ICT Forum
2014 Conference

John is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Technology Officer for IBM Systems and Technology Group in the UK & Ireland. He is internationally known for his work helping commercial clients exploit large scale distributed computing infrastructures, particularly those utilising new and emerging technologies. He is currently leading work on next generation systems infrastructures to support big data and complex analytical workloads.

He has worked with clients in a wide range of industries with a particular focus on banks and financial markets firms. He also has significant experience in the telecommunications sector. Previous to his current role, John was the UK Technical Leader for Cloud Computing shaping IBM business and technical strategy in this area as well as helping clients with their implementation and adoption of cloud technologies.

Over his time at IBM, John has led initiatives around hybrid systems, computational acceleration, grid computing, energy efficiency and mission-critical systems. John is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and a Fellow of both the Institute for Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society.

Chris Lintott is an astronomer in the Department of Physics and a research fellow at New College.

As Principal Investigator of the Zooniverse, he leads a team who run the world's most successful citizen science projects, allowing more than a million people to discover planets, transcribe ancient papyri or explore the Serengeti. A passionate advocate of the public understanding of science, he is best know as co-presenter of the BBC's long running Sky at Night program and the author, with Queen guitarist Brian May and Sir Patrick Moore of two books, both available in more than 13 languages including American.  

Associate Prof. in Particle Physics and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.

My research is at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in the ATLAS experiment. My own interests are in looking for new and unexpected high mass particles that preferentially decay directly into quarks. The quarks would leave strong jets in the detector which can be detected.  I am also heavily involved in the construction of an upgrade to the current ATLAS detector for when the LHC receives an increase in beam brightness.

Andy Parfitt is the founder and director of the talent consultancy Enlightened Leadership. He teaches leadership for senior executives, develops high performing senior management teams and consults on organisational and brand development.

Andy is also Chairman of the National Foundation for Youth Music and a non Executive Director at SSVC. He is the former Executive Director Talent Saatchi & Saatchi EMEA and former Controller BBC Radio 1, BBC 1Xtra, BBC Asian Network and BBC Popular Music.

Andy studied theatre at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has read Advanced Management at the Wharton Business School.

Jonathan is the Information Security Officer in IT Services. Having previously worked for OxCERT dealing with computer security incidents Jonathan now works on a range of security projects including awareness campaigns, risk assessments, security audits, improvement plans and information security incident response. He also owns an iPhone."

While principally working for the Ashmolean, Anjanesh has been designing, architecting and delivering infrastructure services across all the museums. Primarily focused on wireless service delivery, firewalls, network security, system integration and infrastructure services, he simultaneously maintains an active interest in creatively applying various solutions in a fast moving IT environment while keeping focus on the 'big-picture'. He is also the official brand ambassador for the Ashmolean lemon drizzle cakes.

Gerrard is an experienced freelance Programme and Principal Project manager currently working with Oxford City Council on Managing the Super Connected Oxford Programme.  Gerrard has successfully completed many IT Projects across a wide range of technologies including Applications, Telecommunications and Infrastructure for both private and public sector organisations. Recently working with Oxfordshire County Council on their Wide Area Network and the Oxfordshire wide Rural Broadband project.

Tony started his IT career as IT Manager in Oxford University's Institute of Molecular Medicine in 1993, moving to Corpus Christi College Oxford as IT Manager in 1998 and to the University Computing Service in 2003. He was part of OxCERT, Oxford's Computer Emergency Response Team and served as Chair of Oxford's IT Support Staff Group. Tony programme-managed Oxford's ICT strategy exercise in 2006-7. Tony was Deputy Manager of the Information and Support group in Oxford University Computing Services and was responsible for the OUCS web site as well as being head of IT Support Staff Services and Software Licensing. Since the formation of IT Services in 2012 Tony is Head of IT Support Staff Services, Central Software Licensing, and the IT Services online shop. Tony served for many years as a member of the UCISA Distributed IT Support Staff Group and moved to the Support Services Group more recently. As a member of the BCS Tony has particular interest in IT provision and support in a distributed and federated environment and in formal methodologies such as ITILv3 and PRINCE2. He is currently undertaking several institution-requested IT service reviews and spends quite a lot of his time advising on IT recruitment as part of selection panels for Colleges and Departments.

Rob works in the Network Systems team of University Information Services at the University of Cambridge. He's primarily responsible for software development and system administration to support the University's networks. Rob joined the University Computing Service (as was) last year, and since then has mainly been working on improvements to the University Wireless Service. Rob was previously a Computer Officer at Trinity Hall for 8 years.

