Christopher Lynberg

About Christopher Lynberg

Accomplished, forward-thinking, and entrepreneurial executive with repeated success guiding sizable technical, cross-functional teams in the analysis, design, and leadership of transformational business solutions. Talent for determining the organizational technology pathway and assessing the economic business value. Expert negotiator, presenter, and businessperson; able to forge solid relationships with partners and build consensus across multiple organizational levels focused on the achievement of operational excellence.

Experience

1. Enterprise Innovation and Technology Lead

   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

   Aug 1988 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Oversee the development and execution of agency-wide projects ensuring alignment to achieve the business objectives for the Centers for Disease Control. 47 R&D projects have been completed in this time frame and vary in appraised business value from $2M -$1B towards the advancement of CDC, as well as the measurable value from decreases in national productivity losses resulting from reductions in illness, disability, and death. Serve as a subject matter expert in providing consultation to the executive leadership, legal department, the IT services office, CIO, CISO, COO, centers, institutes, and national offices, and provide leadership in computer science supporting strategic scientific and administrative systems. Perform comprehensive research on information technologies and emerging hardware and software solutions and applications. Identify and evaluate potential technical solutions. Authoritative documentation encompassing charters, white papers, abstracts, and reports, including agency-wide proposals to advance all scientific technologies, restructuring of all IT services, centers-of-excellence, cloud computing services. Collaborates and creates coalitions with private industry, academia, and other organizations towards organizational innovation an value. Track record and appraisal values of example projects and initiatives: o Foundational Support of the agency and DARPA-like innovation office:$1B o Establishment of CDC-wide Computing Standards and Reduced Admin Costs:$89M o Theoretically Most Efficient Infrastructure:$13M/year o Modernization of CDC’s Computational Science:$150M o Mainframe Replacement:$16M o SAS Acceleration for 2500 users:$43M o 0-day Virus Mitigation:$150M o Blockchain Supply Chain Management of Data: estimated at $540M

Education

• University of Iowa

  BS, Electrical Engineering, Math

  1984 — 1987

• California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

  Microbiology

  1976 — 1978

• Global Knowledge

  MBA Boot Camp, Certificate

  2004 — 2004

• University of Iowa

  BS, Microbiology, Chemistry

  1978 — 1980