Keble College
Thursday, 24 June
2004
Who's Who?
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| James Dore | James Dore is Chairman of the IT Support Staff Group and has been IT Officer at New College since September 1999 where he runs a number of netware servers. He is a Certified Novell Engineer, and is currently exploring ZenWorks for management of heterogeneous systems. | back to programme |
| Donald Taylor | Donald is Strategic Alliances Director at InfoBasis, a leading
provider of skills management software, based near Oxford, whose
customers include Norwich Union and the British Army. He has 15 years'
experience of training and IT, including 8 years at Aris a major
software training company where he held a range of delivery, management
and executive posts.
Directly before joining InfoBasis he took his own internet company - SkillServer - from concept to trade sale. Donald sits on the CompTIA Technology Learning Group Board and is a Fellow of the Institute of IT Training. He is also chairman of the Learning Technologies Conference. |
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| Kuldeep Kaur | I graduated from Bath University in 2002, studying a Business & Marketing degree and have been working in the training and IT industry ever since. I am a young and enthusiastic individual who enjoys meeting new people and enjoy encouraging others to enjoy the learning experience during and after their course of study. | |
| Mike Roch, UCISA | Mike is Director of IT Services at the University of Reading and Vice Chair of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA). Prior to moving to Reading as Deputy Director of Computer Services in 1984, Mike worked at OUCS and the former Oxford University Computing Teaching Centre. Originally a teacher of Mathematics and IT, Mike is a graduate of the Open University and a member of the BCS. |
| Tony Brett | Started life in IT Support at Molecular Medicine in 1993, moving to Corpus Christi College as IT Manager in 1998 and then to OUCS in 2003 as Associate Head of IT Support Staff Services. Served on OxCERT from 1997-2001 and was Head of IT Support Staff Group 2001-2003. | |
| Pod (aka Chris Cooper) | I started using Unix sometime in 1991 and have been working as a Unix sysadmin since. I consider myself a Free Software advocate on the basis of both engineering and social principles. In general I find my interest is stimulated most often by details that occur below the application layer. | |
| Joe Doupnik | Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Utah State University.
Prof Doupnik has been tinkering with computers for long time, from designer to programmer to manager. He has used Unix since the mid-70's and has an original AT&T source code license. He has made many contributions to open source software as well as closed projects. Best known open source is MS-DOS Kermit. He teaches computer networking, operating systems internals, and even a course on writing Linux device drivers. Experience counts, and he wishes to impart some of that for the benefit of all who are trying to do better, without turning folks into experts. Prof Doupnik also spends a lot of time working with Novell on products, and many of his ex-students write the code for those products. He also thinks these matters are great fun, not work at all. Prof Doupnik will be with OUCS for the coming year, working on Oxford matters, on concerns of the UK academic community, and on a technical projects of personal interest. |
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| Matthew Dovey | Matthew is Technical Manager for the Oxford e-Science Centre based in the RTS section of OUCS. He is currently working on WebService and GRID technologies, including working on a number of standards bodies such as OASIS. Prior to his current position he worked as the R&D Manager for the Oxford University Libraries Systems and Electronic Resources Services. He has also worked as a Research Fellow at Kings College London on Music Information Retreival. He graduated from Corpus Christi College in Mathematics and Philosophy, and Computation. | |
| Oliver Gorwits | Oliver is a member of the OUCS Network Infrastructure Group. He specialises in Linux and Perl programming, and network appliance management. Oliver divides his time between maintenance of the University backbone and OUCS in-house network infrastructures, and assisting with hostmaster and postmaster duties. | |
| Susan Hutchinson | Susan has been the Computing Manager at the Department of Statistics since 1991. Initially running a service based on Suns, the Department has now expanded to include Windows and various flavours of Linux both as servers and on the desktop. During the course of their studies many students will move from using Windows to Linux and my interest is in making this transition as painless and productive as possible. | |
