Sterling | More Compute, Fewer Constraints

Chris Cyr, Sterling’s Chief Technology Officer, is an enterprise architect and industry
thought-leader. Cyr’s expertise spans artificial intelligence, quantum computing,
blockchain technologies, cloud technologies, computer vision and machine learning, IoT
topologies, advanced manufacturing technologies, network architectures, big data,
aerospace design and engineering. Cyr logged 28+ years working within the federal
government, NASA, and Special Operations community, developing future end-to-end
reference architecture. As a high-level computer scientist, he supported the NASA
Space Shuttle and International Space Station missions and designed and
manufactured a rescue and flying tactical hovercraft. He was a member of the team that
designed and built the first Joint Air Operations Center and the Joint Forces Experiment
Program. For 13 years he was also a member and leader in Air Force Special Ops. He
is currently building on Sterling's patents for cross-domain data workflows, cross-
domain enabling third party software and how they work within cloud and non-military
entities.

Prior to joining Sterling, Cyr worked at Oracle, where he served as Enterprise Cloud
Architect and founding member of the Cloud Pursuit Team, Cloud Execution Team, and
Cloud Technology Office responsible for Oracle’s transformational pivot to cloud
services. He was the subject-matter expert on Oracle Cloud, Enterprise Architecture,
and Multi-Cloud Interoperability. Cyr has also worked with Fortune 50 companies such
as FedEx, General Motors, Verizon, Coca-Cola, and Amazon. He holds numerous
prized manufacturer certifications. As Sterling’s CTO, he drives the company’s
technology strategy and related endeavors. These include digital personalities,
humanoid robots, quantum-hybrid technologies and workflow, 5G and 6G research, and
end-to-end AI workflows.

Chris is an active member of technology advisory councils for Nvidia, Intel, VMware,
AMD, Cisco and HPE. He is also a member of the Florida K-12 AI Curriculum
Development Council, and the State of Florida Orange County Technology Career and
Education Committee.

Bill Burnham is the Chief Technology Officer for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s US Public
Sector Business Unit. In this role, Mr. Burnham is responsible for providing expert
technical guidance and direction across all Federal Civilian Agencies, the Department of
Defense, the Intelligence Community, State and Local governments and Higher
Education Institutions. He works extensively with HPE Labs, and our partners and
systems integrators, to design secure Hybrid Cloud and Intelligent Edge solutions for specific problem sets, injecting technology innovation that fosters business and process
transformation. Mr. Burnham is HPE’s Corporate Executive Sponsor for both California
and New York State, providing State leadership an industry executive point of view and
advice on technology trends, while being an advocate inside HPE for activities involving
either State. He also sits on the HPE Corporate Advisory Board for Worldwide Public
Sector Solutions, to guide the company’s development efforts, providing an
understanding of emerging requirements in order to define innovative solutions that will
solve tomorrow’s challenges. Mr. Burnham joined HPE in 2018, after seven years of
federal service as the Chief Technology Officer for the United States Special Operations
Command, where he was responsible for the innovation/modernization of the global
information and services networks supporting 70,000 special operations users. In this
position, Mr. Burnham provided authoritative technical leadership on complex,
controversial and precedent setting matters ranging from innovative data center designs
to hybrid cloud implementation strategies. Prior to his service as a government civilian,
Mr. Burnham was a career active duty Army officer with the majority of his assignments
in tactical special operations units and joint tactical communications units. Mr. Burnham
attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received a Bachelor of Science
in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence, and the University of Southern California,
where he received a Master of Science in Systems Management.