Dr. M. Scott Kingsley has over 40 years’ experience in the telecommunications, networking and IT industries. He earned a Master of Science degree in Telecommunications Network Systems and a Doctor of Engineering from Southern Methodist University. He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship with the Center for Security Studies in Cybersecurity at the University of Maryland-University College. Employment history includes being a U.S. Navy veteran and mainstream telecommunications companies such as MCI, Alcatel and others where held numerous senior engineering positions. As a seasoned educator he has taught over 900 semester hours of undergraduate and graduate courses over more than thirty years. Teaching positions have included corporate, community college, and undergraduate and graduate university institutions. He has also been recognized as an advanced level instructor by the Cisco Networking Academy and holds certifications in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platforms. As a successful entrepreneur he founded and operated two companies. The first, TelOptica, Inc., that employed over one-hundred engineers to develop and market telecommunications software. Customers included Fujitsu, AT&T, Qwest, Verizon and others. The second was a services and consulting company that developed and implemented complex telecommunications solutions from Tier 1 network providers. Dr. Kingsley is currently the Program Director and faculty of the graduate Network Engineering program at Southern Methodist University where has implemented an innovative, industry relevant and practical curriculum as well as personally developed and taught a wide range of the program courses. He was awarded Professor of the Year in the Electrical Engineering department in both 2016 and 2018. The program was awarded the Program of the Year in both 2015 and 2018 as well as numerous Innovative Course awards for cloud technologies and services course by the Information and Telecommunications Education andResearch Association (ITERA) where he is also a board member and has held several executive positions. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He has many published papers and has presented at numerous conferences on networking technologies. He is also the author of a published book on advanced network design.
