Kevin was born in Wichita and lived there and in Andover Kansas until graduating from Kapaun/Mt. Carmel High School in 1984 (Big Brother for Class President). He left the Air Capitol and the flatlands of Kansas for the hills of Arkansas to attend the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Kevin graduated from U of A in 1989 as a member of that institution’s first class of Computer Science Engineering (CSEG). After hounding an Arkansas alum that worked at the NASA Johnson Space Center, he was hired on in September of 1989. Kevin said goodbye to snow and hello to smog and headed off to Houston, Texas.
Kevin started work in the Mission Operations Directorate. He worked for two years on displays for the Space Station Freedom Multi-Purpose Application Console (MPAC). Weathering the Freedom/TBD/Alpha/ISS transition, Kevin was named lead for development of the Command and Data Software (CDS) on the Portable Computer System (PCS), where he had the honour and pleasure of working with an excellent group of professionals, learning a great deal about software development. Namely that the most critical requirement on a system is "Must Work." Failing that all other specifications are pointless.
In October 2000 Kevin moved on to advanced operations research and development and became the Operations Technology Manager for the Jupiter Facility. The engineers of the Jupiter Facility labour daily to change space operations from hundreds on the ground and a handful in space to a handful on the ground and hundreds working, living and playing in space.
When not un-statusing-the-JSC-quo Kevin spends his free time as a husband, father, biker and unrepentant Mac Addict.
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