Presenter
Ashley Barker

Biography
Ashley Barker is the Section Head for Operations for the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) located at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). The NCCS Operations Section ensures the functionality, performance, and usability of new NCCS systems and provides technical support, training, documentation and tools to NCCS users of operational systems. They develop and maintain large software applications and tools, provide access through these applications to the computational resources inside of the division, and provide platforms-as-a-service to NCCS users and staff so that they can develop their own applications that run on NCCS systems. Finally, the Operations Section showcases NCCS capabilities and OLCF user research accomplishments.
Ashley served as the National Climate Research Center (NCRC) Project Director from 2014-2016. The NCRC project represents a partnership between NOAA and DOE and through this partnership, the NCRC team has delivered multiple computer systems to NOAA, allowing the agency to advance its climate modeling and improve our understanding of climate variability and change.
Ashley also served as the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for training and productivity.
Ashley earned her Master of Science degree in Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee.
Ashley served as the National Climate Research Center (NCRC) Project Director from 2014-2016. The NCRC project represents a partnership between NOAA and DOE and through this partnership, the NCRC team has delivered multiple computer systems to NOAA, allowing the agency to advance its climate modeling and improve our understanding of climate variability and change.
Ashley also served as the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for training and productivity.
Ashley earned her Master of Science degree in Information Sciences from the University of Tennessee.
Committee Roles
Finance Chair
Infrastructure Deputy Chair