Who's Who?

Paul Slack

Professor Paul Slack has been named Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services). He has been Principal of Linacre College since 1996. He has been a Pro-Vice-Chancellor since 1997, and was Junior Proctor 1986/7, and Chairman of the General Board 1995/6.

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Alex Reid

Mr Alex Reid has been Director, Oxford University Computing Services since 1993. Alex was previously in a similar role at the University of Western Australia and has over 39 years in the IT industry. He has undertaken consulting for several universities in Australia, Hong Kong, UK and the Middle East and currently has the dual role of managing OUCS and endeavouring to promote the orderly development of IT at the University. He is a member of 30+ committees concerned with IT around the University, including the now dormant IT Legal Issues Working Party. Secretary, RUGIT (Research Universities' Group for IT), and Executive Committee Member of UCISA (Universities & Colleges Information Systems Association). Further personal details can be seen at his home page: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alex/

John Jenkins

Chairman of the University IT Users' Group

John previously worked in top 100 UK companies where he was involved in IT for over 25 years. He has particular interests in the people aspect of technology change.

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Robert Taylor

Chairman of the Colleges' IT Group

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guest speaker 1

John Saville is the Head of IT Services at the University of the West of England.

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guest speaker 2

Steve Phillips from Cisco

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Malcolm Austen

During the 24 years I have been with OUCS my primary interests have shifted from compilers through visualisation graphics and now to web graphics, content and accessibility considerations.

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Christopher Bamber

IT Systems Manager at Somerville College for 2 years, before that I worked in a software house for 3 years as a Programmer and finally a Technical Consultant.

Last May the College asked me to implement a security policy that included guidelines for users, a firewall and network monitoring software. Since then, I have spent a great deal of time investigating the hows and whys of this subject and implementing them with the support of the College.

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Tony Brett

OxCERT since about 1997, IMM Computing Manager 1993-1998, Corpus Christi IT Systems Manager 1998-present

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Sue Brooks

Sue is OUCS' Assistant Director with specific responsibilities for Distributed Computing. She is also responsible for the OUCS Registration Service and the Database Systems Group (which is responsible for the Registration systems) and she has been instrumental in the setting up of the ITSS Register.

Sue leaves Oxford at the end of June to take up the new post of Director of Electronic Services at the University of Sussex.

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Sophie Clarke

The HCDT develops teaching and research projects for staff at the University of Oxford. Over the last eighteen months we have used Access (ASP) and Filemaker Pro (CDML) to make a variety of different databases available for web querying. We have found that whilst the two systems are commonly used for the development of small-scale databases, setting them up for querying over the web is different in certain key areas. Knowing what can be achieved with each type of system is very useful if you are at the planning stage.

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Michael Fraser, HCU

Michael Fraser is the Head of the Humbul Humanities Hub, part of the Resource Discovery Network and based in Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit. Prior to taking up this post he was Manager of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies. He came to Oxford in 1995 after completing a PhD in theology at the University of Durham (where he also created one of the first online gateways for the study of theology).

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Paul Groves, HCDT

The HCDT develops teaching and research projects for staff at the University of Oxford. Over the last eighteen months we have used Access (ASP) and Filemaker Pro (CDML) to make a variety of different databases available for web querying. We have found that whilst the two systems are commonly used for the development of small-scale databases, setting them up for querying over the web is different in certain key areas. Knowing what can be achieved with each type of system is very useful if you are at the planning stage.

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Karl Harrison, Chemistry

IT Coordinator and Training Officer in the Chemistry IT Centre

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David Hastings, OUCS

I work for the Computing Services, and have been heavily involved in setting up the University's web caching service.

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Peter Higginbotham, OUCS

I am part of the OUCS PC/Networking team - my main experience to date in this area has been in setting up a terminal server to support the public area and Data Centre at OUCS.

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Jane Littlehales, OUCS

Since September 1999, I have been spending half my time on organising training for IT Support Staff. One aspect of this is looking at schemes for recording, validating and rewarding continuous professional development.

As a one-time Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, I am personally familiar with CPD, mentoring, role and training analysis, and all that stuff. I also have an enduring interest in ways of validating and recognising a person's experience and skills in formal and informal ways.

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Ray Miller, OUCS

I have worked as a Unix Systems Programmer with OUCS since April 1999. I work closely with Malcolm Beattie, designer of the Herald system and author of the WING web/mail gateway. Part of my job is administration and development of the Herald email system.

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Sylvain Phaneuf, IMSU

I have been the GroupWise project manager for last 18 months and I am responsible for the maintenance, development and extensions to GroupWise system, and I am the main user support consultant for our GroupWise system.

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Sarah Porter, HCDT

The HCDT develops teaching and research projects for staff at the University of Oxford. Over the last eighteen months we have used Access (ASP) and Filemaker Pro (CDML) to make a variety of different databases available for web querying. We have found that whilst the two systems are commonly used for the development of small-scale databases, setting them up for querying over the web is different in certain key areas. Knowing what can be achieved with each type of system is very useful if you are at the planning stage.

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Sebastian Rahtz

I am Information Manager at OUCS, responsible for the maintenance and structure of the OUCS web pages. I have been working with version control systems for documentation for many years.

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Tim Shaw

Networks Manager since 1993 for the Clinical Schools based at the John Radcliffe Hospital. Novell systems manager since 1990. Implemented Novell Directory Services across Clinical School network in 1994 and and which now incorporates 2000 users and 24 servers. GroupWise implementation began in 1998 and now delivered to 900 users across 8 post offices.

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Margaret Taylor

I am the new Director of Management Information Services in Oxford University, I have ten years experience of providing these services in Higher Education as MIS Director at Queen Mary and Westfield College. Prior to that my background includes working for Oracle and PA and running a small software house. I have a mixed background of technical, managerial and sales covering everything from selling large contracts into major companies to fixing machines with a soldering iron (those were the days!) and using fortran to model gearboxes!

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