Nicholas J. Carinci

With a lifetime in technology and a career spanning 23 years in the same, Mr. Carinci has been contracted through the Department of Aeronautics since the spring of 2015 to fulfill roles at the United States Air Force Academy to bring technology innovation and integration in support of research. Working also as the liaison for USAFA in the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program, he superintends all HPC research projects, as well as providing the annual allocation of supercomputing computational hours for those projects. Also functioning as a Communications Requirements Officer and research network architect, Mr. Carinci uses broad technical ability to develop key infrastructure and support to include Information Assurance. Also delivering architecture and implementation of HPC compute resources; as well as creation, security, documentation, and maintenance of powerful physical/virtual test platforms. Mr. Carinci also developed a virtual reality engineering and design platform with immersive and intuitive UI to allow users physical interaction with virtual projects. He also developed the first instance of cloud bursting at USAFA with a distributed compute platform utilizing general-purpose GPU techniques, kernel acceleration and the parallelization of monolithic serial computing requirements.

Nicholas earned an Associates degree in Computer Science from Trinidad State College in 2004. In addition to this, he continued to gain accreditation in industry, accumulating over 12 technical credentials including certifications from CompTIA, SUSE Linux, Cisco, the Linux Professional Institute, Kellogg School of Business, and others. Mr. Carinci is DoD 8750 IAT certified, and holds a clearance level of Secret.

From 1999-2004 Nicholas worked in various IT projects and educational endeavors including advanced placement classes in school as well as industry training opportunities. Mr. Carinci also successfully started his own technical consulting business in 2011, in which he went on to support many varied organizations across many technical planes and boundaries