Newcastle University

Introduction

John maintains, informs and enhances the IT infrastructure of the FMSC, supporting developers and members of staff both internally (School, Faculty and University) and externally, supporting of internet-based development furthering the agenda of the School and Faculty, at a regional, national and international level.

Roles and Responsibilities

John manages the Server and network infrastructure used by both the School and the Faculty. These systems are primarily Unix based, and include a high availability (HA), load balanced and fault tolerant web cluster framework over several processing nodes, dedicated web and directory services, multiple database systems, storage arrays and associated backup & recovery features.

John also currently leads FMSC Data Group project work which develops technology, systems and processes relating to the provision, supply and processing of central University data to the various projects and users within the School and Faculty.

Qualifications

Introduction to Information Systems Security - Foundation Course - QinetiQ (2003).

BSc (Hons) Computer Science - University of Teeside (2001). Final year modules comprising Operating Systems Design, Computer Systems Architecture and Distributed Systems. Johns final year project was a multi-threaded Voice Over IP application written for both Silicon Graphics workstations and the Linux sound system using ADPCM and MP3 compression technology.

Previous Positions

Network/Systems Consultant & co-author and facilitator of 'Linux - Hands On' Training Courses to the National High Tech Crime Unit - QinetiQ, Malvern, Worcestershire.

Network Engineer/Support, first and second line technical support - Defence Evaluation & Research Agency, Malvern, Worcestershire.

Informal Interests

High performance, classic and modified cars, rally driving & track days. Collecting vintage computers and video game systems.