NEPTUNE Canada

Biography

Martin Hofmann

DMAS systems manager

Martin joined NEPTUNE/VENUS in April 2005 as DMAS Systems Manager.

Martin received his B.Sc. in Astrophysics at the University of Toronto in 1979 which was followed by a Masters and PhD in Zoology. He then spent 7 years at the Centre for Visual Sciences, Australian National University, where he worked in a variety of vision and imaging projects and administered a number of Unix systems as a post doc and research officer.

Martin has been using Unix since 1984 for everything from web servers to real-time robotic control. Before joining NEPTUNE Canada he was Unix systems Administrator in the McPherson Library at UVic.

Additional info

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Staff and Consultants

NEPTUNE Canada staff are listed below. For more contacts, see our full listing of staff within VENUS, Ocean Networks Canada, and the Ocean Networks Canada Centre for Enterprise and Engagement.


Director

Kate Moran, director

Science

Kim Juniper, associate director

Administration and Finance

Fern Johnson, associate director

Engineering

Ian Kulin, associate director (interim)

Engineering Consultants

The following external consultants have worked closely with NEPTUNE Canada in the past.

Information Technology

Benoît Pirenne, associate director

Li Yan, Visiting Scientist, China National Ocean Technology Centre

Software Team

Eric Guillemot, Manager, Software Team

Data Curation
Software Quality Control

Bob Crosby, Team Lead

Systems

Martin Hofmann, systems manager

  • Austin Henry, mission-critical systems administrator
  • Shane Kerschtien, mission-critical systems administrator
  • Nic Scott, mission-critical systems administrator
  • Seann Wagner, mission-critical systems administrator