Dr. Kai Neuffer

Experience

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  Department of Theoretical Physics and Synergetics, University of Stuttgart

  Sept 1996 - Dec 1998

  Investigator and system administrator

  • Professor of exercise classes of theoretical physics.• System administrator of the department (UNIX, LINUX, VMS).

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  Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  Jan 1999 - Aug 1999

  EU TMR network studentship student

  • EU-TMR network studentship “Pattern Formation, Defects and Fronts in Nonequilibrium Systems”.• Predoctoral investigator.

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  Department of Theoretical Physics II, Brandenburg University of Tecnology, Cottbus, Germany

  Sept 1999 - Mar 2001

  Investigator and system administrator

  • Professor of exercise classes in physics.• System administrator at the department (Unix and Linux environment)• Participation in various publications.• Doctor thesis in theoretical physics “The diffuse interface model - holes and drops in thin liquid film".

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  Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)

  Apr 2001 - Jan 2004

  Sistem administrator

  • System administrator of an heterogeneous environment (Linux, Windows y Mac OSX) and a MPI Beowulf Cluster.• Participation in the planning, implementation and migration of the IT infrastructure to the new building.• In charge of the user support for scientists from different scientific areas (Physics, Biology, Genetics, Robotic Engineering, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics).

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  Centro de Astrobilogogía (CSIC-INTA)

  Apr 2004 - Mar 2006

  Sistem administrator and EGEE preproduction site manager

  • Head of the system administrator team.• Person in charge of the center's participation to the EGEE project as the pre-productionGrid site INTA-CAB.• Participating to the Grid projects “Spanish network for coordination

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  P.I.C., Port d'Informació Cientifica

  Apr 2006 - Apr 2009

  SWE ROC manager EGEE and LHC Tier-1 center computing team lead

  • Manager of the regional operations center (ROC) of the SWE (South West Europe) Federation within the European project EGEE-II and EGEE-III (Enabling Grids for EsciencE).• Head of the group “Computational Grid and EGEE support” at PIC, including support for the Spanish Tier-1 center for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) GRID center and the administration of its computing cluster (750 CPU cores).• Leader of the CIC on Duty of SWE shifts (Participation of members of the regional EGEE staff to the on duty shifts on supervising de EGEE Grid infrastructure).• Member of different bodies for the design and improvement of operational tools for the EGEE infrastructure (Grid database, operations automation and user support).• Responsible for the task "Integration, testing and certification" (SA3) of the EGEE/II project at PIC.• Main author of the "Grid Operations Cookbook". Show less

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  Hewlett-Packard Customer Delivery Services

  May 2009 - Sept 2012

  HP HPC consultant

  • HPC consultant for HP projects in Spain (design of the software solutions for HPC cluster,high level support, coordination of HPC cluster installations and upgrades).• Technical consultant at the Murcia Supercomputing Center during two years includingcoordination of the technical staff members (system administrators and applicationsupport group).• Responsable for the startup off the Murcia Supercomputing Center infrastructure (Usersupport, 24x7, user policies, monitoring, benchmarks, backup policies, etc.). Show less

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  ICT information communication technology GmbH a FUJITSU Company

  Oct 2012 - Jan 2014

  Sales Consultant

  HPC sales consultant and system architect for Fujitsu Global HPC for small and big HPC Projects in CEMEA+I.

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  Shell

  Feb 2014 - Sept 2019

  Main work areas:- Project Management for international Shell and Shell JV HPC infrastructure & technology projects- Procurement of HPC environments- HPC system design and consultancy- HPC in the Cloud My responsibilities include Project Management of international HPC renewal projects, HPC procurement, HPC system design and consultancy regarding new technologies for HPC.

  • Technical Consultant HPC, HPC Renewal & Strategy

    Jun 2016 - Sept 2019

  • HPC Renewal Consultant

    Feb 2014 - May 2016
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  Microsoft

  Oct 2019 - now

  Microsoft Cloud for Industry and Global Expansion and Transformation - Energy & Resource TeamDriving the leading cloud platform for Energy by - Working closely with many of our strategic Energy & Resource industry customers in understanding, prioritizing, and addressing their HPC challenges as they relate to their business workflows.- Asisting energy customers on HPC Proofs of Concepts on Azure sharing hands-on examples and best practices. - Driving innovation in deploying modern HPC & AI workloads on Azure across our Energy & Resource customers and partners by developing deployment usage scenarious leveraging different compute and storage environments on top of Azure. Show less Main work areas:- Technical sales of advanced workloads on the Azure Cloud related to High Performance Computing (HPC) and AI with a Focus on Energy (Oil & Gas, Renewables, Electrical Power Grid distribution) and Manufacturing customers- Conduction POCs (Proofs Of Concepts), pilots, demos and Azure HPC architecture workshops with customers.- Driving TCO and business value conversations with the customer to migrate their HPC workloads partially or completely to Azure. - Enablement of Microsoft Azure HPC partners and internal account/sales teams and customers to get familiar with Azure HPC.- Mandate to collaborate closely with The Microsoft Azure HPC engineering team on technical issues and feature requests.- Promoting the use of Azure HPC through events, trainings and workshops. Show less

  • Principal Technical Program Manager

    Mar 2022 - now

  • EMEA Sr Technical Specialist HPC

    Oct 2019 - Feb 2022