Kyle Allard is an experienced solutions consultant currently working at Benefit Communications Inc. since July 2021. Previously, Kyle held various roles at Benefitfocus from 2014 to July 2021, including Solutions Consultant in Professional Services, Manager/Team Lead of Testing, and Configuration Testing Analyst, focusing on software and implementation expertise, team management, and system testing. Kyle's earlier experience includes a Graduate Research Assistantship at West Virginia University, collaborating with NASA engineers on advanced sensor technology, and summer research internships at NASA, where contributions included developing novel methods for calculating magnetic seed fields and designing optical tweezers apparatuses. Kyle holds a Master’s of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from West Virginia University and a Bachelor of Science in Physics with a Minor in Math from West Virginia Wesleyan College.