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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 14 |
| Marcus Baldwin | Educated University of Derby, HND in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 2.5 years working for Kerridge Computer Systems, as Computer Programmer. 9 Years at Dell in, Sales, Consulting, Solutions, and now HPC. | workshop 16 |
| Roger Barga | Roger Barga, PhD is currently architect for Technical Computing at Microsoft. Previously, Dr Barga held the position of researcher in the database group of Microsoft Research from 1997 through 2006. He is a member of the ACM and IEEE. | Plenary 1 |
| Tony Brett | Started my IT Career in 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 worked as Programme Manager for the University's ICT Strategy Programme and became Head of IT Support Staff Services in February 2006. Tony is a member of the UCISA Staff Development Group and of its Distributed IT Support Staff Group. | workshop 01
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| Mark Cobban | 21 years IT experience and 9 years Dell HPC experience. System Consultant for 3 years with my first HPCC cluster being installed in to DERA in 1998. Manager for Dell Public Sector Enterprise Division for 6 years having had involvement with all Major solutions provided into Public Sector Accounts. Current role: Practice Manager for the Dell UK SuperComputing Group. Experience Prior to Dell includes 3 years IT specialisation in the financial markets and prior to that Network Installation Engineer and Team Leader covering all aspects of Wintel hardware and software technologies. Office Location: Dell House, Bracknell | workshop 16 |
| Giles Cole | Giles is the Managing Director of ICEX Ltd who are an AATF (Approved Authorised Treatment Facility) who link into the Environment Agency and the Manufacturers Compliance Schemes. Giles has been in this industry for the past 16 years, the business has evolved into Re-use and Recycling of IT over the past 5 years. ICEX recovers approximately 80% for Re-use and all other equipment below spec and non recoverable is separated, sorted and refined for re-usable material. | workshop 19 |
| Barry Cornelius | Barry Cornelius has been with Computing Services since March 2005. Although for the first 16 months, he spent half of his time working for OSS Watch, he is now working full time for the Information Services Team. In the last two years, he has mainly been involved in the introduction of web applications. Examples include the MoinMoin wiki, MRBS (a Meeting Room Booking System) and WebCalendar. He also produced OXITEMS, an institutional newsfeed system that is used by numerous departments and colleges at the University. Whilst working for OSS Watch, he managed a national survey on the use of open source software. More recently, he and others have been looking at how project management software (such as dotproject) can best be deployed. Prior to moving to Oxford, Barry was an IT support person at Durham University, and, even earlier, spent 18 years as a University lecturer in Computer Science. He has interests in XML, XSL, Java, C# and Web Services, and has produced books for teaching Java and Modula-2. | workshop 15 |
| Graham Ellis | Graham Ellis has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, specialising in the training and support of technical staff in Unix and Open Source arenas with companies such as Tektronix, Megatek, SAIC and First Alternative. Graham founded Well House Consultants - an Open Source training company that uses the same technologies for all its backroom operations - in 1995 and has moved the company forward from a contract training outfit to a company with its own training centre, and now with its own hotel, with technology fit for a geek. | workshop 04 |
| Christian Fernau | Christian Fernau has been working on research projects developing security middleware focusing on X.509, Grid security, SAML/Shibboleth, identity management, and portals. | workshop 07 |
| Christopher Hoskin | Christopher Hoskin splits his time between Web Developer and Assistant IT Officer for the Faculty of History, having previous worked, studied and taught at Mansfield College. | workshop 03 |
| Jon Hutchings and Alex Mittell | Jon Hutchings and Alex Mittell work for the NSMS team within OUCS and manage and develop the Virtual infrastructure which underpins many of the NSMS provided services. | workshop 02 |
| 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. | workshop 10 |
| Tara Jewell | Tara Jewell is the Communications Manager for BSP Student Systems (formerly Isidore). With a publishing/marketing communications (background, Tara started out in traditional publishing and joined BSP in (2005 direct from the NHS. Tara is responsible for all internal and (external communications regarding the range of systems alongside the (Oracle Student System in support of student administration processes. | workshop 17 |
| Bridget Lewis & Adrian Parks | Adrian Parks works for the NSMS team within OUCS and Bridget Lewis used to work for OUCS but moved to the ICT Support Team in 2006. Both have many years experience with desktop systems and related directory services, including Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory. More recently they have been experimenting with integrating these directory services and the central Oxford Single-Signon infrastructure. | workshop 09 |
