Research Computing Team

Eric Sedore –  Associate Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Technology Officer
Eric works with nearly all areas of research computing, from hardware allocation and deployment at the University’s data centers to managing clusters and services, to writing grants to support the research computing efforts on campus.

Peter Pizzimenti – Associate Director, Research Computing – Core Infrastructure Services
Peter helps lead the team of technologist working with research groups and managing both the infrastructure and resources that support the campus’ research computing needs.

Daniel Jeski – Senior Cyberinfrastructure Engineer – Core Infrastructure Services
Daniel works closely with various campus research groups and with both the infrastructure and resources that support the campus’ research computing needs.

Larne Pekowsky – Cyberinfrastructure Engineer – Core Infrastructure Services
Larne works with research groups to understand their computing needs, and with the rest of the Research Computing team to match groups to resources.

Michael Brady – Information Technology Analyst, Linux Systems and Services – Core Infrastructure Services
Michael works on Linux infrastructure for OrangeGrid, Zest, Crush, and assists researchers with Linux OS and programming issues.

Joshua Slade – IT Director, CIS – Core Infrastructure Services
While managing the various ITS infrastructure teams, Josh supports research computing primarily through supporting key resources like the Academic Virtual Hosted Environment, or the AVHE, and our data infrastructure.

Richard Ameele – Associate Director, Core Applications and Services – Core Infrastructure Services
Richard works with the Linux infrastructure components of Crush and OrangeGrid such as HTCondor, and our interface with the Open Science Grid.