Midwest RCD Next Gen Data Centers Workshop

In 2023, he accepted program and project management responsibilities for Jetstream2 and the Midwest Research Computing and Data Consortium where he facilitates the success of the National Science Foundation-sponsored programs.

As RDA-US Program Manager, he oversees the multiple projects within RDA-US including the TIGRUS Facilitation Program, outreach, communications, day-to-day activities, and funding initiatives. He makes sure initial ideas are disseminated, external and internal working group communications happen in a timely fashion, and outputs are disseminated to stakeholders and the community. As program facilitator he engages with partners, manages facilitation and in-kind support, and manages finalization support of working groups.

After moderating CENTRA 6 at Indiana University in 2023, he was invited to join the Operations Committee for CENTRA, Collaborations to Enable Transnational Cyberinfrastructure Applications, a partnership and evolving framework for collaborations amongst research centers, institutes and laboratories across the world. The Operations Committee ensures annual meetings run smoothly and help grow the planning and community efforts of CENTRA.

For University Information Technology Services: Research Technologies he manages YouTube channels, and email communications via Sales Force for both RT and PTI.

Since 2013, he has organized or co-organized LUG17, ParCFD2018, CAAV19, HUF19, 2023 CENTRA 6 in Indianapolis, 2024 CENTRA 7 in Tokyo, Midwest RCD Annual Meeting 2024 at the Big10 Conference Center, 2024 OpenInfra Days NA at IU, 2025 Jetstream2 Stakeholder Advisory Board meeting and the AI Fellows Kick Off Meeting/Training. Upcoming meetings include the 2025 Midwest RCD Annual Meeting and CENTRA 8 in Taiwan.

He is interested in encouraging youth to pursue careers in STEM.

As project manager for Prof. Beth Plale from 2008-2013 he helped launch initiatives like HTRC, D2I, SEAD, and the RDA. He co-organized the RDA Planning Meeting, the NSF-sponsored Data2012, and the HTRC Uncamp in 2012, and PRAGMA27 and the NSF-sponsored SI2: SSE & SSI PI Workshop in 2014.

As project manager for TeraGrid, an e-Science grid computing infrastructure combining resources at eleven partner sites, he was involved with organizing and traveling to trade-shows around the US to promote the work sponsored by the NSF and encouraging K-12 students to enter the Science Engineering Technology Math workforce pipeline. He was also involved with the follow-on project: Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE).

Quotes worth living:
...there really is no such thing as race. We are all one people, so much more alike than different.
IU Statewide IT opening remarks

*** I now realize that relationships, attitudes, self-respect, and responsibility do not just happen. They are cultivated from long talks, serious thought, understanding and a few other things that lack the glamour of well muscled bodies and the fantasies they generate. The trick is to let yourself be swept up by other kinds of beauty as well.
Anonymous

*** The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and be loved in return.
Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin Rouge

*** What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
Ghandi

*** There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.
Hillary Clinton

*** So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice--or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963

*** It's time for those who talk about family values to start valuing families...
-John Kerry

*** The noblest question in the world is what good I may do in it.
-Benjamin Franklin

*** I'd rather have bad times with you, than good times with someone else! I'd rather be BESIDE you in a storm, then safe and warm by myself. I'd rather have hard times together, than to have it easy apart. I'd rather have the one who HOLDS MY HEART!
Luthor Vandross (I'd Rather song lyrics)

*** The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Interests:
Activism.
Erasing HIV stigma.
Promoting mental health. Addiction is a thing, seek help.
Speaking/acting out against racism, transphobia, misogyny, and other inequities.
Hiking.
Biking.
Landscaping.
Volleyball.
Theater.
Drag.
Leather/rubber.
Pescatarians, vegans, and vegetarians.
Live music.
Fiction and biographies.
People watching.
Finding out of the way places and local spaces when traveling.