Resume

Summary

Over 20 years of High Performance Computing and Storage Experience in Scientific Research and Production environments

Technical Skills

• IBM High Performance Computing Specialist

• Systems Administration on Linux and AIX

• Installation and Support of Exascale Storage Environments

• Configuration and Management of large scale Infiniband Networks

• Unix and Network Security

• TCP/IP Networking

• Shell scripting in KSH and Perl

Leadership Experience

• Co-Division Director, Otakorp, Otakon Anime Convention, 2020-2022

• Board Vice-Chair, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of York, 2015

• Board Member, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of York, 2014 - 2015

• Drill Sergeant, US Army Reserves, 1989 - 1992

• Lead Administrator, AutoZone, 1996

• Lead Administrator, Sprint, 1998

• Lead Administrator, IBM/NOAA 2006 - 2012

• Lead Adminsitrator, IBM HPCMO Ti 11/12 2012 - 2016

• IBM Site Lead, CORAL Project, Oak Ridge National Lab - 2016 - Present

• Project Management, 2006 - Present

Education and Certification

• Systems Theory Based Leadership, Unitarian Universalist Association

• CompTIA Security+ (SY0-301)

• CompTIA Linux+ (LP0101, LP0102)

• IBM Certified Specialist - p690 Technical Support

• IBM Certified Specialist - pSeries AIX System Support

• IBM Education and Training DB2/Parallel Edition

• IBM Education and Training Advanced AIX Administration

• IBM Education and Training Implementing HACMP

• IBM Education and Training pSeries Logical Partitioning (LPAR) for AIX 5L

• IBM Education and Training Managing Linux on IBM Power Systems

• United States Army Reserves Primary Leadership Development Course

• United States Army Reserves Drill Sergeant Academy

• Coursework at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Work Experience

ICON Consulting

Assignment: Lead IBM HPC Engineer, CORAL Project – Oak Ridge National Lab

Oak Ridge, TN

December 2016 – Present

As the Lead Engineer for IBM at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility on the CORAL Project, I am responsible for working with OLCF Staff to implement and manage the next generation of High Performance Computing systems, using IBM Power9 CPUs, NVIDIA Volta GPUs, and Mellanox EDR Interconnects and Switches. We are also implementing a generational GPFS ESS Storage environment to allow Department of Energy researchers to access their data across the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Campus. This consists of over 4600 compute nodes and 256pb of IBM ESS GPFS storage.





Assignment: Lead IBM HPC Administrator, HPCMO Ti11/12 - US Army Research Lab

Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD

August 2012 – September 2017
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At the Army Research Lab, I served a dual role, both as National Team Lead for all of IBM's Ti 11/12 HPCMO Systems Operations spread across 3 sites, and as On-Site Lead Administrator for the Army Research Lab Ti 11/12 IBM iDataPlex RedHat Linux based supercomputers. My role at the Army Research Lab was to build out and perform ongoing support for the xCAT/RedHat Linux based iDataplex M4 systems including system management, maintenance, and support for RedHat OS and supporting cluster software (GPFS, PBS Pro and IBM Platform LSF Schedulers, IBM, Intel MPI, and Mellanox OpenMPI software stacks, xCAT cluster management), IBM/Netapp storage running GPFS, high performance InfiniBand FDR and FDR10 interconnects, and ongoing system planning.



Assignment: NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction

Gaithersburg, MD

April 2012 - August 2012


At the National Center for Environmental Prediction, I was part of a team supporting the Nation's weather prediction infrastructure. Simultaneously building out the next generation Linux based supercomputer while supporting a production AIX supercomputer, I was responsible for system management, maintenance, and support for AIX, SAN storage, high performance interconnects, and system planning.


Assignment: NOAA Research and Development

Gaithersburg, MD

Lead Systems Administrator
August 2006 – March 2012



At NOAA I was Lead Administrator on NOAA's Climate Research and Development IBM Supercomputers. Responsible for installation, ongoing support, and maintenance for IBM's p575 Power5 / HPS based supercomputer and p570 Power6 / InfiniBand based supercomputer used for weather and climate research. Ongoing support and implementation of LoadLeveller, GPFS, and AIX.


Assignment: Arctic Region Supercomputing Center

Fairbanks, AK

High Performance Computing Systems Engineer

June 2004 – July 2006

Secret Clearance



At the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, I was responsible for maintaining IBM pSeries servers, High Performance Switch, and FAStT storage running LoadLeveller and GPFS on AIX and SuSe Enterprise Linux on IBM Power4 and Power5 systems in an HPC Environment.

Agilysys
New York, NY
Senior Systems Engineer
March 2001 - June 2004

In my position with Agilysys, one of the nations largest IBM Business Partners, I was responsible for Installation, Implementation, and Integration of IBM RS/6000 and pSeries based products into customers' existing environments. This included AIX, HACMP, SP, and Fibre Channel SAN implementations. Hardware installations included the full IBM pSeries range from the smallest deskside system up to large HPC clusters as well as IBM ESS and FAStT SAN environments, with McData, Cisco, and Brocade Fibre Channel Switches. I also designed Server, Cluster, and Storage Solutions to meet the needs of customers large and small, in both heterogeneous and homogeneous environments




Tech Resources

Reston, VA

Technical Consultant

July 2000 - February 2001

Assignment: Cable & Wireless, Vienna, VA



Matlen Silver

Charlotte, NC

Technical Consultant

September 1999 - June 2000

Assignment: EDS, Charlotte, NC



Princeton Information

Washington, DC

Technical Consultant

October 1997 - September 1999 

Final Assignment: Sprint Reston Operations, Reston, VA.

Previous Assignment: Sprint Technical Services Distributed Systems Management, Kansas City, MO.


AIC International

Seattle, WA

Technical Consultant

April 1997 - September 1997

Assignment: The Boeing Company



AutoZone, Inc.

Memphis, TN

Lead Systems Administrator

March 1996 - March 1997 


Volunteer Experience
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of York, PA - 2015 - Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors
Otakorp - 2020 - 2022 - Co-Division Director, Information Technology