Kevin Inscoe

Current

Senior Engineer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Founder and Project Lead at Orlando Traffic Project
Owner at Oscar Mike Tango

Volunteer at Volusia County Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Service (VARECS)
Nerd Herder at Central Florida Geeks
Owner at Refuge Software

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Past

Owner at YellowTwister Hosting
Independent podcast producer and host at The Morning Report
Senior Web Analyst at Harcourt

Consultant at MeadWestvaco
Manager at Maxcess
Senior Analyst at Convergys
Administrator at L-3 Coleman Aerospace Company
Consultant at FISERV
Consultant at Verizon (formerly GTE Information Systems)
Programmer at Badcock Furniture
Manager at Daytona Beach News-Journal
Consultant Software Development at Dunkel Index (Dunkel Sports Ratings Service)
Software Technician/Systems Administrator at Hughes Network Systems (formerly M/A-COM)
Assembler at Penril Modems
Distributor at Washington Post Company
Volunteer Firefighter at Howard County Maryland Fire Department

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Education

Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation
R.E.T.S.

Howard Vocational-Technical School
Oakland Mills Sr. High
Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, University of Maryland

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Recommended

4 people have recommended Kevin

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Kevin Inscoe’s Summary

I have over 25 years of information technology experience in a broad array of industries including telecommunications, cellular, print and electronic media, internet and hosting services, software development, network deployment and service provisioning to name a few.

I am fluent and experienced in a number of software development platforms including: Java, PHP, C, Perl, Python and XML in addition to the GNU open source software development environment. I am also experienced in legacy software development such as Cobol, Pascal and Basic derivations and dialects as well as assembler languages such as 68K, x86 and Macro-32.

I posses a broad experience and familiarity with a number of host operating systems including: Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, OpenVMS and FreeBSD.

Highlights of my career include development of the early cellular fraud validation code, deployment of highly available content delivery systems, vertical and horizontal scaling and virtualized application servers, writing device drivers for host to switched network controllers, weather reporting systems and high availability clusters using cellular file systems.

I particularly enjoy challenges such as interfacing dissimilar systems and stabilizing environments within small budgets.

I am an accomplished electronics engineer and Federal Communications Commission licensed Radio Amateur being no stranger to hardware, radio and electrical interfaces.

I am also also experienced and knowledgeable in application and web security has been the ISO and security officer at several companies. I also maintain a security portal.

My current interests are web application and file system scaling using HADOOP, developing iPhone applications and developing a open source desktop application system.

Kevin Inscoe’s Specialties:

I am an experienced web server and Java professional with strong knowledge of enterprise development and container environments such as WebSphere, iPlanet (SunONE), Tomcat and JRun. I have also a working knowledge on Java Mobile and Swing application development. I am expert level on Apache web server and proxy-plugin platforms such as Cisco Content switch (formerly ArrowPoint) and Squid. I understand complex problems such as session management and session load balancing.

Kevin Inscoe’s Experience

Senior Engineer

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Publishing industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

http://www.harcourt.com & http://www.hmco.com

Provide enterprise and operating system engineering support. Web and application security consultant. Support backup for web, LAMP and Enterprise Java application servers.
Founder and Project Lead

Orlando Traffic Project

(Privately Held; Information Services industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

Collecting and disseminating Central Florida traffic in as close to real-time as possible.

web site for reports: http://twitter.com/orlandotraffic
Owner

Oscar Mike Tango

(Internet industry)

June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

http://www.oscarmiketango.com/

User driven social content web sites. Advertising web sites. Knowledge aggregation sites. Community based internet services.
Volunteer

Volusia County Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Service (VARECS)

(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Public Safety industry)

2002 — Present (7 years )

http://varecs.us/

The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) consists of licensed amateurs who have voluntarily registered their qualifications and equipment for communications duty in the public service when disaster strikes.
Nerd Herder

Central Florida Geeks

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Think Tanks industry)

March 1996 — Present (13 years 9 months)

http://cfgeeks.org

The Central Florida Geeks is a loose collection of geeks and geek-minded individuals who work and live in the Central Florida Area. CFGeeks are the anti-meeting. We don't do meetings we do lunches, dinners, movies, hang arounds more correctly called "lunchp" from the old MIT Lips lab way asking a question with a -p on the end. They are connected mostly by way of the mailing lists and the IRC channels all available from the web site.
Owner

Refuge Software

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

1992 — Present (17 years )

http://www.refugesoft.com/

Refuge Software is a small, friendly and agile software company in Central Florida. We make custom software on-demand as well as extend (reverse engineer and then re-design) software for a number of clients in the private and government sector.
Owner

YellowTwister Hosting

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — February 2009 (5 years )

Hosting provider

http://www.yellowtwister.com
Independent podcast producer and host

The Morning Report

(Media Production industry)

October 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 4 months)

Technical industry commentary
Senior Web Analyst

Harcourt

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RUL; Publishing industry)

March 2002 — February 2008 (6 years )

http://www.harcourt.com
Consultant

MeadWestvaco

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MWV; Paper & Forest Products industry)

May 2001 — March 2002 (11 months)

