Goran Pocina
Computer Systems Administrator at D. E. Shaw Research- Claim this Profile
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Greg Paris
Goran immediately gained the trust and respect of the computational chemistry community at Novartis, typically a very difficult and insular customer used to having their own way with workstations and servers. He was an attentive and innovative UNIX system and network environment manager, introduced several time-saving and robustness enhancing changes to our distributed high-performance systems, assisted in the prototyping of our first foray into grid computing, and coordinated international activities in a professional manner while retaining a sense of humor.
Juli Bachir
Goran is exceptionally customer focus and has a wealth of technical skills. He is loyal, committed, dependable and is comfortable working with individuals and teams at all levels of an organization. Goran would make a great addition to any technical group.
Greg Paris
Goran immediately gained the trust and respect of the computational chemistry community at Novartis, typically a very difficult and insular customer used to having their own way with workstations and servers. He was an attentive and innovative UNIX system and network environment manager, introduced several time-saving and robustness enhancing changes to our distributed high-performance systems, assisted in the prototyping of our first foray into grid computing, and coordinated international activities in a professional manner while retaining a sense of humor.
Juli Bachir
Goran is exceptionally customer focus and has a wealth of technical skills. He is loyal, committed, dependable and is comfortable working with individuals and teams at all levels of an organization. Goran would make a great addition to any technical group.
Greg Paris
Goran immediately gained the trust and respect of the computational chemistry community at Novartis, typically a very difficult and insular customer used to having their own way with workstations and servers. He was an attentive and innovative UNIX system and network environment manager, introduced several time-saving and robustness enhancing changes to our distributed high-performance systems, assisted in the prototyping of our first foray into grid computing, and coordinated international activities in a professional manner while retaining a sense of humor.
Juli Bachir
Goran is exceptionally customer focus and has a wealth of technical skills. He is loyal, committed, dependable and is comfortable working with individuals and teams at all levels of an organization. Goran would make a great addition to any technical group.
Greg Paris
Goran immediately gained the trust and respect of the computational chemistry community at Novartis, typically a very difficult and insular customer used to having their own way with workstations and servers. He was an attentive and innovative UNIX system and network environment manager, introduced several time-saving and robustness enhancing changes to our distributed high-performance systems, assisted in the prototyping of our first foray into grid computing, and coordinated international activities in a professional manner while retaining a sense of humor.
Juli Bachir
Goran is exceptionally customer focus and has a wealth of technical skills. He is loyal, committed, dependable and is comfortable working with individuals and teams at all levels of an organization. Goran would make a great addition to any technical group.
Experience
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D. E. Shaw Research
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United States
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Research Services
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100 - 200 Employee
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Computer Systems Administrator
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Dec 2010 - Present
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President
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Jun 2009 - Dec 2010
A High Performance Computing consulting company. A High Performance Computing consulting company.
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Pfizer
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United States
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Lead Compute Grid
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2004 - Jun 2009
* Conversion of dedicated compute nodes to a global HPC pool shared by Development, Research and Marketing.* Design and deployment of a single, global, file system name space using autofs.* Development of an application framework that enabled global access to shared application binaries.* Designed a POC that evaluated the dynamic extension an HPC cluster into an external Data Center.* Tech lead on a CPU scavenging project that used Solaris Resource Manager (SRM) to guarantee and report SLAs to both server owners, and compute guests.* Evaluated CPU scavenging on Windows laptops across the enterprise.* Developed a business case for clustered storage.* Developed Grid SLAs effective even during 100% utilization.* Through the use of design, automated tools, web docs: developed support staff, and handed off all Grid support functions.* Invented a "contention report" that graphically showed users the progress of their jobs, and was later built into Platform’s RTM tool.
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Novartis
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Switzerland
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Research HPC Administrator
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1991 - 2004
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Tech Lead - Drug Discover IT
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1991 - 2004
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Education
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1979 - 1983
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
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