Starnes Walker:
CLASS OF 1965
Raytown High SchoolClass of 1965
Raytown, MO
University of CaliforniaClass of 1968
Riverside, CA
Elsinore High SchoolClass of 1965
Wildomar, CA
Starnes's Story
Life
I was married for 20 years + to Fran Walker, who passed away recently. We had 3 daughters Caryn, Sunday, and Molly. All the girls are married with wonderful families, and I will soon have 6 grandchildren, 2 for each of my daughters--Jackson, Molly Anne, Sam, Caytie, Madison, and a new little boy joining us in March, 2005. I have a little dog, Daisy, who has been with me since 1992. Previously we had Snoopy and Teddy--all most wonderful and close to our hearts. I have added more information on what I am doing in my "Work" tab on "My Bio" page. I now live in Virginia and I've served as the Chief Scientist for the US Navy, Director of Research-U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and most recently the Chief Technology Officer for Cyber with the U.S. Navy. In April 2014 I joined the University of Delaware as the Founding Director-Cyber Security Initiative at the Dean level and accept the position of Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering in Newark Delaware. I continue to work closely with the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security and Energy, Military Services, and the Intelligence Community.
Workplace
When I left Independence, MO, where I was in my senior year at Raytown High School, I moved to Lake Elsinore, California. I finished my senior year at Elsinore High School. I started college at the University of California-Riverside in the Fall 1965. All 3 degrees (BS/MS/Ph.D.) were in physics at the University of California. My career started at the Naval Weapons Center-Corona Laboratory and later China Lake Laboratory. During this time I was awarded a Naval Fellowship for my doctoral work and following my degree I then joined the laboratories at Phillips Petroleum Company in Bartlesville, OK as a research physicist. My career spanned 20 years as a physicist that started in process control and measurment science and then moved into starting and leading a large joint nuclear pr...Expand for more
ogram in magnetic confinement fusion with General Atomic and Phillips and in partnership with EG&G. After 20 years I left Phillips as a Senior Research Associate and at that time the Environmental Director. I joined Morrison Knudsen Corp,a large engineering and construction company that dated back to the early 1900s when they built Hoover dam and other large very difficult engineering feats, as the Vice President-Technology. From this position I led an environmental subsidiary and served as a corporate officer to direct the corporation's engineering and technology thrusts. I came back into Government service joining the Department of Defense as a Senior Executive Service appointment with the newly formed Defense Agency, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). DTRA was formed by DoD and Congress to lead the country in countering Weapons of Mass Destruction threats in nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological capabilities. I served in this position from January 2000 until January 2003, when I joined the Argonne National Laboratory as Associate Laboratory Director (Acting) to lead their National Security programs. In October 2004 I left Argonne to come aboard with the US Navy at the Office of Naval Research as the Technical Director & Chief Scientist to lead all Naval (S&T) capabilities for the Navy and Marines. From my Navy executive position I transitioned to becoming the Director of Research for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, DC and most recently joining the University of Delaware in April 2014 as the Founding Director-University of Delaware Cyber Security Initiative and Professor-Electrical & Computer Engineering. My previous post was serving as the Chief Technology Officer for cyber as a Senior Executive Service member for the U.S. Navy at Fort Meade & the NSA, while concurrently serving as the Technical & Engineering Director of the University of Hawaii System.
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