Tim Cockerill serves as the DesignSafe deputy project director for Professor Ellen Rathje, the Warren S. Bellows Centennial professor of civil engineering in the University of Texas’s Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. DesignSafe is the web-based research platform of the NHERI Network that provides the computational tools needed to manage, analyze, and understand critical data for natural hazards research. Cockerill is a program director at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin.