CV - Chris Barnes 7/09/2010 cordwainers

Works Achieved At Cordwainers College as Systems Administrator between 1995 and 2000


Every student and staff member has their own E-Mail address.
Addresses are friendly, i.e. chris.barnes@cordwainers.ac.uk

All Student PCs in the IT Centre and Library have HTTP Internet access and E-Mail access.
95% of Networked PCs have E-Mail access (Local and Internet messaging)
90% of Admin PCs have HTTP Internet access with 100% by Start of 1999 academic year

"	1 User ID and Password for all Network resources.
"	User ID for students  is Enrolment Number (Currently Exported from Covtech)
"	Enrolment Number is Library ID
"	Enrolment Number is printed as Alphanumeric and Code 39 Bar Code on all ID cards.
"	The Library admin Terminals are equiped with bar code Readers

All staff have a User ID which follows the same rules as students, but is based on a counter field of an Access database containing names and Addresses of Staff.

Every Student has a Macintosh and PC fileserver account which is the name of their User ID
PCs can read the Mac Fileserver for Cross-platform exchange of Files.

99% of PCs run Word6 to ensure in-house document compatability.
Paradox DBMS has been almost completely phased out in favour of Access 2.0
90% of Networked databases use Access 2.0 and Access 2.0 Runtime.
Cordwainers will move All Admin Computers to Office97 or Office2000 at the same time.

All IT equipment is tracked and logged to the component level.
IT Equipment is tracked against Order Number for auditing purposes (see attached IT stock Check)
Logs are kept of Software faults and modifications.
A detailed schematic diagram of the Entire LAN is kept up to date
All of the main admin servers are protected by a UPS.

SPECIFIC FEATURES

LAN Infrastructure

(Local Area Network)

Since 1996 the College has been involved in the design, implementation, maintenance and expansion of a LAN cabling Infrastructure based on IEEE LAN standards, taking into account projected growth of
services and increase in traffic flow.

The Cabling types in use are:

100 Base TX
10 BaseT
10 Base2
10 Base FL

A TCP/IP Class C LAN addressing scheme is in place with 4 Subnetworks
The College has elected to use Static IP addressing until further notice.
The College is running IPX, TCP/IP,NetBEUI and Apple Talk Protocols
The College plans to phase out NetBEUI

For Security and Traffic reasons:
The IT Centre Pcs are on a routed ip segment with Router Access to some resources on the rest of the Network. (WWW and E-Mail)
The IT Centre Macs are on an Apple Talk routed Segment with no access to the admin Network.

The ITC Macintosh and PC servers are accessible from any computer in the College, bar some of the older CAD/CAM systems in Room 62

Server Resources

4 NT Servers (Domain Synchronized for single Password and Username Entry)
	NT_SERVER1	NT3.51	ITC  Macintosh/PC file and print
				13Gb Storage
				Macintosh/PC File Services
				Macintosh Print Services and Job Control
				(Research yielded no satisfactory Print quota manager software)

	NT_SERVER2	NT 4.0	Internet Services
				9Gb Storage
				Web Server
				DNS Server
				Proxy Server
				SMTP Relay Host
				(Macintosh and PC File Server)

	SERVERX1	NT 4.0	ITC PC File and Print Services
				3Gb Storage
				Print Queue control
				Netware Gateway to ccMail

	NT_SERVER3_SI NT 4.0	Administration Server
				18Gb Storage
				SQL Server
				Systems Intuition MIS software


	CORDWAINERS		Netware 3.12 Server
				Student Records (Covtech till Sept 99)
				Admin Office File and Print Services
				Sun Accounts

	CORDWAINERS2	Netware 3.2 Server
				ccMail
				Databases
				All Admin and Staff Personal User Storage
				Shared Area Security Resource
				Heritage Library Management System
				CLIC, Staffroom, Library Print Services

The Netware 3.12 Servers are manually Password Synchronized with the NT domain.

All Servers are backed up to 4mm DAT tapes every Working night
Tapes on 5 Servers are Full backups with tape rotations once per week.
Tapes are date marked to ensure quality.
Backup logs are checked every day

WAN Infrastructure (Internet)
 (Wide Area Network)


The College has been responsible for Project management , administration and configuration of the JANET sponsored 64Kb routed Internet Connection including:

"	Configuration and  Administration of the Primary DNS server for the domain cordwainers.ac.uk and the domain elfs.org.uk running on Microsoft DNS server for Windows NT Server 4.0
"	Configuration and  Administration of a Proxy Internet Service for the Cordwainers LAN utilising MS Proxy Server for Windows NT Server 4.0
"	Configuration and  Administration of Web Server (LAN/WAN) currently running MS IIS 3
"	Design, Configuration, Maintenance and Administration of an SMTP/POP3 Gateway to interface with the ccMail LAN Mail system
"	Liaising with Programmers and site designers on the elfs.org.uk Web Project Development

IT staff liase directly with JISC staff at ULCC:

Cisco X25/AUI IP Router 64Kb BT Leased Line Connection to ULCC
Cordwainers Class B ip address allocation.
Discussion of Mail Services upgrades

Transatlantic Bottlenecks in the JANET Network are causing problems.

IT CENTRE

20 PCs running Windows For Workgroups 311
8 Macintoshes
3 Colour Printers
2 Laser Printers



Construction of Visual Basic application to generate MAKEUSER scripts to facilitate bulk updates of users from CSV.
Project management, administration and configuration of the JANET sponsored 64Kb routed Internet Connection.
elfs
clic
student cards
email
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wan