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| Canus Augustus |
· Responsible for Cisco wireless LAN products in Europe and Emerging theatres
· Focused on delivering wireless products and solutions to customer requirements and the continued success of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the mobility market · Has extensive experience of WLAN, LAN switching, WAN, MPLS, Layer2/3 VPN's, Operating System software and Applications Canus Augustus is the European Product Manager of Cisco's wireless LAN and is responsible for the delivery of mobility products and solutions, from strategy through to product delivery. Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Canus has been with Cisco Systems for just under 1 year. Before joining Cisco, Canus was employed at Nortel Networks as Product Manager and Business Development Manager, responsible for their wireless portfolio and Ethernet switching products. Prior to that he took on the role of Corporate Systems Engineering for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Sales SE . Prior to that he was engaged as a Network Strategist for the Sun International Group. Canus graduated from Anglo Alpha technical college in South Africa and currently lives in Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom. His interests include sport, youth sports development and creative cooking. |
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| Stuart Anderson | Stuart has a background in working in education for over 20 years before joining Apple's education team eight years ago. He is a Senior Systems Engineer specialising in Server, Storage, Quicktime Streaming and OS X architecture and Web Technologies and brings a wealth of education experience to the table. | workshop |
| Malcolm Austen | I've been with OUCS since the year dot, well 1976 actually. I started with the compilers and some system work on the 2900, moved on to graphics and the VAXen and finally found myself in ITS3 when Jane formed it into a visible entity. | workshop |
| Trevor Barton | Trevor joined the University in 2005. He started out in traditional publishing where he first got a taste for user interface development on an in-house project. A short stint as Editor of a magazine and tie-in dot-com boom (and bust) website gave him a real hunger for what the Web can be, and for management of electronic projects. He received project management training, and lots of experience, setting live over 20 websites for the publishers of Nature science journal before moving to Oxford where his first challenge was successfully leading the ELT department of OUP through a website rebuild. He is now the University's Web Officer and Secretary to the University's Web Strategy Group. | workshop |
| 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. | programme |
| Anne Bowtell | I've worked for the University for about 6 years, first as the IT Officer for Classics, now as Web Manager for the Medical Sciences Division. In a previous life I was a researcher and teacher, but I thought there'd be more money in IT........ | workshop |
| 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. Tony has recently been Programme Manager for the University's ICT Strategy Programme and became Head of IT Support Staff Services in February 2006. | back to programme |
| Barry Cornelius |
Barry Cornelius moved to Computing Services at the University of Oxford
in March 2005. He spends half of his time working for the Information
Services team of OUCS and the other half working for OSS Watch, the
JISC-funded national advisory service for UK HE and FE institutions on
free and open source software. In the last 15 months, he has been
involved in supporting the introduction of the MoinMoin wiki to various
teams in OUCS, performing a survey on the use of Linux at the University
of Oxford, developing an institutional newsfeed system for the
University, and managing a national survey on the use of open source
software.
Prior to moving to Oxford, he was a support person in the IT Service at the University of Durham. There he looked after Apache web servers, Apache tomcat, MySQL and OpenLDAP servers. Prior to this he was a lecturer 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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| Paul Davis | Paul has been involved with the development of WebLearn from the Bodington system used at Leeds and is active in the Bodington.org Open source project. Here at Oxford he has overseen the introduction of WebLearn, where there are now over 20,000 "rooms" providing resources. WebLearn has been used for a number of uses previously not envisaged - including a survey of students on the retention of academic dress for exams which resulted in a 50% increase in students answering over their normal response rate. He is currently Acting Head of the Learning Technologies Group at OUCS. | workshop |
| Oliver Gorwits | Oliver is a member of the OUCS Network Infrastructure Group, dividing his time between management and development of the University backbone network and related software services. He specialises in wireless networks and has helped many units to deploy OWL over the past year. | workshop |
| Alan Hillyer | Appointed Head of Telecoms, University of Oxford, June 2005. Prior to Oxford Alan had worked at Imperial College, London 1982 - 2000. Alan was involved in writing and negotiating a PFI contract at Imperial where the Voice service was outsourced to Ericsson. This resulted in year 2000, Alan and his staff transferring to Ericsson. In 2002 Alan took a redundancy package and started his own telecoms services and consultancy firm. He has been involved in IT and Telecoms for 22 years. | workshop |
| Andrew Hynes | Andrew Hynes is the ECE Development manager for Oxford University and is based in OUCS. He has been in post since the start of 2006 and has a background in biochemistry and experience of ICT work both in the HE and Pharmaceutical sectors. Andrew has experience of PRINCE2 and DSDM project management methodologies and considerable ICT skills in database design & administration, software engineering and systems development & administration. | workshop |
