Ms. Chrisma Jackson serves as the Director of Cyber Security and Mission Computing, Chief Information Security Officer. As Director, she leads a diverse organization including enterprise cyber security, high performance computing, Common Engineering Environment, software engineering for Nuclear Deterrence and Sandia Partnership Projects, software security, and cyber and computer science research & development.

Prior to her director position, Chrisma managed Use Control and Special Projects team and the Tailored Operations Support Group at Sandia National Laboratories. These groups directly supported the innovation and development of U.S. Government technologies through the implementation of data protections including, but not limited to high end cryptographic solutions across applications for Nuclear Weapons Command and Control as well as the research, design and development of innovative sensing systems and technical assessments complemented by intelligence-based analysis for nuclear proliferation threats.

With a 20+ year career spanning multiple divisions at Sandia, Chrisma has extensive experience in leading successful teams and building partnerships with the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA), Department of Defense, and other government agencies in areas such as nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear deterrence, and cybersecurity. Her teams have won DOE/NNSA Defense Programs of Excellence awards and Intelligence Community Meritorious Team Commendations.

Chrisma holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Texas A&M University, a master’s degree from New Mexico Tech University, and spent a year at the Harvard Kennedy School National Security Fellows program from 2014-2015 with a research focus in cybersecurity with an emphasis on cyber deterrence. She currently serves as the Sandia’s Campus Executive for Texas A&M University and Prairie View A&M University.

Mr. Ki Park, PMP, ITIL, CISA is currently serving as the Program Manager for ECSD and a Technical Representative for Nevada National Security Site Directed R&D (SDRD) at Mission Support and Test Services (MSTS) LLC, the M&O Contractor of NNSS for DOE/NNSA since November 1, 2017. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Park served as the Program Director, Extreme Cyber Test & Evaluation Range at Nevada National Security Site, managing the integrated cyber-physical security testbed program in the Remote Sensing Lab (RSL) and Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). Mr. Park has integrated and collaborated with Government entities, academia, national labs, and power utilities to conduct representative and full scale outdoor power grid validation and verification (V&V) Test and Evaluations. To enhance the Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) related R&D projects at NNSS, Mr. Park has completed UAS Certification program from UNLV and subsequently earned a Remote Pilot Certificate (sUAS) from Federal Aviation Administration.

Prior to the Program Director position, Mr. Park served as the Technical Director for the Communications, Network, and Cyber Security Department at RSL, providing comprehensive technical leadership to a diverse group of scientific, technical, and operations staff which support the Department of Energy (DOE) Emergency Communications Network (ECN), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Cyber Security, Non-Proliferation, and Imaging Technologies works at RSL, NNSS, and DOE HQ. Prior to joining NNSS, Mr. Park has over 20 years of Information Technology (IT) and C4I experience in the Department of Defense (DOD), including seven years of active duty officer in the US Air Force, and successfully managed and implemented numerous IT system engineering projects, performing technical liaison and consultant work among the various IT community and operational user groups for Information Exchange Requirements and System Interoperability Analysis.

Mr. Robert Tarwater is a Cyber Leader, Strategist, Heretic and USAF Veteran. He is currently serving as a Senior Relationship Manager, National Security Collaboration Center at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).  He’s proven cyberspace leader, dedicated to enhancing strategic outcomes for your organization. He keeps a laser focus on the big picture, ensures unity of effort towards that goal while leading and managing diverse technical teams, creating innovative and sustainable solutions to the most challenging cybersecurity and IT management problems. He brings high-end communication, leadership, and management skills to overcome your most intractable organizational hurdles with a well-honed ability to simultaneously lead, plan, organize, execute, and assess multiple tasks across the technical spectrum. He builds cross-disciplinary teams, producing highly effective collaboration from strategic to tactical level – spanning from small, focused field teams to entire organizations with multiple missions and multi-million-dollar operating budgets.

