Peter Tribble (original) (raw)

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I am an experienced Systems Administrator and Engineer, with skills in the following areas:

I worked with Sun for many years on software and hardware beta programs, and was part of the OpenSolaris community where I served on the OpenSolaris Governing Board, before that got Oracled and replaced by illumos andOpenIndiana, following on I built my own distribution - Tribblix.

Brief History

After doing an undergraduate degree in Physics at St John's College,Oxford, I stayed on and did a Doctorate in Theoretical Astrophysics.

I then moved on to CITA - the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto. And then back to England, to the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. Those interested can read some of my published papers.

Then a rather major change in direction - from Astronomy to Computing, managing the systems at the MRC RFCGR, located on the Hinxton Genome Campus a few miles south of Cambridge, providing access to databases and computing facilities for researchers in the UK Genome community.

After a brief stint at the University of Hertfordshire, I spent almost 9 years much closer to home at ProQuest, then 7 years atHaplo, now acquired byCayuse, followed by a stint as Head of Information Security atOmnigen Biodata.

I'm now working on illumos and Tribblix, and hoping to spend more time on my activities and interests.

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