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Contact Eric Burger www.linkedin.com/in/eburger Professor and Advisor to Industry and Government (LinkedIn) Arlington, Virginia, United States www.standardstrack.com (Personal) cyberinitiative.org/research/ Summary researcher-directory/burger- SPECIAL HIRING NOTE: If you want to work for me in any capacity, eric.html (Company) check out my Virginia Tech web page on the topic. Demonstrate Top Skills you can follow instructions by following instructions. Not following instructions is likely to result in your request not being considered. Management Duty of Care With over 25 years of senior executive experience in industry Balance Sheets and over 10 years in academia, including close to four years of Languages service as a senior official in the Federal government, spanning both Republican and Democratic administrations, I bring this industry, English (Native or Bilingual) Dutch (Elementary) academic, and Federal experience to my students, research, and French (Elementary) corporations that I advise. Certifications As a C-level executive in a number of public, private equity, and Ingineur venture firms, delivered significant exits with equity growth, revenue NACD Directorship Certification® growth, and intellectual property portfolio growth. Specifically, I Amateur Radio Operator started and sold a venture-backed startup, turned around two public Certified Director companies with successful exits, and took a public company private Private Aircraft Pilot with large private equity funding. As a board member, I oversaw strategies that doubled revenues and valuations and successful Publications exits. Taxonomy Model for Cyber Threat Intelligence Information Exchange NOTE: If you send me an invitation and I don't know you or Technologies remember you, I will ask. If you do not respond within a week, I will Ubiquitous Reach and Remote Control Of Devices: Introducing let LinkedIn know "I don't know you." If I do know you, I will check to KPML - A Protocol for Efficient make sure it is you. Given I don't buy anything in any of my roles, if Interaction with Devices you ask to connect as a way of making a solicitation, I will instantly RISKING IT ALL: Unlocking report the attempt. If you do not respond within a week, I'll still reject The Backdoor To The Nation’s Cybersecurity the connection request and say "I don't know you." So, even if you Social Media Communications clicked on me through LinkedIn's "you might know..." page, don't be Networks and Pharmacovigilance: shy to respond to my "Thanks for your interest. What are you looking SequelAE-2.0 for?" response. Any reasonable response, including an apology, Studying the Pervasiveness of Internet Interception with will save you from a LinkedIn ding. Conversely, it might open an Honey{POP,SMTP,Telnet} (Poster) interesting conversation! Page 1 of 9

Patents System and Method for Providing Experience User Input Information to Multiple Independent, Concurrent Virginia Tech Applications Research Professor of NextG Security and Research Director of the Service Platform With Secure Commonwealth Cyber Initiative System And Method For Subscriber Profile Customization July 2022 - Present (2 years 5 months) Arlington, Virginia, United States Universal Voice Browser Framework System And Method For Call Dr. Burger is Research Director of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative at Management With Voice Channel Virginia Tech, where he is also Research Professor of Computer Science and Conservation Public & International Affairs. His research spans 5G and Beyond, VoIP and System And Method Of Applying real-time interactive multimedia services, secure communications, emergency State Of Being To Health Care Delivery communications, threat intelligence sharing, distributed ledger technology, and technology policy. Ocient Advisory Board Member April 2022 - Present (2 years 8 months) Chicago, Illinois, United States Ocient enables organizations to pursue new opportunities and transformational value with solutions tailored for hyperscale data sets. From making previously unfeasible data pipelines and queries a reality to partnering closely with customers to tackle their toughest data challenges, innovation is at the core of Ocient. Public Interest Registry Non Executive Director July 2021 - Present (3 years 5 months) Reston, Virginia, United States Foundation for Resilient Societies Board Member July 2021 - Present (3 years 5 months) Exeter, New Hampshire, United States The Foundation for Resilient Societies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with the mission of boosting critical infrastructure resilience and recoverability. Rampart Communications Advisory Board Member January 2024 - Present (11 months) Linthicum Heights, Maryland, United States Page 2 of 9

