M. Scott Kingsley

Dr. Scott Kingsley has over 40 years in the telecommunications, networking and IT industries. He earned a Master of Science in Telecommunications Network Systems, A Master of Science in Datacenter Systems Engineering, and a Doctor of Engineering from Southern Methodist University.

Dr. Kingsley’s experience includes being a U.S. Navy veteran and mainstream telecommunications companies such as MCI, Alcatel, and others where held numerous senior engineering positions. As a seasoned educator he has taught over 900 semester hours of undergraduate and graduate courses over thirty-five years. Teaching positions have included corporations, community colleges, and undergraduate and graduate university institutions. He has also been recognized as an advanced level instructor by the Cisco Networking Academy.

As a successful entrepreneur he founded and operated two companies. The first, TelOptica, Inc., employed over 100 engineers to develop and market telecommunications software. Customers included Fujitsu, AT&T, Qwest, Verizon and others. The second, OptionTel, LLC was a services and consulting company that developed and implemented complex telecommunications solutions from Tier 1 network providers.

Since 2011 he has been Program Director and Associate Professor of the graduate Network Engineering program at Southern Methodist University where he has implemented an innovative, industry relevant, and practical curriculum as well as personally developed and taught a wide range of the program courses. The program was awarded the Program of the Year award in 2015 and 2018 by the Information and Telecommunications Education and Research Association (ITERA) where was a board member and held several executive positions. He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

He has many published papers and has presented at numerous conferences on networking technologies. In addition to Cloud Technologies and Services he is also the author of a published book on advanced network design.