| John Ireland | John Ireland is the IT Manager at Jesus College and is pleased to be presenting this workshop as an example of innovative technology that could readily be developed within a single part of the university, but which has the potential to be of benefit to many other IT providers. | workshop |
| Neil Jefferies | Neil Jefferies is the Acting Development Manager for SERS, delivering new IT systems and projects in the libraries field. He has a varied background in IT ranging from developing parallel architectures and processors, writing anti-virus and security software and a stint in corporate IT. | workshop |
| Paul Jeffreys |
Professor Jeffreys is the Acting Director of ICT at Oxford University. He
currently holds many positions, including Director of the Oxford
e-Research Centre, Co-Director of the e-Horizons Institute (within the
James Martin 21st Century School) and professor of computing. Prior to
this, he was the Director of Oxford University's Computer Services,
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. Professor Jeffreys holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a PhD in Particle Physics. He is also a professorial fellow at Keble College. |
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| Ruth Kirkham | Ruth Kirkham is the Project Manager for the BVREH project. Ruth joined Oxford University in June 2005 having worked as a project and technical manager at Ingenta Plc. | programme |
| Jane Littlehales | Jane Littlehales spent many years as an IT trainer, two years as part time ITSS training and development co-ordinator and followed that with several years as head of IT Support Staff Services (ITS3). She is a member of BCS, UCISA Staff Development Committee and chaired the UCISA Distributed IT Support Staff group. Now moved on to marketing OUCS services, she is still an expert in acronyms and abbreviations, and how to develop a career in a one-horse operation with no budget. | workshop |
| Randy Metcalfe | Randy Metcalfe is manager of OSS Watch (http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/), the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ ) national advisory service on free an open source software for UK further and higher education. Randy concentrates his efforts on raising the level of awareness and understanding of free and open source fundamentals amongst senior IT decision-makers in UK colleges and universities. He also spends a considerable amount of time exploring aspects of community building prevalent within open source development projects. He has been involved in all aspects of internal and external communications for many years, a role he previously filled for the Humbul Humanities Hub and for a national charity in the UK. Before that he lived a different life as an academic philosopher researching the nature of disagreement in moral theory. | programme |
| Ray Miller | Dr Ray Miller manages the Systems Development and Support Section in the University's Computing Services. This team is responsible for managing the OUCS RT installation, which has handled almost one million tickets since its deployment in 2001. | workshop |
| Mark Norman | Mark Norman has many years' of experience, in the commercial and higher education sectors, as an IT project manager as well as an implementer, consultant and trainer. Mark has managed projects at OUCS for the past three years and previously worked in a company that wrote and distributed software for archiving large databases. | workshop |
| Mike Parin | Mike Parin has been the Information Systems Officer at Jesus College since August 2005. He is enthusiastic to see wider use of Open Source technologies in situations traditionally dominated by commercial solutions. He has developed this system as part of the 'Platypus Desktop Project', which will provide the next generation of student workstation at Jesus College. | workshop |
| John Pybus | John Pybus is the developer/technical support for the BVREH project. He joined the Humanities division after a number of years providing IT support for research projects in the department of Zoology. | programme |
| Mark Round | Mark Round is a member of the newly formed ICT Support Team and manages the support to Oxford University Library Services. Mark has worked at the University since 2000, having spent 7 years in IT at Oxford Brookes University with a small stint for a local IT firm in-between. | workshop |
| Michael Taylor | Michael, UK and Ireland Corporate Manager for Finjan software ltd has been working in the IT security industry for over 9 years. Michael served as Western Europe Business development manager for Nokia Internet Communications and UK Country Manager for Qualys Ltd. Michael has a BSc in Information systems from the University of Nottingham. | workshop |
| Lyn Waddington |
Lyn Waddington joined OUCS as a Netware sys admin 3 years ago having
just completed her Microsoft MSCE training. Part of her previous role
as a Network Admin in a small 6th Form college was to migrate from
Netware to Windows 2000 and install an Exchange server. Being at home
with both systems has come in handy as she has developed expertise in
Directory Services and Identity Management solutions for use within the ICT team.
In her spare time, she is currently learning Perl and is studying, in the hope of eventually completing, a degree in Pastoral Theology. She likes travel, children, food and malt whiskies, oh yes and her husband. |
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| David Wallom | David arrived at Oxford in September 2005 having moved from the University of Bristol. He is currently the Technical Manager of the Oxford e-Research Centre as well as the technical architect for the Campus Grid project. He currently sits on the National Grid Service Executive and is chair of the UK e-Science Engineering Task Force. | workshop |
| 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. | programme |
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