Research Computing
Resume:
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Citizenship: USA
Educational Degrees
Undergraduate: Augustana College, BA (Math and Physics) Graduate: University of Rochester, MA (Physics), PhD (Physics) Doctoral Thesis Advisor: Dr. Fred Lobkowicz, University of Rochester Appointments
Associate Vice President for Research
Computing, Division of IT
Virginia Tech University March 2023 – present
Adjunct Professor, Department of
Physics
North Dakota State University Apr 2018 – March 2023 Research Computing Coordinator for
North Dakota University System
North Dakota State University March 2018 – March
2023
Executive Director, Center for
Computationally Assisted Science and
Technology
North Dakota State University Oct 2017 – March 2023 Visiting Researcher, Office of IT,
Research Computing
University of Colorado, Boulder Oct 2016 – Oct 2017 Director, Advanced Research Computing
Center
University of Wyoming Feb 2015 – Aug 2016
Director, IT/Research Services University of Wyoming Feb 2015 – Aug 2016 HPC Manager Hercules Foundation, Belgium May 2013 – Aug 2014 Program Director National Science Foundation Mar 2012 – Dec 2012 Senior Fellow, Computational Institute University of Chicago Jan 2007 – Sept 2012 Principal Technologist, CIO’s Office Argonne National Laboratory Mar 2008 – Mar 2012 Visiting Artist Chicago Art Institute Sept 2008 – Mar 2012 Computational Scientist Argonne National Laboratory Jan 2006 – Sept 2012 Staff Scientist Fermi National Laboratory Jan 1990 – Jan 2006 Management Positions
Virginia Tech Associate Vice President for
Research Computing (17 people)
March 2023 – present
Dane Skow & Company LLC Owner and Founder
(1 employee)
December 2012 - present
DaNorth Recycling LLC Owner and Founder
(4 employees)
August 2020 – March 2023
North Dakota State University Executive Director, CCAST
(4 FTE + 8 student interns)
Oct 2017 – March 2023
University of Colorado, Boulder Chief Software Engineer
(8 people)
Oct 2016 – Oct 2017
University of Wyoming Director Research Services
(14 people)
Feb 2015 – Aug 2016
Director, Advanced Research
Computing Center (8 people)
Feb 2015 – Aug 2016
ABS Computing, LLC President and Founder Jan 2016 – October 2017 Hercules Foundation, Belgium VLAAMS Project Leader
(30 people)
June 2012 – Aug 2014
Argonne National Laboratory Lead of Building Sensors & Controls Research Group (4)
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Head of Telecommunications
(10 people)
Aug 2008 – Sept 2009
Director, Teragrid Grid
Infrastructure Group (80 people)
May 2007 – Mar 2008
Deputy Director, Teragrid Grid
Infrastructure Group
Jan 2006 – May 2007
Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory
Technical Coordinator PPDG
Common Projects (20 people)
Jan 2004 – Jan 2006
Deputy Computer Security
Executive (20 people)
Jan 2001 – Jan 2004
Computer Security Team Leader
(10 people)
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003
Computer Security Incident
Response Team Leader (10)
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000
Co-Coordinator for Run II Joint
Projects (50 people)
Sept 1998 – Jan 2000
Department Head, Operating
Systems (40 people)
May 1997 – Jan 2000
Professional Activities
Recent Grant Funding
NDSU NSF MRI, Bahktiyor Rasulev (NDSU) PI, Dane Skow, coPI, $1,300,000 Awarded July 2020
NSF CyberTeam, Carrie Billy (AIHEC) PI, Dane Skow, coPI, $1,400,000 Awarded August 2020
ND-ACES NSF EPSCoR Track 1, Kalpana Katti (NDSU) & Colin (UND) PIs, Dane Skow, Senior Personnel, $20,000,000 Awarded June 2020
NDILLI NSF CC* ScienceDMZ, Dane Skow PI, $500,000 Awarded August 2018 Funding Agency Work
HPC Manager, Hercules Foundation, Belgium 2013 - 2014
NSF Program Officer for Data, Office of Cyberinfrastructure 2012 International Collaborative Computing Activities
VT Voting Representative to Consortium of Academic Supercomputing Centers (CASC), 2023
– present.
