Our Team
Colin McMurtrie
Colin has been working in a senior management position at a major HPC Centre in Europe for 15 years, where he managed a team of nearly 30 staff. He has extensive project management experience, is involved in a number of European projects and has acted as a domain-expert consultant for the European Commission.
Originally from Hawkes Bay, he became involved with HPC through the University of Canterbury’s BlueFern project. Colin is a mechanical engineer who studied to postgraduate level and has been working in IT for more than 25 years. He also worked as an engineering consultant in the mid-1990s, helping to run a successful engineering consulting company with a colleague . He has an entrepreneurial spirit and is always looking for creative solutions to technical problems.
Colin has strong ties and whanau connections in Aotearoa-New Zealand and relishes the opportunity to utilise his experience, skills and global HPC networks for the benefit of your next big project.