Saïd Business School
Thursday, 20 June 2002
Who's Who?
Programme | Workshops | Who's Who? | Registration | 7th ITSSC home page
Programme | Workshops | Who's Who? | Registration | 7th ITSSC home page
| Tony Brett | IT Systems Manager of Corpus Christi College since 1998, Chair of ITSSG since Jan 2001. Ex-OxCERT and previously employed at Molecular Medicine as computing manager. | back to programme |
| Lou Burnard | Assistant Director, OUCS Lou Burnard joined OUCS in 1974 and has been too lazy ever to leave. He set up the Oxford Text Archive and developed numerous database applications in the humanities and social sciences before finding his niche as European editor of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI); he was also one of the workgroup which defined XML. In 1995 he was appointed manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at OUCS, and this year became head of the new Information Support Group, which combines the Help Centre, Information and Support Services, and the Research Technologies Service. |
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| Stephen Creed | Stephen is the Principal Consultant from Synetrix who has been working closely with Oxfordshire Council in establishing initially the vision for the OCN, and latterly in ensuring its planned delivery in terms of timescales and functionality. Stephen has been involved in the IT Communications industry for some 10 years and with Synetrix for the last 3 years. Prior to joining Synetrix Stephen had gained significant experience working for such organisations as Cisco Systems and Southern Electric (Scottish and Southern Energy plc). | |
| Ed Rowley | Ed Rowley joined Sophos Plc in January 1999 as a Marketing Assistant and moved to the Technical Support department in June 2000. He is involved in all aspects of Technical Support and Product Training. | |
| Robert Taylor | Robert Taylor has been a Lecturer in the Department of Physics, and a Fellow at The Queen's College since 1990. He chairs the Physics computing committee, and is the IT Fellow at Queen's. He is currently the Chairman of the Colleges' IT Group, and sits on the ICTC. His research interests include the time-dependent properties of materials probed by high-power lasers. |
| John Alden | John leads the software development team in the BBC's Interactive Factual and Learning Department and has been at the BBC for 2 years. The team program mainly in Perl on Solaris, using Oracle databases. We work on both dynamic components for the BBC web site (perl CGI/modperl scripts) and content production systems using relational databases and XML. Before he was at the BBC, John worked for Oxford Glycosciences as a C++ developer on data analysis software. John was at Oxford for 7 years (degree in chemistry followed by a DPhil in Computational Electrochemistry) and is curious to see how things have moved on... | |
| Sophie Clarke | Sophie Clarke works as the ACDT Project Manager. She manages the ACDT staff and most of the projects from start to finish. Before joining the HCDT in 1999 she worked for the Faculty of Literae Humaniores at the University of Oxford, providing high-level IT support and developing their web-based information systems. Before that she worked for the CTI Centre for Textual Studies. Her academic background is in Information Management and she studied for her MSc at the Department of Information Science at the University of Sheffield. Her interests are in graphic and information design. | back to workshop info |
| Simon Cozens | Simon Cozens is an open source programmer and author; he is a columnist for the Perl Journal, the author of Beginning Perl and co-author of Professional Perl Programming, both by Wrox Press, and co-author of the forthcoming Using Perl and C. He has recently joined the UNIX team at Oxford University (OUCS). | |
| James Dore | James Dore has been IT Officer at New College since September 1999, and runs a number of netware servers. He is a Certified Novell Engineer (Netware 5) and is working to his Netware 6 CNE. | |
| Matthew J. Dovey | Matthew J. Dovey is the R&D Manager for the Oxford University Library Services Systems and Electronic Resources Service. As a beta tester for various software companies including Microsoft he advises the libraries on forthcoming software versions, although much of his current work is in Java, XML, WebService technologies, and Musicx Information Retrieval. | |
| Ian Everett | Ian Everett, Oxford University Telecommunications
Manager Having escaped a career in teaching biology in the early 70s by moving into Data Processing, as it then was then called, I moved into telecommunications in the 80s. At this time, telecomms was getting interesting following liberalisation and the development of digital transmission technologies which allowed universities to develop their own private networks, free of BT's ownership. I joined Oxford University to manage their new voice network in 1986 and have subsequently seen the network more than double in extent and halve in cost. Once more we live in "interesting" times, with convergence of voice and data again in the air - but this time it probably will happen, with the development of IP transmission of telephone calls. This poses some interesting technical and organisational challenges for our university. |
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| Paul Groves | Paul Groves ACDT Senior Project Officer with particular responsibility for administration of the Unit's NT server, and for analysis of project requirements. Before joining the ACDT he worked for 2 years on the award-winning JTAP-funded Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature project. Before that he worked for the Centre for Humanities Computing at Oxford University. He obtained a BSc in Politics from the University of Warwick in 1991, and an MSc in Information Systems from the University of Brighton in 1995. Paul's main interest in computer technology is in developing web-accessible resources (using Perl, ASP, Javascript, HTML/XML/SGML, relational databases, etc.) and supporting the systems that deliver them (Windows NT Server, Internet Information Server, UNIX, Apache etc.). | back to workshop info |