Rampart Communications, Inc. is a wireless technology company offering a fundamental innovation in secure wireless communications. Georgetown University Research Professor of Computer Science January 2011 - June 2022 (11 years 6 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area Research Professor of Computer Science, researching and teaching cyber security, networking theory, protocol design, secure communications, and policy aspects of communications. Additional affiliations with the School of Foreign Service’s Science, Technology, and International Affairs program and the School of Continuing Studies. Technical Program Director for the ATIS Next G Alliance. Founder and Director of the Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) at Georgetown, a new center drawing funding from companies that had never supported research at Georgetown (see funding, below). Responsible for P&L, membership recruitment (sales and marketing), operations, and running the technical program (product delivery). No startup funds or other institutional support. Won NSF sup-port as an Industry/ University Cooperative Research Center; result was the center quickly grew to 2.5% of Main Campus research volume – close to 10x the productivity of Georgetown full-time faculty – and one of the top centers in the NSF program. Impact included a modest research project that directly led to the savings of at least $2B for the American people. Developed and shepherded the Masters of Science in Analytics (Big Data) program for the Provost through adoption by the Graduate School. Program exceeded matriculation and revenue projections. Taught and developed curricula for FinTech and Blockchain (FINC 258), Blockchain Technologies Management (XBUS 990), Information Warfare (COSC 411), Operating Systems (COSC 374), Cybersecurity Seminar (COSC 437), Advanced Networking (COSC 525), and Network Security (COSC 535). Reported to the SVP Research and Chief Technology Officer of the University. SS8 Networks Advisory Board Member April 2021 - February 2022 (11 months) Page 3 of 9

San Jose, California, United States Advise SS8 on the needs, technology, and market for /lawful/ intercept. Federal Communications Commission 3 years 7 months Senior Technology Advisor November 2019 - March 2021 (1 year 5 months) Washington, District of Columbia, United States Chief Technology Officer September 2017 - October 2019 (2 years 2 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area Principal technology advisor to the Commission. Brought on to transition technology developed at Georgetown to remediate illegal robocalls. Besides creating the regulations to enable the industry to imple-ment STIR/SHAKEN, as well as removing regulations inhibiting detecting and prosecuting illegal callers, accomplishments include leading the technology for 988 (suicide prevention hotline – this will improve outcomes for least 1,400 people per year), cyber and supply chain security, video calling for the deaf, en-hanced wireless emergency alerting, enhanced wireless 911 location services (including where in a large campus or tall building the victim is, saving lives and improving outcomes), counter-UAS technology, data over amateur radio, submarine cable security, and reliability of wired, wireless, and broadband networks. Embedded in the Office of Economics & Analytics and on technology issues reported directly to the Chairman of the Commission. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Assistant Director November 2019 - January 2021 (1 year 3 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area Responsible for the telecommunications and cybersecurity portfolios. Ran team that identified and transferred 100 MHz of 5G mid-band spectrum from Federal/DoD use to the private sector. This was the fastest transfer of spectrum ever: typical identification and transition development processes take years to decades – here I developed the model to enable a transition plan by the users and NTIA in a handful of months, overcoming what had been reticence of the incumbent users to consider any form of sharing or vacating. Wrote budget priorities for communications and cybersecurity research and development across the Federal R&D enterprise, including R&D budgets for NSF, DARPA, DOE, and NIST, among others. Expanded rural broadband Page 4 of 9

funding. Worked with HHS during the initial phases of the COVID pandemic to enable doctors to use broadband for telemedicine. Brought industry to the White House to participate in roundtables to expand U.S. network equipment manufacturing and exports. Participated in Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and Team Telecom pro-ceedings. Assisted on communications supply chain policy development and execution. Led the R&D, laboratory, and standards portions of the Administration's 5G and Beyond Implementation Plan. Reports to the US CTO and Deputy Assistant to the President. atfCYBER Chairman Of The Board March 2017 - September 2019 (2 years 7 months) Greater Seattle Area Cybersecurity authentication solutions for IoT. Raised seed funding. Founders ran into health issues and we decided to wind down the company. Public Interest Registry Non Executive Director June 2015 - September 2017 (2 years 4 months) Reston, VA The Public Interest Registry (PIR) is a multinational corporation in the communications services business. Developed strategy to grow revenues in a stagnating market. Involved with strategy and negotiations to reduce cost of operations by 50%. Revenue grew from $60MM to $100MM with a most recent enterprise valuation at $1.14B. International, diverse board. Chair of Finance & Audit Committee; served as Corporate Treasurer and Corporate Secretary. StandardsTrack Independent Consultant and Expert Witness June 2008 - September 2017 (9 years 4 months) Consulting to the Internet, Web, telecommunications, legal, and financial services industry on technology issues, product plans, new product introduction, and corporate change. On hold while I am at the FCC. Dexrex LLC Advisory Board January 2008 - January 2017 (9 years 1 month) Page 5 of 9

