Christopher Dalton

Christopher Dalton came to the University of Maine in 2023 after his previous experience as co-founder and CTO of MustDeliver, a freight technology start-up.  Christopher also served as co-owner of Syncopation Software, and as an assistant director for PricewaterhouseCoopers.  When he began working for the University of Maine System, he started by building the Penobscot high-performance computing (HPC) cluster as a more modern replacement for UMS’s existing Katahdin cluster.

Credentials:
M.S., Applied Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University

Professional Objectives:
Maintain and administer on-premises HPC clusters, Katahdin and Penobscot

Duties and Skills:
– System design and administration
– Software engineering (particularly simulation and parallel processing)
– Facilitation of research computing