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Who Are We?

Well, we're all Technicians, duh!

In all seriousness however, unlike many other Computer Science departments across the sector, we do not use directly provisioned resources from Central ICT. We have to fend for ourselves in most cases. The best analogy for this is to imagine that ICT are Network Rail - they provide the infrastructure, and we are LNER, we run the services on top of the infrastructure.

This set up means we have strategically placed Technical Services right within the School. We can provide much more focused and specialised support for our teaching and research.

We just have to cry back to DT when a projector breaks or the network stops working...

People, Roles and Responsibilities

Correct as of publication time.

Name

Role

Key Responsibilities

Grade

Matt Ashton

Technical Resource Manager

Infrastructure/HPC, Budget and Team Management

7

Ollie Grooby

Senior Computing Technician

DevOps, Second Line Support and Team Lead

6

Florence Noble

Computing Technician

Operations, Administrative and Games Computing

5

Alfie Hughes

Computing Technician

Networks, Cloud, Desktops and Compliance

5

Josh Cooper

Computing Technician

Development, Robotics and LAR/LIAT Support

5

Last modified: 13 May 2024