Frédéric Hemmer studied Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (and Computing) in Brussels. He joined CERN in 1984 where he served as Systems Engineer in Databases, Real-Time Systems and more generally Distributed Computing. In the 1990’s he became the software architect of the ComputerWorld Honors awarded CERN SHIFT project aiming at moving High-Energy Physics applications from Mainframes to Distributed RISC/Unix systems, later migrated to PC/Linux systems. He has been the initial author of the RFIO remote file access protocol, still in use today. From 1994 he took the responsibility of operating the Physics Data Processing Services at CERN (100’s of machines, Terabytes’s of data, Gigabit/second interconnections). As of 1998 he took responsibility of CERN Windows service (> 5000 computers) and later Mail and Web Services. In 2004 he joined the EGEE (Enabling Grid for E-sciencE) project where he served as Middleware Reengineering Manager (coordinating Grid Middleware development of 80 people across 8 countries). In 2005 he was appointed as CERN Deputy IT Department Head (230 Staff, 150 visitors, 40 MCHF budget in 2006), He served as EGEE related projects (EELA, SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID, EUCHINAGRID, DILIGENT, ICEAGE, ETICS, Health-e-Child, etc…) Management Boards formal representative of CERN and holds the same role for the current EGEE-III related projects (BalticGrid-2, D4Science, ETICS-2, GridTalk, SEEGRID-SCI). He acts as a deputy to the CERN representative of the EGEE and EGI_DS PMBs. He has been appointed as CERN IT Department Head for the period 2009-2013. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.