Summary
William Allcock is a Director of Operations and systems software leader with over a decade overseeing petascale supercomputing infrastructure, storage, and high-speed network transport at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. He combines deep hands-on expertise in parallel I/O, Grid Computing, and data management with people leadership—running operations teams and a software development group responsible for schedulers, user management, and monitoring. His career spans technical roles from GridFTP technology coordinator to process engineer and instrumentation designer, reflecting an unusual blend of applied engineering, systems design, and field operations. Known for delivering high-throughput storage (multi-PB GPFS deployments and benchmarked 400 GB/s I/O) and integrating complex facility services, he brings a pragmatic systems-thinking approach to scaling research infrastructure. Based in Minneapolis, he pairs academic foundations in computer and paper science with 12 years of military leadership, lending resilience and operational rigor to large technical programs.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mechanical Engineering / Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering / Computer Science at Michigan Technological University
MS, Paper Science, MS, Paper Science at Institute of Paper Science and Technology
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh