Who's Who

Julian Ashbourn Plenary 1
Julian Ashbourn is renowned for his pioneering work in the field of biometrics and identity management and has introduced several important concepts in this area including the User Psychology Index, the Biometric Operability Index, the APEX performance equivalence model and more. He has authored four books on the subject and originated the research into human factors in relation to the use of biometric technology. Ashbourn has additionally undertaken much voluntary work with respect to the use of technology in society and has spoken at conferences and symposiums around the world in this context as well as liaising with government agencies, academia and the corporate world. There are several seminal papers accredited to Ashbourn, including those authored on behalf of the European Commission and other government agencies. In addition, Ashbourn has a regular column in Keesings Journal of Documents wherein he provides an off-beat view of biometrics, identity management and IT in general. He has many other interests, including within the Earth Sciences and has recently introduced a non-profit initiative for schools in order to introduce an enhanced focus upon the sciences for young students everywhere.
Relevant links:
http://biometrics.zzl.org A small site mostly for the purposes of developing the Biometric Constitution
http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/book/978-0-85729-466-1 Ashbourn’s recent book, A Guide to Biometrics for Large Scale Systems, published by Springer ISBN 978-0857294661
Tom Mortimer Plenary 2
Tom has spent the last five years at the University of Dundee and, as Director of ICS, leads the central team delivering Information and Communication Services to the University. He has been in the HE sector for 18 years and previously led the Computing Services functions at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and the Glasgow School of Art. Prior to coming to the HE sector Tom spent 23 years in various IT development and management roles within the BP Group.
A legacy from his time at BP, he retains a strong interest in IT staff development and the management of Change within organisations. Tom is a past Chair of HEIDS (Scottish HE IT Directors forum) and in March this year, took on the role of Chair of UCISA.
Lyndsay Williams Plenary 3
Lyndsay Willams is an award-winning Electronic Engineer and Product Designer for novel mobile computing and smartphone technologies. As a patent-holder for key iPhone and iPad technology she is also a Consulting Expert for Apple Computers, having previously worked at BT Research and Microsoft Research, and later forming her own Girton Labs in Cambridge. At Microsoft Research she patented new user interfaces for mobile phones using sensors, as used in Windows 7 Mobile phones, and invented SenseCam, a wearable camera with sensors to aid people with severe memory problems, such as with Alzheimer's and Dementia, as well as being used for lifelogging. More recently she has been working on a wearable wellness computer, a carbon tracking badge, a low power smart lightbulb with tracking sensors and SMS for security or gaming, control knobs which can interact with ordinary LCD screens to adjust for instance audio and video, and other disruptive designs of mobile computers and mobile phone technology.
Greg Jennings Workshop 01
Greg Jennings is a 20 year veteran of University IT and is currently the IT Manager for Hertford College where he has worked for the last 12 years. One of his current interests is in cross platform mobile phone app development, including Android and iPhones (which he has published in the iTunes store and Android Market Place). He has also created the app for this years ICTF conference for Android and iPhone.
John Ireland Workshop 02
John leads the Systems Development and Support team at OUCS, where he is involved in the design and delivery of central University IAM services such as Webauth, and Linux hosting of a wide range of services including WebLearn and maillist.ox. Prior to his current post he was the IT Manager at Jesus College, and back in the last millenium he may have read Physics there too.
Stephen Eyre Workshop 03
Stephen Eyre is a teacher at OUCS where he specialises in teaching digital media skills and supporting the Podcast team with their training.
Carolyne Culver Workshop 04
Carolyne Culver is Head of Strategic Communications in the Public Affairs Directorate. She works closely with the University Press and Information Office, Publications and Web Office and Media Production Unit on a wide range of communications projects. She also advises members of the University about communications planning and the services available to assist them.
Julia Palejowska Workshop 05
Julia is the College Accountant at Brasenose College, and was instrumental in the implementation of ERM as a student records system as part of a drive to increase integration of systems within the college. She is always keen to ensure that different operational functions collaborate to improve communication and dataflow in an environment of competing needs.
Ned Ramsay Workshop 05
Ned Ramsay is the Systems Manager for Jesus College and has been instrumental in bringing their student data systems integration to the college admin functions. His early career was spent in Burton College’s IT team working to improve their student administration software and provide support before moving to a role with a tier 1 automotive supplier. His remit was to improve the flow of technical data between 5 European partner companies to reduce costs and improve flexibility. During this time he worked with clients such as NSK Bearings Europe to improve their stock control and tracking of components.
Emma Potts Workshop 05
Emma Potts is Head of Student Administration, and has been at Oxford since September 2006. Prior to that she developed her career in University administration at University College London, specialising in examination administration, student systems development and process review. Her role at Oxford brings together the management of on-course administration for students; student data management and analysis, examination and assessments and the Student Information and Advisory service, providing a single point of contact for student-focussed information provision. Her responsibilities cover the delivery of key services such as registration and examinations, and also the administrative processes which enable them to operate. In delivering these services, the use of IT is fundamental, and she is responsible for defining the business requirements which the collegiate university has in these areas.
