Philip J. Mucci received his Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University in 1993 and his Masters Degree from the University of Tennessee in 1998 under Dr. Jack Dongarra. For his thesis, he developed a high performance, portable, active-messaging communication for PVM, the precursor to MPI. Under funding from the NSF, DARPA, D.o.D and D.o.E, he worked on application optimization, parallel application frameworks, benchmarking, and the development of performance tools. He is the author of several papers and has delivered numerous optimization tutorials given at numerous D.o.D. and D.o.E. sites throughout the country. He is the inventor of and technical lead of PAPI, the Performance Application Programming Interface, now in widespread use in HPC compute centers around the world. From 2002 to 2009, he was a senior technical advisor and business development consultant at SiCortex, makers of the worlds most energy efficient supercomputers. He is currently a consultant specializing in application performance on systems ranging from embedded devices, enterprise data management to massively parallel systems. He continues to hold a part time position as a Research Consultant for the Innovative Computing Laboratory at the University of Tennessee.