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Hugging a Lego™ Wookie

Alias: nock / nocko

Real Name: Shawn Nock

Email: nock at nocko dot net

IRC: nocko on #hacdc on freenode

URL: http://nocko.net

Projects

  • None: I am pretty new to the space

Interests

  • HPC (High Performance Computing)
  • Virtualization
  • Linux system administration
  • Coding in Python & C
  • Trying to wrap my brain around functional languages like Erlang, Haskell, and various LISPs

Experience

  • Broadcast Engingeer at Arizona Public Media
    • Electronics tinkering
    • Basic RF Engineering
    • Broadcast Automation Programming
  • Systems Programmer, Sr. at the Univ. of AZ
    • SAN Storage Administrator
    • Mail System Admin
    • HPC Team
    • Admin for hundreds of physical and virtual Linux boxen
    • Managed the migration of 35k students to Google Apps for Education including writing software to migrate 3T of student E-Mail and a custom Javascript UI for user management.
  • Currently at Center for Function and Molecular Imaging at Georgetown University Medical Center
    • Research support for several Neuroscience labs
    • Cluster support for image processing

Other

This is the cover of my next album (ha!) taken in my native Sonoran Desert.
There isn't much to do in the desert sometimes, so we make up sports. Here I am demonstrating the Cactus Jump.