Christopher Bolan

Christopher Bolan

Electrical Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Program Manager at Peraton

  • Education

    • U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology

      1984 - 1985
      MSEE Electrical Engineering
    • Loyola Marymount University

      1980 - 1984
      BSEE Electrical Engineering
  • Experience

    • USAF

      Dec 1985 - Jul 1990
      Electrical Engineer

      Research and Development Engineer at the Air Force Electronic Warfare Center (AFEWC)

    • US Air Force Reserve

      Jul 1990 - May 2012
      Communications Officer

      Assignments included 37th Aeromedical Evacuation Group, US SOCCENT, 86th/435th ACOMG, USAFE A6X

    • Computer Sciences Corporation

      Jun 1991 - Jun 1996
      Systems Engineer
    • Zel Technologies

      Jul 1996 - Aug 1999
      System Administrator
    • Northrop Grumman

      Aug 1999 - Apr 2021
      Program Manager

      In May 2017, Mr Bolan was selected as the Program Manager for the Regional Cyber Center - Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany, leading a team of IT professionals with the Operations and Maintenance of the US Army managed networks in Europe.In 2010, Mr Bolan changed contracts to support the United States Army Europe (USAREUR) Network Operations and Security Center (NOSC) as an Active Directory Engineer and Team Lead, initially located in Mannheim Germany and then moving to Wiesbaden, Germany in 2014.From 2005 - 2009, Mr Bolan was the technical lead for the United States Air Force Europe (USAFE) NOSC at Ramstein AB, Germany, providing recommendations to the USAFE Director of Communications on current and emerging technologies. He led a team of 24 professionals providing Directory Services, Enterprise Application Services, Information Assurance, and Software Development in support of 45,000 users and 40,000 network-connected devices. He has directly supported several Enterprise-level upgrades and implementations, including Active Directory 2003, Exchange 2007, and System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (aka SMS).From 1999 - 2005, Mr Bolan designed, engineered; and then implemented and operated Microsoft System Management Server (SMS) and associated Microsoft SQL relational databases throughout USAFE bases; he provided technical support for enterprise applications to the Network Control Centers (NCCs). Duties included monitoring SMS databases, troubleshooting database issues, installing new releases and service packs for Microsoft SQL, developed and implemented Visual Basic scripts and web reports to retrieve and display data from the SMS databases. Show less

    • Peraton

      Apr 2021 - now

      In Apr 2021, Mr Bolan transitioned to Peraton due to their acquisition of Northrop Grumman's Information Technology and Mission Support services. He maintained his position as the Program Manager for the Regional Cyber Center - Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. He leads a team of IT professionals with the Cyber Defense and Operations of the US Army managed networks in Europe.

      • Program Manager

        Jul 2022 - now
      • Program Manager

        Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Project Management Professional (PMP)

      PMI
      Jun 2017
    • CISSP

      ISC2
      Feb 2008
    • CISSP-ISSMP

      (ISC)²
      Jun 2019
    • MCSE: Server Infrastructure

      Microsoft
      Mar 2014