Name: Ken Leon
Age: 56
Position: Assistant vice president, information services, Kapiolani Health
First job: Delivering newspapers, Boston
Favorite pastimes: Biking, walking
Ken Leon is working ahead at Kapiolani Health. Much of his job involves updating the organization's computer systems to avoid year-2000 problems. Looking ahead at Kapiolani
"We are in the middle of our year 2000 conversion efforts to ensure that Kapiolani is alive and well and providing good patient care in the 21st century," Leon said.
For nearly a year he has been InfoServices applications director there.
Leon was in the U.S. Navy for 31 years, working in aviation and naval intelligence information services. He came to Hawaii in 1988 and was stationed at the Fleet Intelligence Center at Pearl Harbor. From 1994-96, he was president of the Hawaii chapter, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. He also teaches at the University of Phoenix.
Leon earned a bachelor's degree in economics at Boston University and a master's degree in public administration at the University of Washington.
By Jerry Tune, Star-Bulletin