Timothy Lanfear

Current

• Solution Architect, Pre-sales at NVIDIA

Past

• HPC Consultant (contractor) at BAE Systems
• Technical Consultant at ClearSpeed Technology plc
• HPC Pre-sales Manager at Hitachi Europe

• Senior Principal Scientist at BAE Systems
• Consultant at NATO Headquarters
• Research Assistant at Imperial College London

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Education

• Imperial College London
• Imperial College London

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Timothy Lanfear’s Summary

Experienced pre-sales engineer for high-performance computer systems, with participation in direct customer contact for HPC procurements up to the level of national computing centre.

Timothy Lanfear’s Specialties:

Pre-sales for high-performance computers. Customer presentation of HPC solutions. High-performance computing systems performance analysis. Benchmarking and code optimisation for HPC systems. HPC application support. Expertise in novel architectures, especially accelerators.

Timothy Lanfear’s Experience

• Solution Architect, Pre-sales

  NVIDIA

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NVDA; Computer Hardware industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Engineering support for sales of NVIDIA Tesla computing solutions.

• HPC Consultant (contractor)

  BAE Systems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BA.L; Defense & Space industry)

  September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)

  Optimization of HPC software for mathematical modelling.

• Technical Consultant

  ClearSpeed Technology plc

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  October 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 11 months)

  Senior technologist participating in pre- and post-sales activities for ClearSpeed’s acceleration technology in close collaboration with sales representatives.

• HPC Pre-sales Manager

  Hitachi Europe

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1998 — September 2006 (8 years 3 months)

  Pre-sales manager for Hitachi’s Europe-wide high-performance computer group.

• Senior Principal Scientist

  BAE Systems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BA.L; Defense & Space industry)

  1990 — 1998 (8 years )

  Development of high performance implementations of numerical algorithms for exploitation of HPCN and parallel computing technology within British Aerospace.

• Consultant

  NATO Headquarters

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

  1986 — 1989 (3 years )

  Development of algorithms for radio frequency assignment using methods of graph theory and combinatorial optimisation.

• Research Assistant

  Imperial College London

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  1984 — 1986 (2 years )

  Ministry of Defence sponsored research into modelling systems for real-time signal processing.

Timothy Lanfear’s Education

• Imperial College London

  PhD, DIC , Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optimisation , 1980 — 1984

• Imperial College London

  BSc(Eng), ACGI , Electrical Engineering , 1977 — 1980

Additional Information

Timothy Lanfear’s Groups:

Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

•    High Performance & Super Computing
•    Imperial Alumni
•    HPC Network (Europe)
•    HPC Professionals
•    High Performance Computing Group
•    GPGPU Users

Timothy Lanfear’s Contact Settings

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