Technology Directorate National Security Agency

Steven Boyer serves as the lead of NSA’s SDN Operational Development team. In this capacity, Steven is responsible for developing mission-critical applications for implementing SDN in a Campus Area Network as well as vital troubleshooting capabilities that will provide a seamless transition from traditional networking approaches to SDN solutions. Steven also leads NSA’s OpenStack implementation of SDN where he is deploying and testing SDN solutions to explore the advantages of using SDN in an OpenStack data center environment. Steven holds a B.S.E.E from the University of Maryland.