| Neil Jefferies | Neil is R&D Project Officer with Oxford University Libraries Systems and Electronic Resources Services. Previously, he has worked in a broad range of computer-related fields from chip designs and DSP coding for Nortel, through writing anti-virus software for Dr Solomon's and developing corporate databases for Accenture. He has an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge and an MBA from Warwick. | |
| John Jenkins | John has worked in many parts of the University, from the construction and IT and AV design of the Saïd Business School to IT policy issues for the Medical Science Division. He is currently undertaking various projects for University Administration, including leading the technical infrastructure development of the ISIDORE project. | |
| Jane Littlehales | Head, IT Support Staff Services. With an interest in professional development, training, wider opportunities and ways of assessing skills and knowledge since ... oooh, was it really that long ago? I'm delighted to be running the IT Metrics Project which arose out of the OUCS Review. |
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| Sharon Lloyd | With a first degree in Applied Science (Physics, Computing and Mathematics) from Sheffield Hallam University, Sharon has worked for the last 17 years in IT, initially as a scientific programmer and by 1995 as a manager of projects and IT staff for Blackwells in Oxford. In 1999 she moved to Integra, a European Internet development and hosting organisation as a Development Director of the UK operation. She later worked at a European level on integration projects for the organisation both at an operational and systems level. She moved to Oxford University in February 2003 as a project manager in the Computing Laboratory. | back to workshop info |
| Karen Markes | Occupational Health Adviser, University of Oxford Occupational Health Service. Karen is a qualified Occupational Health Adviser and commenced work at the University in June 2003. She received her qualification from Bristol University and worked at Hewlett-Packard in Bristol before relocating to Oxford. She has widespread Occupational Health experience covering both hospital and industrial sectors. | back to workshop info |
| Elaine McDermott | Occupational Health Adviser, University of Oxford occupational Health Service. Elaine is currently training for her qualification in Occupational Health and has been working in the University since September 2002. She is studying at the University of Guildford and has Occupational Health experience covering hospital, industrial and educational sectors. | back to workshop info |
| Victoria Nash | Dr Victoria Nash is Policy and Research Officer at the Oxford Internet Institute, a new department in Oxford University's Social Sciences division, where she is responsible for connecting academic research on the societal impact of new communication technologies with policy and practice. Educated at Magdalen and Nuffield College, Oxford and with a PhD in Political Theory she is also a Lecturer in Politics for Trinity College, Oxford. She was previously a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, a leading left-of- centre think-tank, where she led a programme of research for the Communities Initiative involving the identification of policy options for supporting local social cohesion. At the OII she is currently leading on a programme of research examining self-regulatory measures for reducing exposure of children to harmful Internet content via mobile phones. Recent publications include Any Volunteers for the Good Society (ippr 2002), Making Sense of Community (ippr 2003) and 'Public Policy and Social Networks' in Social Networks and Social Exclusion (ed. C. Phillipson et al, Ashgate 2004). | back to workshop info |
| Mark Norman | Having had a varied career as an ecologist, IT trainer and technical author, Mark has settled at OUCS as project manager of the Digital Certificate Operation in a Complex Environment (DCOCE) project. Mark worked with relational database software for several years before moving into the field of authentication and public key infrastructure. | |
| James Partridge | James moved to the Technical Support Group at OUCS after spending 5 years as IT Manager at St Edmund Hall. At OUCS he works more or less exclusively with MacOS X and Novell Netware, as well as looking after anti-virus support for the University. In his other life he is still trying to finish his DPhil in Czech poetry several years after it should have been submitted. | |
| Roger Treweek | Roger has been at OUCS for more years than he cares to remember and is the manager of the OUCS Network Infrastructure Group. During this time he has been involved in most aspects of networking and has designed and managed the main University backbone networks. In addition to planning this summer's backbone upgrade he is currently also looking into options for wireless networking within the University. |
Questions must be submitted using the Registration form while Registration is open. New questions will not be accepted on the day, but we are planning to allow for strictly on-topic supplementary questions.
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