NDSU Voting Representative to Consortium of Academic Supercomputing Centers (CASC). Member of By-Laws Committee and By-Laws Implementation Committee, 2017 - 2023
Program Committee for SuperComputing Conference (Industrial Affiliates) 2010 - 2018
Program Committee member HPC User Support Tools Workshop, 2014 - 2016
Active member of Research Data Alliance (RDA) and EU-RDA 2013 - 2015
Technical Advisor for Belgian membership on PRACE Council 2013-2014
Member of Founding Organizers group for Research Data Alliance (RDA) 2012 Security Activities
Taught Computer Security class, University of Wyoming, Spring 2016
DOE Grass Roots Cyber Security R&D Group, 2008
Member Executive Advisory Committee for National Center for Advances Secure Systems Research, 2007 - 2009
Program Committee, Cybersecurity Summit, Crystal City, VA Feb 22-23, 2007
Chair Global Grid Forum Grid Interoperation Now Authorization focus group (2005 – 2007)
Deputy Chief Security Officer, Fermilab, 2001-2005 Review Panels
Served as NSF proposal reviewer, 2005, 2014 – 2015, 2017 – 2020, 2022
Reviewer for Flemish SuperComputing Centre, 2008 – 2012
Reviewer for EU Cyberinfrastructure Proposals, 2008
Member Review Committee for UK National Grid Service, 2006 – 2012 Publications and Presentations
(Google Scholar Citation Results as of September 19, 2023) All Since 2018
Citations 6175 1052
h-index 29 11
i10-index 45 15
Journal Articles and Book Chapters (within last 10 years) (100+ total) 1. INDUSTRIAL HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING IN BELGIUM, with Serge Bogaerts, chapter
within “Industrial Applications of High Performance Computing” (Anwar Osseyran, Merle Giles, editors), . CRC Press, ISBN 13:978-1-4665-9681-8, 2015 2. INTEROPERATION OF WORLD-WIDE PRODUCTION E-SCIENCE INFRASTRUCTURES. M. Riedel, et al. 2009. Published in Concurrency Computing Pract. Exp. 21 (2009) 961-990
Invited Talks at Major Conferences and Symposia (within last 10 years) 1. “HPC and Digital Agriculture: Status and Prospects”, Keynote address, South Dakota State University Symposium on Computational Science, Oct, 2019 2. “Surfing the Data Tsunami”, Keynote address, North Dakota State EPSCoR Conference, Grand Forks, ND, 2019
3. “CoLocation Issues in Belgium and Beyond”, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation, Washington DC, 24 April, 2014
4. “Making Sense of BIG DATA: Opportunities and Challenges”, International Symposium on Grids and Clouds, Taipei, Taiwan, March 17-22, 2013 5. “Commercial Building Energy Sensor Systems Roundtable”, New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) conference, New York City, November, 2009 Major Accomplishments
• Associate Vice President for Research Computing, Virginia Tech Since I arriving at VT in March 2023, I have performed project reviews on a number of projects
(VTSURE, VTARCHIVE, ARC organization, ARC staffing and business model, etc) and developed near-term action plans. I have organized an external peer review of Research Computing at VT for March of 2024 to serve as input for a strategic plan for Research Computing 2025-2035. I have restarted ARC Quarterly Status Reports and begun evaluating our performance metrics and monitoring tools. Current activities are focused on data management, storage, and movement at VT, and personnel shortfalls.
• Executive Director CCAST, North Dakota State University At NDSU, I obtained funding for several compute upgrades, quadrupling our in-house compute capability via grant funding, including an NSF Major Research Infrastructure award. We created a ScienceDMZ funded by the NSF CC* program to upgrade data movement capabilities to 100Gbps. We started a training program and trained over 500 students in high performance computing techniques and infrastructure.
I drafted a 10-year Strategic plan and gotten broad agreement from the CIO, VPR and newly reconstituted CCAST Advisory Council. The number of research teams using CCAST quadrupled since 2017 and now has representatives from all Colleges of the University (except for Education). I met with all current research teams and all Department Heads of CCAST PIs. We restored and expanded partnerships with NDSU research teams and became the premier research computing center in the Dakotas. CCAST now offers services to all 9 institutions in the North Dakota University System as well as the 5 Tribal Colleges in North Dakota.
• President and CEO of DaNorth Recycling, LLC
I served as President and CEO of DaNorth Recycling. We provided recycling opportunities for uncommon recyclable objects (small engines, fiberglass boats, household appliances, etc) and training opportunities for individuals wanting to learn basic repair skills. The business operated on a model similar to a fitness club with members who are experts and want to take advantage of the shared shop and equipment, to those who need classes, or personal coaching. The business has shut down due to COVID impacts and my move to Virginia.
• Visiting Researcher, University of Colorado – Boulder I worked with researchers at the University of Colorado – Boulder, National Renewable Energy Lab
(NREL) and National Energy Test Laboratory (NETL) to improve performance of a fluid dynamics simulation code written by NETL in the 1980’s and now being scaled to commercially relevant problems. This consists of restructuring, debugging and optimizing FORTRAN code and introducing appropriate OpenMP and MPI instructions. Early results have resulted in improvements of factors of 2- 3x better performance, of which I personally contributed half.
