ABSi is delighted to announce the addition of Mr. John Kirschner to our executive management team. Mr. Kirschner brings deep skills in architecture and security services and has substantial experience with the classified community. Mr. Kirschner will be Vice President of Classified Operations.

Mr. Kirschner has over 30 years experience in IT. He has worked for Lockheed Martin, IBM, and the Naval Research Laboratory as a systems architect, systems engineer, systems programmer, instructor, DBA, and as a consultant. John is a certified I/T architect, certified business manager and certified IBM large systems and storage specialist. John is also a certified IT government security specialist (CISSR) and helps establish US government security policies in regard to new technologies. John is the author of numerous white papers and lectures on systems architecture, availability, performance, and data center modernization.

John has led the development and testing of many security solutions for the U.S. Government from the development of secure erasure software and operating systems and databases from IBM, to system solutions for DCID 6/3 PL-3 and PL-4 using SUN, IBM, Oracle and other vendor products.

John has supported the White House, the House of Representatives and Senate, the U.S. Department of State, NASA, the Space Division of the U.S. Air Force, and has spent the last 20 years supporting the intelligence community including, DIA, NSA, CIA, NGA, NRO and the FBI. He served as the Chief Architect for the National Counter-Terrorism Center for 4 years and has also supported efforts for the Canadian, Danish and British Governments. John manages the Classified Division at ABSi.