Professional Biography

For over twenty years I’ve worked as a professional computer scientist with a focus on Linux systems administration. Within systems administration my focus has been infrastructure systems and development of distribution-agnostic configuration management solutions using Puppet, Ansible, virtualization, containers, the HashiCorp suite, and both open-source and vendor-designed technologies.

I’m currently engaged as a Senior Systems Administrator with Leidos, my team working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) bioinformatics and high-performance scientific computing (HPC) group. This position returns me to the various aspects of HPC/cluster computing, large scale storage, and the specialized technologies and practices needed to supporting researchers and data scientists.

Recently, I was the Principal System Administrator of the Linux team in the Systems Operations group at SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) developing advanced cloud and on-premises solutions utilizing the latest technologies and integration pipelines.

In other positions I’ve held multiple roles with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Systems Operations group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and also a part of the Research and Development group supporting the Neutron Sciences Directorate’s research programs at the Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor.

While with the University of Tennessee’s National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) Systems Operations group I held a management role with the NSF-funded Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project while also maintaining a role of infrastructure team lead and HPC systems manager.

Proudly, I’ve returned to university studies pursuing a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) [Go Jags!]. This will significantly contribute to lifelong goals of enhancing my understanding of knowledge and information, design and application of formal research, facilitated learning experiences, and most importantly the preservation and extension of the core practices and ideals of traditional librarianship.