PNNL

Cole Hudson is a software engineer in the Computational Fluids and Nuclear Processing group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He joined PNNL in January 2024. 

Hudson develops software applications in support of the Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy's Office of Spent Fuel and High-Level Waste Disposition. He works on the STANDARDS spent nuclear fuel data and analysis tool, the web-app version of STANDARDS, and the GC-859 web-app (which handles the collection of data for the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Fuel Data Survey).

Prior to joining PNNL, he worked for multiple academic institutions in Arkansas, North Carolina, and Michigan for 15 years, designing web and long-term data storage applications in support of research.

• PHP, Python, JavaScript
• Laravel, Slim, Flask
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Solr
• Containerization, Kubernetes, Docker

• Master of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University
• MA in English, University of Arkansas
• BA in music and English, Arkansas Tech University

2024 

• Hudson, C., and P. Gallagher. 2024. “An Examination of Academic Library Platforms and Systems During COVID-19”. Information Technology and Libraries 43 (4). https://doi.org/10.5860/ital.v43i4.16259.

2017

• Van Loon, J. E., K.G. Akers, C. Hudson, & A. Sarkozy. (2017). “Quality evaluation of data management plans at a research university”. IFLA Journal, 43 (1), 98-104. https://doi.org/10.1177/0340035216682041.

2016

• Hudson, C., and G. Hukill. “One-To-Many: Building a single-search interface for disparate resources”. In Exploring Discovery: The Front Door to Your Library's Licensed and Digitized Content, edited by Kenneth J. Varnum, 234. Chicago: ALA Edition, 2016.