Dr Vernon Bailey
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Career Profile
Linux/Unix systems administrator with over 10 years’ experience in commercial and
academic environments. Microsoft infrastructure skills in Active Directory, SCCM, Server
2012. Server/workstation hardware and software configuration. Experience in database
administration and software development. Currently lead IT officer of 3 staff supporting
research at University of Oxford. Good communicator at many levels from advising
Departmental committees through to providing IT advice to students and at commercial c lient
sites. Works flexibly in a team or singularly. A strong sense of commitment; desire to deploy
technologies to facilitate his own and others’ work.
Key technical skills and experience
Linux/Unix: RHEL (RHCSA), Ubuntu, Microsoft server 2012, AD, SCCM 2012,
Debian, Solaris, Ubuntu Win XP, 7 & 8 support, DFS, RSAT/ADUC
Virtualization: KVM, Hyper-V, Dell OME/OMSA & MDSM server
VMWare monitoring
LVM, Samba, Winbind, iptables, NFS Java, JDBC, GUI, EJB/J2EE
DHCP, NTP servers Database support: MySQL, Oracle
Apache, tomcat, SVN, TRAC, Wiki, Workstation hardware/software support
VSFTP, OpenMRS/Sana (Linux & Windows)
Server/rack hardware, UPS, RAID, Cluster support (SGE)
LTO, NAS, DAS
Experiences and career
2008-present: System administrator and IT officer, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
(IBME), Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Systems administrator for server, desktop and user support for IBME. Team leader of 3 local
staff supporting 200 servers and workstations. Responsible for physic al rack server and
virtual server provision and management, providing secure Linux data servers (and backups),
Web servers and support infrastructure servers (e.g. DHCP and NTP) within a Microsoft
Active Directory environment. Other duties include deployme nt and support of
desktop/laptop workstations (AD & Microsoft Configuration Manager/SCCM 2012 for PXE -
based deployment and management) and user support and account administration. Additional
technical duties include changes to local Cisco firewall and DMZ configuration, SGE cluster
support, local network patching and printer management, user documentation.
IT liaison for senior academics and advisor on the Departmental IT strategy committee.
Consultative role in Departmental review of IT provision. Involve d in IT staff recruitment.
This role is challenging in its technical diversity and high workload and requires both
independence and cross-site team work. Key achievements have been balancing the project -
based and server support load in the face of user -driven immediate needs; a progressive
structuring of processes and information to keep track of operational issue s (e.g. ordering,
asset and licence and warranty information, change management records).
2003-2008: Software Manager, Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Java application/GUI developer and systems administrator. Developed multi-threaded Java
using JDBC, MySQL, Netbeans/Eclipse, EJB, Glassfish for an application to allow a
doctor/nurse to remotely access patients’ blood-glucose data, using a Web Services
infrastructure. Liaised with doctors and medical researchers, investigated the UK NHS
network (N3) data delivery technologies. Developed GRID/Web Services for a jet -engine-
data delivery project. Designed and developed flat -file & relational database (Oracle &
MySQL), enabled secured access for SQL and data via Grid protocols. Developed Java
software suites to extract meta-data from raw data into an Oracle database, using PL/SQL and
Java embedded stored procedures.
Solaris, Suse/RedHat/Fedora Linux server/workstation configuration and management;
security hardening including GRID; RAID configuration; Windows support; NIS/NFS,
Samba, DNS, DHCP configuration; backups; software installation (e.g. Matlab, Office,
VNC); shell scripting; user support; basic network debugging.
Advisor and secretar y to Departmental strategic and operational IT committees.
2003-2008: Consultant Java and database developer
Additional to full-time work: occasional Java application and GUI developer for a University
spin-off company (with permission from employer). Developed GUI for Worcester College
student and personnel manage ment and database system.
1999-2003: Systems Administrator, Logica Plc, UK
Logica is a multinational systems integration and IT consultancy, now owned by CGI.
Responsibilities were deploying and supporting Solaris servers, providing support to various
developmental projects of teams of sizes typically 5 to 30. Projects included clients such as
Orange, T-Mobile, Crown Prosecution Service. Support work included Solaris
installation/configuration and hardening, RAID performance testing, Oracle DBA tasks, shel l
scripting, backup strategy, source-code control (CVS, VSS, SCCS), Web & Application
server deployment, Samba & VNC. Achievements were maintaining a high review rating for
performance and noted for ability to be corporate-client facing whilst being very t echnically
focused.
Education, Qualifications, Training & Affiliations
PhD, Astrophysics, Cambridge University 1999 RHCSA (certified) RHEL 6
BSc, 1st class, Physics, Nottingham Uni, 1995 Microsoft SCCM 2012 (10747-1)
Associate Member of UK Institute of Physics Microsoft AD 2008 (6425B)
Sec-1 Hacking Countermeasures 2007 Dell Sever Management 2014
Languages
English (native), French (basic - GCSE A).