Work
I am an experienced Systems Administrator, with skills in the following areas:
- Solaris all the way from 2.3 to 10 and derivatives
- Solaris x86/x64 and SPARC
- Qualified RHCE
- Sun hardware - sparc, x86/x64, and storage
- System installation, customization, and configuration, particularly jumpstart
- Backup - Veritas NetBackup and Sun Storedge Backup (Legato)
- DNS, NIS and NISplus; some LDAP
- NFS and the automounter
- Web servers: apache, tomcat, installation and configuration
- Web sites: HTML, jsp, cgi, CSS, style and design (particularly simple standards compliant designs that work well in all browsers)
- Databases: MySQL and Oracle, with some older PostgreSQL and Sybase experience
- Other OSes: AIX, IRIX, various Linux, some of the BSD flavours
I worked with Sun for many years on software and hardware beta programs, including as a Solaris 10 Platinum Beta customer, and was part of the OpenSolaris community where I served on the OpenSolaris Governing Board, before that got Oracled and replaced by Illumos and OpenIndiana.
Brief History
After doing an undergraduate degree in Physics at St John's College, Oxford, I stayed on and did a Doctorate in Theoretical Astrophysics.
I then moved on CITA - the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto. (Toronto's a great place - we really enjoyed our two years there.)
Then back to England, to the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge.
Then a rather major change in direction - from Astronomy to Computing, managing the systems at the MRC RFCGR, located on the Hinxton Genome Campus a few miles south of Cambridge. Here we ran Sun servers running Solaris providing access to databases and computing facilities for researchers in the UK Genome community.
After a brief stint looking after the main Sun servers at the University of Hertfordshire, I'm back much closer to home at ProQuest.