Travis Thiede Email & Phone Number

★ Seasoned Senior High Performance Cluster Integration Engineer with over 20 years of experience building uniquely designed enterprise level systems for customers around the globe. ★ Extensive experience in planning, implementing, and supporting network and computing infrastructure plans as well as providing troubleshooting, network design, security measures, third-party vendor management, and team collaboration for HPC integration solutions. ★ Continually exceeds expectations by building valuable relationships and works well with people at all levels of an organization including senior executives, management, IT specialists, team members, and clients.✉ travisdthiede@gmail.com

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  Senior Hpc Integration Engineer

  Nor-Tech

  Feb 2002 - Present

  ➤ Serving as one of two people running the HPC department performing system administration tasks and problem solving.➤ Designing, building, and testing High Performance Clusters as well as troubleshooting existing production HPCs.➤ Monitoring and reporting HPC system health/metrics, identifying performance bottlenecks, and providing solutions.➤ Modifying system-wide parameters to improve performance as well as evaluating the effects of those changes.➤ Gathering data conducting supportability and effectiveness analyses, and reporting findings to senior engineers.➤ Managing HPC system life cycle including concept, design, fabrication, test, installation, maintenance, and disposal.➤ Serving as a key liaison between customers and technical personnel and traveling to sites for HPC assembly or repair.➤ Assisting developers to install, fine-tune, and debug software and technical users to run analysis on HPC systems.➤ Applying current HPC systems administrative skills as well as learning and deploy new HPC system technologies.➤ Developing and deploying monitoring capabilities and tools for cluster administration and providing on-call support.➤ Providing technical support with team of HPC system and storage administrators to resolve operational issues.➤ Collaborating with Security and following standards and guideline to design and implement cybersecurity solutions.➤ Monitoring and responding to technical support tickets along with writing “how-to” articles for internal knowledge base.➤ Functioning as an expert at break/fix for server systems while managing multiple cluster projects simultaneously.➤ Working closely with cross-functional teams in Sales, Support, RMA, Shipping/Receiving, Marketing, and R&D.➤ Managing multiple server orders, delegating duties to technicians, and increasing customer and employee satisfaction.➤ Installing and upgrading leading-edge equipment and u performing scheduled preventative and corrective maintenance.

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  University Of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor Of Science - Bs