Dexrex held intellectual property in the instant messaging compliance, recording, and retrieval space. Ascension Technology Group Board Member November 2012 - April 2016 (3 years 6 months) ATG was a cloud technology managed services provider. Successful exit in a private transaction. Sigma Systems Advisory Board January 2008 - August 2015 (7 years 8 months) Sigma Systems OSS systems for the communications industry. Advice on technology, business, and exit strategy. Successful restructure with Birch Hill Equity Partners in 2015 leading to exit to Hansen Technologies in 2019. Internet Society Member of the Board of Trustees May 2009 - May 2015 (6 years 1 month) International, diverse board. ISOC promotes the development of the Internet. $81MM annual budget; established $59MM Foundation Endowment. Selected new CEO and executed transition. Chair of Audit Committee. NeuStar CTO June 2009 - June 2010 (1 year 1 month) Set NeuStar's forward-looking technology and service strategy and devising the architecture to help strengthen the company's position by developing new services and solutions. Oversee the early stages of new technology development, and work closely with NeuStar's Operations team to drive the successful launch and commercialization of future IP services. Dramatically improved intellectual property generation and bringing technology from lab to market. Mobera Systems Advisory Board January 2000 - January 2010 (10 years 1 month) BEA Systems, Inc. Page 6 of 9

AGM, Communications Products Division, VP Engineering, and Corporate Deputy CTO January 2007 - May 2008 (1 year 5 months) Initially worked to rationalize product lines. Proposed and lead the establishment of BEA’s Communications Products Division. Initial positioning prior to reorganization was to try to convince customers BEA was “as good” as legacy providers. By repositioning the line as a Web-oriented product, CPD revenues increased 10x. When BEA exited to Oracle with a 50% increase in market cap during my tenure, the CPD was the surviving product line post- merger. Reported to the Corporate CTO. Cantata Technology, Inc. Chief Technology Officer 2005 - 2007 (2 years) EAS Holdings acquired Brooktrout Technology, Inc. in October 2005; we renamed the entity Cantata Technology, Inc. Reported to the CEO. Brooktrout Technology, Inc. Chief Technology Officer April 2004 - October 2005 (1 year 7 months) Brooktrout Acquired SnowShore in April, 2004. Doubled market cap of Brooktrout at time of exit (see Cantata above). Reported to the CEO. SnowShore Networks, Inc. Chief Technology Officer and Founder May 2000 - April 2004 (4 years) Lead technology from three co-founders to a high of 72 local employees and 11 contractors in India. When Brooktrout acquired SnowShore, the exit was a top-25% outcome for the venture class of 2000, which was a very challenging period for telecommunications venture firms. Reported to the CEO. Centigram Chief Scientist 1998 - 2000 (2 years) Led Centigram’s Maryland Technology Center of a 375+ employee public company. Established patent program, increasing portfolio by an order of magnitude. Directly involved with sale of company to ADC, which resulted in a nearly 3x increase in market cap and 10x of enterprise value. Reported to the Exec. VP Engineering. Page 7 of 9

George Washington University Lecturer 1992 - 1999 (7 years) The Telephone Connection VP Engineering May 1993 - June 1998 (5 years 2 months) Turned around company (private equity), growing staff 6x. Established relationships with local universities resulting in student Best Paper awards and integration of technologies into our products. Established strategic relations with vendors and customers, resulting in the award of a $150M contract. Reported to the CEO. Successful exit to Centigram (see above). Cable & Wireless Communications, Inc. Manager, Software Development, SureFax October 1991 - May 1993 (1 year 8 months) MCI Telecommications Corp. Consultant October 1990 - October 1991 (1 year 1 month) Directed a staff of engineers for high volume real-time on-line transaction processing for MCI’s Intelligent Network, creating the first effective architecture that today is known as a SoftSwitch. Directed and partici-pated in research and development of transaction-oriented applications design for massively parallel super-computer platform (nCube). This was a technical and commercial success. We demonstrated call pro-cessing capacity that could process more than all the global inter-exchange and international traffic for en-hanced services. This resulted in a dramatic reduction in MCI’s network equipment costs. Valid Logic Systems MTS/Dir. Eng./Sales Executive 1984 - 1990 (6 years) Responsible for largest release in the company’s history, restoring product quality, then responsible for PC-based product line program; became 40% of shipments in first year. Worked with Stanford and Berkeley on sponsored research and technology transfer. Established European Corporate Research Center. Delivered technology to create 500,000 lines of C code in three months. Responsible for managing a large, strategic account (largest electronics firm in Europe); landed largest order for Valid in 1989. Confounded Page 8 of 9

#1 competitor (Valid at that time was #2) – stopped all sales from their largest account for three quarters. Texas Instruments Research Engineer 1979 - 1984 (5 years) Sub-Micron Structures; Device Modeling and Simulation; Full-Custom VLSI Design; my research group invented the Single-Chip DSP. Employed by TI prior to and concurrent with MIT. Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology SBEE, VI-1A · (August 1980 - June 1984) Catholic University of Leuven MBA, International Business Management · (September 1988 - June 1990) Illinois Institute of Technology PhD, Computer Science · (2003 - 2006) George Mason University n/a, Education (Doctoral) · (1999 - 2003) Page 9 of 9