David DeCastro is the Director of HPC Solutions Architecture at Lenovo leading a team of subject matter experts and application performance engineers of various disciplines across the HPC portfolio including Weather & Climate. His role consists of developing HPC solution architecture, planning roadmaps, and optimizing go to market strategies for the Lenovo HPC community. David has over 15 years of HPC experience across a variety of industries including, Higher Education, Government, Media & Entertainment, Oil & Gas and Aerospace. He has been heavily engaged optimizing HPC solutions to provide customers the best value for their research investments in a manner that delivers on time and within budget.