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Evan Arthur

GROUP MANAGER, INNOVATION AND RESEARCH SYSTEMS GROUP
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TRAINING (DEST)

Dr Evan Arthur was educated at Newcastle (Australia) and Cambridge (UK) Universities. His doctoral thesis was in the area of Stoic Philosophy.

Dr Arthur has been employed as a university tutor and as a public servant. He joined the Australian Public Service in 1981. He has worked in the (then) Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs and in the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). He has worked on issues such as refugee policy, labour market programs, teacher professional development, research policy, recognition of overseas qualifications and the use of information technology in education. His current position is Group Manager, Innovation and Research Systems Group in DEST.

Dr Arthur is responsible for coordinating DEST involvement in innovation and research issues, including the implementation of Backing Australia’s Ability – Building our Future through Science and Innovation. Key BAA initiatives are the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy, a $542 million program to strengthen Australia’s research infrastructure and the Research Quality Framework. The RQF will provide a framework for the assessment of the quality of Australian publicly funded research.

Dr Arthur is also responsible for coordinating Australian Government involvement in issues associated with the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in education, including the implementation of the national Action Plan for the education and training sector under the auspices of the National Strategy for the Information Economy. He is the Deputy Chair of the principal cross sectoral body advising Commonwealth, State and Territory Ministers on issues associated with the use of ICT in education, the Australian Information and Communications Technology in Education Committee.

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Markus Buchhorn

INTERNET FUTURES GROUP
THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Markus heads up the ANU Internet Futures group, something we'd now call an e-research support group, with a very strong user-focus. Our main areas of work are in complex and life-cycle data needs, collaboration technologies, networking and middleware (AAI and the rest). I also work as the APAC Services Architect, and the GrangeNet Grid Services Coordinator, and into a range of other bodies such as APSR, the e-security framework, the e-framework, and various research support projects.

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James Dalziel

DIRECTOR MACQUARIE E-LEARNING CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE (MELCOE)
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

James Dalziel is Professor of Learning Technology and Director of the Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. James leads a number of projects including: LAMS (Learning Activity Management System), including roles as a Director of the LAMS Foundation and LAMS International Pty Ltd; MAMS (Meta Access Management System), a national identity and access infrastructure project for the Australian higher education sector; RAMP (Research Activityflow and Middleware Priorities), a project investigating open standards authorisation and research workflows, and ASK-OSS (the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software), a national advisory service on open source issues for the Australia higher education and research sector. Prior to his current roles, James helped lead the COLIS (Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services) project, was a Director of WebMCQ Pty Ltd, an e-learning and assessment company, and was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney.

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Rhys Francis

NCRIS FACILITATOR, PLATFORMS FOR COLLABORATION

Rhys started his career as a software engineer for Varian Techtron following the completion of an undergraduate degree in applied mathematics from Monash University and a Ph.D in computer science from La Trobe University.

In 1980 he returned to La Trobe University to take up an academic position and start a research group in parallel and distributed systems, which over the next decade led to the development of a simulation system able to explore the impact of parallel computing design features on application performance.

In 1990 Rhys joined CSIRO as a research team leader focussing on high-level application languages and algorithms in high performance computing and was subsequently appointed as a Research Program Manager and asked to start-up a new research area. Over the next few years he developed a research program in electronic document technologies which grew to 50 staff and led to many technology developments including the solution to keeping electronic records forever, now implemented through the Victorian Government's VERS strategy.

From 1997 Rhys became involved in a broader range of projects with either a knowledge management or an e-commerce flavour across a variety of industries including wool, dairy, manufacturing, construction, finance and media.

In 2001, Rhys became CSIRO's ICT Sector Leader and over the next few years assisted CSIRO redefine its ICT research strategy; leading to the CSIRO Board formally adopting the strategy in 2003 and establishing the CSIRO ICT Centre.

In 2004, Rhys became CSIRO's Director for High Performance Scientific Computing, and has since revamped CSIRO’s strategy in HPC and established an ongoing effort to develop and deliver emerging e-science services.

Also, from 2004, Rhys was appointed program manager for the APAC National Grid, to lead a nation wide team in the design and deployment of an infrastructure that connects all national and state facilities associated with the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing and provides seamless access to them from researcher's desktops.

Most recently, from May 2006, Rhys has taken up the position of NCRIS Facilitator for Platforms for Collaboration, in which capacity he is working towards the deployment and integration of advanced eResearch services that can significantly enhance Australia's research activities in all areas of endeavour.

