{"id":25149,"date":"2024-02-14T13:45:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/?page_id=25149"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:59:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:59:24","slug":"chris-mcgrail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/about\/people\/chris-mcgrail\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris McGrail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sr. Systems Engineer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25620\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/about\/people\/chris-mcgrail\/attachment\/chris-mcgrail-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chris-mcgrail.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"chris-mcgrail\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chris-mcgrail.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chris-mcgrail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chris-mcgrail.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chris-mcgrail-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/chris-mcgrail-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Chris joined the Harvard Research Computing team in January 2024. For the past ten years, he worked as a Senior Product Technologist at Dell, where he was the primary point of contact for all his enterprise customers' technical needs and a pre-sales resource for the New England sales team. Prior to that, he worked at two smaller technology companies in leadership and consulting roles for twelve years.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn his spare time, Chris enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, trail running, sports, and working on his 150-year-old farmhouse where he, his wife, and their three dogs live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Sr. Systems Engineer Chris joined the Harvard Research Computing team in January 2024. For the past ten years, he worked as a Senior Product Technologist at Dell, where he was the primary point of contact for all his enterprise customers' technical needs and a pre-sales resource for the New England sales team. Prior to that, he worked at two smaller&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/about\/people\/chris-mcgrail\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"parent":10920,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P42YvN-6xD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25623,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25149\/revisions\/25623"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rc.fas.harvard.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}