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Falls Church, Va, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Senior Solution Architect working with the NVIDIA Global Telco Business Development team on Accelerated Networking and AI Factory initiatives.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Trusted advisor for Public Sector customers on InfiniBand, Ethernet, and GPU solutions. Work with customers and business partners to create top-performing, cutting-edge HPC and HPDA systems in service of the National interest.• InfiniBand expert; extensive design of InfiniBand and Ethernet fabrics for high-performance; switch, fabric, and adapter tuning; working extensively with engineering and the end customer to resolve performance issues.• Deploying and configuring BlueField DPU and DOCA, proofs-of-concept, and integration into Morpheus AI inference pipelines for sensitive information detection and digital fingerprinting.• Morpheus deployment and proofs-of-concept; helping customers to accelerate their cybersecurity solutions using Morpheus.• Extensive SHMEM, HPC-X, NVIDIA HPC SDK and CUDA application compiling, and benchmarking; working with engineering to deliver customer feature requests and optimize performance.• Advising and educating customers on GPU and DGX/HGX offerings.

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Us

HPC consultant for Federal, academic, and commercial clients, providing a range of services from best practices and procurement advice, performance benchmarking and system audits, troubleshooting, system deployment, stand-up, and system administration for new systems. Served as a trusted advisor on Spectrum Scale storage and HPC. Deployed GPU-based supercomputers and clusters for deep learning, weather prediction, and other applications. Helped customers get started on configuring, managing, and using new HPC-grade compute and storage systems.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Technical pre-sales architect for IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) high-performance clustered file system, IBM Platform Symphony MapReduce for Hadoop and GPFS-FPO, integration with IBM InfoSphere BIgInsights, service-oriented workload management, Platform LSF workload management software, xCAT and Platform Cluster Manager physical and cloud provisioning software.Account coverage in the intelligence community, DoD, DoE, NOAA, NASA, and other civilian agencies, with occasional coverage of commercial accounts.• Architecting solutions, benchmarking and proofs-of-concept for Hadoop, Accumulo and Big Data software for Federal HPC clients• Architecting storage solutions using Spectrum Scale (GPFS) parallel file system and Elastic Storage Server hardware in NAS/SAN environments• Worked on the deployment of several HPC clusters from proposal to implementation. Recently involved in IBM’s CORAL bid and pre-implementation work with the customers• Client presentations, both to technical management staff and decision makers/program managers• Ownership of client technical relationships; customized configuration and integration support• Writing and collaborating on technical responses to RFIs and RFPs• Collaboration with Development and Marketing to contribute to product development and improvement• Integration of Platform Computing software into the existing IBM product lines• Demonstrations of technologies to customers• Hands-on installation and troubleshooting for proofs-of-concept, evaluations and post-sale• Installation and proofs-of-concept for IBM OpenStack distribution (Cloud Manager with OpenStack)• Strong relationship building with customers, client teams, and business partners

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Analyst in the Information Technology and Operations (ITO) group, part of the Advanced Technology and Systems Analysis (ATSA) Division in CNA's Center for Naval Analyses. Focus on operational aspects of Navy IT and communications systems deployed and used at sea.* Performed analysis of ship-board Host-Based Security System (HBSS) functionality.* Analyzed the bid and procurement process for updates to the Navy's Aegis and Ship Self-Defense System (SDSS) programs, focusing on efficiencies and Open Architecture standards.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

Research Analyst in the Air Traffic Management Division of the CNA Institute for Policy Research.

Development of Web-based LIMS and other bioinformatics software for inventory tracking, structural and functional prediction from novel protein sequences. Development and maintenance of a custom data management, integration and visualization platform for rapid data analysis of a novel gene-shuffling technology.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Developed, maintained, and took ownership of the technical relationships with customers for a leading provider of software solutions that increase the efficiency of existing resources in data centers, grids, and clouds. • Responsible for entire North American region for two of Librato’s product lines. • Managed accounts from a technical and personal perspective from initial pre-sales contact to post-sales support and training.• By managing and driving progress on complex technical challenges, secured key purchases in major EDA accounts.

South San Francisco, Ca, Us

Created a comprehensive Web-based laboratory information management system (LIMS) providing storage, inventory tracking, analysis and querying of all company data on its inventory of engineered protease variants, correlated with positional scanning data, kinetics, and many different assay results. Managed the full life cycle of the project through design, implementation, and testing. Developed a platform to track, process, and analyze high-throughput screening libraries.

Novato, Ca, Us

Developed an automated functional profiling scheme for drug target discovery based on sequence motifs. Employed sequence parsing and keyword mapping of public protein databases to identify statistically significant functional profiles using the Gene Ontology (GO) framework. Exploited the graph structure of this framework to construct profiles at varying levels of specificity.

Developed Web-based platform to process and make functional predictions from gene-shuffling experiments, cutting data analysis time from two weeks to one day. Collaborated on design, development, implementation, and testing of the production-level information management system for all in-house data. Wrote an extensive package of Web-based statistical sequence analysis packages.

San Francisco, California, Us

Performed research on ab initio protein structure predictions from protein sequence. Built an automated Web service for neural network-based protein structure prediction that competed in a community-wide assessment of fully-automated structure prediction algorithms.

Darmstadt, Hessen, De

Ph.D., Chemical Physics

B.S., Physics