Curriculum Vitae of Catherine Erica Pitt

Personal Details
Employment
Computer Skills
Interests

Personal Details

Date of Birth: 7/6/75
Status: Married
Nationality: British

Email: cneal@chiark.greenend.org.uk

Employment

August 1999-present

I maintain the College's Netware 5 servers for students and staff. These machines provide file, application, mail, and print services to all members of college. I also installed and maintain various database servers on Windows NT server.

I was closely involved in a recent project to redesign the College website, installing and configuring a new server running Apache on Linux; giving technical advice to the web design committee; and writing CGI applications for the new site.

Another major project has been improving the security of the College's network by implementing network monitoring, configuring network hardware and setting up a private port-blocking router.

The recent NT workstation rollout in Pembroke involved my creating standard 'builds' of Windows NT which were then replicated to nearly 100 workstations for students and staff.

I also provide training and day-to-day support to users of a very wide range of ability levels, and organise connecting students' own machines to the college network.

Education

1996-1999

My PhD involved neural network modelling on computers, electron and light microscopy, and thermo-mechanical simulation.

I wrote a large amount of IT documentation for my research group, assisted with managing the group's Solaris machines, and maintained a Linux file server.

1993-1996

Part II- First, Armourers and Braziers Prize for Materials Science, Richardson Prize from King's for Most Deserving Undergraduate, Scholarship from King's

Part IB- Upper second, sponsorship from British Steel Technical

Part IA- First, Scholarship from King's

1991-1993

Physics, Chemistry, Pure Maths, Statistics and Mechanics, all at grade 'A'

1991

9 GCSEs, 8 at grade 'A', including French.

Computer Skills

Operating Systems

• Debian GNU/Linux 2.x I also have some experience of RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE.
• Netware 5 with ZENworks 1.1 and 2
• NT Server 4.0
• Various other Unixes including Solaris 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, FreeBSD 4.0, IRIX 5.2
• NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows 2000 Pro
• I have also supported users of Win 3.1, DOS, various MacOSes and BeOS

Software

• Web servers: Apache 1.3.x; Novell Webserver 4.0
• Application serving: ZENworks 1.1 and 2 for Netware, including snapshotting and installing MS Office 97 and a wide variety of other software packages
• Databases: Sybase SQL Anywhere, MS SQL Server
• Mercury/Pegasus Mail transport system for Netware
• I am familiar with most common office software, have a good knowledge of TeX and can write correct HTML

Programming Languages

• CGI programming with perl. Over last summer I wrote an automated system using perl CGI to simplify and speed up the room connection process for students in Pembroke as well as other CGI applications for the internal College website.
• General scripting in sh, csh, sed, awk and perl.
• I used FORTRAN 77 during my PhD project and I am learning C.

Hardware

• I am familiar with PC hardware and have constructed PCs out of components
• Network hardware- installing and configuring a variety of hubs and switches, dealing with structured cabling for phones and ethernet

Interests

Role-Playing

Teaching