Tony Cass

Group Leader, Database Services

Tony Cass joined CERN's Information Technology Department in 1987 after completing a PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Liverpool. After initial assignments in the CERN Program Library and working with CERN’s IBM/VMCMS service, Tony played a leading role in the development of workstation based interactive computing, had major responsibilities in the operation and management of large scale batch processing and data storage systems and was responsible for the refurbishment of the 30-year old computer centre to meet the needs of LHC computing. Tony currently oversees the various database services at CERN, a remit ranging from corporate databases, through databases central to the operation of LHC, the world’s highest energy particle collider, to databases supporting the work of the LHC physics experiments.