Lyn Waddington Workshops 06 & 17
Lyn Waddington now works full time at OUCS as the Manager of the Core User Directory (CUD) project. Previously she worked part time in identity management within the ICT Support Team (ICTST) and with Joe Doupnik developing the social enterprise Ingotec.
Stuart Forster Workshop 07
Stuart completed his degree in Biochemistry in 1993, and after 2 years he was asked to buy Laboratory Consumables at a company based in Oxford. Realising that buying was much more fun than science, Stuart soon left to continue his career within Purchasing in the IT and Telecommunications sector. Starting at RM PLC, a leading education software and services company, he then became a Category Buyer for Siemens Communications part of Siemens AG. He has been working at the University of Oxford since 2008, managing the Corporate Expenditure Purchasing Team.
Bruce Beckles Workshop 08
Bruce Beckles has worked in IT support in the academic and charitable sectors for about 15 years, prior to which he read Mathematics at Cambridge. For the past 5+ years he has worked for the University of Cambridge Computing Service supporting researchers, particularly in the sciences, in their use of IT for academic research. A significant part of that has involved determining researchers' IT requirements and exploring how best these can be met by central IT services in the University.
Jon Warbrick Workshop 09
Jon Warbrick is the Information systems Team Leader in the Online Systems Division of the University of Cambridge Computing Service. He has worked for the University for the last 10 years, where he takes an interest in information delivery, particularly over the web, and in authentication and authorisation issues. Prior to this he worked for a Cambridge-based commercial ISP, and was once Computer Manager at Cambridge's St John's College.
Ronald Haynes Workshop 10
Ronald Haynes has been part of academic ICT in the US and UK, including as University of Bristol's first Webmaster, later Computer Manager for Selwyn College Cambridge, Deputy IT Manager for Cambridge's Physics Department, and more recently moving to the University of Cambridge Computing Service.  Having helped found Cambridge's College IT Management Group (CITMG), and later helping found and initially Chair the Departmental IT Management Group (DITMG), he remains active in supporting both groups' goals of mutual support and collaboration.  Institutional liaison and collaboration is part of his ongoing interest in new technolgies for unifying communications, including via web conferencing and desktop collaboration.
Alex Dutton Workshops 11 & 12
Alexander Dutton is a developer within InfoDev at OUCS and Zoology, and spents a lot of his time wrangling data. He's the primary maintainer of OxPoints (the University's open dataset of building and department metadata) and is developing data.ox.ac.uk as a service for delivering linked open data about the University for reuse by others. Before his current roles, Alexander worked on the Erewhon project as the lead developer for Mobile Oxford and its spin-off open-source project, Molly.
Howard Noble Workshop 12
Howard Noble led the development of the green desktop computing project which developed the power management monitoring and wake on LAN services. His attention is now focused on the second priority of the University's Carbon Management Strategy - behaviour change. Howard is currently running an externally funded project called Open to Change which is looking at how to represent and present meter data, and how to help people learn and act on environmental issues.
Sarah Thomas Workshop 13
Sarah Thomas is Bodley’s Librarian and is in charge of library services at the University of Oxford. She previously served as University Librarian at Cornell University from 1996 until 2007. She began her career at Harvard University's Widener Library and has since worked at Johns Hopkins University, the Research Libraries Group (Stanford, CA), the National Agricultural Library, and the Library of Congress. She publishes and presents frequently on the future of libraries. In 2007 she received the Melvil Dewey Award from the American Library Association, and in 2004 she served as the President of the Association of Research Libraries. In 2010 she was elected a member of Oxford’s University Council. She is a graduate of Smith College, and holds a MS in Library Science from Simmons College, Boston, and a Ph.D. in German literature from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Adam Marshall Workshop 14
Adam Marshall is the WebLearn service manager and as such coordinates every aspect of the University's VLE. In the past Adam has coded in Java, Occam, Fortran, HPF and Ada and was a member of JTC1/SC22/WG5. He has worked with electronic student systems and automated software testing, written on-line courses and has led a number of national JISC projects releated to learning technologies. He once had a Single Of The Week in the NME.
David Ford Workshop 15
David joined the OUCS Network Security Team (OxCERT) in 2006, his role involves helping to protect the backbone network by identifying compromised systems within the University network, liaising with IT staff to alert them to critical vulnerabilities, and to ensure that incidents are dealt with promptly. He enjoys maintaining and developing systems that work efficiently to allow us to detect and alert IT Officers to security incidents on their networks. He is also a key part of the OxCERT malware analysis project.
Mark Duller Workshop 15
Mark joined the OUCS Network Security Team (OxCERT) in 2010. His role involves helping to protect the integrity of the backbone network and dealing with ICT security incidents. He is also involved in the OxCERT malware analysis project and plays a key role in the Information Security Best Practice project (ISBP), focusing on the Information Security Toolkit which will contain example policies, guidelines, and documentation. Mark is also an avid OpenBSD and FreeBSD user.
