Ross Aiken, Director

Ross recently retired from a career of being the technical liaison between performance engineering and product design teams as a consultative advocate for customer driven first-of-a-kind (FOAK) extreme scale computing systems. He was responsible for formulating the complete hardware bill of materials, software services and if required, product modifications to meet or exceed scientific acceptance testing goals of massively parallel systems deployments.  It was satisfying work for him because he was always drawn to solving complex problems, monitoring technical details and over time he gained an ability for also seeing the bigger picture.

He is also a father by nature, of a son with a rare genetic disorder (Dup15Q) that has no known current cure. So, by choice he has become a dad who must extend his own caregiving to become an advocate for both clinical research and community development that can enable a future quality of life that reaches beyond his own family’s needs.  

It should be no surprise to find out he is interested in supporting both the broader narrative of an “Oasis Community” and also the more tangible housing development for adults with IDD.  He would like to think that use of this narrative will repackage our collective events and enable us to recover from some earlier hardships with purposeful preparation for a better future. He would like to foster conversations about this community. The more important piece is he is willing to listen to other opinions and collaborate.