| Jo Ashbourn |
Jo Ashbourn is the Director of IT for St Cross College
and is the Chair of the Colleges' IT Group. She also sits
on the ICT Committee as the representative from the Colleges'
IT Group.
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| Frances Boyle |
Part of Frances' current remit is to act as
the project manager for OULS on the Google Project.
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| Pete Biggs |
I have been involved with IT in Oxford for the last 20 years and
am the IT Manager for the Physical & Theoretical Chemistry Lab.
I am chair of the IT Users Group and sit on the ICTC.
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| Lou Burnard |
Lou Burnard joined OUCS in 1974. 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 is now Assistant Director of OUCS and
head of the new Information Support Group, which combines the Help
Centre, Registration, Information and Support Services, IT Support
Staff Services and the Research Technologies Service
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| Barry Cornelius |
Barry joined OUCS in March 2005, and is working both for OSS Watch
and for the Information Services Group. He was previously
a support person in the IT Service at the University of Durham.
There he looked after Apache httpd, Apache tomcat, MySQL and OpenLDAP servers.
Prior to this he spent 18 years lecturing in Computer Science.
He has interests in XML, XSL, Java, C# and Web Services,
and has produced books on Modula-2 and Java.
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| Katherine Craddock |
Katherine has 16 year's experience in direct end-user support, working with
countless nationalities in 3 different countries. She interrupted this
career focus only temporarily between 1999 and 2002 to work as a Computing
Teaching Officer for OUCS. After this she joined forces with Peter
Higginbotham to jointly manage the OUCS Help Centre.
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| John Dickson and Sarah Haworth |
John Dickson and Sarah Haworth are Personnel Officers
in the University's Personnel Services Department.
They have worked at Oxford for four years and are currently involved
in the development of a new pay and grading structure for the university.
Higher Education Role Analysis (HERA) is the job evaluation scheme
which has been chosen by the Personnel Committee to underpin this work.
John and Sarah are recognised nationally as expert HERA practitioners
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| Pete Dunn and Stuart Anderson |
Pete and Stuart have over 35 years combined technical experience
within the IT arena and 20 years within Apple. There are both Senior Systems
Engineers specialising in High Performance Computing, Server, Storage,
Quicktime streaming and OS X architecture and bring a wealth of education
experience to the table.
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| 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.
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| Niall Hedderley |
Niall Hedderley is the Network Manager for the Central Administration,
working in the MIS section. As well as providing support for the 700 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 been the Network
manager for the last 4 years.
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| Peter Higginbotham |
Peter has more than 25 year's experience in supporting computer users,
going back to the days when users' problems included punch-tape
splicing! For many years he led OUCS's micro computing and PC networking
support (starting with Netware 2 and RM ethernet cards) before moving in
2002 to join Katherine Craddock at the helm of the new OUCS Help Centre. In
his spare time he has an interest in amateur dramatics which has
occasionally been of use in his role at OUCS...
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| John Ireland |
John Ireland is the IT Manager at Jesus College,
where he has been involved in the development of policies to regulate
a wide range of IT facilities. Together these provide a framework for
running reliable day-to-day operations, whilst letting users know exactly
what to expect from you.
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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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| John Jenkins |
John Jenkins is now in his eighth year at Oxford.
In this time he has worked directly or consulted for all but
one of the academic divisions.
He is currently working on the infrastructure for Business Systems
for the University, including networking and security, hardware,
database and application software.
He is responsible for these aspects of the ISIDORE project.
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| Jon Lockley |
Before coming to Oxford, Jon gained a PhD in Astrophysics and joined the
Astronomy group at Southampton University. His interest in HPC began when,
short of computing power to complete a project, he built a small Linux
cluster. After expanding and managing the system for a number of years, he
eventually moved into HPC full-time, joining the OSC three years ago. Jon
is reponsible for the overall provision of the OSC services including
compute performance and user support. His other interests include the
promotion of Open Source Software, ethical hacking and he teaches
lunchtime introductory Linux classes at OUCS.
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| Adam Marshall |
Adam Marshall (The University of Oxford) is the senior developer for
Bodington VLE and has both managing and development code for the
WS4RL and SPWS JISC projects; he also works on the GuanXi project and
is on the Steering group for TransportALL (MLE's for Lifelong
Learning). He is an experienced Java programmer, and has a good
understanding of Shibboleth, Web Services, and PDP. Adam is an
active participant in CETIS LIPSIG.
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| Stephen Morgan |
Stephen is the Managing Director of Squiz.net in the UK.
With Squiz, he has acquired several years of experience implementing l
arge scale content management solutions. Prior to this he launched
Canon's Document Management solutions to the Australasian market.
He is a passionate about Open Source Software development and has spoken
on the topic at several events including the Open Source Symposium
and Travel Technology Conference.
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| 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. |
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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
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| Stephen Quinney |
Stephen is a Unix Systems Programmer in the OUCS Systems Development
Group. He specializes in developing GNU/Linux based software, in
particular Perl-based web applications such as the OUCS Webmail
system. He is a Debian Developer maintaining a large number of
packages including Perl, database and web development libraries. He is
also the Debian maintainer for the Request Tracker 3 ticketing
software.
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| Ben Smith |
Ben Smith is a Senior Security Strategist on the Microsoft Security Strategies Team.
He works on developing long-term security strategy at Microsoft and has a particular
interest on researching methods to improve security management and measurement techniques.
In addition to being a featured speaker at IT industry conferences throughout the world,
Ben regularly consults with the National Science Foundation on improving cyber security
at community colleges and universities.
Ben was the inaugural Chair of CompTIA's vendor-neutral security certification, Security+
and currently is an advisor to United States delegation to the International Standards
Organization (ISO), working on information security standards.
Ben is a co-author of the Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit and Assessing Network
Security both from Microsoft Press.
Ben's regular column on IT strategy, "Business End" debuted in the September 2004 issue
of Windows IT Pro magazine.
He is certified as an MCSE, CISSP, and CCNA.
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| Tim Shaw |
Tim Shaw has worked for IMSU for 12 years and is responsible for
the provision and delivery of data networking and services to the clinical
departments of the Division of Medicine based mainly at the hospital sites
in Headington. Before that he worked in digital cartography for three years
after taking a degree in Geology and Cartography at Oxford Brookes University.
Current interests include the use of open-source solutions for network monitoring
and management and data storage management.
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| Margaret Taylor |
I am MIS Director at Oxford and have a substantial past history in HE MIS.
Prior to that I had a varied career in IT ranging from
technical programming through consultancy and sales. The main thrust for the
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.
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| Jeremy Worth |
Jeremy Worth has been the Chairman of the IT Support Staff Group since October 2004,
having been on the committee since 2001 and he sits on ICTC.
Jeremy has been the IT Officer at the Institute of Archaeology and Research Lab
for Archaeology since 2000 and started working for Archaeology after completing
a Masters in Computation at Keble College. Jeremy runs a large mixed Windows,
Unix and Mac environment, with all networked services for the departments provided
by a number of Apple XServes running Mac OS X Server. Jeremy has worked within
computing for nearly 15 years and specialises in integrating heterogeneous computer
systems.
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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.
