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Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects within the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC). Oversees all aspects of projects. Coordinates and prioritizes projects. Sets deadlines, manages assignments, and works with project leads to monitor and summarize progress of projects. Builds and maintains working relationships with project leads, department members, and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of projects. Management of projects in support of Research computing and data (RCD). RCD involves people, scholarship, and resources supporting the IT specific to research and scholarship leveraging compute, data, networking, and software, broadly defined, including the professionals who execute and support these efforts. Whereas entities supporting research computing and data historically emerged from operating and supporting high performance computing, the needs, capabilities and technologies have sufficiently broadened the scope of research information technology to include virtualization, support for the cloud, containers, middleware, workflows, data management, data movement, compliance and security, user training, support of instruction using advanced research computing and data, on-boarding into new technologies, and deep engagement (facilitation) to help guide researchers. Coordination of groups for information flow and ensure priorities and workloads are balanced. Groups include personnel focused in the following areas: user services (RCD facilitation), hpc clusters, virtualization, storage, network, data center, and software development. All groups work together to provide excellent support for the RCD needs on campus. The environment is heavily Linux based. Develop a strong understanding of the services and capabilities of the department. Help to improve the cohesion between individual projects and how they fit in and contribute to the overall direction of the department.