Simon Patton is current in charge of the core software infrastructure for the joint US/China Daya Bay Experiment. Over the last 20 year he has held a number of simlar post in the HEP and Nuclear Physics fields ranging from Database Architect for Babar's object oriented database, to Software Coordinator for the CLEO experiment. Before joining the DayaBay experiment he was the Software Architect for the IceCube experiment based at the South Pole.