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Timothy Lanfear

Email: lanfear@costamagna.demon.co.uk

Profile

Experienced pre-sales engineer for high-performance computer systems with participation in direct customer contact for HPC procurements up to the level of national computing centre.

Key Skills

• Pre-sales for high-performance computers.
• Customer presentation of HPC solutions.
• High-performance computing systems performance analysis.
• Benchmarking and code optimisation for HPC systems.
• HPC application support.
• Project Management

Career History

2000 to present. High-Performance Computer Group, Hitachi Europe GmbH, Munich.

Pre-sales engineer for Hitachi’s Europe-wide high-performance computer group.

• Preparation of high-performance computer sales proposals.
• Presentation of Hitachi’s HPC systems to potential customers and at international conferences.
• English-speaking liaison between European HPC customers and Japanese divisions responsible for HPC.
• Training of users of Hitachi’s SR8000 systems, including preparation of training materials.
• Code optimisation and benchmarking for HPC procurements.
• Application support for Hitachi SR8000 systems installed at the German national supercomputing centres in Munich and Stuttgart.

1998–2000. High-Performance Computer Group, Hitachi Europe Ltd, Maidenhead. As above.

1996–1998. Senior Principal Scientist, Sowerby Research Centre, Bristol.

Development of high-performance implementations of numerical algorithms for exploitation of HPCN and parallel computing technology within British Aerospace. Research into and implementation of algorithms for simulation of electromagnetic phenomena and multi-disciplinary design and optimisation.

• Key member of team that produced a highly successful port of a BAe CEM code to CRAY T3D.
• Department’s main technical liaison with supercomputer vendors and Parallel Applications Centres.
• Supported British Aerospace users of electromagnetic analysis software particularly in stealth technology applications.
• Project Manager of internal projects and BAe component of a European Commission funded collaborative project.
• External reviewer for one of the Europort 2 projects.

1990–1995. Principal Scientist, Sowerby Research Centre, Bristol. As above.

1986–1989. Consultant to International Military Staff, NATO HQ, Brussels.

Development of algorithms for radio frequency assignment using methods of graph theory and combinatorial optimisation.

• Devised new algorithms for radio frequency assignment problem that improved on techniques used at that time.
• Liaised with national experts in radio frequency assignment
• Presented of results to international civil and military bodies of NATO.

1984–1986. Research Assistant, Imperial College London. Ministry of Defence sponsored research into modelling systems for real-time signal processing.

1976–1980. Student Engineer, Ministry of Defence, Procurement Executive. Undergraduate sponsorship with pre-university year and summer vacation training at Ministry of Defence scientific research establishments.

Professional Qualifications

Chartered Engineer
Member of The Institution of Electrical Engineers

Foreign Language Skills

Fluency in French following three year residence in Brussels. Some knowledge of Spanish.

Education

1980–1984. Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, Department of Electrical Engineering: program of research leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

1977–1980. Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, Department of Electrical Engineering: degree of Bachelor of Science (Engineering) with First Class Honours.

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