Mark Bowman Email & Phone Number

Whittier, Ca, Us

High Wycombe, Bucks, Gb

Pixitmedia (a Kalray company) is an innovative DPU accelerator card, software defined storage solutions company that provides top companies their high performance computing and data storage demands.The role works with a range of new and existing clients primarily within the media and entertainment sector to implement, consult and support the range of products provided. Requires a strong technical background in system administration with deep knowledge of Linux (CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu) as well as knowledge of Windows and ServerOS. Strong Shell Scripting experience with Bash, Python. NAS SAMBA SMB NFS native clients with mixed technology (Windows, Apple, Linux) environment involving active directory (AD) joining experience. Ethernet and infiniband rdma network configuration, cabling, racking and hardware installation for new deployments, cluster expansions, lift-shift re-network. Daily workings in storage solutions and filesystem utilizing the IBM Spectrum Scale / GPFS and hierarchical storage management (hsm) software ngenea hub interactively utilizing S3 buckets in varying storage classes on AWS, Google Cloud. Works closely with clients onsite, often with tight deadlines.

Montbonnot, Isère, Fr

Kalray is an innovative DPU accelerator card, software defined storage solutions company that provides top companies their high performance computing and data storage demands.The role works with a range of new and existing clients primarily within the media and entertainment sector to implement, consult and support the range of products provided. Requires a strong technical background in system administration with deep knowledge of Linux (CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu) as well as knowledge of Windows and ServerOS. Strong Shell Scripting experience with Bash, Python. NAS SAMBA SMB NFS native clients with mixed technology (Windows, Apple, Linux) environment involving active directory (AD) joining experience. Ethernet and infiniband rdma network configuration, cabling, racking and hardware installation for new deployments, cluster expansions, lift-shift re-network. Daily workings in storage solutions and filesystem utilizing the IBM Spectrum Scale / GPFS and hierarchical storage management (hsm) software ngenea hub interactively utilizing S3 buckets in varying storage classes on AWS, Google Cloud. Works closely with clients onsite, often with tight deadlines.

Marietta, Ga, Us

Remote role supporting Research Community clients in managing their High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms. I utilize and integrate state of the art tools, proven methodologies, collaborating with colleagues to make sure the HPC tool is at peak performance so scientist do more science. The majority of work is from my home office with minimal onsite travel during quarterly reviews for clients and occasional conferences. The following responsibilities include but are not limited to;Systems administration and architecting, generally with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or CentOSDeveloping or utilizing management tools for enterprise-scale installations Designing and managing HPC cluster storage infrastructure in 4 to 20 PB with up to a thousand cores Running the Platform LSF job workload management system, Spectrum Scale (GPFS), ZFS/Lustre, or BeeGFS, and InfiniBand fabricsWorking with automation tools such as Ansible Tower, Nagios, Puppet, or Chef Focus in health care, biomedical research, and academic environmentTroubleshoot and perform preventive maintenance for variety of HPC products and platforms such as DDN Storage, Bright Computing, Penguin Computing, Mellanox, Servers, Switches, Atempo (ADA) , New Relic, Splunk forwader, Elastic Search, Log stash, Kibana, Datadog, and more

Marietta, Ga, Us

Provides professional services for Data Storage and High-Performance Computing (HPC).Clients are in markets of life sciences and academic research across America. Administrates Linux HPC cluster infrastructure from hundreds of TB to dozens of PB.  Monitors multiple clusters for resource job utilization from userbase. Triages cluster issues related to hardware, software, job schedulers, networks, and applications. Escalates bugs and urgent tickets to respective hardware or software vendors.  Writes root cause analysis for customers’ critical severity situations. Prepares disaster recovery plans in case of emergency.  Schedules maintenance windows to update critical cluster code.  Installs and configures scientific applications as Gurobi, FSL, FIRMM, Rosette, Abaqus, and ICM.  Develops process to generate health check reports for cluster storage, filesystem, and schedulers.  Updates Zendesk website css/html for new clients with branding, articles, logos, colors, pictures. Automates health check reports into Zendesk ticketing system for daily cluster details. Reviews cluster designs, upgrade plans, and health checks. Runs performance testing scenarios using mpijobs and various filesystem tools. Cleans and analyzes data for trending capacity, health or other useful statistics. Presents clean data as dashboards on Grafana, Data Dog, or Splunk. Performs rare security audits with lynis, nmap and other tools.  Discusses HPC architectures to maximize throughput, minimize risk, or minimize cost.  Logs time spent on work projects through applications tmetric and smartsheets. Details processes setup by building documentation on client Zendesk HelpCenter or SharePoint. Travels (10-25%) for installations, rebuilds, upgrades, presentations, trainings, and conventions. Interacts with customer IT&HPC teams: Zoom, Slack, Zendesk, SNOW, Trello, Call, Email, or Text.  Interviews HPC engineer job candidates and designs technical assessments.

Chatsworth, Ca, Us

Provided critical severity management to establishments in many vertical markets worldwide. Duty Management coverage was:o rotational after-hours from September 2016 to June 2018o and full daytime from November 2017 to June 2018. Managed rotating on-call global resources. Troubleshot problems live with customer IT teams and internal subject matter experts. Delegated tasks when multiple critical issues persisted simultaneously.  Communicated SEV1 status to Client Executives, IT Directors, and DDN Senior Leadership. Tracked issues over time and documented status into reports on SharePoint.

Chatsworth, Ca, Us

Reporting status for critical customer situations to executive management during America pacific business hours. Sending and receiving case handoffs from other duty managers.

Chatsworth, Ca, Us

In my duty manager role, I track high severity issues and provide progress updates and next steps to upper management for customers and internally. My tactful communication skills are demonstrated by my ability to discuss plans to Chiefs and Vice Presidents of major organizations in several vertical markets such as government, financial institutions, academic labs, universities, entertainment companies, video surveillance, and more.In my L1 TSE role, I am primarily responsible for telephone and email based post-sales activity, supporting all installation efforts worldwide. This position is office based where I occasionally travel to customer sites or other offices. I assist Field Technical teams and/or schedule vet then dispatch 3rd party techicians to help resolve technical problems related to DDN storage or file systems installations, expansions, firmware updates, and general maintenance. I provide a considerable amount knowledge of storage, operating systems, networking, enterprise servers, tracking tools, hardware troubling, firmware updating, and internet technology. I support colleagues, customers, contractors and 3rd technicians via phone, face to face, remote sessions and in written correspondence.

Chatsworth, Ca, Us

Northridge, Ca, Us

 Tutored students in groups or one-on-ones for STEM, Finance, Marketing and Business classes.  Proctored undergraduate exams and graded tests for classes.

 Organized lessons in math and sciences for elementary school children to college students.

 Umpired baseball for children and teens. Critics said his strike zone was HUGE!

B.S. Statistics, Statistics

Aa Transfer, Mathematics