OUR KEY PEOPLE
Lili will be utilising her skill and experience to drive Red Oak Consulting’s corporate strategy forward. Most notably, she will be working alongside Nick Skingle to formulate the founding and delivery of Red Oak Managed Services (ROMS); the latest HPC offering for all clients, regardless of size or industry. With previous strategy experience in outsourcing businesses and a background understanding the intricacies of a consultancy firm, Lili is ideally placed to bring a strong commercial angle to ROMS, driving this new and exciting service forward.
Key Attributes:
Strategy, strong communicator, forward planning, organisational skillsÂ
Nick’s passion and drive in the world of technology and its advancement has enabled Nick to expand his knowledge and expertise to more than traditional HPC. Nick is a fully certified Google Cloud Associate Engineer. Having worked on a number of Cloud PoC’s, designed solutions for backup of on premises seismic data to Cloud for global disaster recovery, Nick’s HPC and Cloud Computing expertise is fully encompassing. As a Principle Consultant Nick will support our customers on seeking the most sustainable HPC solution and will work alongside our team of Technical consultants.
Key attributes include:
Strong communicator, planning, approachable, strong team leadership, project management
Having successfully supported the user community delivering end to end solution capability, Samiul’s last role before joining Red Oak was that of infrastructure engineering. Here Samiul worked across the various elements of High-Performance Computing, including enterprise grade network (VCP-DCV certified), storage, virtualisation, HPC and datacentres. Samiul is fully versed with creating and delivering solutions to the research community. His expertise has enabled scientists to overcome experimental challenges, enabling their research to continue, in a positive, productive manner. With a proven proficiency in the delivery of technical solutions and an emphasis to ensure all HPC users ultimately receive a positive customer experience, Samiul is ideally placed as Red Oak Managed Services Team Leader. Samiul’s skill, drive, customer focus and above all passion for success will undoubtedly support the delivery of a high-quality, exceptional service, for all our customers.
Key Attributes Include:
Customer service, leadership, excellent communicator, organisation, approachable
All of this enables, Roberto to bring his vast and unrivalled level of scientific knowledge to the team. Having a drive to share knowledge, Roberto has published extensively in topics ranging from mathematical physics to modelling of deep earth interiors. Roberto’s career has taken him all over the globe, including countries such as: Canada, Japan, and Germany.
Lately he has supported the Mathematical and Physical Sciences School at the University of Sussex as a Research Computing Support Engineer where everyday administration was provided including HPC, Web Servers and Desktop support. Roberto’s extensive academia experience both as a HPC user and engineer will deliver a high level of support to our customers. With a passion for new technologies and supporting people Roberto will leave no problem unturned giving his focus to providing only the best.
Key Attributes Include:
Organisational skills, focused, experienced, approachable and an analytical expert
Khaled’s focus has been on the investigation and prediction of Physical, astrophysical and biological models using theoretical and experimental data. Using HPC Khaled has become an expert in the decryption of complex molecular models and interactions of molecules with surfaces and clusters. Here, he used the density functional theory and the post-Hartree Fock approaches implemented in many scientific codes including CP2K, VASP, GAUSSIAN, and MOLPRO.
Having worked on an international basis, UK, USA and Africa, Khaled holds a wealth of HPC and Physical Chemistry knowledge and is proud to have been published in a variety of international conferences and Scientific journals.
Khaled’s skill and knowledge in both the sciences and technology will help advise customers to get the best of HPC and Cloud for all scientific and research matters.
Key Attributes:
Self-motivated, technology, enthusiastic, research, approachable
We are delighted to announce Muneeb Khan as one of the latest HPC specialists to join the Red Oak Managed Services support team. Muneeb joins Red Oak Managed Services (ROMS) with a wealth of experience. Muneeb’s expertise is not just in area of technology and HPC but also in interpersonal skills. Muneeb joins ROMS with a strong background in electrical engineering. For the past 10 years Muneeb’s expertise has been focused on industrial automation, specifically deploying SCADA systems in the FMCG and Pharmaceutical sectors. Having successfully completed 10 years in this dynamic industry, Muneeb has acquired the necessary skill and insight into successfully working alongside researchers, in what can be a very pressurised environment.  In 2017, Muneeb pursued an MSc in software engineering at Cranfield University, where he immediately discovered his keen interest and passion in the world of HPC and Cloud Computing.
With a strong background in engineering and industrial automation Muneeb brings an elevated level of skill to the ROMS team. As a HPC Specialist, Muneeb will be focused on supporting all our customers with any technical issues they may encounter. Working alongside the rest of the ROMS specialist team, Muneeb will be applying his HPC & Cloud knowledge making sure their experience is a positive one elevating all elements of technical stress.
Key Attributes:
Customer service, excellent communicator, time management, approachable, organisation