Pete Jones Workshop 16
Pete is the Shared Infrastructure Services Manager at OUCS and is directing the build-out the University Shared Data Centre, and the associated services offered from it. Before taking on responsibility for the USDC, Pete lead the group which deployed Nexus and migrated all the University's email from Herald. Pete also spent many years ensuring your data was safe with the HFS and hopes the new data centre and its services can offer the same utility-like service as the HFS.
Rob Hebron Workshop 17
Rob Hebron works in OUCS Systems Development and Support as developer on the CUD project. He has long experience of working on IAM projects in UK Universities and Colleges, having previously worked in a variety of consultancy roles.
Stuart Anderson Workshop 18
Stuart is a Senior Systems Engineer specialising in High Performance Computing, Server, Storage, Quicktime streaming and OS X architecture and brings a wealth of education experience to the table.
Bridget Taylor Workshop 19
Bridget spent ten years in post-doctoral research in empirical social science, mostly quantitative analysis of political and sociological survey data and methodological research, latterly at Nuffield College. She then worked as Departmental Administrator in Sociology then Politics, in Oxford University. For the last two years she has worked on projects in the Social Sciences Divisional office, mostly to do with the gathering, organisation and analysis of information, including the development of DAISY, the University Teaching Review, the social sciences concordat on cross-charging, and activity-based costing.
Matthias Opitz Workshop 19
Before moving to England in 2008 Matthias worked for 10 years as a freelance IT consultant in Germany. Since 2008 he is mainly developing and maintaining DAISY (Department Activity Information SYstem) - a database that will allow departments to store teaching and research related data in an single repository related to other existing systems in the university like the HR and the student systems this way providing the first data bridge between the academic and administrative systems.
Mark Norman Workshop 20
After beginnings in laboratory science, Mark worked in the commercial and higher education sectors as an IT project manager, implementer, consultant and trainer. Since joining OUCS, he has managed various research and infrastructure projects. After his time as the the project manager of the Groupware Project, he is now the service manager for Oxford Nexus. Oxford Nexus is built largely upon Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint and is a central service providing a system of email, calendars and document sharing (among other benefits) across the University.
Matthew Gaskin Workshop 21
Matthew spent ten years working as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and consultant, specialising in messaging installations. In 2002 he left the training world to concentrate exclusively on real-world deployments, working for a clinical research organisation, designing their entire highly-regulated IT environment, before moving on to a multinational publishing firm. He is now member of OUCS' Nexus team supporting the University's messaging and groupware infrastructure. Along with Tom Mill, Matthew is the joint lead for the 'Design and Implementation of Exchange 2010' project
Thomas Mill Workshop 21
Tom Mill is a Systems Administrator with Oxford Nexus service where his primary responsibility is as a Messaging Specialist working with Blackberry Enterprise Server, MessageWare and Microsoft Exchange 2007 (amongst other things). Along with Matthew Gaskin, he is the joint lead for the design and implementation of the Nexus Exchange 2010 Upgrade project. Before joining OUCS in September 2009, Tom worked at the Oxford University Press for a number of years and Research Machines prior to that.
Cheryl Bresnark Workshop 22
I have worked for the History Faculty for four years, having previously cut my teeth on a decade’s worth of sysadmin work. I was born to the glow of an Apple II in the backwoods of America and was educated in Telecommunications Networks at a Big 10 American university. I came to the UK on a whim to pursue a degree in Computer Science, unfortunately to find that I would spend my days coding in Perl. In my spare time I enjoy confusing my dog, travelling and writing a science fiction book at the rate of a paragraph a fortnight.
Alan Hillyer Workshop 23
Alan Hillyer is Head of Telecoms at Oxford University. Alan has worked at Oxford for six years and is part of the Networks and Telecoms Group within OUCS managing a team of 10 Telecoms staff. He has been involved in IT and Telecoms for over 25 years.
Marcus Saunders Workshop 24
Marcus is a member of the NSMS Mac team.
James Partridge Workshop 24
James Partridge has been well-known as the main OUCS Mac specialist for the last 7 years and is now a member of the NSMS Mac team. Over this period he has seen Mac use across the University increase dramatically. He now works both as an Apple system administrator for NSMS and as a consultant on Apple-related projects in the University.
Marko Jung Workshop 24
Marko Jung is as a senior systems engineer within the NSMS team at the Computing Services. After a friend introduced him to SunOS 5 in early 90s, his interest in Unix operating systems made him explore dozens of Unix derivatives. 20 years later he is still fascinated by world's biggest open text adventure. In the past year Marko has worked on the design of the Managed Mac Platform within the NSMS Mac specialist team.
Jeremy Worth Introduction
Jeremy Worth has been Chairman of the ICT Forum since 2008, having previously been Secretary to the Forum and Chairman of the IT Support Staff Group since 2004. As Chairman, Jeremy sits on PRAC ICTC (having previously sat on the ITC committee), as well as a number of other management groups. Jeremy has been ICT Manager for the School of Archaeology since 2000 and started working for Archaeology after completing a Masters in Computation at Keble College. Jeremy manages a large mixed Windows, Unix and Mac environment, with most networked services for the School provided by a number of Apple XServes running Mac OS X Server. Jeremy has worked within computing for nearly 20 years and specialises in integrating and managing heterogeneous computer systems and networks.