Michael Arida

Employer: ADNET

Job Description: Sr. System Administrator/Sr. Programmer Analyst

Phone: (301) 286-2291

e-mail: marida@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov

Mike received a B.S. in Physics in 1991 from RPI and began working at Goddard in the mid 90's for the HEASARC, first as a member of several Guest Observer Facilities. (GOFs), as well as coordinating exhibits for national and international astronomical meetings.

In the mid 2000's Mike moved over to the dark side as a System Administrator for NASA's Astrophysics Science Division as well as continuing to support the U.S. XMM-Newton GOF for the ESA XMM-Newton mission, and the HEASARC physical archives.

Since then Mike took on the HEASARC and ASD infrastructure hardware lead, handing hardware, storage, networking and finally webmaster and CI/CD to his toolbox.