyvale, CA}}
	\\
	\headerrow
		{\emph{Senior Systems \& Software Engineer}}
		{\emph{March, 2001 -- August, 2003}}
	\begin{itemize*}
		\item After significant staff reduction, performed all aspects of CIO role, including security threat assessments
		\item Architect and program a multi-tiered testing framework for Integration and Test effort: Postgres, Oracle 8i/9i, C, PHP, Java
	\end{itemize*}

	\item
	\headerrow
		{\textbf{ePropose, Inc}}
		{\textbf{San Francisco, CA}}
	\\
	\headerrow
		{\emph{Senior Software Engineer}}
		{\emph{January, 2000 -- March, 2001}}
	\begin{itemize*}
		\item Lead engineer in Release Management Infrastructure group; automated generation of API's, continuous delivery, and automated platform builds
		\item Developer in Professional Services; analyzed client requirements and developed custom changes as needed: Java
	\end{itemize*}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{Science Applications International Corporation}}
		{\textbf{Annapolis, MD}}
	\\
	\headerrow
		{\emph{Senior Software Engineer}}
		{\emph{November, 1995 -- January, 2000}}
	\begin{itemize*}
		\item Task lead, and data \& algorithm architect on world's largest classified Oracle installation: Solaris, NetApp, Java, Perl, HTML, Bourne/C shell, \CPP, Perl, JavaScript, HTML, Cisco, XML, XSL-T, CSS
		\item Remote development lead for NIMA's imagery system: Perl, C, \CPP, X/Motif, Sybase
	\end{itemize*}

	\item\
	\headerrow
		{\textbf{University of Maryland, Department of Astronomy}}
		{\textbf{Goddard Space Flight Center, MD}}
	\\
	\headerrow
		{\emph{Research Assistant}}
		{\emph{April, 1991 -- November, 1995}}
	\begin{itemize*}
		\item Assist University of Maryland professor in geophysical and remote sensing research by programming an autonomous ETL system: HPUX, C, Unix Shell, IDL
	\end{itemize*}
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\subsection*{Awards}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2017 Global Innovation} for {\emph{Cloud Innovation}} \& {\emph{Open Source Way}}}
		{\textbf{RedHat}}
  \item
	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2014 Papers Winner} for {\emph{A Big Data Approach to ClimatEdge\texttrademark}}}
		{\textbf{CSC}}

	\item
	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2010 Group Honor Award} for {\emph{Security Architecture and Development Innovation}}}
		{\textbf{NASA Ames Research Center}}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2008 Group Achievement Award} for {\emph{IT Security Practices}} }
		{\textbf{NASA Ames Research Center}}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2007 Certificate of Appreciation} for {\emph{Outstanding Performance}}}
		{\textbf{NASA Ames Research Center}}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2007 Commendation} for {\emph{Data Warehouse Design, Development, Delivery}} }
		{\textbf{NASA Shuttle Orbiter Team}}

	\item
	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2005 Employee Award} for {\emph{Outstanding Performance}} }
		{\textbf{Advanced Management Technology, Inc}}

	\item
	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2005 Certificate of Excellence} for {\emph{Project Columbia}}}
		{\textbf{NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division}}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2005 Group Achievement Award} for {\emph{Project Columbia}}}
		{\textbf{NASA Ames Research Center}}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2004 Certificate of Excellence} for {\emph{IT Security}}}
		{\textbf{NASA Ames Research Center}}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{1997 \& 1998 Various} for {\emph{Redacted}}}
		{\textbf{US Department of Defense}}
    
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\subsection*{Presentations \& Publications}

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    \headerrow
        {\textbf{2018 DataTrust Identity Ledger} {\emph{Co-Author}} }
        {\textbf{DataNexus}}
 
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    \headerrow
        {\textbf{2013 A Big Data Approach to ClimatEdge\texttrademark} {\emph{Author}}}
        {\textbf{CSC NSL Institute Thesis}}

    \item
	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2013 COTS to Cassandra} {\emph{Author}}}
		{\textbf{Software Developers Journal} {\emph{Vol 2, No. 1 2013}}}
		
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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2012 Cassandra Users Group} presenting {\emph{Real World Cassandra at NASA}}}
		{\textbf{Vienna, VA \& San Mateo, CA}}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2012 Investor Big Data Day} {\emph{Panelist}}}
		{\textbf{New York, NY}}
	
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    \headerrow
		{\textbf{2010 CENIC Conference Speaker} presenting {\emph{Representational State Transfer (REST) in Practice}}}
		{\textbf{Monterey, CA}}
    
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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{2006 The Tension Between Strong Perimeter Control and Usability} {\emph{Co-author}}}
		{\textbf{NASA Ames Research Center, CA}}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{1996 Java By Example} {\emph{Contributor}}}
		{\textbf{Sams Publishing}}

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\subsection*{Education}

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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{CSC NPS Solution Leadership Institute}}
		{\textbf{Falls Church, VA}}
	\headerrow
		{\emph{Solutions Architecture}}
		{\emph{2012--2013}}
	
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	\headerrow
		{\textbf{University of Maryland}}
    {\textbf{College Park, MD}}
  \headerrow {\emph{University of Maryland University College, Department of Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science}} {\emph{1994 -- 1996}}
  \headerrow {\emph{University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science}} {\emph{1990 -- 1994}}
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