Dr James Coomer has held a career in High Performance Computing starting with a PhD in Theoretical Physics at Exeter University (UK), modelling material structures using high-performance computing techniques. James then spent over 10 years at Sun Microsystems and Dell in a wide range of High Performance Computing and Cloud roles from L3 support through consultancy, training, installation and pre-sales. James has specialised in the past in HPC schedulers, parallel programming and high-performance interconnects and filesystems before turning to focus on IO and storage in a move to DDN Storage in 2011. James now leads a team of technical staff in Europe.