After completing his undergraduate at UC Berkeley and master’s degree at San Jose State University, Kenneth joined NASA Ames Research Center. At NASA, he worked in local and wide area networking and network research.
He has played major roles in several engineering and research projects.
Examples include development of the Next Generation Internet Exchange West; development of quality of service,and IPv6 technologies on NASA networks; and prototyping of a wide range of high-performance networking applications, from remote echocardiography to air-traffic management.
Based on previous work related to bringing Internet protocols to NASA’s space program, Kenneth began work in space communications. As NASA began work on replacing the space shuttle. Kenneth joined a team that began working on test and evaluation of the space communications systems for future space missions.
He then led at team to implement NASA’s Security Operations Center (SOC), building a cybersecurity operations center that is the nerve center for the detection and monitoring information security incidents for NASA. Once built, he moved on to manage the operational NASA SOC. He is now leading the Secure Airspace project, which develops and demonstrates capabilities, for secure data integrity, resiliency and information privacy for national airspace environments.
Job title:
Secure Airspace Project Engineer
Department:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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