Phillip Camp
Curriculum Vitae
Date of Birth: 24/04/1977
Nationality: British.
Full UK driving licence.
Contact Address Details
Work: 01227 827535
Email: (Prefered) phillip.camp@gmail.com
Qualifications
Subject Level Grade
University Of Kent (1995-1999)
Computer Science Degree(Bsc Hons) 2:1
St Peters School Bournemouth (1989-1995)
Computing, Maths, Physics, General Studies Advanced B, D, D, A
Maths, English, Biology, Chemistry, Physics G.C.S.E B, B, B, C, B
Geography, Technology, Religious Studies G.C.S.E B, B, B
English Literature and Computing G.C.S.E B, A
Other Professional Qualifications:-
Mountain Leader Summer (Training) MLTA 2008
First Aid at Work 2008
Basic Expedition Leaders Award Sports Leader Level 2 2006
Basic Health, Hygiene And Safety City and Guilds - Merit 1994
Skills & Abilities
Unix/Linux Administration: Debian (Clusters HPC/HA),
Redhat and Solaris (Mission Critical)
Storage Administration: SANs, NAS, DAS, RAID, Tape Library.
Core Infrastructure: LDAP, Kerberos, SSO, NFS, Samba, Cups and PostgreSQL
Security: Firewalls, Auditing(nessus) and Hardening.
Network Administration: SNMP, VLANs, VPN's, Monitoring(nagios).
Windows: Active Directory and Domain Administration Course
Scripting: Perl, Shell, Python, awk, sed, XML, XLST, SQL
Programming: C, C++, Java, Haskell, Occam and various assemblers
Web Infrastructure: MySQL, php, Apache (UK Mirror Service)
Management experience: Team leader (UKMS), Project leader (NODE)
Work Experience And Previous Employment
University Of Kent At Canterbury
Senior Computing Officer, Computer Science Systems Group
(February 2006 – Current)
Departmental IT support, both in teaching and research. System administration for Solaris including a Veritas HA Cluster and constellation of supporting servers. Windows and Linux desktop support.
Sole Administration and development of the UK Mirror Service this has 50TB of storage, 8 million downloads a day, 2.1PiB served in the last year and is JANET's largest data producer. This work included the transition to a low cost, in terms of money and time, service by moving from Solaris to Linux Debian on many inexpensive nodes. Scripting to provide as much automation as possible utilising extra part time students and projects.
Design and support of three Linux HPC Clusters two purpose built for projects involving parallel computing research. The third a general facility for the Lab, including MPI , SunGrid and Matlab.
Small scale software development (php, perl, python and shell) projects have included VLE's(Moodle), CMS's(drupal), forums and automation tasks often involving Samba, LDAP, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, shell and perl.
I currently sit on the steering group for JISC's Open Source Software Watch advisory service.
Accountable to: Head of Systems Group.
Manger Open Source Academy, National Open Development Environment
(March 2005 – February 2006)
Operation and deployment of a pilot service, supporting local authorities and government projects in seeding and promotion of the service and Open Source. This was a source forge like service themed around UK government.
Accountable to: Head of Department, OSA board and Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Chief Consultant Kent IT Clinic
(September 2004 – March 2005)
Consultancy and technical backup and leadership for Junior Consultants as well as assisting on-site visits. Solution design and development for more advanced deployments such as HA clustering.
Accountable to: Head of Department and IT Clinic Director.
Technical Manager UK Mirror Service
(1st May 2001 – September 2004 )
This service included 2 full time developers and 2 part time student developers with two sites in Kent and Lancaster. I provided technical leadership to this team and was operationally accountable for the service, including managing its SLA's and future developments. I also lead the project to expand the service; its policies and strategies to operate on three sites as a pilot for UKERNA at their Reading co-location site. I Liaised with technical staff at UKERNA, Lancaster and Kent as well as associated Joint Information Services Committee organisations(Resource Discovery Network, Information Environment and Open Source Software Watch) to assess problems and create appropriate solutions, this formed a vital part of the work for the UK Mirror Service.
Accountable to: Service Manager and Directors (Tim Hopkins).
Computing Officer for Computer Science
(1st September 1999 - 1st May 2001)
Part of a team who maintained and enhanced the computer systems used for teaching and research. I often used my programming skills in shell script, Java, Perl and C/C++, involving technologies such as CGI, HTML, SQL and servlets. The systems in the department include Sun servers and workstations with PCs running different versions of both Windows and Linux. I installed and maintained a number of Web based technologies including Apache, php, MySQL, Jserv, Tomcat, JDBC (ingress and MySQL), and jsp pages. There was also a strong emphasis on systems security.
Accountable to: Manager of Computer Science Systems Group (Mark Wheadon).
Reason for leaving: Better paid, more challenging job involving the UK Mirror Service.
Student Helpdesk
(1 Year part time)
Face to face user support, providing solutions to customers' problems. In the areas of Windows NT, MS Office, Netscape, IE and printing as first tier support.
Accountable to: User Support Manager
Reason for leaving: Finished degree
Kent Constabulary West Kent Area
Area Information Systems Officer
(1 Year full time Industrial Placement )
Systems officer in a small team responsible for 900 users on seven sites. Administration of a mixed Novel and Windows environment, with multiple versions of each, and a legacy X.25 network. Responsibilities included the evaluation and purchasing of new equipment and software. Involved in a major re-deployment in Tonbridge covering 200 PC and associated servers, peripherals and networking.
Accountable to: West Kent Area Business Manager and Kent ICT Manager
Reason for leaving: Extended placement ended as I had to return to University.
Work Experience at Spotspec (Small software House) and Southern Electric.
I work-shadowed at both locations, in Spotspec this involved working on a POS system in C, and at Southern Electric this involved the engineering department and the IT support coordinator.
Personal Statement
I am involved in the development of software in my own time including porting an Xserver, IM plugins for Pidgin and a Java based NFS server. I am an active member of the Debain UK community. I have a wide range of interests which include:- mountaineering, conservation and electronics.
I am an active member Air Cadets and have been for over16 years. I continue to be involved in many activities currently as a Warrant Officer which I have held for eight years. I have also occupied the position of squadron adjutant, my current duties are centred around syllabus training and adventure training. I hope to gain my Mountain Leader Summer Award within the next two years, a nationally recognised qualification intended for those leading groups in mountainous or remote country, as a prelude I have gained my Basic Expedition Leaders Award.
Experiences, Expeditions and Courses
Warrant Officer Training Course
A seven day residential course at the Air Cadet Training Centre at R.A.F College Cranwell covering public speaking, lecture techniques, presentation and leadership.
Switzerland Mountaineering Expedition (Late Summer 2003, 14 days)
Member of staff for 12 cadets, concentrating on learning winter mountaineering skills such as ice climbing and glacial travel.
Ecuador (Late Summer 2004, 17 Days)
This was an Aid project and multi activity trip to take ten cadets, five from Canterbury, five from Inner London, to help finish building a school In the sky forest an then going on to activities such as climbing, mountain biking and horse riding.
Borneo (Summer 2005, 21 Days)
This was a multi activity trip for ten Cadets, in which included climbing Kota Kiamblu(Highest peek in south east Asia), Rain Forest trekking and diving.
Mountaineering Trips
Six over the last twelve months as a member of staff for the Air Cadets visiting the Lake District, Peak District, North Wales and Brecon Beacons as well as similar activities for the University Of Kent Mountaineering Club.
Achievements
Robot Control Section Dorset Technology Fair Winner and Best Presentation
Institute Of Management Advanced Course
Sponsored Jail Break (Member of the winning team which went to Athens and back).