Jeff Albert
Manager and Architect, Advanced Research Computing Infrastructure, University of Victoria
Jeff Albert leads the University of Victoria's Advanced Research Computing Infrastructure team, a top-flight team of ambitious sysadmins and far-seeing scientific computing specialists, as its Manager and Architect.
Having inhabited every almost every rung on the operations technical contributor ladder from Junior HelpDesker to Senior Sysadmin over the course of some twenty years, Jeff now orchestrates the design, deployment, and operation of major research computing infrastructure systems - most notably among them Canada's largest research cloud, Arbutus.
Veronica Augustin
Project Manager, University of Victoria
Veronica is a PMP-certified project manager, Scrum Alliance certified Scrum Master and Product Owner and a certified life coach. Over the last seven years, she has led Research Infrastructure projects and cultivated broader portfolio management processes with the UVic RCS team using agile, waterfall and hybrid approaches. In addition to higher ed, she has experience in website design and custom software projects in the Indigenous Technology space where reconciliation and data sovereignty create incredible opportunities for technologists and leaders. She is passionate about creating environments where teams can work equitably, invite diverse perspectives and honour differences. She leverages coaching strategies to mobilize teams that take ownership and delivery high quality results, while humbly learning from expert colleagues along the way.