• President and CEO of Dane Skow & Company, LLC
I am currently President and CEO of Dane Skow & Company. I am interested in entrepreneurial opportunities and am active within the American, European and Asian entrepreneurial SME space. At this time, new activities are limited while I concentrate on DaNorth Recycling. Dane Skow & Company provides consulting services on high performance software development, systems and software optimization, and computing and data infrastructure. We also do independent research on high performance data exchange and provisioning HPC services on demand.
• Director of Research Services, University of Wyoming; Director of Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC), University of Wyoming
I directed the ARCC in its mission to serve University of Wyoming researchers through providing world-class computational resources. This included managing a $1M+ annual budget and 14 staff and interns while increasing the support from funding agencies and state sources from $0 to over $400K/yr. We operated two Top 500 class computational machines and over 3PB of active storage. We increased the UW grant success rate over the past 4 years and anticipate continued success in the coming years.
• HPC Manager, Hercules Foundation, Belgium
As HPC Manager of the Hercules Foundation, the largest sponsor of major scientific infrastructure in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking half of Belgium), I was responsible for the funding, strategic planning and management of the Flemish supercomputing infrastructure. We had a top500 class supercomputer at the University of Ghent, planned the procurement of a new Tier1 machine (top100 class) in 2015, and had several smaller, more specialized, interconnected facilities at the Flemish universities. We completed a five year Strategic Plan to sustain and substantially grow progress achieved in the past few years. This is in preparation for submission to the Flemish Government after the upcoming elections. I represented the Hercules Foundation and Flemish government in several international contexts including PRACE, EUDAT, RDA, SC/SCI, etc. I was actively engaged with Flemish Industry on Industrial applications of High Performance Computing, particularly working on how to transition new software development and system optimization techniques into industrial practice. I performed market research on technology development, performed proof of concept experiments in new systems design, did operations research on systems operations, and acted as Director and chief architect for the Vlaams Supercomputing Center (VSC).
• Program Director, National Science Foundation (2012) I served as a Program Director on Interagency Personnel Assignment (IPA) to the National Science Foundation. My role as Program Director for Data and Inter-Divisional Activities within the Office of CyberInfrastructure (OCI) allowed me to develop strategic direction for NSF Data Infrastructure within OCI as well as engaging and coordinating with similar interests and efforts throughout the Foundation.
• Sensors and Controls Lead, Building Technology Program (2010-2011) I was the originating team leader for the Sensors and Controls group within Argonne’s Building Technology program. I led the project on Building-wide Optimization for building control systems and the program on Inexpensive Sensor Motes. I successfully generated $1M/yr in grant money for these projects within one year of startup. I was lead software developer for the project.
• Head of Telecommunications (2009)
From January through October 2009, I was the Head of the Argonne Telecommunications group. My responsibilities during that period included recruiting a permanent Head of Telecommunications and reorganizing the group’s workload to accommodate a 25% retirement of staff. By restructuring the work, eliminating duplicate/superfluous activities, and streamlining workflow, I was able to achieve this without hiring any new staff. This resulted in substantial savings in effort costs. I was also responsible for the successful deployment of 500 VoIP phones in the new Theory and Computing Science building.
• TeraGrid (2006 – 2008)
From May 2007 through February 2008, I was the Principal Investigator for the TeraGrid Grid Infrastructure Group (GIG) with overall coordination responsibility for the 9 coordinated National Science Foundation ETF awards. The GIG employed approx. 80 people across 13 institutions. In this time interval we doubled the number of users of TeraGrid and the tripled the processing power available for allocation. We also expanded the portfolio of resources to include allocations for storage, visualization, and consulting services. We began the integration process to include new HPC assets funded through the NSF HPC hardware procurement programs. During my time with TeraGrid from January of 2006 through March 2008, I served as GIG Director, Deputy Director, Science Coordinator, and Allocations Officer. My primary activities focused on developing an integrated project management system and technical integration of the various TeraGrid services into a coherent, operating system -- aligned with other grid efforts (inter)nationally.
• Open Science Grid (2003 – 2006)
I was a founding member of the Open Science Grid (OSG) leadership team. OSG is still operating as one of the two major research computing federations in the US. We developed much of the organizational and technical framework used to discover the Higgs boson in the High Energy Physics space and gravitational waves at the LIGO experiment.
• Fermilab Computer Security Team (2001-2004)
My team and I – 3 people – successfully deployed Kerberos authentication system while operating and managing the computer security activities of the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).
• Experimental Physicist (1990 – 2006)
I participated in four different experimental collaborations, including one which went on to discover the Higgs boson (CMS), was lead author on 5 publications and author on 58 more. I represented the collaboration and/or Fermilab more than 50 times at various public speaking events.
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