Wayne Schroeder is an expert in distributed data management and iRODS with over 38 years of experience in software engineering, data management, and scientific computing. He designed and implemented major components of iRODS and provided support to the international iRODS user community for over 12 years. He has extensive experience managing projects and leading teams, and currently owns a consulting business providing data management consulting services and products.

1. Wayne Schroeder
E-mail: w.schroede@gmail.com
Phone: (858) 484-3427
Profile
Expertise in iRODS/SRB, distributed data management/digital repositories, computer security, DBMS technology, software engineering,
optimization, authentication systems, technical communication (written and verbal), and remote distributed technical support. Designed,
implemented, and supported major components of the iRODS and SRB systems, managed iRODS development and support, and was
Principal Investigator on a series of awards and sub-contracts.
Experience
Over 38 years of experience in software engineering, high-performance computing, data management, scientific applications, computer
security, networking, and systems support and administration.
Over 10 years of experience as a team lead and manager, including recent role as Principal Investigator and proposal developer for multiple
awards for the DICE-UCSD team, 2010-2014.
A leading expert in iRODS, the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System.
Over 12 years of experience in providing support to the international iRODS and SRB user community primarily via email and
documentation (wiki.irods.org), some local replication/debug of issues, and occasional remote debugging sessions.
Extensive experience with a wide variety of programming languages including C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, an extended Fortran, and
various assembly languages.
Gave many presenations and wrote or co-authored many papers over the past 25+ years.
Experience working as part of, and co-leading, a physically distributed team: DICE-UCSD and DICE at UNC, 2008-2014.
Appointments
2014 Business Owner. Launched Integrated Data Management Solutions
LLC providing consulting services and developing products.
2002 Research Programmer/Analyst (PA IV), Data Grid Technologies Group
at the San Diego Supercomputer Center which then became Data
Intensive Cyber Environments team (DICE at UNC and DICE-UCSD at
UCSD), Institute for Neural Computing, University of California
San Diego
2000 Senior Software Engineer, Entropia, San Diego, CA
1997 Research Programmer/Analyst, Data Intensive Computing/Security
Systems, San Diego Supercomputer Center, General Atomics/UC San Diego
1994 Systems Software Special Projects, San Diego Supercomputer
Center, General Atomics/UC San Diego
1988 Principal Scientist, Manager, Production Systems/Central Systems
Software, San Diego Supercomputer Center, General Atomics/UC San Diego
1985 Staff Systems Programmer, San Diego Supercomputer Center,
General Atomics/UC San Diego
1981 Systems Programmer, National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1980 Applications Project leader, Applications Programming Division II,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1979 Applications systems programmer, Applications Programming Division II,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1976 Programmer, Sperry*Univac, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Education
University of Nebraska at Omaha B.S. Computer Science (magna cum laude) 1976. Minor: Psychology.
Career Highlights
Designed and implemented major components of the Integrated Rule Orientated Data management System (iRODS), a network, database,
and rule based data-management/data-grid system used in many large-scale research projects world-wide. Under Dr. Reagan Moore and in
collaboration with Michael Wan (lead architect), Dr. Arcot Rajasekar, and others, quickly and efficiently developed the iRODS system to
become robust and useful enough to attract follow-on funding from NARA and NSF to help sustain the team and continue iRODS
development for many years. Specialist in iRODS Database subsystem (queries, SQL, ODBC, iRODS-RDBMS API), iRODS
installation/testing/QA, computer security/authentication, software engineering in C/Java/scripting languages, Unix/Linux, user support, and
documentation. DICE iRODS Product Manager and release coordinator 2006-2014. See the iRODS web site (wiki) http://wiki.irods.org
and http://wiki.irods.org/index.php/Science_and_Engineerng_Domains .
As manager and senior research engineer at SDSC (1986-2000), developed a series of innovative HPC, network, and security systems and
presented those results at many international conferences in Europe, Asia, Australia and the U.S., including ten presentations at eight Cray
User Group meetings.

