Resume/CV
Last updated 2026-04-29 08:59
Skills & Abilities🔗
- Extensive experience configuring, monitoring, and administering Linux systems
- Over 6 years experience maintaining & planning deployment of heterogeneous HPC systems
- Self-driven learner & enthusiastic educator
Employment Experience🔗
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center🔗
Director of Systems, 2025-present🔗
- Leads system administration group, responsible for all clusters and support systems at the center.
- Coordinates system maintenance & upgrades across operations groups and other stakeholders.
- Aids in the design and planning of future HPC system deployments.
- Corresponds with project PIs to align system configuration & staff efforts with project needs.
- Revamped group task management, on-call, and documentation procedures
Advanced Systems Infrastructure Manager, 2024-2025🔗
- Led a team maintaining and upgrading the shared cyberinfrastructure of the center.
Infrastructure Engineer, 2019-2023 / Senior Infrastructure Engineer, 2023-2024🔗
- As part of Operations team, deployed and administered several flagship HPC clusters
- Spearheaded deployment of centralized Prometheus monitoring and Puppet configuration management across the center
- Developed internal system management tools
- As part of XSEDE, developed a Python library used by HPC centers across the country
- Contributed patches and fixes to open-source projects
Carnegie Mellon University🔗
Cloud/Full-Stack Developer, School of Computer Science, 2019🔗
- Full-stack developer & sysadmin for an experimental learning platform built on Django.
Bard College🔗
Developer for Experimental Humanities, 2015-2019🔗
- Designed, built, deployed, and maintained digital humanities projects, in collaboration with faculty, staff, and students, along with related infrastructure.
- With Bard IT staff, spearheaded several modernization projects for Bard's IT & academic technologies infrastructure.
Carnegie Mellon University🔗
Research assistant, Department of English, 2014-2015🔗
- Designed & built the backend for the Docuscope web app, based on DocuscopeJr.
Northwaters Langskib Wilderness Programs🔗
Guide, 2010-2015🔗
- Led & educated youth aged 10-18 on 3-week backcountry canoe trips.
Education🔗
Carnegie Mellon University🔗
Master of Arts in Rhetoric, May 2015
Pennsylvania State University🔗
Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, December 2012 Bachelor of Science in Physics, December 2012
Awards🔗
Carnegie Mellon University, Mellon College of Science🔗
Senior Rookie of the Year, 2021
Publications🔗
Rebuilding Bridges: The tools used to deploy and maintain Bridges-2.
In PEARC '23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, July 2023
References🔗
Available on request