Terry Davis
Terry has over 20+ years experience in large-scale network design, security, implementation, and operations. He recently was appointed the Chief Information Officer of Connexion by Boeing. During the development of Connexion’s infrastructure and initial service offering, he served as the Chief Network Engineer for Connexion, vested with the technical direction of Connexion’s terrestrial network development and end-to-end network performance. He has been Vice-President of Professional Services for ViaLight, a fiber to the home; a Technology Leader for Adario, an Internet security company; and the Senior Corporate Security Architect for the Boeing Company. He has been an active contributor to and participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) since 1994 and has been active in the IP-v6 Forum for the last five years. In addition, he has served his city and county governments for almost 20 years as a commissioner for Land Use, Telecommunications, Basin Water, and Cable TV.
Terry’s prior work includes encryption, Internet naming and addressing, corporate security perimeter designs, distributed computing, and control systems. He designed the Security Perimeter Architecture used by Boeing today and was also the Project Engineer for the development in 1989 of the 155-megabit fiber optic, real-time, replicated memory network used in development of the avionics, flight controls, and cockpit of Boeing’s 777 aircraft family. He has also authored papers on PDD-63, Critical Infrastructure Protection, and provided security consultation to public utilities on infrastructure protection.
In addition, Terry has served as Director of Computer Systems for Western Area Power Administration’s Loveland Operations Center and as the Software Project Manager for the design and implementation of a regional SCADA system there covering parts of six states. While there, he also was the architect, designer, and programmer of one of the first integrated interactive regional power scheduling and accounting systems; one of the forerunners to today’s power trading systems. Also in the mid-70’s, while serving as Chief of Power and Water Scheduling for the Colorado River Storage Project, Terry was the first to integrate and automate the power and water operations on the dams on the Upper Colorado River system above Hoover into an operational computer based system model.
Terry holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University, is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow, and is registered professional engineer in Oklahoma, Colorado, and Washington.