Experience

National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• United States
• Research Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sr. HPC Administrator

  • Sep 2016 - Present



Northwestern University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. HPC Engineer

  • Nov 2010 - Sep 2016

  Maintain Moab and Torque. Maintain Gold Allocation Manager Manage and maintain various HPC Applications across two clusters Provide day to day support to faculty and staff for HPC issues and applications Manage and maintain xCat stateless and stateful images Build an accounting portal to Gold for the main HPC resource using PHP and Javascript Manage and Install GPU nodes Build and Manage a Tier 3 CMS Hadoop Cluster Maintain Moab and Torque. Maintain Gold Allocation Manager Manage and maintain various HPC Applications across two clusters Provide day to day support to faculty and staff for HPC issues and applications Manage and maintain xCat stateless and stateful images Build an accounting portal to Gold for the main HPC resource using PHP and Javascript Manage and Install GPU nodes Build and Manage a Tier 3 CMS Hadoop Cluster



Idaho National Lab

• HPC System Administrator

  • Mar 2010 - Oct 2010

  Implemented and maintained NetApps and Panasas storage solutions Implemented Puppet for mass configuration management Supported users in debugging of parallel applications Supported monitoring of various services and health of parallel systems Performed security audits and implemented fixes Implemented the process for migrating from NIS authentication to LDAP Implemented and maintained NetApps and Panasas storage solutions Implemented Puppet for mass configuration management Supported users in debugging of parallel applications Supported monitoring of various services and health of parallel systems Performed security audits and implemented fixes Implemented the process for migrating from NIS authentication to LDAP



Purdue Rosen Center

• Student System Administrator

  • Aug 2007 - Mar 2010

  Performed Red Hat, Debian and other Linux software maintenance for over 2000 machines Oversaw daily operation of maintenance of multiple large high performance Linux clusters Installed and maintained VMware Server Assisted in the preparation of a large installation of 800 machines in a single day Benchmarked and selected network interconnect for 1000 node cluster Used multiple parallel applications and benchmarks to analyze various network and software issues Performed Red Hat, Debian and other Linux software maintenance for over 2000 machines Oversaw daily operation of maintenance of multiple large high performance Linux clusters Installed and maintained VMware Server Assisted in the preparation of a large installation of 800 machines in a single day Benchmarked and selected network interconnect for 1000 node cluster Used multiple parallel applications and benchmarks to analyze various network and software issues



Purdue College of Consumer and Family Sciences

• Student System Administrator/Site Specialist

  • Jul 2005 - Nov 2007

  Administrated Windows server environment and provided desktop support for 500+ Consumer and Family Sciences faculty and staff Maintained current images of server configurations and daily backups of mission critical data Investigated and fixed a wide array of computer problems for both Windows and Apple products Installed various hardware and software Initialized new computer systems Maintained virus protection and removal Administrated Windows server environment and provided desktop support for 500+ Consumer and Family Sciences faculty and staff Maintained current images of server configurations and daily backups of mission critical data Investigated and fixed a wide array of computer problems for both Windows and Apple products Installed various hardware and software Initialized new computer systems Maintained virus protection and removal