Scott Parker is the Lead for Performance Tools and Programming Models at the ALCF. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Argonne, he worked at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, where he focused on high-performance computing and scientific applications. At Argonne since 2008, he works on performance tools, performance optimization, and spectral element computational fluid dynamics solvers.