| Niall Hedderley | I'm the Network Manager for the Central Administration, working in the MIS section. As well as providing support for the 600 members of Central Administration staff, MIS are also responsible for the running of centralised administrative systems (Finance, Payroll, Student Records) used both the Administration and the Departments. I've held the post of Network manager for the last 3 years. | back to workshop info |
| Andrew Jackson | Computing Assistant, University College | back to workshop info |
| Alex Jadavji | Managing Director at Synetrix, and one of the founding members of the organisation, has been involved in the communications and networking industry since the mid - eighties and has always had a passion for innovative technologies that enable us to enhance how we as individuals and organisations can collaborate. Prior to Synetrix Alex held management positions within the networking divisions of IBM, Xerox and also 3Com. | back to workshop info |
| Alastair Johnson | Alastair Johnson has been the IT officer of Trinity College for 5 years. With 500 end users Trinity has a mixture of NT and Linux servers and uses a linux samba server to deliver auto-updating SOPHOS anti-virus software to all students, staff and fellows. Alastair likes roller blading and tacky 80's pop music. |
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| Bridget Lewis | Bridget Lewis joined OUCS in 1999 with expertise in Netware and Windows desktops. These days she works more with Microsoft Active Directory, as well as being invoved in providing client support for desktop systems accessing some of the OUCS main services, such as the OUCS VPN service. | back to workshop info |
| Kate Lindsay | Kate Lindsay works as a Project Officer and joined the ACDT in September 2001 after obtaining an MSc degree in Information Systems from the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield. Her main interest lies in arts and literary computing, developed whilst taking a BA in English Language and Literature at the University of Leeds. Last summer Kate undertook a research project at the Centre for Humanities Computing developing a web-based Old English Course Pack for Oxford's English Department. Her other interests in IT include web design, graphics and scripting languages. | back to workshop info |
| Jane Littlehales | Jane Littlehales is the Head of the new ITSS Support Unit (ITS3) within OUCS, following 2 years as part time ITSS training and development co-ordinator. She is a member of BCS, UCISA Staff Development Committee, UCISA Distributed Support group and is still trying to set up a BCS specialist group for ITSS. An expert in acronyms and abbreviatons, she knows her MCSDs from her SFIAs as well as her NAGs from her ITCTs. | |
| Gerard Robinson | Gerard Robinson joined the Nuffield Dept. of Anaesthetics in 1985 as a Research Electronics Engineer coming from the medical electronics and industrial process control industries. He soon found himself supporting the then nascent PCs that were arriving on the scene. By the mid-1990's he was providing support for departmental wide file, print & e-mail services which themselves were distributed over the Radcliffe Infirmary and Headington hospital sites. At this time increasing inter- & intra-departmental IT requirements on the hospital sites resulted in the establishment of the Information Management Services Unit (IMSU) to provide support for the constituent members of the Clinical School. In 2000 he joined IMSU as Assistant Director with responsibility for the Satellite sites, these being those sites remote from the John Radcliffe. He chaired the first five ITSS Conferences and was also the first chair of the ITSSG and is involved with various healthcare information resource distribution projects in developing countries. | back to workshop info |
| Joseph Talbot | Joseph Talbot joined the ACDT in January 2002 to work as a Project Officer. He was previously a Web Developer for Technology-assisted Lifelong Learning (TALL) at the University of Oxford, involved in all aspects of the production and maintenance of TALL's projects and courses. Joseph has an MA in Electronic Media from Oxford Brookes University, for which he produced an online comic website - Oneironaut.net. Joseph's main interests are in web design, Flash animation, online narratives and XML. | |
| Paul Trafford | Paul Trafford joined as a Project Officer in June 2000. He develops Web-based teaching and learning resources for Oxford staff and students using a range of technologies including Perl, PHP, MySQL, HTML and JavaScript. He was previously an Internet Resource Developer for MultiFaithNet, a gateway to religion at the University of Derby, for which he also maintained a server running Linux and Apache. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Formal Methods) from Kingston University. | |
| Chris Tromans | 4th Year Engineering and Computing Science Undergraduate and Systems Administrator within New College IT Department. |
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| Pete Biggs |
IT Manager, Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Lab; Chairman IT Users Group; Member of OxCERT; OSC Systems Manager I have been admining Unix systems since the mid 80's when I was completing my doctorate in atmospheric chemistry. I am now looking after around 400 machines in the PTCL as well as the large OSC machines based in OUCS. I have been involved with OxCERT since its creation in 1994. Recently I became chairman of the ITUG. |
