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# 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

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## 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
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## Carnegie Mellon University

### Cloud/Full-Stack Developer, School of Computer Science, 2019

* Full-stack developer & sysadmin for an experimental learning platform built on Django.

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## 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.
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## Carnegie Mellon University

### Research assistant, Department of English, 2014-2015

* Designed & built the backend for the Docuscope web app, based on DocuscopeJr.

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## Northwaters Langskib Wilderness Programs

### Guide, 2010-2015

* Led & educated youth aged 10-18 on 3-week backcountry canoe trips.
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# 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.](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3569951.3597589)<br />
In _PEARC '23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing_, July 2023

# References
Available on request
