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Arno was born in The Netherlands and grew up in Canada where he received a degree in Computer Science from The University of Calgary.

His almost 30 year career in Information Technologies has encompassed a wide range of industries including oil and gas, law enforcement and emergency services, a public utility, a number of internet startups, e-commerce and internet payments.

His primary career focus has always been around data, database administration, and database architecture in the enterprise. He has extensive knowledge of relational databases, NoSQL data stores and graph databases. In the past ten years with the advent of larger data sets, an interest in HPC and technical computing came about as a result of finding solutions to solving real time data analytics across distributed systems at web scale.

This blend of HPC and enterprise architectures has piqued the interest of many in the HPC community, allowing Arno to speak both domestically and internationally on the HPC work he’s done and how he sees future integration of HPC in the enterprise.

Arno and his colleague, Ryan Quick won the prestigious IDC HPC Innovation Award at Super Computing 2012 and 2014 The award was presented for their work in blending enterprise and HPC architectures for fraud detection and utilizing DSPs for real time streaming analytics. They have hosted Birds of a Feather sessions at both SC and ISC on a variety of HPC and enterprise topics.

Arno was also the recipient of the Alan El Faye HPC Inspiration Award at the 2016 Enterprise HPC Award banquet.

He currently holds a seat on the HPC User Forum Steering Committee and is an advisor to both the Advanced Scale Forum and HPC On Wall Street events. These are HPC focused events for commercial enterprises interested in HPC.
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Big Data Analytics
Clouds and Distributed Computing
Graph Algorithms
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