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Brian Gilmore

DIRECTOR COMPUTING SERVICES
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

Brian Gilmore has worked in various areas of computing for the past thirty years rising to the post of Deputy and then Director of the Computing Services of the University of Edinburgh. Responsibilities included communications for a considerable period but have also encompassed the management of the University's central services.

Brian has also had a long association with European Networking having chaired a working group in RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) from 1986 to 1993 and was the Vice President for the Technical Programme of TERENA (Trans European Research & Education Networking Association) for a period of four years up until 2002. He is currently a Liaison member with MACE (Middleware Architecture Committee for Education) for the TERENA Technical Committee.

Latterly, Brian has been heavily involved in the JISC (Joint Information Services Committee) which funds significant shared learning and research activities in the academic community in the UK, including the Joint Academic Network (JANET). Brian has served on the JISC Committee for Authentication and Security and the JISC Committee for Networking (JCN) and is currently on the JISC Committee for the Support of Research (JCSR). He chairs the JCN Development Group which oversees the JCN development budget.

The Computing Services runs EaStMAN, the Edinburgh and Stirling MAN, on behalf of a consortium which connects up all the Higher Education and Further Education institutions in the South East area of Scotland. All of the HE institutions are connected at speeds of 1,000 megabits/sec whilst most of the FE colleges are connected at speeds of 100 megabits/sec or greater.

The Computing Services runs the UK national booking system for Video Conferencing on behalf of the body which runs JANET. The system, which originated in Scotland, provided very high quality videoconferencing between all the HE institutions in Scotland and an IP service which has been rolled out into England and Wales.

The Computing Services is also responsible for the internal network of the University of Edinburgh. This network comprises some 27,500 network points. It is responsible for the support of over 10,000 workstations and over 150 servers connected to the network. The Computing Services also facilities manage the collection of very large servers which support the University’s corporate data systems and the twin machines that provide the Library systems for the University Library and the National Library of Scotland.

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Ken Klingenstein

DIRECTOR
INTERNET2 MIDDLEWARE AND SECURITY AREAS

Dr. Ken Klingenstein is Director of the Internet2 Middleware and Security areas and Chief Technologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In his Internet2 middleware role, he is responsible for fostering the development and dissemination of middleware interoperability and best practices, through partnership efforts of leaders among campus IT architects, corporations, and government agencies. In his Internet2 security role, Klingenstein is helping campus network security leadership to develop approaches to both immediate issues such as network authentication and new security tools, as well as developing longer-term agendas that couple increased security with research network goals of performance and transparency. As Chief Technologist for the University of Colorado Boulder campus, he continues to provide technical strategic leadership for information technology for the institution where he served as Director of Information Technology Service for fourteen years. Klingenstein has been active in national and regional networking for many years, serving in leadership positions in too many organizations. Dr. Klingenstein received his Ph.D. in Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Murray Leach

NEW ZEALAND MINISTRY OF EDUCATION

Murry Leach is Chair of the New Zealand Education Sector ICT Management Committee and Senior Manager, Tertiary Information Systems and Sector Liaison for the
Ministry of Education, New Zealand.

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James Lever

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST, IT SERVICES
THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

James Lever is a Senior Systems Analyst for the Strategic Technologies Group within the Information Technology Services at The University of Queensland. James is currently working on the eSecurity Framework Project managed by AusCERT to build a PKI environment for the Australian Higher Education and Research Sector. Prior to joining the Strategic Technologies Group, James has worked in systems and network security, research, visualisation and high performance computing.

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Rodney McDuff

MANAGER STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGIES, IT SERVICES
THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

Rodney McDuff is currently the Manager of the Strategic Technologies Group with the Information Technology Services at The University of Queensland. Whilst at ITS Rodney has also been responsible for the planning, implementation and maintenance of core IT infrastructure services, applications and systems at UQ.  He has also previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Advanced Computation Modeling Centre.

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Neil McLean

NATIONAL TECHNICAL STANDARDS ADVISOR TO DEST

Professor Neil McLean is National Technical Standards Advisor to the Department of Education Science and Training (DEST). He advises on technical standards and interoperability issues relating to research information infrastructure and e-learning infrastructure. In pursuing the development and implementation of technical standards he leads a small team funded by DEST to participate in various standards initiatives, both nationally and internationally. He is a Board of Management member for the JISC/DEST e-Framework initiative, and has been primarily responsible for establishing a working relationship with IBM and the IMS Global Learning Consortium to further the development and deployment of the e-Framework.

