Hadi Rashid is the Systems Administrator at the Emerging Analytics Center. His recent focus is in automated configuration of pools of computing, storage, and networking resources to build an OpenStack-based cloud and a high-performance computing platform in the EAC’s data-center facility. Previously, Hadi worked as a lecturer and Cisco Networking Academy manager and instructor at the University of Duhok, Iraq. He received an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Duhok (2009) and a BSc in Computer Science (2003) from the University of Mosul, Iraq.