Team Members
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Abhijit Ghosh
Infrastructure Analyst
Abhijit Ghosh has a strong foundation in HPC system administration, application and user support and network administration. Abhijit has been managing and maintaining HPC clusters and IT infrastructure for 11 years before joining the Research IT team of the University as Infrastructure Analyst. He has extensive experience of managing email server, web server, DNS server, VPN, local area and wide area network, including configuration and maintenance of switches, routers and firewalls. Abhijit primarily looks after administration of Linux HPC clusters and provides application and user support.
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Andrew Gilchrist
Systems Administrator
Andrew is a Systems Administrator working as a member of the Research Platforms team. He has been administering the REDCap ( Research Electronic Data Capture ) service for the last 10 years, as well as supporting academics with the provision and configuration of Virtual Machines for research.
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Brian Blower
Systems Administrator
Brian joined the University in 2005, providing Linux IT support for the Imaging Science Group within the faculty of Biology, Medicine, and Health. He is currently working as a Systems Administrator for the Research team. He has previously implemented a range of projects including large capacity work-group storage systems, enterprise backup solutions, both Windows and Linux HPC clusters and has been responsible for supporting multiple server rooms. Brian’s last assignment saw him implement and develop the Trustworthy Research Environment, co-ordinating building work with the installation of the necessary utilities and environment to deploy an OpenStack cluster for secure data research.