Adam Getchell Email Address

Director of Information Technology and PhD Student

UC Davis, which will celebrate its centennial in 2008, is one of the nation's top public research universities with a tradition of service to the region, the nation and the world. UC Davis is a pioneer in interdisciplinary problem-solving, and its four colleges, five professional schools, more than 100 academic majors and 86 graduate programs provide a comprehensive, rigorous and research-based learning environment for students, faculty and researchers. The 30,000-student university has its main campus in the Sacramento Valley, near the state capital and San Francisco Bay Area.

· Knowlegeable IT director with broad experience in help desk support, network and server systems, cloud IaaS/PaaS, security, web and application development, and leveraging IT to realize business efficiencies · Application developer, data wrangler, and project manager in a wide variety of business applications. Particular interest in agile methods, NoSQL, and MVVM techniques · Scientific programmer building computational models in quantum gravity and cosmology with highly parallelizable cloud/cluster applications · Experienced lecturer in challenging and motivating students with practical, fun, and efficient physical and martial arts trainingSpecialties: Physics: General relativity, quantum gravity, high energy physics theory, and computational physicsProgramming: C/C++, Python, C#, F#/OCAML, Lisp/Clojure, Ruby, LaTeX, Mathematica, Javascript, Java, FortranInformation technology: Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, IIS, SharePoint, TFS, Lync, Systems Center {OM, DPM, et al}, Hyper-V, Remote Desktop server, VPN, OpenBSD, pf, Zope/Plone, Squid, Apache, honeyd, tinydns, dnscache, Linux, OTRS, nmap, VMWare, CVS, Git/GitHub