- Chris C. Kemp
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Chris C. Kemp 
NASA's Chief Technology Officer for ITBorn 1977
Buffalo, NYNationality United States Employer NASA Title CTO for IT Chris C. Kemp (born 1977, in Buffalo, NY) was NASA’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for IT.[1] Before being appointed CTO for IT in March 2010, he served as Chief Information Officer and Director of Strategic Business Development at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA.[2] Prior to joining NASA, Chris helped create a number of Internet businesses including Netran, Classmates.com, and Escapia.
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Early life
Chris C. Kemp, began his career at the age of 15 working at an Apple Computer store. While studying Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, he founded Netran, a company that launched the online grocery shopping service for Kroger. Kemp served as CEO and President of Netran from 1997-2000. At the age of 21, Kemp sold Netran to Tagnetics and joined Classmates.com as its Chief Architect. In 2002, Kemp launched Escapia, a company he conceived after trying to rent a beach house on the Internet. Kemp served as CEO and President of Escapia from 2002-2006.
NASA career
Kemp joined NASA in 2006 as Director of Strategic Business Development at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley where he helped forge a partnership with Google.[3][4][5] In 2007, he was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO),[6] making him responsible for most of the IT infrastructure at NASA Ames (networks, datacenters, systems, etc.), and several NASA-wide services, including the NASA Security Operations Center (SOC).[2] As CIO, Kemp established a partnership with Microsoft and was the driving force behind the Nebula Cloud Computing Pilot under development at NASA Ames.[7][8][9]
In March 2010, Kemp was appointed as the first NASA Chief Technology Officer, or CTO, for Information Technology, a new position established to lead IT innovation at the space agency. As CTO for IT at NASA, Kemp is responsible for the agency's Enterprise Architecture division and for introducing new and emerging technologies into IT planning and implementation.[1][10] He is an outspoken advocate for the use of open-source software in the Federal Government.[11]
On March 14, 2011 Kemp announced his resignation as NASA’s Chief Technology Officer for IT.[12][13]
Awards
Kemp recently received the Federal Computer Week “Federal 100” and CIO Magazine’s “CIO 100” awards for his work as Chief Information Officer at NASA Ames Research Center in 2009.[14][15]
Publications
References
- ^ a b "NASA Names Chief Technology Officer for IT". NASA. May 6, 2010. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/features/2010/chris_kemp.html. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ a b "Chris C. Kemp, Chief Information Officer, NASA Ames Research Center". Space News. December 14, 2009. http://spacenews.com/profiles/091214-chris-kemp.html. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ "NASA and Google to Bring Space Exploration Down to Earth". NASA. December 18, 2006. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_Ames_Google.html. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ Kaufman, Marc (December 19, 2006). "NASA Launches Google Collaboration". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801119.html. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ Kopytoff, Verne (November 15, 2007). "NASA, Google Partnership Still Taking Flight". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/15/BU85SK0QM.DTL. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ Kemp, Chris (2009-01-27). "Let's Start A Conversation About NASA's Future On The Web". NASA. http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/chrisckemp/posts/post_1233051542363.html. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
- ^ "NASA and Microsoft to Make Universe of Data Available to the Public". NASA. March 24, 2009. http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/mar/HQ_09-067_Microsoft_WorldWide_Telescope.html. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ "NASA Launches 'Nebula' Compute Cloud". Information Week. May 22, 2009. http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-architecture/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217600714. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ "NASA Blazing a Trail for Federal Cloud Computing". Space News. September 21, 2009. http://www.spacenews.com/civil/nasa-blazing-trail-for-federal-cloud-computing.html. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
- ^ "NASA Cloud Guru Named CTO For IT". Information Week. April 20, 2010. http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/leadership/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224400878. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ "Open source is NASA's next frontier". Federal Computer Week. May 6, 2010. http://fcw.com/articles/2010/05/06/kemp-nasa-open-source.aspx. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
- ^ Today I announce my resignation as NASA’s Chief Technology Officer for IT
- ^ Fretwell, Luke (March 15, 2011). "NASA IT CTO Kemp leaving ‘to find a garage in Palo Alto to do what I love'". Fedscoop.com. http://fedscoop.com/nasa-it-cto-kemp-leaving-to-find-a-garage-in-palo-alto-to-do-what-i-love/. Retrieved May 16, 2011.
- ^ Yasin, Rutrell (March 22, 2010). "Federal 100: Chris Kemp". Federal Computer Week. http://fcw.com/articles/2010/03/22/federal-100-kemp-chris.aspx. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
- ^ "NASA Chief Technology Officer for IT Honored by CIO Magazine". NASA. June 8, 2010. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/people/features/chris_kemp.html. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
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