Research Assistant Systems Administrator

Erik Bryer ****.*****@*****.*** 850-***-****

Programming in bash, Python, Perl, Fortran, Matlab, and C

Systems Administration

Skills

oSlurm and TORQUE

oBright, Rocks, and Scyld ClusterWare

oAnsible

oGlusterFS, NFS, XFS, ext4, quotas, and ACLs

obash, Python, Perl, Fortran, Matlab, and C

oCentOS, SUSE, Debian, and FreeBSD

oInfiniBand and Ethernet

oAWS: awscli, boto, EC2, EBS, S3, SQS, IAM, and CloudWatch

oCompiling scientific software

oEnvironment Modules

oThe Open Science Grid for high throughput computing

oHelping researchers run their code on HPC systems

oGiving training classes

oGrafana, Telegraf, and Nagios

oGit and GitHub

oYAML, JSON, and HTML

Work Experience

HPC Systems Administrator

Silicon Therapeutics

Feb 2021 — Apr 2021

oSet up software builds using Jenkins

Lead HPC Developer

Kelly Services at the Information Sciences Institute, Boston MA

Aug 2020 — Jan 2021

oSystems administrator for a 37 node, 174 GPU cluster

oWrote python and bash scripts

oWrote Ansible playbooks

oResolved user issues

Systems Administrator for Research Cyberinfrastructure

Montana State University, Bozeman MT

Nov 2017 — Dec 2019

oSystems administrator for a 2600 core cluster

oWrote bash scripts to automate system tasks, such as account creation

oTrained new users

oResolved user tickets

oInstalled software with EasyBuild, Conda, and by compiling from source

oPlanned and made improvements to the cluster’s software and hardware

oMet with the HPC faculty advisory committee to help discuss future directions for HPC at the University

Systems Administrator III

Dec 2014 — Mar 2017

National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Socorro NM

oSystems administration of an HPC cluster

oWrote an AWS CLI script to utilize 1400 EC2 instances for a parameter sweep

oWrote a Python NumPy script to plot CASA software performance per revision

oWrote programs for systems maintenance in Python, Perl, and bash

HPC Systems Engineer III

Jan 2014 — Jun 2014

The Center for Advanced Research Computing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM

oSystems administration of seven HPC clusters

oMaintained InfiniBand, Ethernet, and Myrinet networking

oMaintained the software stack

oWrote cluster documentation

oTrained users

Associate in Research

Mar 2006 — Dec 2013

Krishnamurti Numerical Weather Prediction Lab, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL

oSystems administration of an HPC cluster

oMaintained RAID arrays, compute servers, and GlusterFS and NFS file servers

oCompiled atmospheric circulation models, e.g. WRF, CCSM, and G-RSM

oDebugged code written in: Fortran 77, Fortran 95, C, Make, bash, and tcsh

oMigrated all code from the IBM Power architecture to x86_64, which saved $15,000 per year in IBM hardware maintenance contract costs

oTrained users

oSet up basic Nagios monitoring

Assistant in Research

Mar 2002 — Mar 2006

Clayson Air Sea Interaction Lab, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL

oProgramming in Fortran 95, bash, and C

oSystems administration of Linux servers

oDebug model code

oSet up a Samba server

Research Assistant

Dec 2001 — Mar 2002

Speer Lab, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL

oProgramming in Matlab and bash

oSystems administration of Linux and Unix servers

oInstallation of a tape library

oRan an Apache web server

Education

oBachelors, College of Charleston

oTeaching Assistant, Texas A&M University

o7 mathematics courses, Florida State University

Training and Research

oOpen Science Grid user school

oResearch Internship at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

oNASA Space Grant research scholarship

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