Phillip Andrew Newman NASA/GSFC, Code 660.2  Greenbelt, MD 20771   Building 2, Room W20Q  Phone: (301) 286-3920  FAX: (301) 286-0708  E-mail: phillip.a.newman@nasa.gov

EDUCATION:
Masters Course work, Computer Science, John Hopkins University/Part-Time Program at APL
B.S.(honors), Computer Science, Bowie State University , 1989
B.S.(second honors), Music Compositon, Berklee College of Music , 1976

SHORT BIO:
Mr. Newman has spent most of his computing career involved with system administration tasks in UNIX/Linux environments within Code 660.  Mr. Newman currently works as a computer engineer for the Office of Scientific Computing  which is part of the Astrophysics Science Division(ASD) within the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at Goddard Space Flight Center. His primary responsibility as computer engineer is to guide the IT direction for the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archival Research Center(HEASARC) by maintaining and planning IT computing, storage and network infrastructures to support the archival needs of past, present and future high-energy missions. The HEASARC facility serves approximately 90 TB of data to the astrophysics community.

Mr. Newman also serves ASD as the Computer Security Official(CSO) for 660. This role is tasked to ensure that required IT security regulations and best practices are followed with the ASD organization. In addition to his HEASARC and CSO responsibilities, Mr. Newman serves as alternate technical representative(ATR) to the SESDA Systems task for the division by monitoring the system management and networking performed by the  ASD system adminstrator team.