Biography
Jason Rush
Systems Administrator
Jason spent 26 years in Ottawa, Ontario prior to moving to Victoria and accepting a position at UVic in 2001. He is a graduate of Algonquin College (Ottawa) with a diploma in Biochemical Technology and a Certificate as a Micro Computer Support Specialist. Jason spent 14 years as a Medical Research Assistant in varying fields including cardiology, neurology and diabetes / metabolism.
Changing careers to IT, he spent 8.5 years in Technical Support / Junior Administrator roles:
- 6 months for Computer Sciences Corporation on a Y2K project for Health Canada
- 2 years at the Ottawa Carleton District School Board
- 6 years in McPherson Library at UVic
Jason joined NEPTUNE Canada as a systems administrator in June 2007.
Additional info
NEPTUNE Staff and Consultants
Director
Chris Barnes, project director
- Karen Douglas, technical administrator
Administration and Finance
Fern Johnson, associate director
- Leslie Elliott, project coordinator
- Natalia Gartley, administrative assistant
- Marion Will, accounting coordinator
- Jason Rush, systems administration
Engineering
Lucie Pautet, associate director
- Reece Hasanen, scientific instrument manager
- Jonathan Zand, Systems Integration Engineer
Engineering Consultants
The following external consultants have worked closely with NEPTUNE Canada.
- Steve Lentz, network engineering consultant
- Peter Phibbs, systems engineering consultant
Information Technology
Benoît Pirenne, associate director
Software Development
Eric Guillemot, Manager, Software Development
- Darryl Bidulock, observatory monitoring and control developer (currently on leave)
- Tim Boesenkool, web developer
- Ray Bon, Java developer
- Yan Chen, Java developer
- Dmytro Draga, Java developer
- Reyna Jenkyns, scientific applications programmer
- Tim Lavallee, data acquisition developer
- Tony Lin, Java developer
- Kalpana Rawat, Java developer
- Ronald Schouten, senior front-end application developer
- Karen Tang, user applications developer
- Mitozcelle Valenzuela, Java developer
- Position vacant, senior Java developer
- Position vacant, senior Java developer
Quality Assurance
- Murray Leslie, software quality control specialist
- Daisy Qi, software quality control specialist
- Yingsong Zheng, software quality control specialist
Systems
Martin Hofmann, systems manager
- Shane Kerschtien, mission-critical systems administrator
- Nic Scott, mission-critical systems administrator
- Position vacant, mission-critical systems administrator
Science
Mairi Best, associate director
- Dilumie Abeysirigunawardena, scientific data specialist
- Brian Bornhold, project scientist
- Martin Heesemann, research theme integrator, plate tectonics & earthquake dynamics
- Maia Hoeberechts, research theme integrator , engineering and computational research
- Marjolaine Matabos, research theme integrator, deep-sea ecosystem dynamics
- Steve Mihaly, research theme integrator, ocean/climate dynamics and effects on marine biota
- Dwight Owens, web content manager
- Ian Ross, scientific data specialist
Science Contractors
The following external science contractors work closely with NEPTUNE Canada:
- Steve Bloomer
- Kim Wallace
- Jason Williams
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