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Gary Kessler Associates
About Gary C. Kessler
Gary C. Kessler is an Associate Professor and program director of the M.S. in Digital Investigation Management program at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. Gary also started the Computer & Digital Forensics (on-campus and online), Computer Networking, and Information Security majors, where he is also the principal investigator at the Champlain College Center for Digital Investigation. In addition, Gary is an adjunct associate professor at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. Gary's primary areas of professional interest include computer and network forensics, mobile device forensics, computer and network security, TCP/IP and the Internet, and communications protocols and standards.
Prior to coming to Champlain College in June 2000, Gary was a Senior Network Security Analyst at SymQuest Group, a network integration consulting company in South Burlington, Vermont. Before that, he was the Director of Information Technology and a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Hill Associates, a telecommunications education and training firm located in Colchester, Vermont. He has been providing telecommunications course development, education, and consulting services since 1984, both at Hill Associates and as an independent consultant, with a brief hiatus as a Senior Consultant in the Professional Services Group at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) Systems & Technologies (where he telecommuted to the group's Cambridge, Massachusetts office and was program manager of CommerceNet's Public Key Infrastructure Task Force).
Gary has been a software engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California; Coordinator of Academic Computing at St. Michael's College in Colchester; and an applications programmer supporting researchers in the Cardiology Department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Gary holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Vermont, and an Ed.S. in Computing Technology in Education (CTE) from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. He is also a Certified Computer Examiner (CCE), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and Digital Forensics Certified Practitioner (DFCP). Gary is an associate editor of the Journal of Digital Forensics Practice and the associate editor-in-chief of the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law.
Gary was instrumental in forwarding the advancement of computer crime legislation in Vermont, the last state in the U.S. to enact such legislation (1999). Gary is also the founding chair of the Vermont InfraGard chapter, and member of the Vermont Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. He is also active in efforts to reverse laws requiring digital forensics examiners to be licensed as private investigators.
Gary is the co-author (with Peter V. Southwick) of ISDN: Concepts, Facilities, and Services, 4th. edition (McGraw-Hill, 1998), the co-author (with David A. Train) of Metropolitan Area Networks: Concepts, Standards, and Services (McGraw-Hill, 1992), and has written more than 60 articles and papers. Gary is also active in academic and industry conferences, such as High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Mobile Forensics World, and TechnoSecurity, teaching tutorials or other presentations.
One of Gary's special interests is the history of computing, computers, and networking. He is a charter member of The Computer Museum and the Internet Society.
Gary's entire resume is also available!!
Gary is also a PADI-certified divemaster and Open Water SCUBA Instructor. He was originally certified by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation — source of the first recreational SCUBA certification in the U.S. — in 1967 at the age of 13. After a long hiatus, Gary was re-certified in 1991 as one of the original divers with the Colchester Rescue Dive Team in Colchester, Vermont. Although no longer active with the dive team, Gary still dives as much as possible, even including the wrecks in dark, cold, murky Lake Champlain. But he prefers warm water... See some of his favorite SCUBA Web sites.
Gary lives in Burlington, Vermont, with his wife, Gayle, a speech language pathologist (SLP) on the clinical faculty at the University of Vermont and mah jong fanatic. His son, Joshua, is the Assistant Sports Information Director at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. His daughter, Sarah, is an EHR Data Abstractor Supervisor (and certified radiography technician) at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington and son-in-law, David, is a mechanic at Automaster in Shelburne; they live in South Burlington with daughter, Isabella Ann. Gary's step-daughter, Hilary, is an SLP working at a skilled nursing facility in Massachusetts and his step-son, Daniel, is a senior at Champlain College.
Gary is a life member (and former Chief) of the Colchester Rescue Squad and was an Emergency Medical Technician from 1979-2006; he is also a member of the Green Mountain Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) Team. Other interests include playing the guitar (albeit stuck in a 1960s-70s folk music time warp, at least until Mary Chapin Carpenter, 10,000 Maniacs, Dave Matthews Band, and Coldplay came along).