Speaker Bio
A leader of Booz Allen’s Chief Technology Office (CTO) BrightLabs organization whose goal is to experiment, prototype, and bring to market new, emerging technologies of impact to Government and industry. In this role, Mr. Christou serves as the lead for Booz Allen’s 5G/NextG suite of offerings. This involves leading the development of Booz Allen’s 5G offerings, leading its state of the art 5G test facility, and the delivery of 5G and NextG capabilities for projects across multiple markets, including DoD, U.S. Federal, and commercial. In his role, Mr. Christou leads the development and delivery of Edge Cloud solutions which involve extending Hyperscaler Cloud services to the edge through the development of small form factor cloud products and services. In addition, Mr. Christou’s team is delivering and taking to market AIOps offerings that focus on applying AI technologies to cloud operations and 5G/Next Networks.
Chris has over 25 years of experience engineering, designing, testing, and deploying cloud environments, networks, and IT systems for commercial, civilian, and defense clients. Since joining Booz Allen in 2002, he has led projects related to the deployment of secure cloud environments, the design of software-defined networks (SDN), the engineering of enterprise wide IT systems, and the integration of unified communications systems. Before joining Booz Allen, Chris was a network design and planning engineer for UUNet, which was then the largest internet backbone in the world. Prior to UUNET, Chris worked as a telecommunications engineer for Mitretek Systems and as a software developer for Hughes/Raytheon STX.
Chris earned a M.S. degree in Telecommunications and a Graduate Certificate in Engineering from the University of Maryland School of Engineering, College Park. He earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and has completed coursework in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. Chris holds Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Juniper, TMF, and SDN certifications.