Aim of Site
I’m aiming to use the site to let other admins know about some great utilities and websites to help in managing networks, primarily for schools, but hopefully relevant everywhere. As well as share some tips and ideas for managing computers.
Background
James Rudd, living in Sydney, Australia. I started working on the school network at high school and continued right through Uni. I am currently working full time as a Network Administrator at Sydney Boys High School.
Employment
- Network Administrator, Sydney Boys High School [1], NSW, Australia since 2001.
- Administrator of multiple ROCKS HPC [2] clusters for the Centre of Excellence for Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics (UNSW) [3] and the Integrated Materials Design Centre (UNSW) [4], which run the Gaussian 09 [5] simulation package, as well as VASP and Quantum Espresso since October 2005
Qualifications
- BEng Photovoltaics and Solar Energy (Hons.), University of New South Wales, 2007
- BSci Computer Science degrees, University of New South Wales, 2007
- Microsoft Certifications [6] (MS MCP Profile [6]) MS Badges [7]:
- MCSE: Messaging – Feb 2016
- MCSE: Server Infrastructure – May 2014
- MCSA: Windows 10 – Jun 2016
- MCSA: Windows Server 2012 – May 2014
- Specialist: Configuring Windows 8 Devices – Sep 2015
- Specialist: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Support Technician – Dec 2015
- Specialist: Windows 7, Enterprise Desktop Administrator – Dec 2015
- Specialist: Windows 7, Configuring – Dec 2015
- Specialist: Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center Specialist – Feb 2014
- Specialist: Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Virtualization – Jan 2012
- IT Pro: Virtualization Administrator on Windows Server 2008 R2 – Jan 2012
- MCSA: Windows Server 2008 – Apr 2012
- MCSA: Windows 7 – Apr 2012
- Specialist: Windows Small Business Server 2011, Configuring – Jan 2011
- Specialist: Windows 7 and Office 2010, Deployment – Jul 2010
- Specialist: Windows 7, Configuration – May 2010
- IT Pro: Enterprise Desktop Support Technician on Windows 7 – May 2010
- IT Pro: Enterprise Desktop Administrator on Windows 7 – May 2010
- Specialist: Windows Server 2008 R2, Desktop Virtualization – Mar 2010
- IT Pro: Server Administrator on Windows Server 2008 – Jun 2009
- Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration – Jun 2009
- Specialist: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration – Jun 2009
- Specialist: Microsoft Windows Vista, Configuration – Jan 2009
- MCSA: Windows Server 2003 – Jan 2009
Experience and Skills
- Moodle administration, bulk user and course management
- Microsoft XP, 7 to 10 and Server 2003 to 2012 R2
- Centos 6.5
- Rocks Cluster 6.2
- Scripting: Windows CMD, Powershell, VBScript, Bash and Perl
- PHP and MySQL