Curriculum Vitæ - Guy Antony Halse
Curriculum Vitæ
Guy Antony Halse
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Personal Details:
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Surname:
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Halse
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Forenames:
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Guy Antony
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Contact Address:
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Information Technoloy Division, Rhodes University,
Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.
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Contact Phone Number:
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+27 46 603 8279 (Work)
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Email Address:
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guy@mombe.org
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Gender:
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Male
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Marital Status:
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Single
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Date Of Birth:
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31 May 1977
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Nationality:
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Zimbabwean, permanently resident in South Africa
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Spoken Languages:
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English (Fluent, First Language)
French (Basic, Read & Speak)
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Education:
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Tertiary Education:
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Rhodes University (1996
- 2003)
Grahamstown, South Africa
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Secondary Education:
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St George's
College (1990 - 1995)
Harare, Zimbabwe
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Primary Education:
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Harare Hellenic School (1983 - 1989)
Harare, Zimbabwe
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Academic Qualifications:
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Master of Science (Rhodes)
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Computer Science -
"Novel Approaches to the
Monitoring of Computer Networks"
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Bachelor of Science (Honours) (Rhodes)
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Computer Science -
research into the use of
LDAP on campus
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Bachelor of Science (Rhodes)
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Major subjects: Computer
Science, Information
Systems and Physics with
Electronics
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2 GCSE 'A' Level Passes:
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Computer Science, Physics
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10 GCE 'O' Level Passes:
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Additional Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Computer
Science, English Language, English Literature, History,
Mathematics, Physics, Science
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Achievements:
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Computer Student of the Year 2002 (Computer Society
of South Africa, Eastern Cape Chapter)
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Full Colours [Service] (School, 1995)
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Half Colours [Drama] (School, 1995)
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House Colours [Studies] (School, 1993)
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Minor 'O' Level Prize (School, 1994)
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First Aid Service Award (School, 1993)
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Work Experience:
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Systems Manager
(Rhodes University [Information Technology Division],
Dec 2003 - Present)
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Consultant [Eastern Cape Technikon]
(DITCHE, Tertiary Education
Network, May 2003)
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Lecturer [Computer Science 201 -
Architecture] (Rhodes University Department of Computer
Science, April/May 2003)
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Centre of Excellence Network Support (Rhodes University Department of Computer
Science, Jan 2001 - Dec 2003)
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IT Consultant/Webmaster [Newsroom of the
Future] (Highway Africa 2000
Conference, Sept 2000 & Sept 2001)
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Assistant Network Manager (National Festival
of Science, Engineering & Technology, April 2000)
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Student Demonstrator [Computer Science
3] (Rhodes
University Computer
Science Department, Feb 2000 - Nov 2002)
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PC Public Lab Upgrades (Rhodes University Information
Technology Division, Jan/Feb 2000)
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Assistant Network Manager & Workshop
Presenter (Sanlam Future
Business Leaders Week, September 1999)
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Workshop Presenter & Cyberden
Manager (National Festival
of Science, Engineering & Technology, March 1999)
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Student Demonstrator [Computer Science
1] (Rhodes
University Computer
Science Department, Jan 1998 - Nov 1999)
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Senior Computer Lab Assistant (Rhodes University IT Division,
Jan 1998 - Dec 2000)
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Workshop Assistant (National Festival
of Science, Engineering & Technology, April 1998)
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Dialup Support & Installations
[Internet] (Samara Services (Pvt) Ltd.
(now M-Web
Zimbabwe), Nov 1996 - Jan 1997)
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Classroom Assistant [Voluntary] (SOS
Nursery School, January 1994)
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Various other private contract jobs, mainly involving
network administration or web design
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Computer Experience:
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Operating Systems:
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FreeBSD; Windows XP, 2000; Linux; Novell OpenEnterprise Server;
Solaris; Cisco IOS;
Windows NT4; Windows 9x; HP-UX; Windows 3.x
(In descending order of experience)
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Programming and Other Languages:
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Perl; PHP; HTML, SSI & CGI; SQL; C; C++; Java; Basic;
Visual Basic; Delphi; Prolog; Visual C++
(In descending order of experience)
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Administration:
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Centre of
Excellence, Department of Computer
Science, Rhodes
University (2001 - Dec 2003):
Management and administration of a multi-vendor
(Paradyne, Nortel, Cisco, Olicom, Symbol, SMC and 3Com)
research network consisting of RADSL, ATM, 802.11b
wireless, ISDN, analogue dial-in & dedicated lines,
and Fast Ethernet technologies. Video streaming.
