Keith Fowler is an associate at Black Blade Associates Inc. Keith’s fascination with technology started at a young age.  In junior high school he built and maintained a Red Hat Linux server, taught himself PERL, JAVA, and JavaScript and soon started developing various open source applications and web sites. 

In 2001 Keith joined the United States Marine Corps, and was soon stationed in Okinawa, Japan where he became an Information Management Specialist for III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF) and maintained Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence (C4I) systems. He also developed custom desktop portal applications to support the Command Element at III MEF. 

After two tours in the Marine Corps Keith joined Black Blade Associates in April 2009, where he continues to develop custom desktop and portal applications and provides expert knowledge of portal environments.