Dr Vernon Bailey

* ********** *****, **********, ******, OX3 7JR, UK

Tel. +44 (0-787*-******

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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).

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