Kris Howard Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Milpitas, California, US

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Responsible for the machine learning architecture and "Feeding the beast". DevOps cloud integration. Making all the things play nicely. Lots of data wrangling.

Falls Church, VA, US

Worked with an extraordinary team to manage the Research Compute cluster for Hurricane model development for NOAA. Lustre, MOAB & Torque, puppet, Infiniband.

Saint-Mandé, Île-de-France, FR

Built a team to create and maintain infrastructure to support our Mobile Games division. Trained and led new admins. Architect solutions in AWS and Openstack cloud. Lead teams in implementing those solutions. Trained in Agile Project Management, SCRUM.

Houston, Texas, US

Working with 2 of the Top500 supercomputers in the world. Supporting Hopper #24 on the June 2013 list. Installed and supporting Edison, a brand new XC30. In total our team supports over 11,000 compute nodes in 96 racks. Supporting 8.4 PB of Lustre file systems.

US

Optimized and stabilized the web stack for Electronic Medical Records supporting over 500 doctors offices. Deployed a multimaster Tungsten Replicator/ MySQL setup to support High latency/ Low bandwidth sporadic connections.Setup the test Health Information Exchange for Florida including DNSsec and secure messaging.

Lugano, CH

Working with the GRID projects for PHOENIX to support the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN.Managed Cray XT5, XE6, and XK6 machines. Rosa was a 20 cabinet XT5 22,000 cpu machine, later upgraded to XE6. Luster, GPFS, SLURM, PBS, MPI, Infiniband, CUDA and supporting researchers to use the resources that are available to them.

Same job I did for DCS, but as a civilian employee of the Navy.

Farnborough, Hampshire, GB

Contractor in the FNMOC HPC department. Working on Linux Clusters.

Newbury Park, CA, US

Work with the Naval Meteorological Computing center to administer ~800 Red Hat Enterprise Linux v3,4,5 IBM cluster nodes. Including Tivoli backup, TotalStorage SAN. GPFS, CSM, McData switches, CfEngine,Apache, JBOSS, TOMCAT, Postgresql,PERL, ROCKS Clustering, PBS, Ganglia, IB, VMWARE, XENImplemented a provisioning and configuration management system. And.

US

Managed all technical operations for an ISP. Dial in, point-to-point, bandwidth allocation, firewalls, email, websites, wireless towers (802.11b) and technical support. Also built and implemented custom servers and networks for customers. Apache, Asterisk, Big Brother, FreeBSD, Red Hat Linux

US

Maintained corporate environment. Servers, Workstations, etc. Worked with emerging technologies to test and implement in the network. Linux based mostly. Red Hat Enterprise linux, CentOS, Nagios, Keynote, Kickstart

Ran the systems, web, database, radius, etc. for a start-up ISP. Designed the entire system from the ground up and took it through implementation. Apahce, PHP, Rodopi

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Maintained the servers and network for a web development company. Administered BSD Unix boxes and set-up customer systems for deployment (i.e. SUN stations, firewalls, permanent internet connections, database servers.) Apahce, PHP, sendmail, DNS, FTP, FreeBSD, Red Hat Linux

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Part of a team to administer the Engineering Computing Lab for the University of Utah Engineering Department, maintained approximately 200 Sun stations, 20 HP-UX workstations, 10 SGI IRIX, 20 PCs and the computational servers for the lab (LSF batching, AFS filesystems, NIS+ authentication)

Helped to administer three Linux systems, support employees on the network, and create custom JAVA apps for a growing internet presence provider. Red Hat Linux

Pre Biomed

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Education record

Diploma, College Prep