2. User Group meetings.
Successfully developed critical networking software for the initial phase for the San Diego Supercomputer Center (1985). This was SDSC's
largest technical challenge in creating this large NSF-funded national High Performance Computing (HPC) center.
Developed and ported key software components at Entropia, a mid-sized start-up (with about 30 staff members at the peak), over a two year
period; was retained through all three rounds of layoffs (two affecting engineers) and only resigned when it was clear that Entropia would
fail. We created an innovative and well performing software system but the company failed due to some inaccurate initial business
assumptions.
As a software engineer at the National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center (NMFECC) at the Lawrence Livermore National
Labatory (LLNL) (1981-1885) maintained networking software and developed one of the first email systems (1983/1984), running on the
Cray Supercomputers at NMFECC. Extended this into an early bulletin board system.
As software engineer and Project Leader for an important large-scale HPC scientific modelling application used in nuclear weapons design
at LLNL, led the porting of the code from the CDC 7600 to the Cray-1 (1980).
Successfully developed and maintained software for the simulation system used in ship-board command and control testing and training at
Sperry-Univac (1976-1979).
Developed IEEE/Cray data conversion routines (convieee) that were selected from multiple contenders for use in Gigabit testbeds at the
Third Gigabit Testbed Workshop (1992); these routines were rated as very high performance, well structured, and well documented.
A Sampling of Presentations
iRODS User Group meeting in Berlin, Germany, February 28 and March 1 2013, three presentations: iRODS Version 3.2 Features and
Bug Fixes (Wayne Schroeder, UCSD), New PAM/LDAP Authentication (Wayne Schroeder, UCSD), and Emerging businesses (Reagan
Moore, UNC-CH, Wayne Schroeder, Archive Analytics). See https://wiki.irods.org/index.php/iRODS_User_Group_Meeting_2013 .
Schroeder, Wayne, "iRODS, the Integrated Rule Oriented Data-management System", UCSD BigData Inaugural Workshop, November
25, 2013.
One Mind Data Sharing Platform Review & Discussion, "iRODS, Integrated Rule-Oriented Data-management System", January 10, 2012,
UCSD.
CineGrid International Workshop 2011, "iRODS Update", Wayne Schroeder, December 5, 2011, UCSD.
Invited Talk, PGCon2008 (PostgreSQL), "iRODS - A Large-Scale Rule-Orientated Data Management System", Wayne Schroeder, May
23, 2008, Ottawa, Canada
Brief talk on SRB/iRODS, first annual NMI Build & Test Facility workshop, April 29, 2008, Madison, WI
APAC07 iRODS Tutorial, Reagan Moore, Wayne Schroeder, (co-authors Arcot Rajasekar, and Mike Wan), Perth, Australia, October 11,
2007
ISGC 2006, "An Intelligent Rule-Oriented Data Management System", Wayne Schroeder, May 3, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan
"SDSC SRB Core Technology", Michael Wan, Wayne Schroeder, Aug 23, 2005
"Overview of the SDSC Storage Resource Broker", Wayne Schroeder, Spring 2004 HEPix meeting, and as part of a tutorial and a public
lecture at the eScience Institute, Edinburgh, UK, May, 2004.
A Sampling of Publications
"NITRD iRODS Demonstration", Reagan W. Moore, Richard Marciano, Arcot Rajasekar, Antoine de Torcy, Chien-Yi Hou, Leesa
Brieger, Jon Crabtree, Jewel Ward, Mason Chua, UNC Chapel Hill; Wayne Schroeder, Michael Wan, Sheau-Yen Chen, UCSD,
sponsored by NARA at NSF, 2009.
Rajasekar, A., M. Wan, R. Moore, W. Schroeder, "A Prototype Rule-based Distributed Data Management System", HPDC workshop on
"Next Generation Distributed Data Management", May 2006, Paris, France.
Schroeder, Wayne, "The SDSC Encryption/Authentication (SEA) System", Concurrency: Practice and Experience - Aspects of Seamless
Computing, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Volume 11 Number 15, December 25, 1999.
Moore, R., C. Baru, A. Rajasekar, B. Ludascher, R. Marciano, M. Wan, W. Schroeder, and A. Gupta, "Collection-Based Persistent Digital
Archives - Part 1", D-Lib Magazine, March 2000, http://www.dlib.org/ (Part 2 appeared in April 2000).
Rajasekar, A., M. Wan, Reagan Moore, W. Schroeder, G. Kremenek, A. Jagatheesan, C. Cowart, B. Zhu, S.-Y. Chen, R. Olschanowsky,
"Storage Resource Broker - Managing Distributed Data in a Grid,"Computer Society of India Journal, special issue on SAN, 2003.
Data Grid Federation, Rajasekar, A., M. Wan, R. Moore, W. Schroeder, PDPTA, Las Vegas NV, June 2004 - Special Session on New

3. Data Grid Federation, Rajasekar, A., M. Wan, R. Moore, W. Schroeder, PDPTA, Las Vegas NV, June 2004 - Special Session on New
Trends in Distributed Data Access
Data Grid Management Systems Moore, R.W., Jagatheesan, A., Rajasekar, A., Wan, M. and Schroeder, W., Proceedings of the 21st
IEEE/NASA Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST) , April 13-16, 2004, College Park, Maryland, USA.
"Analysis of HPSS Performance Based on Per-File Transfer Logs", W. Schroeder, R. Marciano, J. Lopez, M. Gleicher, G. Kremenek, C.
Baru, R. Moore, Procs. Seventh NASA Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems & Technologies, and Sixteenth IEEE Mass Storage
Systems Symposium, March 15-18, 1999, San Diego, CA.
Schroeder, Wayne, "Kerberos/DCE, the Secure Shell, and Practical Internet Security," Proceedings, Thirty-eighth Semiannual Cray User
Group Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina (October 1996).
Baru, C.K., Moore,R.W., Rajasekar, A.,Schroeder, W., Wan, M., "A Data Handling Architecture for a Prototype Federal Application,"
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems, College Park, MD., March 23-27, 1998.
Moore, Reagan, Joseph Lopez, Charles Lofton, Wayne Schroeder, George Kremenek, Michael K. Gleicher, "Configuring and Tuning
Archival Storage Systems," Sixteenth IEEE Mass Storage Systems Symposium held jointly with the Seventh NASA Goddard Conference
on Mass Storage Systems & Technologies, March 9-11, 1999.
Additional publications with SRB/iRODS team, 1997-2000, 2002-2014 See https://wiki.irods.org/index.php/Publications.
Additional Cray User Group publications/presentations (about ten total), 1987-1996, in Europe, Asia and the U.S. A sampling of these
include: "SDSC UNICOS Queued File Transport and Distributed Computing Tools", "SDSC Enhancements to NSL UniTree" and
"Kerberos/DCE, the Secure Shell, and Practical Internet Security".
Additional information
Also see https://wiki.irods.org/index.php/Wayne_Schroeder .
For an older resume with more detail on the early career: http://users.sdsc.edu/~schroede/resume2000.txt .
A brief profile is available at: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/wayne-schroeder/8/900/a5a
This document last updated December, 2014.