Senior Technical Manager
: January 2006 - Present
Senior Cluster System Administrator
: September 2001 - January 2006
Principal Systems Programmer/Administrator
: November 1999 - August 2001
University Information Technologies Services, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408.
System administration of I.U.'s High Performance Computing Systems.
Systems including the Intel Paragon, SGI Origin 2000, IBM RS6000/SP,
Sun E10000, Cray XT5m, IBM iDataplex and JS21, HS21, QS20, QS22 blades, as well as various one off SMP machines & comodity Beowulf clusters.
Awarded Indiana University
Staff Merit Award for 2003.
Plan, manage, configure, and see to the efficient and effective operation of the Astronomy Department's and Astrophysics Group's computing resources. Acted as a technical resource engaged in the research and educational endeavors of these groups. Designed, developed, built & implemented data acquisition systems at both the hardware and software levels; e.g. robotic telescopes and particle physics detectors. Overall responsibility for daily systems management of the Department's & Group's resources.
Primarily a systems programmer/administrator on DEC VAX/VMS 750 & 8600 systems. Also worked with DEC PDP/LSI-11, Xerox, Harris computers used as control and data acquisition systems. Primary user consultant for IUCF researchers, staff, students, and visiting scientists.
Processing, reproduction, and sensitometric control of still (Black-&-White, colour), motion picture (high speed, ballistic, B&W, colour), and industrial X-ray (125KeV-4MeV) photoprocesses. Worked with special purpose high speed video data acquisition systems; 3/4" Betamax video cameras & editors. JPG's missions included test and evaluation as well as research and development of ARMY field artillery systems.
Aircrewmember (tailgunner) aboard Strategic Air Command B-52G aircraft whose mission was to function as the strategic bomber component of the United States nuclear deterrence infrastructure. Primary aircrew tasks involved knowledge of Soviet air defenses and tactics for penetrating hostile airspace; operation of active & passive sensor systems; electronic countermeasures. Additional duties included squadron NCO in Charge of Publications: managed two individuals responsible for distribution of B52G Technical Orders (TO); as well as personally insuring the currency of base command staff B52G TOs.
Processing, reproduction, and sensitometric control of aerial photographic imagery from a variety of remote sensors, e.g. optical, infrared (IR), and side-looking airborne radar (SLAR). Print Section Supervisor; managed approximately 10 people on two shifts.
Photographic technician.
Part time farm labor.
Shoveled horse, pig, & cow manure; dug ditches, plowed fields, harvested hay, fished, hunted, swam, ran in the woods and generally had a good time growing up.
I got to ride my bike within a five (5) block radius of home; included within this area was the city library, the school, the playground, the Little League field, one A&P grocery, one Hooks drugstore, the Cub Scouts lodge, and Fall Creek. I was making 25 cents per week allowance which would buy two (2) comic books and a penny bubble gum (if purchased in two (2) tranactions.)