Kevin J. Schmidt currently lives in Lilburn, Georgia. He is a team lead and senior software developer at SecureWorks. Prior to SecureWorks, Kevin worked for Reflex Security and GuardedNet, Inc.

Kevin's experience with network management began in 1995 while working at a regional ISP in Pensacola, Florida. In 1996 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to work for MindSpring Enterprises (now known as Earthlink). He spent four years in network management and was the senior network management architect for Earthlink. He left Earthlink to work at Netrail, a tier-1 Internet backbone provider. While at Netrail, Kevin was in charge of the company's network management architecture.