Kevin E. Kimbell. Mr. Kimbell has been a Techrizon DSTATS Trainer and Hardware Tester/Repairer on the DSTATS project since 2001. He has over 12 years of experience as an instructor and training developer for Field Artillery systems. As a DSTATS trainer, Mr. Kimbell was the co-instructor for over 20 DSTATS Refresher Training courses. In addition to teaching, he assists soldiers who call the 24/7 DSTATS Help Desk number. He provides information to successfully establish communications between DSTATS and fire support systems such as IFSAS, BCS, AFATDS and MLRS FDS, helps the soldiers create databases and scenarios for their particular unit, and follows troubleshooting procedures to resolve a variety of other hardware and software problems. He also repairs and tests DSTATS hardware that is covered by the maintenance contract warranty.
Mr. Kimbell retired from the United States Army as a senior noncommissioned officer in Field Artillery after 20 years of service. While on active duty, he taught MLRS courses to active and reserve personnel and trained Advanced Initial Training (AIT) students. Mr. Kimbell was the senior instructor/course developer on the New Equipment Training (NET) team that supported the 2/130th Kansas National Guard conversion from cannon artillery to MLRS. For his excellent mentoring and instruction, Mr. Kimbell was selected as an honorary member of the 2/130th FA battalion. After retirement, he joined Techrizon as a Software Training Specialist. He trained over 130 active and reserve soldiers during the fielding of Version 11 MLRS FDS software.
Mr. Kimbell has completed numerous courses presented by military organizations and universities. Examples include the Instructor Training Course, Test Development Workshop, and System Approach to Training.
