Michael Arida

Employer: ADNET

Job Description: Sr. System Administrator/Sr. Programmer Analyst

Phone: (301) 286-2291

e-mail: marida@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov

Mike received a B.S. in Physics in 1991.

Mike began working at Goddard in the mid 90's for the HEASARC, first as a member several Guest Observer Facility. (GOF), as well as coordinating exhibits for national and international astronomical meetings.

In the mid 2000's Mike moved over to the dark side as a System Administrator and for NASA's Astrophysics Science Division as well as continuing to support the ESA XMM-Newton mission at the U.S. XMM-Newton GOF, and entire HEASARC archives.

Afterward Mike started transitioning to became the HEASARC and ASD infrastructure hardware lead handing storage, networking, and then added lead webmaster to his toolbox.