Co-ordination of the departmental disaster recovery
strategy with a University-wide plan. Research into
effective ways of monitoring and utilising existing
technologies.
Rhodes University
Computer Users Society (1997 - Dec 2003):
Two FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE machines with 30+ web/e-mail
virtual hosts and 500 users running an Apache webserver, Qmail, Ezmlm, MySQL, anonymous ftp (including a
FreeBSD mirror),
Samba, DNS, etc. I have served as webmaster,
postmaster, and database administrator for this server.
Highway
Africa 2000 Conference (Sept 2000 & Sept 2001):
2000: Windows NT Server running IIS4, and a Microsoft
Media Server serving the conference webpages from an
Informix database.
2001: Web, media and database servers on a SUN E450
running Solaris.
Rhodes
University PC Public Laboratories (1999 - 2000):
Approximatly 250 Windows NT Workstation machines, on
various harware configurations talking to a Novell NDS server, and FreeBSD networking
services.
Rhodes Astronomy
& HAM Radio Society (1997 - 1999):
Redhat Linux 4.2 with 10 users running an Apache
webserver, samba and anonftp.
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Interests:
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My computing interests include FreeBSD, Qmail and LDAP. I am actively involved
in contributing software to the ezmlm mailing list manager
project, and am interested in the integration of legacy
systems with the world wide web. I am actively involved
in the provisioning of low-cost computer
facilities to schools with a disadvantaged
background. I am also a CPAN
Contributor.
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Software Development:
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Invision Board
NNTP Gateway (2002 - present)
Scrabble client (2002)
- A Windows based Scrabble client interfacing to a public
domain Scrabble server, allowing users to play Scrabble over
the Internet.
Fault
tracking system (2000)
- A web based system for tracking hardware faults
in PC public labs at Rhodes University
help
tracker (1999 - 2000)
- A round-robin based support tracking system for Qmail, with full support for
message tracking, threading and anonymisation.
ezmlm-web
(1998 - present)
- web interface for the ezmlm mailing list manager.
Coupled with this is a Mail::Ezmlm
Perl module that has been released on CPAN.
The list above contains software that I have written and
released in the public domain (mostly open source) over the
last few years. It doesn't include the many Perl, PHP, and
sh scripts I've written to make my tasks as a sysadmin
easier, code that was developed as part of my job, academic work,
or any of the web pages and web applications that I've been
involved in developing.
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Papers & Publications:
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"Novel Approaches to the
Monitoring of Computer Networks" - M.Sc thesis, 2003
"A bi-directional
SOAP/SMS gateway service" - Southern African
Telecommunications, Networks and Applications
Conference, 2002
"Open
Source in South African Schools: Two Case Studies"
- Highway
Africa Conference, 2002
"Successful use of donated computers in a secondary
school: A retrospective case study" - co-authored with
members of the Education Department, Rhodes University,
2002
"XML to facilitate
the management of multi-vendor networks" - South African
Telecomunications, Networks and Applications
Conference, 2001
"An Investigation
into the use of LDAP fro the provisioning of campus
services" - B.Sc (Hons) thesis, 1999
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Referees and References:
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Mr FF. Jacot-Guillarmod (Director, IT
Division, Rhodes University):
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F.Jacot-Guillarmod(ät).nospam.ru.ac.za
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Prof George Wells (Head of Department,
Dept of Computer Science, Rhodes University):
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G.Wells(ät).nospam.ru.ac.za
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Prof Peter Clayton (Dept of Computer
Science, Rhodes University):
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P.Clayton(ät).nospam.ru.ac.za
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