About Me

From KevinBlanchard.com

Personally: My name is Kevin Blanchard. I was born and raised in the Washington DC metro area but also spent a lot of time in MD/NY/PA. I attended college at GMU double majoring in Computer Science and Molecular Biology. I moved to Austin, TX in September of 2004. I am currently involved around town with several organizations and projects.

Professionally: I have been working professionally in the information security realm since the late 90's. I am CISSP certified and a professional member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA). I was doing cleared work in the Washington, DC area as an engineer primarily doing computer system security, PKI/PKE engineering and infosec R&D. I also set up and hardened Solaris servers along with writing JAVA based middleware to aid in our PKI/PKE initiatives. While working in DC, I had the opportunity to do systems/network security, PKI/PKE, security R&D, along with plenty of integration and development for many government agencies and acquired skills and experiences I could never have gotten working outside of DC. My career in the government sector ended in late 2004 when I moved to Austin, TX. Since then my focus has been on corporate security engineering, mainly focusing on network security and IDS/IPS research, development and analysis.

Organizations:

Professional
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
2005 DARPA Grand Challenge Team, Austin Robot Technology, Vision and Control Systems Engineer
The Robot Group (Austin, TX)
US FIRST Robotics - Engineer / Mentor for Herndon High School (2003-2004)

Personal
ASPCA

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