Programmer: Network Unit, MCC ('91-'96)

• Systems Administration for several UNIX fileservers, associated workstations, Novell fileservers and PCs.
• Campus email administration. This includes:
  1. Local switching services, delivering messages to many UNIX and Novell fileservers.
  2. Manchester area switching, conversion for sites which run only a subset of available protocols.
  3. International routing, in collaboration with the various national gateways.
  4. Configuration and registration of new hosts or sites.
  5. Hardware and software support.
• Usenet administration. This includes:
  1. Local news services, providing a article repository for many UNIX, PC and Mac newsreaders around the campus.
  2. Support of local newsreading.
  3. Care and watering for both local and remote news software.
  4. Local feeding, to several of the larger departments.
  5. An increasing amount of national feeding, currently with 15 feed sites.
  6. Mail to news (and vice-versa) conversions for certain groups.
• Support and consolidation of various network user databases, including the Central email database.
• General UNIX support, particularly for BSD-based systems.
• TCP/IP support, particularly in the area of intermittent fault analysis.
• Novell support, especially where this involves TCP/IP.
• Administrator support, including ongoing support to many UMIST facilities.
• Overseeing the work of the Network Mail Officer and, where appropriate, other colleagues.
• Participation in technical and policy group discussions.
• Continuing support to UMIST Library, resource provision and technical support for the ``Online Reference Library'' project.
• Close cooperation with hardware and software suppliers in order to fix faults.
• C and C++, and associated software, support.
• Linux support and administration.