Norman joined Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) in 2010 and leads application development, infrastructure and operations teams in support of GLBRC's research missions. He and his team are charged with designing, implementing, and supporting a broad array of technologies utilized by staff and researchers, including storage and compute resources, custom-built applications, data management and sharing tools, and informatics/data analysis pipelines.

He brings over 16 years of experience in technology leadership to GLBRC, having worked at multiple world-renowned research centers within the University of Wisconsin–Madison.