Kevin M. Morooney

VICE PRESIDENT, TRUST AND IDENTITY SERVICES & NET+ CLOUD SERVICES, INTERNET2

Kevin M. Morooney

Kevin M. Morooney is the Vice President of Trust and Identity Services & NET+ Cloud Services at Internet2. He spends his days ensuring that university systems are secure and that faculty and students can easily and safely access essential online tools. With nearly three decades of IT leadership, Kevin is a recognized expert in Higher Education IT, specializing in digital identity, security, and cloud technology for the research and education (R&E) community.

Prior to joining Internet2, Kevin served as Vice Provost for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Penn State. During his nine-year tenure, he oversaw over 80 services across the university’s 24 campuses, leading major modernization projects to secure and manage the university’s systems. This list of notable projects included a project supporting faculty and students in their use of National Science Foundation supercomputer centers and emerging high-performance computing capabilities on campus.

Even at Penn State, Kevin was a major contributor to Internet2, serving as Chair of the InCommon Steering Committee, which focuses on digital identity and trust services across Higher Ed. Kevin holds a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech and is known as an exceptional, warm, and effective leader.

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InCommon’s 20-Year Milestone: Connecting and Supporting Researchers with Rachana Ananthakrishnan

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe are reaching the end of our year-long celebration of InCommon’s 20th birthday. As we draw to a close, we highlight an interview I held with a pivotal figure in the research and higher education (R&E) community: Rachana Ananthakrishnan, the executive director and head of products for Globus at the University of Chicago. Globus provides an important infrastructure allowing researchers to move and share data reliably and securely, compute across systems easily, and automate research tasks. Over the years, InCommon and Globus have worked together to connect researchers, enable collaboration, and build a trusted access community. Rachana has an extensive […]

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20-Year Milestone: Making an Impact on Research with Kevin Thompson

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe continue to celebrate InCommon’s 20th birthday with a series of forward-facing conversations featuring prominent leaders in the research and higher education (R&E) community. For this installment, I chatted with Kevin Thompson, a program director for the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering and the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Kevin has served at the NSF since 2003 and helped build the NSF Middleware Initiative and Experimental Infrastructure programs at the agency. Before his tenure at NSF, Kevin worked in the MCI Advanced Internet Technologies department, where he was responsible for the vBNS […]

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InCommon’s 20-Year Milestone: Connecting Educators and Research Through Collaboration and Community with Sean Reynolds

Reading Time: 3 minutesContinuing our celebration of InCommon’s 20th birthday, we bring you a conversation with another influential voice in the research and higher education (R&E) community: Sean Reynolds, vice president for Information Technology and CIO at Northwestern University. Sean remains a dedicated and active volunteer with InCommon. He served on the InCommon Steering Committee from 2015-2020, acting as Chair for two years. Sean’s leadership was critical as the Trust and Identity in Education and Research (TIER) program wound down and was permanently resourced as an ongoing part of the InCommon portfolio. He has also played a role in recruiting new members to […]

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Choosing the Moon: InCommon Futures2 Will Take Our Community to New Heights

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere’s a difference between saying, “Let’s see if we can put someone on the moon,” and instead saying “We’re putting someone on the moon.” A big difference. As I thought about where InCommon has been and where we’re headed next, John F. Kennedy’s September 1962 address at Rice University on the nation’s space effort crossed my mind. JFK was clear that going to the moon was a choice. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize […]

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InCommon’s 20-Year Milestone: Unparalleled Community & Indispensable Infrastructure with Jack Suess

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe continue to celebrate InCommon’s 20th birthday with a series of forward-facing conversations featuring prominent leaders in the research and higher education (R&E) community. Today, we spotlight a conversation I had with Jack Suess, vice president of Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. During his time at UMBC, Suess’ work has been nothing short of remarkable. After decades at UMBC as a student or staff, Suess was appointed the university’s CIO in 2000 and named a vice president five years later. He has spearheaded initiatives in advanced networking and cloud computing and helped lead the R&E community […]

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Learning from the Past While Looking to the Future

Reading Time: 2 minutesInCommon 2023 Year in Review Available Now The past is kind enough to give you lessons. The present is kind enough to give you opportunities. The future is kind enough to give you both. —Matshona Dhliwayo Zimbabwean-born and Canadian-based philosopher Matshona Dhliwayo’s keen observation about the interrelationship between the past, present, and future strikes us as particularly appropriate as we reflect on 2023 and continue the work we’ve started to ensure a bright future for InCommon. (Download the InCommon 2023 Year in Review.) Community Curated and Future Focused Our work last year was community-curated and future-focused. In 2023, we applied […]

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Happy Birthday to Us! InCommon Turns 20 in May

Reading Time: 3 minutesFor most of us, our perspective on birthdays changes over time and with life experiences. When I was a boy, say 10 years old or so, my friends and I loved birthdays and their parties. These were very focused events. Will I like the cake? How much will I be allowed to eat? How many presents did I get? Do I like the presents? How many friends came to the party? Was I the undisputed center of attention? When I was in my twenties, there was a notable shift. The gatherings were less about a focus on the immediate present […]

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Keeping the Music Playing: IAM Today and Tomorrow

Reading Time: 4 minutesFriedrich Nietzsche: “Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” Ka’ala, @alohakaala: “Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release—it’s what the trees do.” Ernest Hemingway: “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it […]

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