Staff Spotlight
Staff Spotlight: Walker Wilson
Jun. 1, 2023—Walker is a storage system administrator with a passion for high performance computing (HPC) storage systems. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a concentration in Cyber Security. Walker is committed to delivering optimal storage solutions that meet the demanding requirements of HPC workloads, and works...
Staff Spotlight: Sam Ninchritz
Nov. 10, 2022—Samuel Ninchritz joined ACCRE in June 2022 as a system administrator. Prior to joining ACCRE, Samuel received certifications for electronic repair and basic networking through the Army. Afterwards, he went on to receive his A.A.S. in cybersecurity. In his free time, Samuel enjoys spending time at home with is kids, playing games on his computer,...
Sai Medury joins ACCRE as Associate System Administrator
Nov. 10, 2021—Sai Medury joined ACCRE in Nov 2021. He helps configure, test, and troubleshoot systems at ACCRE. He also works closely with the Centre for Structural Biology (CSB) and helps maintain CSB systems at ACCRE. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Computational Science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and has a Master of...
Staff Spotlight: Lindsey Fox
Sep. 2, 2020—Lindsey holds an M.S. in Engineering Science with an emphasis in Geology from the University of Mississippi. She has worked as a GIS Analyst in Vanderbilt’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department and most recently as GIS Coordinator to the campus community through the Vanderbilt Library. Lindsey has actively contributed to research teams investigating topics ranging from transportation to...
Staff Spotlight: Scott Goethals
Jan. 30, 2020—Scott Goethals is a graduate from Eastern Michigan University with a degree in Information Assurance. Prior to joining the ACCRE team he has worked for several health care and I.T. companies. He joins ACCRE to bring his background in network security and system administration to help support the ACCRE cluster. When not at work Scott...
Staff Spotlight: Fenglai Liu
Jan. 17, 2020—Fenglai Liu is an application developer at ACCRE. His primary responsibilities at ACCRE include managing software stack, helping the ACCRE users on variety of software and Slurm related issues etc. Prior to joining ACCRE staff, Fenglai had been working in computational chemistry field for years as a programmer. Fenglai is experienced with C++ and Fortran...
Staff Spotlight: Matt Heller
Jul. 2, 2018—Matt is a graduate of Vanderbilt’s Engineering program and in fact he first worked for ACCRE as an intern in his undergraduate days prior to joining the team in a software developer position in 2009. Matt wears many hats, among them he is the lead network engineer and the primary for the ACCRE tape backup...
Staff Spotlight: Jacob Roberts
Jul. 2, 2018—Jacob is a graduate of Tennessee Tech University and has been with ACCRE since 2013. His primary responsibilities at ACCRE include managing custom gateways for research groups and maintaining Nagios, the monitoring software used by ACCRE. In his free time, Jacob enjoys swing dancing.
Staff Spotlight: Mat Binkley
Mar. 19, 2018—Mat has a BS in Physics from Austin Peay State University and four years studying black holes in grad school at Wake Forest. He also has a MBA, but hopes you’ll overlook it and like him anyway. He enjoys science, gardening, hiking, running, and dabbling in politics against his better judgement.
Staff Spotlight: Eric Appelt
Mar. 19, 2018—Eric Appelt is a senior system administrator at ACCRE. Prior to joining the ACCRE staff, Eric studied experimental heavy ion physics as part of the CMS collaboration, and was a heavy user of the ACCRE cluster. Eric has industry experience in cloud infrastructure and web service software development, and is an active member of the...