Presenter

Patrick Schmitz is Founder and Principal Consultant at Semper Cogito, providing strategic technology consulting in academic Research IT. Schmitz is an active contributor to a number of CaRCC working groups, co-chairs the Research Computing and Data Capabilities Model and RCD Career Arcs working groups, and is co-PI for the RCD Nexus. Prior to this, he spent 12 years at UC Berkeley as Associate Director of Research IT for Architecture and Strategy, providing IT strategy and solutions in support of campus research; and Director of Berkeley Research Computing. In addition to his experience in academia, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, and CWI in Amsterdam, and co-founded a series of tech startups.