Work
I am an experienced Sun and Solaris systems administrator, with skills in the following areas:
- Sun hardware - sparc and x86/x64; server and desktop, up to the V880 and V890
- Sun storage - workgroup, mostly, like T3/SE3310/A1000/A3500/A5x00/SE3510/2530 and the Thumper/Thor storage servers
- System installation, customization, and configuration, particularly jumpstart
- Backup - Sun Storedge Backup (Legato)
- Solaris all the way from 2.3 to 10 and OpenSolaris/Nevada
- Solaris x86/x64 on Sun and Dell hardware
- DNS, NIS and NISplus; some LDAP (iPlanet)
- 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, PostgreSQL, with some older Sybase and Oracle experience
- Other OSes: AIX, IRIX, Linux, some of the BSD flavours.
I have worked with Sun for many years on software and hardware beta programs, most recently as a Solaris 10 Platinum Beta customer, and am part of the OpenSolaris community.
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 Information and Learning.