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Aboutme
Rich Brueckner acquired insideHPC in August, 2010. Rich has over 24 years of marketing and communications experience in High Performance Computing. Known to many in the industry as “the guy in the red hat,” Rich has been a fixture at the Supercomputing conferences since 1991 as an exhibit team manager for Cray Research, SGI, and Sun Microsystems.
As a technical writer, Rich cut his teeth on HPC in 1986 at CRAY X-MP repair school in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He moved on to Marketing Communications in 1990, where he wrote a number of award-winning brochures and videos for the company. In 2000, Sun Microsystems hired Rich to produce its HPC user events and exhibits. In the course of ten years at Sun, Rich produced over 100 parody videos for customer events and sales meetings.
Rich currently serves on the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference Communications Committee where he has been instrumental in adopting the use of social media.
When he’s not working, Rich keeps busy writing fiction, cartoons, and parody films. You can check out his latest works: The Three Magi of Katrina, Seven Meals from Chaos, Jigsaw Falling into Place, and Bardo. Rich lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