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| Lou Burnard | Assistant Director, OUCS Lou Burnard joined OUCS in 1974 and has been too lazy ever to leave. He set up the Oxford Text Archive and developed numerous database applications in the humanities and social sciences before finding his niche as European editor of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI); he was also one of the workgroup which defined XML. In 1995 he was appointed manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at OUCS, and this year became head of the new Information Support Group, which combines the Help Centre, Information and Support Services, and the Research Technologies Service. |
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| Roger Cowley | I am Vice-Chairman of the ICTC and have held that position or a related position for the past 3 years. My background is that of an experimental physicist who does experiments partly in Oxford and partly using central facilties. My group has used computers for the control of experiments and analysis of data ever since 1960 when I used the EDSAC machine in Cambridge. I am currently Chairman of the Physics Department and a member of the Divisional Board of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division. | back to programme |
| Ian Everett | Ian Everett, Oxford University Telecommunications
Manager Having escaped a career in teaching biology in the early 70s by moving into Data Processing, as it then was then called, I moved into telecommunications in the 80s. At this time, telecomms was getting interesting following liberalisation and the development of digital transmission technologies which allowed universities to develop their own private networks, free of BT's ownership. I joined Oxford University to manage their new voice network in 1986 and have subsequently seen the network more than double in extent and halve in cost. Once more we live in "interesting" times, with convergence of voice and data again in the air - but this time it probably will happen, with the development of IP transmission of telephone calls. This poses some interesting technical and organisational challenges for our university. |
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| Paul Jeffreys |
Paul Jeffreys is currently Director of Oxford University's Computer Services and Director of the Oxford e-Science Centre (OeSC). Earlier positions held include being Director of the Central Laboratories Research Council's e-Science Centre, and Head of the Particle Physics Department's Computing and Resource Management Division at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Earlier, he was an experimental particle physicist working at the European accelerator centre, CERN, in Switzerland. Paul has been very active in the e-Science arena in recent years. He prepared cases which won funds from the Government for both the CLRC and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council e-Science programmes. He was responsible for taking the UK into the EU framework 5 funded DataGrid project. He was also instrumental in creating the OeSC. Paul holds a BSc in Physics, a PhD in Particle Physics. He is a member of the JISC Committee for Networking, the e-Science core programme Technical Advisory Committee, the e-Science core programme Grid Network Team, two research council e-Science Steering Committees, the Wellcome Bioinformatics Committee, and chairs the CERN FOCUS committee (which oversees IT). He is a professorial fellow at Keble College. |
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| Jane Littlehales | Head, ITSS Support Unit, OUCS Following two years of half-time secondment to being ITSS Training and Development Co-ordinator, Jane has become the head of the newly formed ITSS Support Unit looking at all ways a central unit can benefit and assist ITSS. |
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| Dave Price | Since joining the Radcliffe Science Library in 1984, I have been closely involved in the development of library IT services. I was systems manager for the libraries' "A Team" which introduced the first OLIS system in 1987-8 and later, as Deputy Keeper of Scientific Books, assisted in the introduction of a range of networked information services, esp. the web, bibliographic databases (OxLIP), electronic journals (TDNet), examination papers (OXAM). More recently, I have taken up the post of Head of the Systems & Electronic Resources Service, a department created as part of the general integration of OU Library Services which merges the old Bodleian Systems Section and Libraries Automation Service, and incorporates the newly established Oxford Digital Library. | back to programme |
| Margaret Taylor | I have been MIS director at Oxford for two years now and in HE MIS for twelve years. Prior to that I have a varied career in IT ranging from technical programming through consultancy and sales. The main thrust for the new MIS directorate is to introduce strategic packaged solutions for the main information systems (Finance, Student Information, HR/Pay-roll and Estates) and to open up the information in them to everyone with a legitimate interest. We also serve administration as local IT support and in that area we are working on defining services and using technology to improve efficiency. | back to programme |
| Robert Taylor | Robert Taylor has been a Lecturer in the Department of Physics, and a Fellow at The Queen's College since 1990. He chairs the Physics computing committee, and is the IT Fellow at Queen's. He is currently the Chairman of the Colleges' IT Group, and sits on the ICTC. His research interests include the time-dependent properties of materials probed by high-power lasers. | back to programme |
| Tristram Wyatt | Tristram Wyatt is the University's Director of Online and Distance Learning. He coordinates developments in online learning, for both the full time on-campus students (working with the Learning Technologies Group) and part-time students (with Continuing Education). | back to programme |
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