Matt almost certainly holds the record for the longest job title in the Oxford ITSS community, the 'Information Communication Technology Infrastructure Officer' is currently working at Brasenose College.  He has previously worked at St. Peter's College and Hertford College, in total he has been working in the colligate university for the last seven years. He is also a member of the British Computing Society (MBCS).

Richard Carpenter is the IT Officer for St. Peter¹s College, Oxford supporting all users and systems in the college and recently has helped deploy Microsoft Office 365 into St. Peter¹s . Previously he worked on the Help Desk at IT Services supporting central services (Nexus, HFS, Wireless Networking) and has been working for the colligate university for six years.
Prior to the University, he worked for a laptop manufacturer that specialised in high powered gaming laptops and ran the support team there.
Outside of the University, he can mostly be found in an ice rink.

Keith is the Director of IT & Physical Resources in the Mathematical Institute and also a member of the university's new IT Infrastructure Board and the new IT Architecture Advisory Group. As the principal university contact for the new maths building project for almost 10 years Keith has been intimately involved with every stage of the process having analysed the space and facilities needs, written and maintained the brief, been a member of all the working groups, worked closely with the design team, managed the rapid move in and coordinating aspects of the snagging, defects and changes process. With first hand experience of academic life at undergraduate and graduate level as well as research and teaching, and a background of almost 20 years in IT broadening out into FM and physical resources, this unique position has enabled a more joined up approach to building design,  facilities and IT management minimising the risk that any one factor dominates to the detriment of others. Within the department Keith and the IT Team adopt a principle of 'thinking smarter to be more efficient' to deliver high quality standards compliant cross platform solutions that integrate well together saving time and mone

Ronald 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 Cavendish Laboratory, and then moving to Cambridge's University Information Services (via the former Computing Service). Having helped found Cambridge's College IT Management Group (CITMG) and the Departmental IT Group (DITG), he remains active in supporting both groups' goals of mutual support and shared solutions. As part of an Institutional Strategy team - involving liaison, consultancy, professional and community development support - he has a particular focus on collaborative systems as a part of new technologies for unifying communications, including via web conferencing and related technologies. He is a member of BCS, ACM, Computer Society, IEEE.

Head of R&D for Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services. Overseeing the development of digital preservation and other services at the Bodleian covering both traditional library materials and research data in all its forms.
A scientist by training, Neil has been working with internet technologies for nearly 20 years, mostly commercially – the first major website I was involved with was Snickers/Euro'96!

Marko has worked with the University of Oxford IT Services for more than five years. He was hired to work on their Linux servers and somehow got roped into taming Apple's feline operating systems: he is one of the architects behind the the Orchard Service. Marko's first computer was a Sun SparcStation. He's been using Unix - the world's greatest text adventure - for the past 20 years and has attained a ninth-degree black belt in Unix ninja skills. Marko believes an operating system is useless without a console and is allergic to colored icons. He studied Computer Science at Saarland University and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science before he joined the University of Oxford.

John is currently the ICT Manager at Brasenose College. He has 13 years' experience working in IT at the University. Before working at Brasenose he was an IT engineer in Yorkshire specialising in business infrastructure upgrades with the ever reliable NT4 & Win 98 :). He was previously an Undergraduate here at Oxford (Lincoln) for 4 years in the mid/late 90s studying chemistry.

David is a technical specialist working in the UIS Platforms group at the University of Cambridge, supporting and developing infrastructure to try and make, directly or indirectly, other people' days better. He has many and varied technical interests, and is currently working on managed Linux desktop systems, developing infrastructure and tools for automated deployment and configuration management, and scalable storage systems. He studied at the Department of Computing at Imperial College, where he earned his MEng and PhD in Software Engineering and in designing a replacement Grid authentication system, respectively. There, he served in various technical capacities for more than 13 years, before moving to Cambridge in 2012. In his infinite and increasingly mythical spare time, he serves as a volunteer medic, welfare officer and technical specialist at LARP festivals, where strange but lovely people roam. He is easily bribed with chocolate and is, much to his surprise, occasionally photogenic.

Alan is the Communications Officer for the Integrated Communications Project. He previously worked with the NSMS team on the development and support of the Orchard Mac management platform. Outside of IT Services, he is the editor the videogame culture magazine Five out of Ten and has just released his first book, 'Escape to Na Pali: a journey to the Unreal’. 

James has worked in HE for the last 16 years in differing roles but mainly around the Service Support arena.  Currently James is part of the Manchester Metropolitan Universities IT Exec Team, responsible for delivery of the service desk, operation(data centre) activities, contracts and vendor liaison and anything print related.
James currently chairs the UCISA Support Services Group and his current interest is around green IT matters.