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Bob Morgan

CHAIR, MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION (MACE)

RL "Bob" Morgan is Senior Technology Architect for the Computing & Communications Department at the University of Washington. In this role he contributes to designing, implementing, and documenting distributed computing and security infrastructure for the UW. He is the Chair of the Middleware Architecture Council for Education (MACE), providing guidance for the Internet2 Middleware Initiative. He is a primary contributor to a number of Internet2 middleware projects, notably Shibboleth, a system for secure access to inter-institutional web resources. He is also active in standards activities with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), where he has helped to develop the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standards.

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Chris Myers

ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SERVICES COORDINATOR
GRANGENET

Chris joined GrangeNet, in Canberra, in February 2004.   At GrangeNet, Chris’ duties include delivery of new communication services, encouraging local and international collaborative research in advanced networking, and delivering training and training resources in advanced networking. Chris is responsible for IPv6 and multicast service deployments on GrangeNet and also the Distributed Data Centre Mass Storage (DDCMS) Prototype Project and the PI of the eduroam project in Asia Pacific.  Chris is actively participating in the ISOC-AU IPv6 SIG, global working group eduroam, APAN eduroam as well as participation in APAN, I2, TNC, QuestNet and middleware meetings.

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John O’Callaghan

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
AUSTRALIAN PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING (APAC)

John O’Callaghan is Executive Director of the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) which is providing national advanced computing, data management and grid services for Australian eResearch.

He is currently a Professor at The Australian National University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He was awarded an Australian Centenary Medal for services to Australian society in computer science and technology and in 2005 was awarded the Pearcey Medal for significant lifetime contributions to the Australian IT community.

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Viviani Paz

SECURITY ASSURANCE MANAGER
AUSCERT

Viviani Paz is the Security Assurance Manager for AusCERT (The Australian National Computer Emergency Response Team) based at The University of Queensland. Prior to joining AusCERT in 1998, Viviani worked in a range of IT areas including: system and network security; system programming and administration; and software testing and verification in the Commercial and Academic sector for over a decade.

Viviani is the Policy Designer and Project Manager for the eSecurity Framework Project, in which a PKI environment is being developed to assist Australian Universities' collaboration and inter-operation.

The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) provides a single, trusted point of contact in Australia for the Internet community to deal with computer security incidents and their prevention. AusCERT's mission is to support and improve community awareness, representation and communication regarding computer security, both locally and internationally, by being the leading source of impartial and reliable computer security information and expertise for its members. AusCERT is a full member of the international Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, FIRST and Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) which AusCERT chairs.

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Scott Rea

DIRECTOR, HEBCA AND USHER OPERATING AUTHORITY

Scott Rea is a Senior Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Architect for Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where besides the Dartmouth internal PKI, he also manages the operations of the PK infrastructures for the Higher Education Bridge Certificate Authority (HEBCA) [funded by EDUCAUSE] and the US Higher Education Root (USHER) [funded by Internet2]. He is also a founding Member of the Americas Grid Policy Management Authority (TAGPMA) - one of the three member PMAs constituting the International Grid Trust Federation PMA, the secretary for the HEBCA Policy Authority (PA), a participant in the USHER PA, a member of the US Federal PKI Architecture Certificate Policy Working Group (CPWG), and a member of several industry working groups aimed at setting PKI based policies and procedures e.g. the HEBCA PA Technical WG, the International Collaborative Identity Management (I-CIDM) Bridge-to-Bridge Sub-Working Group (BB SWG), the Path Discovery & Validation Working Group (PD-VAL WG), the Shibboleth and E-Authentication Interoperability Technical WG, and the Open Science Grid Policy Technical Group. Mr Rea has extensive PKI experience and provides consulting services in the design, development, implementation, integration and management of PKI and dependent systems and applications and has provided technical subject matter expertise, guidance, and escalation support on all PKI related topics to government, commercial and educational entities during the past 10 years. He is the architect, developer, and manager of the NIH-EDUCAUSE PKI Interoperability Project that won a US federal government E-Gov Pioneer innovation award.

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Alex Reid

DIRECTOR OF MIDDLEWARE/ERESEARCH, AARNET

Alex is employed part-time by AARNet, and is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of WA (School of Computer Science & Software Engineering). He has had 44 years in the IT industry, with 37 in Higher Education. He has formerly been IT Director at the University of WA and also at Oxford University, and has consulted for universities in Australia, UK and Hong Kong. He chaired the AARNet Advisory Committee and sat on the AARNet Board prior to retiring from his UWA post at the start of 2005. In the 1990's he also served on network advisory committees for SuperJanet, the UK NREN. He has been an executive member of CAUDIT and UCISA (the UK equivalent), and has been a Director of a few software development companies. He currently is primarily concerned with trying to develop and promote a comprehensive and coherent approach to Middleware deployment and development in Australia, and he maintains close liaison with US, UK and EU Middleware and eResearch initiatives (he spends 2-3 months of each year in the UK). He developed the original proposal for the MAPS project.

