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Virginia TechAssociate Vice President for Research Computing
Feb. 2023 - Sep. 2024Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
North Dakota State UniversityExecutive Director, Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology
Sep. 2017 - Mar. 2023Fargo, North Dakota AreaI served as Executive Director of NDSU's Center for Computationally Assisted Science and Technology (CCAST) and started the University-wide service scope for CCAST. We provide high performance computing and data management to the North Dakota research community.
University of Colorado BoulderVisiting Researcher
Oct. 2016 - Oct. 2017Boulder, CO
University of WyomingAdjunct Professor of Computer Science
Jan. 2016 - Jul. 2016Laramie, WYI teach computer security and high performance computing in the Computer Science department of the University of Wyoming.
University of WyomingDirector of Research Services
Feb. 2015 - Aug. 2016Laramie, WyI lead the Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC) team in provisioning and operating the University's supercomputing systems. I also serve as Director for Research Services in the IT Division of the University.
HerculesstichtingHPC Manager
Jul. 2013 - Jun. 2014Brussels Area, BelgiumI led the HPC efforts at Herculesstichting, a private Foundation funded by the Flemish government for the support of scientific infrastructure in Flanders. Flanders currently has one supercomputer in the Top500 systems worldwide. I developed a 5 year Strategic Plan with leaders from the user and operations teams that is currently under review for submission to the Flemish Government. We held the first ever Flemish HPC Users Day in Jan 2014 to great success. The HPC program is now in full operations with possible future expansion with Industrial partners.
Dane Skow & Company LLCPresident
Jan. 2013Fargo, North Dakota, United StatesDane is President and Founder of Dane Skow & Company, LLC - a big data and high performance consulting and product development company based in Fargo, ND.
The University of Texas at AustinResearch Fellow
Oct. 2012 - Dec. 2012J.J. Pickle Center, Austin, TXI was a Research Fellow at TACC looking into Big Data analysis issues and the social/political aspects of moving forward with data exchange.
National Science FoundationProgram Director
Mar. 2012 - Dec. 2012Arlington, VAI was the Program Director for Data and Inter-Divisional Activities within the Office of CyberInfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. My portfolio included: Earthcube, BIG DATA, DIBBs, EPSCoR, CIF21 Data WG.
Computation Institute - University of ChicagoSenior Fellow
Jan. 2007 - Sep. 2012Here I was Director of the NSF TeraGrid project (a project to connect the largest SuperComputers NSF owns into a single system). As my penance, I worked with the Computation Institute staff to improve our cost accounting system and reports to Principal Investigators.
Argonne National LaboratorySenior Staff Scientist
Jan. 2006 - Sep. 2012My position included evaluation of new technology (for example, I led an evaluation of Google Apps/Mail for use at Argonne), enterprise architecture work, and solicitation of new grant opportunities within and without the Laboratory. I was successful in obtaining 3 grants from the DOE office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
Argonne National LaboratoryDirector of Teragrid Grid Infrastructure Group
Jan. 2006 - Mar. 2008As Director of the TeraGrid Infrastructure Group I was responsible for the performance of 80+ individuals spread across 13 institutions and the day to day operations of common infrastructure services for the TeraGrid project (e.g. networking, software, user support, project support, user outreach, and security). We were successful in passing our annual review with high marks, doubling our user population and quadrupling our computing resources available to the users. I served as Deputy Director from Jan 2006 - Jan 2007, then Director from Jan 2007 - March 2008.
Open Grid ForumSecurity Area Director
Jan. 2002 - Dec. 2006I led the standards organization in the Security area which included convening 3x yearly meetings at international locations, managing ~6 teams of workers on the standards, and managing the corresponding web presences (wiki, webpages, mailing lists, etc.) I was also responsible for reviewing all standards documents for their security content and needs and serving on the Steering Committee which had final approval for documents and set OGF policy.
Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryComputer Security Team Leader
Jan. 2000 - Dec. 2005I led a project to install a single-signon Kerberos authentication system for the Laboratory which was delivered on time and under budget. We supported over 5000 users and 10,000 machines. I led the incident response team and was deputy to the CISO at the laboratory representing the lab at national and international meetings.
Fermi National Accelerator LabOperating Systems Department Head
Jan. 1997 - Dec. 2001I led a team of 40+ individuals to support the central Unix clusters and infrastructure at the Lab. I was also in charge of the Windows and Mac infrastructure along with eMail and other central services (AFS file system, etc.). We operated the clusters, provided the custom software needed to run the users software, provided end user support and maintained all the equipment and software for both central clusters and workgroup clusters out in the field. One of my major accomplishments was the selection of RedHat Linux as a supported operating system in 1998. We were one of the first commercial sites supporting RedHat Linux and were instrumental in their early marketing. Another was the stabilization of the AFS file system which had been suffering from a ~70% uptime and slow file access. My team boosted the uptime to 99.9%+ and improved file access time by 50X within 1 year.
Fermi National Accelerator LaboratoryStaff Scientist
Jan. 1990 - Dec. 2006I was a staff scientist at Fermilab specializing in QCD structure function measurements, exotic meson production, and data acquisition systems.
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