Jeffrey Hunker

Jeffrey Hunker is an adjunct professor at the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University holding the title "Distinguished Service Professor of Technology and Public Policy." He received his bachelors degree from Harvard and PhD from Harvard Business School and joined the Boston Consulting Group. He later became an advisor in the Department of Commerce and the founding director of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office. This led him to serve on the National Security Council as the Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure. Hunker was also a Vice President at Kidder, Peabody & Co., Dean of the Heinz School, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is credited with coining the term cyberinfrastructure and has worked closely with Richard A. Clarke on cyberterrorism issues. Hunker's research is primarily concerned with Homeland and Information Security.

Drunken Driving Incidents

According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette during a span of 8 days between August 17th-24th, 2008, Dr. Hunker was arrested 3 times for Drunken Driving [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08240/907173-53.stm] , initially after police said he drove through a neighbor's yard on Squirrel Hill Avenue, ran over a small tree, smashed into a car and then slammed into a house. According to a police report, his blood alcohol level at the first incident was 0.262, and a second reading measured 0.271. On August 18th, he was seen operating the damaged vehicle on North Craig Street, and was pulled over and arrested where his blood alcohol levels measured 0.173 and 0.167. On Sunday August 24th, as police were responding to a call from his house that Dr. Hunker had been suicidal, they spotted him driving away in a new vehicle and after being pulled over, officers were quoted as stating "I asked if he had been drinking and he stated yes, he drank a pint of vodka".

This series of incidents came 4 years after his first citation for driving drunk back in December 30th, 2004 [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08243/908268-298.stm] when he struck another car when driving drunk. After this first incident, he entered an Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program for first-time offenders and had his record expunged.