Personal profile
Research Interests
Operating Systems
Technology in Teaching
Computing Clusters
Virtualualisation
Profile
Having worked for Nortel Networks as a Test Lab Manager I joined Lancaster University in September 2003. I have worked for the Careers Service and the Maths & Stats Department providing desktop and back-end techinical support. I am currently a Systems Administrator for the Maths & Stats department.
My role is to support the research and teachiing activities of Academics, RA's and PhD students. This involves
Operating System support, Linux, Mac and Windows
Application support
Designing, building and maintaining computing clusters
Designing, building and maintaining a virtualised reseach environment
Designing, building and maintaining teaching labs.
Developing and hosting services such as; Shiny, Docker, Room booking, databases, Lab Stats, System monitoring, Wiki pages, backup server, PXE/Salt server, Systems inventorym, print servers, file servers, Gurobi and Magma.
Keywords
- Mathematics and Statistics
- Linux
- Virtualisation
- Computing Clusters
- Research Computing Support
- Research Systems