Steven Timm's Home Page

Fermilab	Computing Division,	Scientific Computing Facilities Quadrant	Grid and Cloud Computing Dept.
FermiGrid Services Group	Group Leader	Condor liaison (Fermi internal)	Grid Users/FermiGrid Stakeholders Meeting
FermiGrid web pages	Sysadmindb	MISNET node registration	FTL System
Fermilab Phonebook	Purchase Order	Requisition	MISER
EQUIPDB queries	Service call (MISJOB)	Service Desk login	Listserv management
FermiGrid E-Log server	Ganglia reporting	NGOP General Web Monitor	NGOP General Web Admin Interface
Network utilities (onsite)	Node Locator	FCDFCM1 Condorview	GP Grid Condorview
Task codes for CD	Request Additional Kerberos Items	New CAB monitoring	Leave Usage Request System
List of bluearc volumes	Bluearc plots	CS Budget and Finance (internal)

Grid links I use all the time

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Open Science Grid Home	GOC Ticket	Fermilab VO VOMS Server	Fermilab VOMRS Server
OSG Twiki	OSG Registration (OIM)	Condor manual	FEF Fault log
FermiCloud Project homepage

My responsibilities

• Group leader of the FermiGrid Services Group.
  1. Lead of FermiCloud project
  2. Integrate and maintain OSG Services
  3. Coordinate system administration and middleware administration for FermiGrid Services, OSG Services, FermiGrid batch systems and gatekeepers, and Fermicloud
  4. User liaison for FermiGrid users.
• Tasks on my plate for FermiGrid
  
• Tasks finished so far this week for FermiGrid
  

My Background

I graduated from Andrews University with a B. A. in Physics and an M.S. in Computer Science. I got an M.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon. For much of that time I was at Fermilab as a graduate student helping to build the SELEX experiment. For five years I was a research associate and systems manager in the High Energy Physics group of the University at Albany, State University of New York. Most of my work was on the CLEO experiment where I specialized in, and eventually led, the Charm Baryon physics group. I came to Fermilab in 2000.

At Fermilab for the first six years I was lead of the team of system administrators that managed the reconstruction farms for CDF, D0 and general purpose users. We worked on automated provisioning of multi-hundred node clusters, monitoring, and hardware and vendor evaluations.

For the next four years I was assistant group leader of the FermiGrid Services group and lead system administrator for the FermiGrid Services machines. I am officially a Compute Services Specialist because this work requires not only managing the hardware and operating systems of the computers but also managing a lot of authentication and authorization middleware and batch systems. I was appointed group leader in late 2010.

I have led the FermiCloud project since its inception. This project is meant to give us much more flexibility in managing our virtual machine infrastructure so that we can deploy different types of machines at the request of the user.

Talks I've given in recent years

Happy Puppies

Here's Ziggy, when he was a puppy in 2005

Here's Winston, our new puppy on go-home day in 2009.

Here's another picture of Winston.
Ziggy and Winston together.
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