Graham Perrin

Profile

In my youth, I travelled a little. The best times, on bicycle across France … a long contemplative stay on the campsite in Dijon, and la vendange in La Chapelle-de-Guinchay. Memories of unfermented Beaujolais and more make me smile. One day I might drop everything and travel again, never to return.

I moved from Essex (Benfleet, Westcliff) to East Sussex (Brighton and Hove) in 1988, spent three years with a local direct marketing/design agency.

Main roles at CENTRIM

CENTRIM's designated user of the Business Information Services (BIS) database

• CENTRIM, Profitnet and other University of Brighton users of Freeman Centre must have current roles in the database before they can use IT Services on campus.

One of two designated CENTRIM users of ResourceLink

• a University of Brighton corporate system sometimes used for creation and maintenance of records relating to users
• the other designated user is Sara Hafeez.

CENTRIM's designated user of NetReg

• NetReg manages the registration of equipment for the University of Sussex campus network, and controls all access at campus and subnet firewalls.

Primary watcher of the CENTRIM requests queue in RT

an enterprise-grade ticketing system that enables groups of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users

• RT (Request Tracker) at University of Sussex is used by IT Services, CENTRIM, SPRU and other departments.

Watcher of the SPRU IT requests queue

• simply watching what's going on, in and around the building, helps with provision of shared services and facilities.

More generally

For University of Brighton users of Freeman Centre:

• supporting the information technology and other needs of staff, students, visitors and associates
• Linux, Mac OS X and Windows laptops and desktops
• attending to corporate configurations of Microsoft Windows
• non-optimal in remote environments
• appropriate use of non-corporate systems/services, notably Chandler Hub
• preferring protocols and standards such as CalDAV and iCalendar, for requirements that are not met by Microsoft Exchange
• ICT systems management and development
• Mac OS X Server administration of cross-platform WebDAV, AFP and SMB/CIFS file sharing, IMAP e-mail, Apache web, print and other services
• occasional administration of MySQL and PostgreSQL services
• maintaining Access Grid-related hardware, firmware and software in Freeman Centre ground floor room G22.

For Freeman Centre:

• co-development of Freeman Centre, GlobInn and NickFest sites
• using Zope 2 and Plone in ZEO cluster configuration
• working with add-ons to suit current and future requirements.

Ongoing/forthcoming

2009/2010 re-development of CENTRIM web

• as part of CENTRIM web working group.

• integration with University of Sussex storage area network (SAN).

To support reservation and loan/use of shared resources (CENTRIM loans pool, selected Freeman Centre facilities):

• selection of a suitably integrated system, considering at least:
• OASIS Web Services Calendar (WS-Calendar) Technical Committee (TC) work towards a common scheduling specification/standard — expect a draft spec in April 2010 and version 1 six months after the initial meeting
• iCal Server 2 in Mac OS X Server — augmented users authenticated securely against an accessible LDAP server (for CENTRIM at Freeman Centre, this is currently ldap.sussex.ac.uk).

Past

2007 re-development of CENTRIM web

• with Sara Hafeez and colleagues at CENTRIM, and with Cogapp.

To suit the collaboration and document management needs of university colleagues:

• finding and implementing workarounds to long-standing Microsoft Office incompatibilities with WebDAV servers.

There's more, but I don't expect people to read this far …