WebSphere and web application consultant. IBM AIX engineering and level 3 support.
Manager

Maxcess

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

September 2000 — March 2001 (7 months)

Managed unix engineering and support teams, supervised build out of premier network operations center and monitoring infrastructure as well as billing and provisioning network.
Senior Analyst

Convergys

(Public Company; CVG; Information Services industry)

August 1997 — September 2000 (3 years 2 months)

Provided web and firewall support. Special Systems engineer. Sun and IBM unix support as well as legacy OpenVMS support. WebSphere, IBM OnDemand middleware support. Cellular billing software support. IBM AIX SP2 and HACMP engineer.
Administrator

L-3 Coleman Aerospace Company

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; LLL; Defense & Space industry)

February 1993 — September 1997 (4 years 8 months)
Consultant

FISERV

(Public Company; FISV; Computer Software industry)

September 1992 — February 1993 (6 months)
Consultant

Verizon (formerly GTE Information Systems)

(Public Company; LEC; Information Services industry)

October 1991 — September 1992 (1 year )
Programmer

Badcock Furniture

(Privately Held; Furniture industry)

April 1991 — October 1991 (7 months)
Manager

Daytona Beach News-Journal

(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

October 1987 — March 1991 (3 years 6 months)
Consultant Software Development

Dunkel Index (Dunkel Sports Ratings Service)

(Sports industry)

September 1989 — May 1990 (9 months)

Wrote software for screen entry and report generation in OpenVMS for the Dunkel Index a 70+ year old family business.

http://www.dunkelindex.com
Software Technician/Systems Administrator

Hughes Network Systems (formerly M/A-COM)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HNS; Telecommunications industry)

1984 — 1987 (3 years )
Assembler

Penril Modems

(Public Company; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

March 1984 — November 1984 (9 months)
Distributor

Washington Post Company

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Newspapers industry)

May 1981 — March 1984 (2 years 11 months)
Volunteer Firefighter

Howard County Maryland Fire Department

(Government Agency; Public Safety industry)

September 1979 — August 1981 (2 years )

Kevin Inscoe’s Education

Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation , DECnet Programming , 1989 — 1989
Digital Equipment Corporation

DECnet Internals , DECnet Internals , 1989 — 1989
R.E.T.S.

Radio Electronic Communication 1980 — 1982

Previously licensed as a Second class Radiotelegraph Operator's Certificate.
Howard Vocational-Technical School

Electronics 1977 — 1980
Oakland Mills Sr. High

HS Diploma , General , 1975 — 1980
Maryland Fire and Rescue Institute, University of Maryland

Fire Fighter Level I , Fire Fighting , 1979 — 1979

Additional Information

Kevin Inscoe’s Websites:

Kevin Inscoe’s Interests:

Getting Things Done (GTD), amateur ham radio (call sign KE3VIN), electronics, wireless and non-terrestrial communication, service hosting, programming (Java, PHP, Perl, Python and GNU C++). Software develop for mobile devices like Nokia N800 and Apple iPhone. GPS, geolocation, Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS), Linux, Solaris, OpenVMS, firearms, mountain dulcimer, digital radio packet, bluetooth hacking and emergency communications. Active on Twitter http://twitter.com/kevininscoe and Brightkite http://brightkite.com/people/kevininscoe.

Kevin Inscoe’s Groups:

Central Florida Geeks, IEEE, ACM, USENIX, SAGE, LISA, DECUS, NAISG, feedgoria.com, twitter.com/orlandotraffic reports, hunkereddown.com, Amateur Radio Relay League, Amateur Radio Emergency Service, DeltonaWeather.info, LEAP Orlando, Mevio, Orlando GO-LUG, MADXRA, SDR News, Redhat, Perl Mongers, Entrepreneur, IGDA, LION, Search Engine Land, irc.freenode.net #kevininscoe and #cfgeeks and information security.

Libertarian Party
Python Community
The Central Florida Geeks
The Enterprise Architecture Network
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
OpenSolaris
Black Hat
Shortwave Radio Listeners
Right to Keep and Bear Arms
CDN Industry
Information Security Community
Perl Mongers
LinkedPHPers - The Largest PHP Group
National Information Security Group
IBM WebSphere Enthusiasts
OpenVMS Community
Digital Equipment Corporation Enthusiasts
DEFCON
Linux Expert
GEOCACHING.com
SAGE: The USENIX SIG for Sysadmins
Getting Things Done - GTD - SolutionPeople Innovation's Network of Action Innovators
Virtualization Enthusiasts
Hosting Industry
Open Mobile
Radio Amateurs
Elsevier Employees & Former Employees
Grew up in Columbia, MD?
FreeBSD Users
iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
Linux Community
Networking Orlando
FOSS Professionals
PmWiki
Amateur Radio Emergency Communicator
Central Florida Information Technology Society
ARRL Affiliates
Convergys Associates
Unix Pros
Heliophile Group: Space Weather and Radio Propagation
Amateur Radio Enthusiast
Hughes Network Systems Alumni Association
DECUS
Networking in Orlando
Technical Surveillance Counter Measures TSCM
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Employees
Take Me Home to West Virginia