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Frederic Hemmer studied Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering (and Computing) in Brussels. He
joined CERN in 1984 where he served as Systems Engineer in
Databases, Real-Time Systems and more generally Distributed
Computing. In the 1990s he became the software architect of
the ComputerWorld Honors awarded CERN SHIFT project aiming
at moving High-Energy Physics applications from Mainframes
to Distributed RISC/Unix systems, later migrated to PC/Linux
systems. He has been the initial author of the RFIO remote
file access protocol, still in use today. From 1994 he took
the responsibility of operating the Physics Data Processing
Services at CERN (100s of machines, Terabytess of data,
Gigabit/second interconnections). As of 1998 he took
responsibility of CERN Windows service (> 5000 computers)
and later Mail and Web Services. In 2004 he joined the EGEE
(Enabling Grid for E-sciencE) project where he served as
Middleware Reengineering Manager (coordinating Grid
Middleware development of 80 people across 8 countries). In
2005 he was appointed as CERN Deputy IT Department Head (230
Staff, 150 visitors, 40 MCHF budget in 2006), He served as
EGEE related projects (EELA, SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID,
EUCHINAGRID, DILIGENT, ICEAGE, ETICS, Health-e-Child, etc)
Management Boards formal representative of CERN and holds
the same role for the current EGEE-III related projects (BalticGrid-2,
D4Science, ETICS-2, GridTalk, SEEGRID-SCI). He acts as a
deputy to the CERN representative of the EGEE and EGI_DS
PMBs. He has been appointed as CERN IT Department Head for
the period 2009-2013. He is a member of IEEE and ACM |