His academic achievements include a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the University of Arkansas. Since 2011, he has actively served as a mentor for the WATCH D.O.G.S. program, an innovative father involvement educational initiative by the National Center for Fathering. 

He is a seasoned professional with extensive expertise in cyber and analytics. He serves as an Advisory Board Member at UTSA Carlos Alvarez College of Business on a part-time basis. Previously, he held significant roles, including Director of Air Force Strategy & Solutions at Leidos and Regional Cyber Director at Parsons Corporation. With a distinguished 20-year career in the United States Air Force, they excelled as an Officer and later served as Director of Operations, guiding strategic planning and testing of cyber technologies. His commitment to cyber warfare and relationship building has made them a valued asset in the field.

Mr. Han Lin is a R&D Technical Manager at Sandia National Laboratories, where he leads the Cyber Analysis Research Development Department.

Han and his team continuing to make major contributions to Sandia’s cyber defense program particularly in the areas of modeling/simulation, secure cloud computing, virtualization technologies, and complex systems decision analytics.

Han and his team have been developing cyber capabilities that were used to conduct cyber defense exercises in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, and to support national security in collaboration with colleagues at other U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, Department of Defense.

Mr. Reginald “Reggie” Richardson is a United States Air Force, USAF retired veteran and President/CEO/Founder of Sapphire Innovative Solutions Inc, dba, Sapphire BLU. Founded in 2006, Sapphire BLU, is a Defense Industrial Based company providing System Engineering and Integration (SE&I) services with the USAF, US Navy, National Aeronautical Science Administration, NASA and the US Department of Energy. Our professional services include; SE&I, Cybersecurity, Testing and Evaluation, Electronic Warfare, Research and Development, and UAS/Drone technology development. Sapphire BLU provides System Engineering, Cybersecurity, and Integration solutions to rapidly deploy advance technologies into Department of Defense areas of influence and solve complex challenges. Sapphire, and its research partners, have addressed and resolved cybersecurity challenges on a global scale since 1997. In that year, we participated in “Eligible Receiver 97” Exercise, also known as the birthplace of cybersecurity. This military information warfare cyber-attack helped develop frameworks including National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) which are todays leading cybersecurity standards. Sapphire is on the forefront of cybersecurity technology advancement which includes, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) projects, Independent Research (IRAD), US patents, and commercial partnerships with advance technology companies. 

Sapphire BLU is among the first 25 firms in the nation to become a candidate (CMMC) Third-Party Assessment Organization (C3PAO) and a CMMC Registered Practitioner (RP). With the goal of identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks that are critical for national security, this designation allows Sapphire BLU to support organizations conducting business with the DoD, through this certification process.

Reggie sits on two STEM boards, NDIA-SN STEM Chair and Southern Nevada STEM Networks Regional Advisory Committee. Reggie’s community involvement includes sponsorship for the first STEM MLK technology summit in Las Vegas, NV in January 2019. He was recognized by US Senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, for demonstrating exceptional business leadership in promoting the inclusion of STEM, and diversity for careers in Cyber Technologies. Reggie partners with Clark Atlanta University a Historical Black Colleges and Universities HBCUs in research collaboration initiatives and advocates for Public-Private Partnerships as well as Cybersecurity STEM and other knowledge transfer support opportunities.

Dr. Ray Davidson, PhD served as dean at the SANS Technology Institute during its founding, and went on to lead the Michigan Cyber Civilian Corps - the first completely civilian, state sponsored team of incident responders in the country. He continues to serve as a mentor, subject matter expert and technical reviewer for the SANS Institute, and for anyone else who will listen.

He holds a doctorate in Chemical Engineering, and several infosec certifications. He has professional experience as a newspaper carrier (on a bicycle!), telephone operator (before TouchTone), pharmaceutical research scientist (not a euphemism), and cybersecurity thought follower. He has been a college professor, cofounded a security startup, along with other poor life choices. Mostly he is passionate about empowering others to do the right thing. And dance.