Experience

CSCS

• Switzerland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Associate Director

  • Jul 2021 - Present

  Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland Associate Director responsible for special assignments including HBP/EBRAINS, Fenix and SKA.

• Associate Director and Head of HPC Operations

  • Sep 2017 - Jul 2021

  Lugano, Switzerland This unit is responsible for the main IT infrastructure at the centre, including our flagship system "Piz Daint", site wide storage, OpenStack IaaS, network and central services. We also have a team devoted to the support and development of Infrastructure Services middleware and DevOps.

• Head of Systems Integration

  • Feb 2014 - Sep 2017

  Lugano This new group is responsible for site-wide project management, technology evaluation and vendor relationships.

• Head of Systems, National Supercomputing Service

  • Aug 2009 - Feb 2014

  Lugano, Switzerland Managing the team that run the Swiss National Supercomputing systems and all related IT support infrastructure.



Pivot Publishing & Consulting Ltd

• Director

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Auckland, New Zealand Experts in High Performance Computing, Engineering, Publishing, Report Writing, Policy Analysis and Public Sector Management.



Cray User Group

• President of the Cray User Group (CUG)

  • May 2018 - May 2021

  The Cray User Group is an independent, international corporation of member organizations that in the past owned Cray Inc. computer systems. With the acquisition of Cray by HPE in 2019 the participating organizations was expanded to include owners of both select HPE and Cray systems. Founded in 1978, CUG was established to facilitate collaboration and information exchange in the high-performance computing (HPC) community. We assist our members in achieving their business and research objectives… Show more The Cray User Group is an independent, international corporation of member organizations that in the past owned Cray Inc. computer systems. With the acquisition of Cray by HPE in 2019 the participating organizations was expanded to include owners of both select HPE and Cray systems. Founded in 1978, CUG was established to facilitate collaboration and information exchange in the high-performance computing (HPC) community. We assist our members in achieving their business and research objectives by providing opportunities to share and discover ideas, solutions, and developments in the effective use of computational tools. Show less



University of Canterbury

• New Zealand
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• HPC Systems Engineer

  • Jul 2006 - 2009

  Christchurch, New Zealand Responsible for a 10-node IBM p575 HPC system. Installed the first BlueGene/L system in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Senior Workrooms Consultant

  • Oct 2000 - Dec 2006

  Christchurch, New Zealand Responsible for the management of several hundred workroom systems spread across campus. Developed automated install procedures based on bespoke scripts and publicly available software in conjunction with vendor-specific server-side offerings.

• ICTS Departmental Computer Consultant

  • Jul 1999 - Oct 2000

  Christchurch, New Zealand Part of a team providing general desktop support to various departments on campus.



Engineering Dynamics Consultancy Ltd

• Consulting Partner

  • 1997 - 1999

  Christchurch, New Zealand This small company run by my friend Brian Donohue specialised in engineering design, strain gauging and data acquisition on industrial plant and equipment including in-service railway wagons, dynamic balancing of rotating and reciprocating machinery, product testing, measurement equipment calibration, installation of noise attenuators on HVAC equipment. Our customers included Australian-based enginnering consulting companies, Comalco's Tiwai Aluminium Smelter and TranzRail.



Thinking Cap Solutions

• Principal

  • 1994 - 1997

  Christchurch, New Zealand Running my own small business restoring classic cars, furniture making and contract computer programming.



University of Canterbury

• New Zealand
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Part-time Laboratory Technician

  • 1994 - 1997

  Christchurch, New Zealand Overseeing undergraduate laboratory experiments in the Mechanical Engineering Department, marking assignments and tutoring students at tertiary level.



Britten Motorcycles

• Assistant design engineer

  • 1991 - 1993

  Christchurch, New Zealand Involved on a casual basis with the development of the MkII Britten racing motorcycle with Dr Murray Aitken, John Britten and the rest of the team at Britten motorcycles.