Benjamin J. Cotton
bcotton@funnelfiasco.com
Experience
IT Systems & Operations, Purdue University
Systems Research Engineer (Oct. 2009 - present)
- Curate and develop Condor distributed computing environment at Purdue
- Create and maintain campus grid software and middleware for local and DiaGrid partner institutions
- Provide systems and user support for national grid computing activities (e.g. TeraGrid/XSEDE)
- Administer research 4000 hosts as part of computing cluster and infrastructure resources
- Provide training to internal and external audiences
- Develop frameworks for documentation
- Serve as Security Officer for IT Systems and Operations, representing the organization to the CISO and serving as a liaison with the Networks and Security group.
- Supervise 10-12 student employees
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Purdue University
Unix Workstation Support/Systems Administrator (September 2006 - October 2009)
- Maintain and develop departmental Linux and Solaris servers
- Provide support to users of Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms
- Serve as lead for departmental IT staff and representative to department faculty and other groups on campus
- Serve as Security Contact for department, working with University- and College-level security staff to respond to security incidents in the department
- Supervise 3-5 student employees
- Approve departmental IT purchases and maintain IT budget
- Coordinate professional development of IT staff and provide training to faculty and staff
Temporary Service (May - September 2006)
- Provide support to users of Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, and Windows platforms
- Perform general labor services at the direction of the Assistant Department Head
Student Service (April 2002 - May 2006)
- Maintain Unidata LDM software for weather data ingest
- Develop scripts to generate weather data images for web and desktop use
- Provide support to users of data visualization software
- Administer Forecast Game, including maintain web pages and scripts, obtaining verification data, and handling player enrollment
Education
- M.S. in IT Project Management, expected December 2014
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- B.S. in Synoptic Meteorology (minor: Organizational Leadership), granted May 2006
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
External activities/memberships
Publications/presentations
- "Condor in your machine room and on your campus" (panel), Condor Week (May 2011)
- "Condor at Purdue: Vegetating, Virtualization, and Videos" (presentation), Condor Week (May 2011)
- "Extending a Desktop Computing Grid with Cloud Resources" (extended abstract), Cloud Computing and Its Applications conference (April 2011)
- Condor BoF host, LISA Conference (November 2010)