My Bio

I submitted a presentation proposal for my company to speak at this OASIS conference on Identity Management. Part of the proposal called for brief bio of the presenter so I wrote something up. As I was looking at it, I confess to feeling a little pride at what I have accomplished in my career. I am not a "career guy". I really like my job with DGI, and I love the people I work with. However, I have always seen my job as something I needed to do, but not where I want my heart. My heart is doing Kingdom work to the community and through the local body of believers of the church. That is what gets me excited. I have always wanted to do a good work at my job, but I never longed for career advancement. If I can stay gainfully employed doing something I basically enjoy that provides for my family, I will be content. I don't want to put in the extra hours needed to have a great career. I want to put those hours into my family, church and the overall work of the Kingdom.

Yet, I have to admit I have done OK with career. Many 34 year olds have done better, but as I looked back at my job and tried to summerize it in 250 words or less, I confess to having some good pride at what I have done. I have been working now for 12 years since college, the last 7 with DGI.  It has been good, and I hope the rest of my work career is as enjoyable as these first years have been.

Kyle Meadors is a Principal at Drummond Group Inc (www.drummondgroup.com) with expertise in their test service processes. He is responsible for overseeing and administering interoperability testing involving the identity management standard SAML and the global data item synchronization program of GS1 GDSN. Meadors has performed dozens of interoperability and conformance test events for Drummond Group as well as projects on various US Smart Grid initiatives. He is the author of several Internet-Drafts within IETF and has been published in IEEE Internet Computing magazine. Meadors has a BS in electrical engineering from Mississippi State University.