Christopher Hurlbutt

Background

About Christopher Hurlbutt

Passion for automation and cyber security readiness supporting the US Government. With three decades of experience in Information technology solutions selling and leadership, I have accomplished and drove these specific outcomes:*Veteran/Two-time winner of the Unix wars in Advanced multi-continental product development and analysis.*Sold first CASB to DoD for Telework/application delivery/BYOD.*Part of three startup companies Cloud/Software/Cybersecurity -two were acquired.*Identified $2 Billion dollars in desktop support cost avoidance for the US Army.*Provided technology that lowered software licensing cost by $45 million dollars in 6 months for one Combatant Command.*Established the first CAC project office in a major software company and then drove that capability across the USG growing software revenue from $1.5M/year to over $75M/year.*Impacted $250 Million dollars in cost savings related to wind tunnel model creation and testing.*Sold the largest password management solution to the US Government.*Generated insight into oil and gas capture that paid for an entire HPC system in an afternoon of work on one reservoir.*Created a specialized product for use in US Army/Marine Corps Tactical Networks generating a 350% profit margin.*Initiated and Orchestrated the use of software to connect everything for a US Government customer saving untold millions in software development and sustainment activities.*Created the first wall to wall cloud for the Defense Health Agency/Veterans Affairs *Drove to completion the complete design, planning and implementation of the single largest storage solution on planet earth for the Intelligence Community.*Created the first SSL 'break and inspect' solution working with DISA and Corporate Product Development.*Provided the connections to executives in the US Army that helped a major telecommunications company avoid a $1.8B loss.*Collapsed several technology stacks for weapon systems production, manufacturing and sustainment into a completely digital/graphical/synthetic environment at Silicon Graphics in the 1980's/90's.*Identified and managed the optimization of the largest ground based Tactical Network for the US Army, which helped to save untold Billions of dollars in overhead satellite delivery systems.