| Adam Marshall | Dr Adam Marshall is the head of the WebLearn development team and has also been responsible for implementing the ASPIRE PDP system here in Oxford in conjunction with the Careers Dept. | workshop 13 |
| 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 research projects at OUCS for the past four years and has recently begun working with the Systems Development and Support (sysdev) team managing infrastructure projects there. | workshop 07 |
| James Partridge | James has been the Apple Mac specialist at OUCS for 4 years now, and has a particular interest in integrating OS X clients and servers into existing IT infrastructures, and in OS X client management. He also looks after Sophos support for the University. In his other life he recently completed his DPhil in Czech poetry. | workshop 11 |
| Peter Robinson | Peter Robinson is manager of LTG services at the Computing Services and has been involved in numerous projects at the University over the last 10 years involving digital video, audio and image work. He recently completed a project for the JISC looking at how national initiatives could help in sharing and embedding educational image collections and is involved in follow-on work investigating image and video repositories. | workshop 08 |
| Cécile van der Weert | Cécile van der Weert is the Communications Manager for the Finance Division. Cécile started at the University with BSP in October 2005 and more recently moved with her Communications Team to the Finance Division. She is now responsible for all internal and external communications regarding financial matters at the University, and in particular all those related to the Oracle Financials system. | workshop 17 |
| Lyn Waddington | Lyn first joined OUCS as a Netware administrator and is now part of the ICT Support Team. Her main area of expertise is in Directories and Identity Management. She has presented papers and talks on both subjects. | workshop 12 |
| David Wallom |
David Wallom is Technical Manager of the Oxford e-Research Centre and
university Campus Grid architect. In his present role he is expected
to engage the wider community within various Oxford departments with shared
projects as well as through the construction of a campus grid network which
makes use of computational and data resources from various different
departments, including Computing services, Physics, Biochemistry and the
OeRC itself. He is also chair of the UK e-Science Engineering Task force and
the UK Campus Grid Special Interest Group. He is also co-chair of the Open
Grid Forum Production Grid Services Research Group.
Previously he has been the Operations Director for the Centre for e-Research Bristol and senior software developer for SCISYS (Space) Ltd working on among other projects the ESA SpaceGrid system. He has a degree in Applied Physics from Coventry University which included a year in industry at Forschungszentrum Juelich working on the COSY-TOF experiment. He has a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics from the University of Bristol having worked on the BaBar experiment at Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre. |
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| Tony Ward | Prior to founding LG01 Ltd., Tony moved to a consultancy role as a Data Warehouse designer and Project Manager with DOT and Nortel Networks, a global telecoms and communications networking organisation which subsequently became a client of LG01. Within the automotive division of GMAP Tony worked on analytical products and services for some of the largest Automotive companies in the world; firms such as Ford, Jaguar, Toyota and Mercedes Benz. Tony oversaw the delivery of a global data-warehousing solution on time and to budget. This experience has been put to good effect developing LG01 technologies enabling analytical software tools to be used in new and imaginative ways changing the historical view of Business Intelligence simply being used as a basis for report writing. LG01 technology provides the basis for evidenced based decision making on which organisations will act. | workshop 18 |
| Graham Whitehead | Graham Whitehead joined the British Post Office in 1968 as a Post Office University Student. He spent 12 months, before attending university, in all parts of the business from the chairman's office to the deepest, muddiest hole in the ground. He graduated from Leeds University in 1972 with a BSc honours degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the IMechE and IEE. He joined the BT Laboratories after graduation and has worked a wide variety of disciplines, such as mechanical connections and structures, optical transmission systems, the packaging and cabling of optical fibres, hydro space engineering. In 1999, he became one of BT's Principal Consultants looking at the future of telecoms and IT. In 2004, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Salford Business School. |
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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. | programme |
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