Dan Siercks joined the College of Letters and Science in 2005 as the College's Mac Support Manager. In September 2010, he assumed the role of Systems Administrator and joined the UWM Research Computing group to facilitate research access to UWM’s campus computing cluster. In 2018, he was appointed director of L&S IT and, since 2020, has held a concurrent role of Interim Director of UWM Research Computing. Dan graduated from UWM's College of Engineering & Applied Science with a B.S. in Computer Science. He also holds an M.S. in Data Science from UW-Eau Claire.