Ashley Barker

Affiliation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ashley Barker is the Section Head for Operations at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) located at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). The Operations Section is responsible for facilitating access to OLCF resources, providing training, documentation, and technical support to users, collecting and reporting on user facility data, and acquainting the public with the work conducted at the OLCF through scientific highlights. The OLCF supports more than 1,200 users and 250 projects annually from a wide spectrum of science domains. Ashley served as the National Climate Research Center (NCRC) Project Director from 2014-2016. The NCRC project represents a partnership between NOAA and DOE and through this partnership, the NCRC team has delivered multiple computer systems to NOAA, allowing the agency to advance its climate modeling and improve our understanding of climate variability and change. Ashley is also currently involved in the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as the Control Account Manager (CAM) for training and productivity.

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10. Training Virtualization (2021-09-23)

9. I Finally Have the Internship I Always Wanted, Now What? (2021-06-24)

8. How Does Remote Work Impact Creativity and Innovation? (2021-03-25)

7. Year in Review: What Have We Learned So Far? (2020-12-17)

6. Sustainable Hybrid Approaches (2020-10-29)

4. Virtual Onboarding and Mentoring (2020-06-30)

3. Making the Transition to Virtual Software Teams (2020-05-21)

2. Challenges Faced by Parents Who are Working Remotely, and Overcoming Them (2020-04-24)