Erik putting his award where he puts all his important documents

Erik received the coveted Computing and Communications Recognizing Excellence Award Wednesday Dec 15 for his over the top work as Manager of Scientific Computing.  To quote the nomination, “With the loss of one of the two professional positions in the CAL, Erik has been forced to wear many hats.  This might have caused the ordinary human to cower in a dark corner waiting for it all to go away.  As a different kind of human and in spite of this doubling of responsibility, Erik has managed to thrive.

The job roles he has taken on include, but are not limited to: managing the CAL, training and mentoring his 10+ student staff, building and deploying images to support the instrumentation computers in the labs (30+ highly quirky machines), supporting SI and ES planning units as the Academic Computing Liaison, taking on the role of application administrator for Moodle (no small task), managing a multitude of Rails applications and on the side he builds new non-trivial web applications for Academic Computing (SiteTracker and Moodle Connections).  He somehow manages the stress, remains generally friendly, non-confrontational, appears to still get a good night sleep, and by all reports not in the CAL”  Congratulations Erik!