Mike Cave Email & Phone Number

Victoria, Bc, Ca

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

My role spans various domains in research and development, focusing on harnessing cutting-edge cloud technologies to bolster our team of researchers. My expertise lies in leveraging diverse tech tools to facilitate advancements in AI/ML pipeline orchestration, the analysis of medical imaging, and the discovery of both large and small molecules. At the heart of my responsibilities is the commitment to understanding and addressing the unique needs and aspirations of our users, ensuring they can attain optimal results in their daily endeavors.

Remote

As a member of multiple teams in RD&I (Research Development and Innovation) for Amgen, I, provide technical solutions and guidance in both our remote and on-prem cloud deployments. I work alongside product teams to design user-centered solutions based on current and proven technologies with a focus on automation. My goal is ensuring product teams have a clear picture of the path ahead while also ensuring that the user needs are being captured and incorporated alongside our the larger organizational goals. Taking these factors into account is a major contributor to the successful development of platforms and capabilities.There are many initiatives to move away from on-prem resources and into distributed cloud based solutions. These migrations take careful planning and consultation to ensure the infrastructure is compatible with current practices as well as ensuring that functionality can be not only replicated but also improved by the new environment. Documentation is a key factor that ties together all of the work we perform as teams. We need to communicate with all of our stakeholders at various levels so I ensure that our processes are captured and documented during the entire lifecycle of our product. This process makes sure that each stakeholder can get appropriate information when needed without having to go through multiple channels.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Senior Advanced Research System Administrator on the Research Computing Services team. Our team is responsible for maintaining and providing computing resources for researchers locally at Uvic, nationally (through Compute Canada), and internationally (through various consortia and partnerships).I participate on national teams responsible for planning and implementing new technologies. This requires working with people from across the country and co-ordinating multiple resources to accomplish common goals. The OpenStack installation we offer is one of the largest non-commercial clouds in Canada at around 20,000 cores. The service provides IaaS for researchers to host their projects in a highly performant and available environment. I am responsible for the design and architecture of the cloud as well as the supporting storage backend. The storage cluster is a 20PB Ceph installation primarily employing rbd and CephFS.Primary responsibilities include:- OpenStack Cloud (design/deployment/administration)- Ceph network storage (design/deployment/administration)- HPC cluster administration - Client technical support

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Systems Administrator, on a team of eight, responsible for the on-going support of the enterprise Unix/Linux data centre. Our data centre hosts systems which are core to the business functions of the university and research computing. Operational support for critical services such as TSM Backup, web services, Oracle database environments, and VMWare infrastructure.Project manager tasked with developing and deploying technologies which require coordinating resources across multiple departments.Primary administrator for several services and applications including: - Development of just-in-time account provisioning integrating LDAP and custom applications - Development of tools which provide data centre clients detailed information about their resource utilization (including power consumption, data centre services, data storage fees, etc.) - Development of a storage monitoring tool which normalizes data across multiple disk systems to provide consistent alerting and reporting - University webmail - offered to all current and former students - Subversion - centralized revision control application - Mailman - University mailing list management application - InterMapper - application for monitoring systems and services across the enterprise - Multi-factor authentication administration - required for access to systems resourcesData centre environment is comprised of: - 1000+ Linux/Unix/Mac hosts. - Several research clusters untilized by researchers locally, nationally and globally - Multi-tiered virtualized infrastructure running on VMWare - Robust storage solutions including NetAPP, DDN, Infortrend, and IBM disk systems

Administrator of the IT infrastructure for Co-operative Education and Career Services. Responsible for ~75 staff workstations and 13 servers. - Macintosh workstations - Servers: Mac (2) and Linux (11)Maintained services for both staff and students working around the world.Designed and implemented web-based database applications. Responsible for planning and purchasing of departmental computing resources.Implemented Citrix XenSource virtual infrastructure.

Desktop support analyst for the faculty of Human and Social Development. Worked with two other team members; we were responsible for 300+ clients.Mixed environment of Macintosh and Windows desktops.Responsible for software and hardware migrations.

Ba, Psychology

Graduated with Distinction

Diploma, Psychology