Christopher Cook

Positioning

AI and engineering executive who turns AI strategy into operational capability: secure AI platforms, governance that lets systems ship in high-consequence settings, and the teams that run them. Founded an AI department, delivered DoD-approved production AI, and remains hands-on in LLM evaluation, agentic systems, and locally deployed models.

Scope

• 1 → 10 core

  core AI engineers in the department I founded; programs of 30+ run by project managers I directed

• ~$7M

  in consecutive DoD contracts on one AI program I procured and led

• 5 / 5

  performance rating, five consecutive years

Three strongest accomplishments

1. 1.

   Founded and scaled an AI department

   Started the ORBIS AI function as its first engineer, grew it to ten core engineers, and led programs of 30+ through the project managers I directed, working directly with the C-suite. Rated 5/5 for five consecutive years.

2. 2.

   Production AI approved by the Department of Defense

   Procured and led three consecutive DoD contracts, about $7M, for radiographic defect recognition approved for shipyard integration on submarine builds.

3. 3.

   Language models deployed where no commercial API was allowed

   Designed, trained, and deployed locally secured LLMs for workflow control, with model-access controls, segregated environments, and human oversight built in.

Career highlights

Education

M.S., AI Software Engineering; M.A., History (Warfare and Behavioral Economics); B.A., Theoretical and Abstract Mathematics; University of Illinois Springfield.