Wayne Smith

Wayne has been at California State University, Northridge for 44 years. The California State University system is the largest system of higher education in the United States of America. He has been both a faculty member (Dept. of Management) and an IT administrator. His course materials have been public, open, online, and accessible for 32 years. He posts updates of R code for research projects on GitHub. He develops metadata using FAIR principles around research (data engineering) results. He develops, coordinates, and supports the use of several high-performance computing resources--for multiple disciplines/domains--both on campus and with regional/national partners (e.g., ACCESS/Jetstream/Openstack and NRP/Nautilus/Kubernetes). He has been involved in a few NSF/CC* projects. He is involved with the LibreTexts project. He has contributed to a leading open statistics textbook (openintro.org, now in its 4th edition). He is a pilot user of the new CA Statewide JupyterHub instance (i.e., cal-icor). He has presented at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE). As an administrator he championed the use of open software (e.g., email clients, drawing software, DRM-free/CC-licensed content, Mozilla and related tools), exchange protocols (e.g., interoperable transcripts, calendaring, microcredentials), and statistical software (e.g., Octave, R, Python, Julia). Wayne completed the Educause Leadership program.

Wayne earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge. He earned a Master's degree and Ph.D. in Information Systems and Technology from Claremont Graduate University. He is a life member of the American Statistical Association and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association. He is involved in various activities with the Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) and the US Research Software Engineers (US-RSE). In his free time, he is active in the amateur radio community and community theater.  Wayne taught 3rd and 4th grade Sunday School for more than 15 years.