BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

JEFFREY C. HUSKAMP – Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor, East Carolina University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY - 1997-Present
Greenville, North Carolina

Chief Information Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor - Provide vision, leadership and direction for all aspects of information technology including administrative and academic computing, distance education, networking, telecommunications and high performance computing. Responsible for East Carolina's membership in UCAID/Internet2. Responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining ECU's information technology strategic plan and creating grant funded initiatives with a staff of 110. Serve on the NC-REN Advisory Committee helping to coordinate statewide networking activities and on the strategic planning task forces for the 16-campus University of North Carolina system.

OHIO SUPERCOMPUTER CENTER - 1995-1997
Columbus, Ohio

Director, Federal Programs - Developed strategic funding plans for increased federal funding for the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) from the Department of Defense, National Science Foundation and Advanced Projects Research Agency. Project contact for OSC's participation in the implementation of the DoD Modernization award to Nichols Research for three Major Shared Resource Centers. Organized the successful NSF vBNS proposal and award to OSC (serves all higher education institutions, public and private, in the state of Ohio and is attached to The Ohio State University).

NORTH CAROLINA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER AT MCNC - 1990-1995
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Director, North Carolina Supercomputing Center - Directed the Center and provided strategic leadership in information technology, computational science, partnership development, funding, and education. Analyzed and evaluated future generation technology advances, pushed forward and adopted state-of-the-art technology in high performance computing, workstation clusters, visualization, applications software development and networking. Collaborated with industrial and academic institutions to integrate this technology into their working environment. Designed an excellent training and user support structure for users across the state. Created major strategic vendor partnerships. NCSC serves all higher education institutions, public and private, in the state of North Carolina.

Deputy Director - Directed planning, program implementation, and day-to-day operations. Provided technology leadership and represented the Center to internal and external organizations. Led the acquisition and integration of massively parallel systems, disk array technology, mass storage systems, high-speed HIPPI networking, and visualization systems.

Director of Technology and Operations - Identified, analyzed, acquired and integrated new technology in networking and high performance computing. Implemented and maintained the Environmental Protection Agency Cooperative Agreement, the largest industrial partnership agreement at the Center.

CONSORTIUM FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING - 1987-1990
John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center, Princeton, New Jersey

Vice President for Computing - Integrated leading edge hardware and software technology into the Center, and managed the computing and networking (LAN and WAN) activities of the Center, including software development, networking, operations, systems, and user services. Initiated long-range planning to enhance and maintain the state-of-the-art computing environment. Investigated new technology trends in vector and parallel computing. Coordinated utilization of computing facilities by industrial participants and represented the Center to outside organizations and agencies. Successfully integrated two multiprocessor ETA10 supercomputers. Implemented and expanded a regional network comprising 27 members located between Philadelphia and Boston. Supervised technical proposals to funding agencies. The Consortium was composed of 13 universities with administrative oversight from Rutgers University.

Consultant to the President - Advised the President on all aspects of the progress, integration and acceptance of the first ETA-10 supercomputer created by Control Data Corporation/ETA Systems during its development. Assisted in planning for integration of the ETA10 into the national network infrastructure created by the Center. Supervised the ETA10 acceptance tests and managed two ETA Systems contract revisions.

INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES - 1977-1988
Princeton, New Jersey

Administrator, Network Planning - Selected, acquired, and integrated new equipment from microcomputers to supercomputers.

Member, Research Staff - Designed, implemented, developed, and productized a completely new software time-sharing operating system for the CRAY-1. Developed a program optimizer and TCP/IP implementation for the CRAY-1.

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1978
Thesis Title: Covert Communication Channels in Computer Systems

M.S. Computer Science, Purdue University, 1972

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Honors Program, Purdue University, 1971

SELECTED RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Principal Investigator, NSF Network Connections Program, "High Bandwidth Connection to the North Carolina Research and Education Network," $341,000 award to connect East Carolina University to the high speed vBNS network, 1999-2001.

Principal Investigator, NSF Metacenter Regional Alliance award, "Stimulating and Enhancing Entrepreneurial Development (SEED)," $1.4M award for helping small/medium sized businesses in the Southeast use computational science, 1994-1997.

Co-Principal Investigator, NSF Teacher Enhancement award, "Computational Training for Teacher Enhancement, Action and Motivation (CT-TEAM)," $383,000 award for introducing computational science into the K-12 curriculum, 1993-1996.

Principal Investigator for the NSF sponsored "Workshop on Broadening Participation in the Metacenter," MCNC-North Carolina Supercomputing Center, March 23-25, 1994, involving national, state and local high performance computing centers.

Principal Implementer in the DoD Modernization Award to the Ohio Supercomputer Center for Programming Environment and Training at the CEWES, ASC and ARL Major Shared Resource Center Facilities in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Dayton, Ohio and Aberdeen, Maryland as a subcontractor to Nichols Research Corporation and E-Systems. Subcontract award is $11M from 1996-2001.

Vice Chairman, Coalition of Academic Supercomputing Centers (CASC), a national organization of 26 high performance computing centers across the country - 1994 and 1995.

Invited presentation on the future of supercomputing to the NSF Task Force on the Future of the Supercomputing Centers, April 1995.

Invited presentation on the future of high performance computing to the Federal High Performance Computing, Communications, and Information Technology (HPCCIT) Subcommittee, June 1994.

Member of the National Science Foundation review panel for Teacher Enhancement proposals (1992, 1993, 1994), SBIR proposals (1995, 1998), Networked Infrastructure for Education (NIE) proposals (1996), and the National Center for Atmospheric Research site visit (1996).

Member of the Department of Education review panel for the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education Proposals, 1999.

Member of the Ohio Board of Regents review panel for the Efficiency Challenge Proposals, 1999.

Program Chair for Research Exhibits, Supercomputing'96, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1996; Program Co-Chair for Research Exhibits, SC’98, Orlando, FL, November 1998; Vice Chair for Education, SC 2000 Conference, Dallas, TX, November 2000.

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LAST UPDATED: 03/30/2000