Bio

Victor received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Texas A&M in 1988 and has been involved in high performance computing for his entire career working at Texas A&M University Supercomputer Center (now Texas A&M University High Performance Research Computing (HPRC)), San Diego Supercomputer Center (UCSD), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and retired in May 2025 from University of Tennessee, Knoxville as the Associate CIO & Director of High Performance & Scientific Computing. Victor completed his Master of Computer Science degree in December 2025 at University of Tennessee. Victor decided to come out of retirement to return to Texas A&M HPRC as Associate Executive Director of the group and Director of Artificial Intelligence & Data-intensive Computing. Victor returned to Texas A&M University bringing 38 years of experience in HPC to help and support researchers to make use of HPRC resources and the VISION supercomputer. The VISION supercomputer is the most powerful academic computer for research in the US as of June 2026 and this is Victor's third time being involved with the most powerful academic computer in the US - Blue Horizon 2000 at UCSD, Kraken June 2008 at Tennessee, and now VISION 2026 at Texas A&M. Victor has lived in the East Tennessee area since 2007 and has been active in the East Tennessee Texas A&M Club since 2009. Victor assumed the Club President’s duties in June 2022. Victor lives in Knoxville with his wife Dr. Hollie Raynor while commuting back and forth to Texas A&M and has one son, Samuel Hazlewood, who graduated from University of Tennessee with an Electrical Engineering degree in 2020.

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