Kevin Asplen

Kevin helps cover Integration & Application Network (opens in a new tab) (IAN) commitments at the Chesapeake Bay Program (opens in a new tab) (CBP) under EPA cooperative agreements and automation needs at the Horn Point Laboratory (opens in a new tab) (HPL) oyster hatchery.  As an IAN employee, he is a faculty research assistant.  As an HPL employee, he is IT coordinator staff.

Kevin supports the Chesapeake Center for Collaborative Computing (C4) cloud infrastructure at CBP and real-time control systems for the oyster hatchery. He is the primary system administrator and security coordinator of the infrastructure hosting CBP public web sites deployed using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, working in close collaboration with the lead developer of those sites. Peripheral to his main C4 duties, he has enjoyed providing some R Shiny support at CBP. Kevin joined UMCES in July 2017 after over two decades as lead scientific programmer (Fortran, C++, Lua, etc.) and web application developer (ASP.NET, C# code-behind, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, etc.) for the electrical and mechanical design engineering and marketing teams at a microwave filter company. He is a lifelong resident of Cambridge, Maryland (opens in a new tab), with a degree in computer engineering from Bucknell University.

For additional information, see Kevin’s IAN bio page.