The GPO provides system engineering and project management expertise to guide the planning and prototyping efforts of the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI). GPO systems engineers help draw up the system design, identify and track technical risks, capture and manage system requirements, provide oversight and support to GENI working groups, and monitor and coordinate prototyping subcontracts. The GPO leads periodic GENI Engineering Conferences for collaboration in the developer community and issues solicitations to fund prototype development that addresses technical risks. The GPO also performs project management, contracting, technical liaison, and meeting coordination in close coordination with the National Science Foundation.

The GPO team includes:

Chip Elliott — Principal Investigator and Project Director

Henry Yeh — Project Manager

Aaron Falk — Engineering Architect and Lead System Engineer

Heidi Picher Dempsey — Operations & Integration Director

Dr. Craig Partridge — Outreach Director

Dr. Kristin Rauschenbach — Substrate Architect

Dr. John Jacob — Substrate Engineer

Dr. Harry Mussman — Senior Systems Engineer

Dr. Vicraj (Vic) Thomas — Distributed Systems and Security Engineer

Cordell Thorn — Contracting Officer for the GPO

Michael Patton — GENI OMIS Working Group System Engineer