Levi Baber

Boone Community School District

IT Director • Jun, 2021 — Present

Responsible for all technology in the school district, including: firewall, networking, endpoint management, servers, cybersecurity, audio/visual, classroom dsiplays, websites, helpdesk, printing, ip cameras, door controls, etc. Lead a team of 3 help desk technicians.

Iowa State University

Infrastructure and Research IT Services Director (Manager IT I) • Jan, 2016 — Jun, 2021

Lead a team of approx 7 systems analysts who specialize in academic and research computing architecture and support. Work involves strategic planning, sysadmin, storage, consulting, and development. Responsible for dozens of high performance physical servers, a high bandwitch low latency network, hundreds of virtual machines, hypervisor and container orchestration, and petabytes of storage. Strategic planning for Infrastructure and Research Computing initiatives within the LAS college and for the University.

Iowa State University

Regional IT Manager - LAS North (Manager IT I) • Aug, 2014 — Jan, 2016

Led a team of approximately 10 System Support Specialists and System Analysts supporting 11 different departments throughout the college. Beyond management duties, also provided sys admin support to computer science department.

Citigroup

Statements DevOps Manager (Operations Support Sr. Manager - VP) • Nov, 2010 — Aug, 2014

Led a team of 8 developers, sys admins, and MIS staff. Engineered an extremely large, complex project using state of the art technology resulting in an annual expense savings of $34MM. Responsible for development and sys admin needs for a department of 600 users, 200+ servers running Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Very involved in business operational processes in addition to technical management role.

Citigroup

Payments Technology Manager (VP) • Aug, 2006 — Nov, 2010

Led a team of 2 technical analysts, led ACH & ICL (Check 21) implementations. Reduced annual expenses by $10MM. Redesigned multiple business operational processes to keep up with changing technology.

Citigroup

Payments MIS Manager (AVP) • Aug, 2004 — Aug, 2006

Managed a team of 10 across 4 nationwide offices, engineered transitioned from Excel to web (LAMP stack) based reporting.

Iowa State University

Master's, Human Computer Interaction • In progress

Completed 6 credit hours

Iowa State University

Bachelor of Arts, Liberal Studies • 2012

Drake University

Coursework in Computer Science • 2000 — 2001

Southeast Polk High School

High School Diploma • 2000

Technical leadership

I have 20 years of experience as a technical manager. I take a hands-on approach, and like to learn, plan, and execute along with my team.

Communication

I have a unique ability to communicate well with people with a wide range of backgrounds and technical skills.

System Administration

Linux, Windows, K8S, AWS, GCE, Proxmox, VMWare, Active Directory, Google Workspace

Database Administration

MariaDB / MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server

Programming / Scripting / Automation

Bash, Ansible, Python, Ruby, PHP, C++, C, OpenMP, Perl, Javascript, Java, HTML/CSS

Other technical skills

Networking, NFS, Kerberos, Apache, NGINX, Docker, Git, RT, Atlassian suite, ServiceNow

Red Hat Certified Engineer

Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Spack

Contributor • 2017 — 2021

Spack is an open source package management tool optimized for HPC systems. I led the adoption at IA State, and have became a contributor of many packages, and a few core features.

Singularity, Drupal, Tripal, Galaxy, Gluster, OpenZFS, etc.

Contributor • 2017 — Present

I've contributed minor fixes, add-ons, and/or documenation to these open source projects.

• Community Collections: A Framework for Openly Sharing Software Stacks Across Research Computing Centers Using Singularity and Lmod
• RNAStructuromeDB: A genome-wide database for RNA structural inference
• Mapping the RNA structural landscape of viral genomes
• SCNBase: A genomics portal for the soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines)

Chairman's Leadership Award

Citigroup • 2007, 2008

To recognize emerging leaders in the bank

Citi Quality Excellence Award

Citigroup • 4 time winner

For delivering consistently high quality performance

Training Experience Overview

I have led many training sessions in my career, starting with teaching adult education courses on computer use while in highschool, training on new processes and procedures while at Citigroup, and most recently I have led Linux and HPC related training sessions at Iowa State University, often with 30 or more people.

Research Computing Videos

Led the production of over 25 training videos which are published on YouTube

Research Computing Presentations

In person presentations given to faculty, graduate students, and IT professionals

Research Computing Workshops

Led in person workshops for faculty and graduate students

XSEDE

Campus Champion • 2017 — Current

Web Dev Club at ISU

Advisor • 2015 — 2021

ACM SigHPC

Member • Current

Drupal Association

Member • Current

• Research IT site at ISU
• Biology IT site at ISU
• LAS IT site at ISU