Aaron Friesz

Aaron Friesz

Staff

Purpose: Unspecified

  • AWS Administrator

    Purpose:

    manage ESIP relationship with AWS and provide cloud credits to ESIP activities

    Accountabilities:

    • Managing AWS usage
    • Writing the AWS proposal to get cloud credits
    • Presenting and communicating ESIP AWS activities to AWS
    • Allocating credits to projects and activities within ESIP

  • Budget implementor

    Purpose:

    Creating seamless conduit for community to spend money

    Accountabilities:

    • Informing staff about approved budget
    • Checking and validating spending when it happens
    • Working with bookkeeper to appropriately tag spending to class, funder & account
    • Notifying travel coordinator of approved budget travel and connecting travelers to travel coordinator
    • Asking travelers to fill out the traveler survey

  • Collaboration Area Manager

    for Technical Committees and Clusters

    Purpose:

    Unspecified

    Accountabilities:

    • Acting as cluster advisor
    • Managing Collaboration area core services - Mailing list management apps (currently deltaforce.net and MailClark); Slack for team communication and inter-team coordination; Google Drive
    • Communicating with Collaboration Area leads about ESIP activities
    • Working with Collaboration Area leads on ESIP meeting participation, including sessions and posters
    • Communicating regularly with clusters and their chairs
    • Advising chairs on team dynamics
    • Listening in on cluster telecons and monitoring Slack and mailing lists
    • Working with chairs to make better telecons (google notes, external speakers, etc.)
    • Advising/prompting chairs to keep notes and update wiki
    • Ensuring telecons are started on time
    • Advising/prompting chairs to consult Communicator about sharing/publicizing collaboration area outputs
    • Working with cluster chairs to define goals and track progress
    • Documenting and streamlining cluster procedures, including onboarding and offboarding for collaboration areas and chairs
    • Striving to make cross-collaboration area connections between existing or emerging groups

  • ESIP Repository Curator

    for Zenodo

    Purpose:

    ESIP content is stewarded according to best practices

    Accountabilities:

    • Maintaining an advanced knowledge of Figshare
    • Communicating best practices for uploading ESIP content to Figshare
    • Working with Figshare to add features of value to ESIP
    • Managing Figshare as the ESIP data repository
    • Updating the platform upload instructions

  • Facilitator

    Purpose:

    Circle governance and operational practices aligned with the Constitution.

    Accountabilities:

    • Facilitating the Circle’s constitutionally-required meetings
    • Auditing the meetings and records of Sub-Circles as needed, and declaring a Process Breakdown upon discovering a pattern of behavior that conflicts with the rules of the Constitution
    • Facilitating team in-person meetings by working with appropriate roles

  • Lab Coordinator

    Purpose:

    Coordinate ESIP Lab activities

    Accountabilities:

    • Outreach:
      Publicizing ESIP Lab
      Updating the lab.esipfed.org website
      Attending meetings/conferences to discuss Lab
    • Project Management:
      Releasing ESIP-Lab Calls for Proposals
      Authoring RFPs
      Managing workflow of RFP release and submissions
      Managing review of RFPs
      Alerting funded/not-funded projects
      Managing ESIP-Lab Funded Projects
      Communicating expected deliverables
      Checking-in with funded projects on their progress
      Submitting invoices to pay funded individuals
      Coordinating final reporting
      Publicizing project outputs
      Archiving projects on Lab site
      Managing Sponsor-Supported Technology Evaluations
      Communicating with Agency/Individual/Committee about evaluation needs
      Communicating with Agency/Individual/Committee about access to technology to be evaluated
      Creating evaluation plans
      Assembling evaluators/evaluator teams
      Communicate evaluation workflow, timeline, deliverables and reporting requirements.
      Managing communication amongst evaluators and between evaluators and PIs
      Scheduling and attend weekly/bi-weekly to ensure evaluation progress
      Collecting and manage review process of final reports
      Writing final report from the ESIP Lab about evaluation process to supporting agency
      Managing Sponsor-Supported Lab Projects
      Interfacing with sponsor about needs/goals of project
      Creating website for project
      Publicizing project
      Managing collection of financial documents for lab-funded projects (MOUs/W9s)
      Tracking lab-funded project outputs
      Submitting final reports to sponsor

  • Lab Infrastructure Coordinator

    Purpose:

    To ensure Lab technical infrastructure is maintained and monitored on a regular basis.

    Accountabilities:

    • Monitoring AWS budget
    • Administering AWS organizational accounts
    • Managing Github member requests to the ESIPFed Github account