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J. Kirk Wiebe

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Although born in Chicago, Illinois, Kirk grew up in northern Indiana, near the shores of Lake Michigan. After spending four years that included tours of duty in Turkey and Japan with the intelligence arm of the United States Air Force during the period 1963 – 1967, he attended Indiana University, receiving a B.A. degree in Russian Studies in 1969, and a Masters (also Russian) in 1974. Kirk then headed east to work for the National Security Agency (NSA), retiring from that Institution in October of 2001. While at NSA, he spent most of his career as a language analyst, then as an intelligence analyst working on issues having national-level importance. His achievements during his 32+ years at NSA include leading a team of analysts that received the National Meritorious Unit Citation from the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and he earned the Meritorious Civilian Service Award, the NSA’s second highest honor for leading a successful effort against a foreign strategic threat. During his career, Kirk also held positions with NSA’s Human Resources organization, its Information Technology organization, and he worked with other analysts, programmers, and computer scientists engaged in prototyping innovative capabilities in the area of managing and processing massive data for successful analysis.
After retiring from NSA, Kirk joined two colleagues in the formation of a small consulting business focused on helping U.S. government agencies with data management and analysis issues. His most recent work was with the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security where he performed analysis of CBP data that led to a major intelligence discovery, completed a business process analysis of the CBP analytic process, and submitted recommendations regarding CBP IT-based modernization efforts.
Kirk is married, has two daughters, two Pembroke Welsh Corgis, and lives in rural Carroll County Maryland, about 16 miles due south of the Mason-Dixon Line. His hobbies include landscaping and gardening, Amateur Radio (licensed as K9IQB since 1956), building and maintaining computers, gardening/landscaping, playing guitar, studying the Battle of Gettysburg, and traveling whenever he can.

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