Dominic Perez, CISSP is the CTO at Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions and a Curtiss-Wright Technical Fellow, with PacStar since 2008 he joined Curtiss-Wright through their acquisition of PacStar in 2020. In the past 13 years, he has supported development of PacStar’s rugged, tactical hardware and IQ-Core Software serving as the subject matter expert for compute, virtualization and virtualized network functions. Dominic is part of the team that won tactical networking equipment and software awards for numerous DoD tactical programs including the US Army T2C2, US Army SFAB, US Army ESB-E, PM TN Secure Wireless Small Form Factor, PEO-C3T TCNO, and US Marine Corps NOTM vehicle-mount and deployable communications programs.
Dominic currently leads the teams developing Curtiss-Wright’s PacStar Commercial Solutions for Classified, Modular Data Center, and Tactical Fusion System product lines deploying cutting edge secure communications, edge data processing, and rapid sensor to shooter situational awareness to the warfighter at the tactical edge systems in the face of disconnected, limited, and intermittent (DIL) comms environments.
Prior to PacStar, Dominic worked for Biamp where he created automated testing infrastructure for the hardware, firmware and software powering their network distributed audio, teleconferencing and paging systems. Dominic studied mechanical engineering and computer science at Oregon State University. He currently holds multiple professional certifications from VMware in Data Center Administration; Cisco in Design, Security, and Routing/Switching; and EC Council and ISC2 in Security.