Director of Operations Research Computing, Arizona State University, Jay Etchings is a well-known industry professional with 20 years of progressively versatile, cross-platform experience in management of open systems architecture. With the bulk of a 10 year technical consulting career spent in gaming and connected lotteries, emerging network technologies have been a longtime passion deploying the first of its kind, next generation WAN connected Class 2 Lottery System. As an audit contractor for the centers for Medicaid/ Medicare (CMS-RAC) he focused on DISA-STIG compliance and networked systems.
Currently Etchings and his team are deploying campus wide SDN-Biomedical Informatics Networks on Internet2 supporting inter-intra university NSF funded projects as well as international research efforts such as ICTBIOMED.