Charles Forsyth
Lead HPC System Administrator with experience in architecting, installing, administering and supporting large scale HPC Infrastructures for RD&E operations and Academic Institutions. 20+ years of Linux System Administration. (Larg Linux Clusters, Thousands of Cores, Lustre, SAN and NAS Storage, Network Licensing and Software support)
Experience
Associate Director Research Computing
Aug 2019 - Present
The Associate Director for Research Computing serves as the thought leader for advancing research computing within Information Technology Solutions (ITS).
- Develops research computing grant strategy and related budget opportunities.
- Facilitates the collaboration of research technology initiatives within ITS in coordination with BCOE, HPCC and library partners.
- Serves as the lead systems architect overseeing an environment built around research computation, advanced statistical computing and network interoperability with the campus Science DMZ.
- Responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of new and existing applications, systems architecture and network infrastructure in support of research computing.
- Ensures operation and security of all servers and networks in the research computing environments.
- Configures, installs, maintains and upgrades applications and hardware for the organization's research computing environment(s).
- Serve as a proxy for the Chief Information Officer and/or Chief Technology Officer in related academic senate technology discussions.
Linux/HPC System Administrator
University of California, Riverside
Jun 2017 - Aug 2019 2 yrs 3 mos
- Architect, install, administer and support campus HPC Systems.
- Enable researchers and students by providing training classes and seminars.
- XSEDE Campus Champion, consulting and enabling researchers and students on how to access NSF backed supercomputing centers and national laboratories.
- UCR Representative for the University of California Research IT Committee; serving to align Research IT and HPC goals across all nine UC Campuses and the UC Office of the President.
- Designed and administering functional on-demand HPC Clusters in AWS.
Linux/HPC System Administrator
Corning Incorporated
Jan 2012 - Jun 2017 5 yrs 6 mos
Direct experience administering the following:
- Provisioning and configuration management (ILo, cobbler, iPXE, Kickstarts)
- Monitoring and alerting (Nagios, ELK stack)
- Storage systems (HP MSA SAN, Lustre, Isilon NAS)
- Networking (Infiniband, 10GB and 1GB Ethernet, 16GB FC)
- VM infrastructure (VMWare, Citrix XenServer, Ovirt KVM)
- Operating systems (CentOS Linux 4->7, Windows XP->Server 2012R2)
- Programing/Scripting (c++,c#, Python,Bash,Powershell)
- Remote desktop software (VNC, RDP, X11,NiceDCV)
- Source control (GIT)
- Databases (MySQL,MS SQL)
- Server software (SSH, Cgroups, Apache and all other major applications)
- Cloud services (OpenStack, AWS)
- Project management (Lead both internal and external projects.)
- Hardware service contracts (400+ Server, Storage and Networking support contracts)
- Server room power and cooling systems (150kVA+ APC UPS, large LieBert AC units)
- Cluster software (All major Scientific Modeling package (e.g. Ansys, Comsol, Abaqus))
- Cluster software (Parallel Libraries such as Intel MPI and OpenMPI)
- Cluster software (Mathematical libraries such as MKL and FFTW)
- License management (FlexLM, RLM, LMX,MathLM supporting 60+ network licensed software packages)
- Customer training and documentation development
Education
Kaplan University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information Technology 2013-2015 3.89
- Iota Sigma Tau Honor Society
- Golden Key International Honor Society
- Alpha Beta Kappa National Honor Society
Ridley-Lowell Business & Technical Institute
Networking and Technical Support Specialist 2010-2011 4.0
The program provides necessary training to support end users and computer operations in business environments with skills such as computer and peripherals maintenance, networking, computer operating systems, computer hardware, and software applications.
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Qualified certification equal to CompTia A+ , Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Networking +, Security +, and Linux +
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Dean's List, 4.0 Average , Top GPA of class
United States Navy
Advanced Electronics Technology/Technician 1994-1997
- AC Circuits
- Basic Electronics Laboratory
- DC Circuits
- Digital Microprocessor Fundamentals
- Electronic Communications
- Electronic Systems Troubleshooting
- Radio/Radar Fundamentals
- Solid State Electronics
- Analog Circuits
- Communications Circuit Analysis
- Digital Circuit Logic