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Houston, Texas, Us

After an HPE layoff, was quickly rehired back into HPE into the Cirrus AI Cloud business unit. Installed hundreds of GPU enabled nodes for large-scale clusters throughout North America and Norway. These projects involved aggressive deadlines, where the team completed an order for two, 256-node cluster islands in 19 working days April 2024.Led and directed on site hardware teams throughout cluster bring up work and projects, resulting in passing AI and other GPU and InfiniBand tests and benchmarks for customer acceptance on a multi-billion dollar project.Created process documentation on early installation topics and aspects of the project that had not previously been captured for the team. Trained additional HPC AI engineers on this project to bring up additional clusters.Currently a Solutions Architect supporting the Hybrid Solutions North America team as a presales engineer within HPE. Involved with AI and HPC systems design and workflows for commercial customers across North America.

Houston, Texas, Us

AI and ML Ops Presales Engineer with the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric team, offering a unified data fabric to eliminate data silos without the need to rewrite ML/AI data queries or code. Configured data science applications that live directly on the data fabric.Installed and tested a number of data fabric demos that included the use of Python-driven workflows such as Spark and Kafka, modifying existing projects to work with HPE's data fabric.Presented technical deep dives into AI Unified Analytics and Data Fabric products, as well as scoping future data fabric projects for capacity and performance.Much of the team was subject to a Workforce Reduction and I was included in that Oct 2023.

Chatsworth, Ca, Us

Sales Engineer for DDN, designing and configuring EXAScaler (Lustre) highly scalable AI and HPC storage solutions for commercial, educational, and Latin American accounts.Coordinated technical sales efforts and provided technical support to Nvidia, Microsoft, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, and several educational clients.Sales reached $25 million in 2021 and exceeded this amount in 2022, with DDN storage used as the reference architecture storage for Nvidia Superpod systems.Configured and presented parallel and NAS filesystem solutions for LNCC, Petrobras, ATOS, LANIAQ, and other Latin American accounts.

Westminster, Colorado, Us

HPC system design and delivery consultant for the TI-20 project at ARL, coordinating customer installations of HPC systems with Army personnel and subcontractors on site. InfiniBand troubleshooting and fabric management of new installations. Advanced troubleshooting with advanced debugging of Lustre filesystem servers and issues.Deployment of compute node images and establishing system baselines for maximum performance. Deployed system wide tuning changes for low latency computing, resulting in a "Top 500" HPC system within the first two months on site at ARL.

Pasadena, Ca, Us

Deployed Linux HPC and IT infrastructure for the NASA JPL Special Projects team as a TS/SCI IT support contractor with GCR Technical Consulting (second assignment with GCR!). Configured and deployed NetApp NAS storage systems to provide new lab storage capacity. Mission critical support of classified IT on Special Projects throughout the COVID pandemic period. Contract ended prematurely due to budget restructuring during COVID.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Delivered HPC Linux and AI clusters for commercial and Dept of Energy clients. Installed and upgraded hundreds of compute nodes with associated racks and cabling. Coordinated logistics and material moves into and out of data centers throughout North America. Configured and deployed InfiniBand and OPA fabrics, Ethernet networks, and Linux operating systems with Penguin Professional Services.Developed a prototype HPC Linux system for the US Navy that included drive encryption and network bound decryption servers, the first ever of its kind, and involved Bright Cluster Manager, RHEL 7.5, DDN EXAScaler, and several weeks of work directly with Red Hat, and the US Navy.

Houston, Texas, Us

Delivered HPC Linux system installs for the same team since 2012, first as a contingent worker with Strategic Business Systems (see below), then converted to a full-time employee with HP, in North and South America.Delivered HPC Linux and Hadoop clusters to commercial and federal customers, focusing on platform configuration, network testing, and storage optimization. Mellanox InfiniBand testing and optimization with a focus on low-latency computing.Actively used Spanish for Latin America system deliveries and active TS/SCI clearance for Federal projects in North America.

Red Hat Linux HPC cluster consulting on a short-term contract for the U.S. Navy. Linux+ and LPIC-1 certifications required. Performed role as lead contractor with a small three person team on a short-term basis, developing a complex CFEngine script for use in security hardening systems to meet USN SCAP requirements.

Odenton, Md, Us

Performed IT support as a contractor at DISA Ogden, installing Solaris and HP-UX systems, as well as Red Hat Linux. Performed UNIX system builds and security hardening. Security+ certified as well as meeting DoD 8570 requirements as a solutions engineer.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Technical IT project lead while building and configuring UNIX servers and workstations for the Lockheed engineering community. Built supercomputing lab systems with aggressive deadlines for SBIRS in Colorado as well as Sonora in Goodyear, Arizona.Delivered complete engineering test systems for the flight line at Patuxent River, MD, Edwards AFB, and Fort Worth test ranges, supporting R&D and initial low rate production aircraft programs.Installed and administered complete UNIX IT subsystems for Mods and Heavy Maintenance at Hill Air Force Base from 2006 until 2008, one year ahead of schedule. During this time frame, operated as the sole IT support for this fighter program including loading avionics on aircraft.Managed several projects from 2002 through 2006 for Lockheed IS&S, delivering five complete systems to DoD operational sites nationwide.Conducted pre-sales site surveys which led to new business for Lockheed Martin at Fort Belvoir, VA.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration Management Emphasis

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Foreign Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Foreign Languages And Literatures, General