Jake has been involved in advanced and high-performance computing since his post-grad’ in computer science in 2004.
He has held appointments in health, defence and the tertiary education and research sector in consultancy, technical and senior management roles.
Jake has maintained long-standing senior technical management appointments inside the University of Queensland research institutes cluster (AIBN, QBI, IMB) as a strategic advisor to research enablement through advanced computing infrastructure and services. From 2017 to 2019, Jake was Associate Director of Research Computing for UQ’s institutes.
His primary experience is within high-performance and accelerated computing, computer architecture, design and performance optimisation of hardware and software systems. He has specialist knowledge in storage engineering and design.
Jake has been responsible for the architecture and design of UQ’s most advanced storage and supercomputing infrastructure initiatives as well as advisory to several national initiatives involving federated storage and cloud computing design.
Jake is a TOGAF practitioner, UQ post-grad’ alumnus (UQ MBA, 2019), and is a graduate of computer science—a postgraduate in HCI [human computer interaction] design and graphical interface cognition from Southern Cross University (2004).
He has held various board appointments for state government advisory initiatives in Artificial Intelligence infrastructure.
Jake is a current member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).