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Professor Len Evenchik has over twenty-five years of senior management and engineering experience in industry, government, and academia. He teaches courses on the strategic use of Information Technology (IT) and Data Analytics, and a course on Cybersecurity Strategy and Management.  He has also served as the faculty supervisor for experiential learning courses for MBA students.

Before coming to Boston College, he was the Assistant Dean and founding director of the online education program at Harvard's Division of Continuing Education. Mr. Evenchik managed all aspects of the program from its inception in 1997, when one online course with four students was offered, to an enrollment of over 10,000. He has also taught graduate level computer science courses on Internet protocols and information security at the Harvard Extension School for over 25 years, including the first course at Harvard to use video streaming and multimedia to deliver classroom lectures to online students around the world.

Mr. Evenchik began his professional career at BBN in Cambridge, where he developed some of the first networking protocols used in the Internet, and then managed the implementation of large commercial networks. He was Director of Communications for the State of Massachusetts where he managed the organization responsible for the strategic planning, implementation, and operation of statewide networks supporting over 15,000 users. His industry experience also includes senior management positions in sales, program management and engineering at both large firms and at a number of venture capital backed startups, one of which had a successful IPO.

Prof. Evenchik earned three degrees from MIT in the fields of both Engineering and Management. He received a B.S. and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and he was awarded a patent based on some of his work while a graduate student.  He also earned a B.S from the Sloan School of Management where he worked with Prof. Fischer Black on the first online implementation of the Black-Scholes options model.