Kevin J. Schmidt currently lives in Lilburn, Georgia. He is a senior software developer at Reflex Security, Inc where he gets to develop software in both Java and C. Prior to Reflex, Kevin spent four years at GuardedNet, Inc. as a senior software developer and team lead.

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 a national ISP. 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.