Presenter

Robert Sears is the director of N-Wave, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) enterprise network program. Robert serves as the chair of the Federal IPv6 Task Force, Federal Network Representative Co-Chair for the Cloud and Infrastructure Community of Practice (C&I CoP), Government Chair for the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) Networks and Telecommunications Community of Interest (N&T COI), and member of the ACT-IAC Climate Change Workgroup High-Performance Computing Project. Robert has 33 years of combined military and federal service. His Naval career involved supporting Submarine Squadron 22 during Operation Desert Storm as an electronics calibration technician; duty assignment with Command Second Fleet on the USS Mount Whitney; and a transition to networking and IT services at the Naval Atlantic Meteorology and Oceanography Center. His career with NOAA spans 22 years. Robert’s background and degree are in electronic engineering and communications.