James THORNE

Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot – United Kingdom

I work for the LCG Tier1 Fabric Team at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK.  Although I originally studied geology, I have been a UNIX systems administrator for over seven years, the last 18 months at RAL.  My main role is the benchmarking and maintenance of the hardware and operating systems for the CASTOR storage systems.  I also have responsibility for central system logging and various monitoring tools.  As a systems administrator, I am most familiar with Perl and shell scripting but I have dabbled in other languages too.  CSC2008 will increase my knowledge of the grid and other technologies, expanding the range of roles I can fill within the RAL Tier1