The Illinois Campus Cluster staff installs, operates, and maintains all Illinois Campus Cluster Instances and provides basic support for users. The Campus Cluster is operated by Technology Services under the leadership of the Deputy CIO for Research IT, John Towns. Technology Services contracts with NCSA for the technical personnel who operate the cluster. Meet our staff!


John Towns
ICCP Director
Deputy CIO for Research IT

Christopher Heller
Program Director
NCSA

Jed Willard
Project Manager
NCSA

Chit Khin
Lead System Administrator
NCSA

Mike Douglas
Network Engineer
NCSA

Weddie Jackson
Consultant
NCSA

JD Maloney
Storage Engineer
NCSA

Sean Stevens
Storage Engineer
NCSA

Michael Shapiro
Senior System Engineer,
Database Manager
NCSA