Principal Systems Programmer/Adminisrator
November 1999 - Present
University Information Technologies Services, Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47408.
Manage Indiana University's central shared systems; duties have included primary and/or backup
system administrator for
high herformance computing (HPC) systems:
SGI O2000 (64 CPU SMP),
IBM RS6000/SP (72 node DMP),
Sun E10k (64 CPU SMP),
and
commodity HPC PC clusters (16 node, dual CPU SMP).
For the past year I have been managing Research & Technical Services' (RATS) central support
systems such as
the centralized user filespace (SUNnfs),
Steels' applications servers (Durga, Forge, Anvil),
as well as
the Steel itself; the general cycle server for 17,000 I.U. users.
Current endeavours involve integrating and upgrading
these central support servers. The results of which are too ease systems management duties, improve
systems security, reliability & recovery times, and to produce a coherent structure amoungst formerly
disassociated systems.
Plan, manage, configure, and see to the efficient and effective operations of the Astronomy Department's and Astrophysics Group's computer resources. Act as a technical resource for computing issues, actively support & engage in research activities, and facilitate the educational mission of the department.
Worked my way through school as a systems programmer, user consultant, computer operator, and software librarian primarily on Digital Equipment's VAX/VMS 750 & 8600 systems. Have also had experience on DEC pdp/lsi-11, CDC, Harris, Prime, and IBM systems. Proficient in ``C'', FORTRAN, PASCAL and have worked with assembly languages, Lisp, Speakeasy, PL/I, Modula-II, and TeX. Programs written have involved : graphic applications; tape, terminal, & disk I/O; concurrent processes; network processes; and data base systems.
Processing and sensitometric control of still, high speed motion picture, and industrial X-ray photoprocesses; established local sensitometric standards for high speed motion picture (colour & B/W) and industrial X-ray processes.
Nuclear Deterrence. Aircrewmember aboard Strategic Air Command B-52G aircraft. Primary aircrew tasks involved knowledge of Soviet air defenses and tactics for penetrating hostile airspace; operation of active & passive sensor systems; operation of computer fire-control systems; electronic countermeasures; electronic counter-countermeasures.
Duties involved processing, reproduction, and sensitometric control of aerial photographic imagery from a variety of remote sensors, such as optical, infrared (IR), and side-looking airborne radar (SLAR).
Worked as a photographer, photographer's assistant, and darkroom technician.
Shoveled horse, pig, & cow manure; dug ditches, plowed fields, harvested hay, fished, hunted, swam, ran in the woods and generally had a good time growing up.
I got to ride my bike within a five (5) block radius of home; included within this area was the city library, the school, the playground, the Little League field, one A&P graocery, one Hooks drugstore, the Cub Scouts lodge, and Fall Creek. I was making 25 cents per week allowance which would buy two (2) comic books and a penny bubble gum (if purchased in two (2) tranactions.)