Patrick Schmitz
Semper Cogito Consulting Principal Consultant
Berkeley, CA
Patrick Schmitz is Founder and Principal Consultant at
Semper Cogito, providing Strategic technology consulting in Academic Research IT. Prior to this, he spent 12 years at UC Berkeley as Associate Director of Research IT for Architecture and Strategy, providing IT strategy and solutions in support of campus research; and Director of Berkeley Research Computing. In addition to his experience in academia, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, and CWI in Amsterdam, and co-founded a series of tech startups. Schmitz is an active contributor to various CaRCC working groups, including those on the
Research Computing and Data Capabilities Model,
RCD Professionalization, and the
Ecosystem.