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Dr M.A.(Mike) Sargent

DIRECTOR
M.A.SARGENT & ASSOCIATES PTY LTD

Dr Sargent is a Director of M.A.Sargent & Associates, providing strategic corporate consulting services to industry, with a particular focus on the information technology, energy, environment and utilities sectors. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of Transfield Energy Group, and before that was Chief Executive Officer of ACTEW Corporation from November 1991. Dr Sargent has 40 years experience in the utility industry in Australia, USA and Canada.

Dr Sargent is Chair of the eResearch Coordinating Committee and of the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Committee. He is a Director of the National Electricity Market Management Compnay and of National ICT Australia. He is Deputy Chairman of epicorp Ltd, a high technology seed fund and incubator. He is an Adjunct Professor of the University of Technology Sydney and of the University of Queensland.

He has a degree in electrical engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland.

He is active in professional and community matters. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Academician of the International Academy for Quality, and was President of The Institution of Engineers Australia in 1990..

In recognition of his service to engineering he was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 and a Centenary Medal in 2003.

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Nick Tate

DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AND AUSCERT
THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND


Nick is both Director of Information Technology Services at The University of Queensland and the Director of Australia’s National CERT, AusCERT (The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team), which is based at the University.

He is also Chair of the Council of Australian University Directors of IT (CAUDIT), a Director of Higher Ed Systems Pty Ltd, Chair of the Queensland Regional Network Organisation (QRNO), President of the Academic Board of the International Systems Security Professional Certification Scheme (ISSPCS) and Vice Chairman of the Australian Computer Society in Queensland.

He chairs the Steering Committees of the MAPS and e-Security Framework projects, for which the University of Queensland is the lead institution and is a member of the board of the DART project.

Nick has held previous positions as a Weapon Systems Engineer developing anti-missile missile systems for Royal Navy Warships, and as a developer on real time air traffic control systems before joining the United Bank of Kuwait in London as Chief Programmer. He worked with the bank for over 10 years and was Head of IT during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in the first Gulf war.

He subsequently worked in London in various roles including Vice-President and Head of Technology for the Citibank Private Bank and Technical Director of Global Asset Management Ltd before emigrating to Australia in 1997, where he became Technology Services Director at Macquarie Bank, based in Sydney.

Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a Master’s degree in Computer Science and is also a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered IT Professional, a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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Leon Troeth

MANAGER, IDENTITY AND MESSAGING SERVICES
IT SERVICES, MONASH UNIVERSITY

Leon Troeth is the Manager of the Identity and Messaging Services group at Monash University. Leon joined the University's IT Services division in
1994 and for the past seven years, has been responsible for the central authentication systems, including the Monash LDAP directory service, Public Key Infrastructure, and forthcoming shibboleth service. Leon is also responsible for Monash's messaging related services including email, scheduling, spam scanning and instant messaging.

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Erik Vullings

PROGRAMME MANAGER META ACCESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (MAMS) PROJECT
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY

Dr. Erik Vullings received his MSc in Mechanical Engineering (specialization in mechatronics, August 1994) and his PhD in Electrical Engineering (specialization in biomedical signal validation, May 1999), both at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. In January 1999, he joined Philips R&D as a systems engineer, developing parts of complex business applications like assembly robots, medical equipment and wafer steppers. In October 2003, while still at Philips, he became the programme manager of a €16m European Union funded FP6 project EUPASS in assembly equipment. In February 2004, he moved to Sydney, Australia, where he is currently working for Macquarie University as the programme manager of a $4.2m DEST funded project called MAMS, the Meta Access Management System project, which is developing solutions for federated identity and access management using SAML, and authorization using XACML.

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John Zornig

SPECIAL SYSTEMS ANALYST, IT SERVICES
THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

John Zornig has as a science and technology research background. He gained a B.Sc. from the University of Queensland, majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science, where he was employed as a tutor, research assistant, systems programmer and systems administrator. Over the following 25 years John worked as a Specialist Systems Engineer for Sun, Pyramid Technology, Network Solutions, Convex Supercomputer, Fujitsu including 10 years at Apple, Recently he has worked as an independent technology consultant and in January he returned to the University of Queensland as a Specialist Systems Analyst in the Strategic Technology Group within ITS. John is working on projects involving middleware, PKI, federated authentication and grid computing. John is also studing for his B.Sc. Honours.

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Last Updated - 14 August 2006