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.
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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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