The MPC is the producer and distributor of the world's largest demographic data collections. We serve an audience of over 50,000 demographic researchers, policy makers, urban planners, teachers and students worldwide. In my role as IT Core Director, I manage and support the software development team that creates the applications which power our data processing and dissemination infrastructure. I help tackle issues of architecture design and scalability while applying my computer science background to our challenges of algorithm design, high performance computation and distributed systems. I also partner with our researchers on grant proposals, work prioritization and resource allocati...