Seminar: Effective use of student part-time employees @ CHPC as part of the University of Utah's "Student University Development Opportunity" (SUDO) program
1:00 pm MDT
Speaker: Brian D. Haymore, University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing
Abstract
A look at how CHPC has been using Student Part-Time employees for the last 2 decades and how things have improved and changed with the development of the campus SUDO program as it came online in 2015. Areas of focus will include:
- The structure, goals and services the SUDO program provides to the students as well as the departments using the program.
- How CHPC uses the SUDO program to streamline our hiring process.
- How we manage/mentor students and help encourage good student/employee balance.
- What we do to prepare and train mentors to be effective with students.
- What roles, tasks and projects CHPC utilizes students with.
- How the program fits into our workforce development goals as a department.
- What we see as the metrics of success with both the program and our student workers.
Biography
Brian has been with CHPC at the University of Utah for 26 years with a few years prior as a student employee doing sysadmin work on various SGI, DEC, IBM, and Sun systems. He first got involved with Linux in 1995 and it has been central to everything he's done since. Brian's current role is both the development and operations of the University of Utah's systems as well as managing the rest of the HPC admin team. He is heavily involved in CaRCC with the systems-facing track as well as the student workforce development interest group. ACM SIGHPC SYSPROS and the RMACC community are also areas he participates in regularly. For about the last 20 years he's had student workers involved in supporting their systems alongside full-time staff. The student workers are a integral part of their team.