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