Daniel Grimm

I am the Departments' Manager, IT Services  and More! -
Until 2006 I only did IT support stuff one day a week and:
For the rest of the week, I worked in the Centre for Telecommunications and Information Engineering as a researcher.

The role Manager, IT Services encompasses the usual hands on computer support (for pc, linux, unix,mac), the ever ongoing battles with ITS, Policy creation, and the eternally unloved and not very well maintained - documentation creation.
Mailing lists, automatic archives of lists, web servers and services all get worked on by myself.
Paul Jenkins did much the same work, 5 days/week + all his spare time.
Then in 2007 there was a "restructure" and paul jumped ship - leaving me as sole IT Manager, and having to pick up maintenance of dept. internal databases and web services [things like thesis allocation process, job request system...]
Also supervision of the remaining 2.x IT support staff - the full time ones being Engineers as well.
I was also  the Chairman of the Engineering Faculty IT Operations Group - a committee created to coordinate and improve IT support for the faculty. And once again I hold that position.
I must create a web page for this group, with its charter. At present the only online presence of this group is at  IT-operations mailing list archive

As a researcher in the CTIE I have been involved in Multimedia delivery systems research (read that as online video and audio streaming, compression etc). Recently this work has been merged into IPv6 and Wireless systems (WAP, GPRS, Bluetooth, Ethernet 802.11, 2G and 3G mobile phones) as part of the ATcrc Applications Program project.

The aim of this research is NOT to produce applications but to analyse the effect of the applications on those systems - to better help design them.

Some of my publications (conference papers)

I've become an expert in LOTS of operating systems - through necessity in supporting them and for the CTIE research. Currently I use win95, 98, NT, NT server, win2000 SERVER, SGI IRIX, Redhat Linux, Mac OS, OSX regularly. I also use/install/test video streaming software including Real, Windows Media, MS Netshow, MS Netshow Theater, SGI Mediabase.  Similarly with Video Conferencing software/hardware - Picturetel, MS Netmeeting .....

An old list of my work covered the following areas (and I still do a lot of that):

• Creation, modification and management of the Departments 3 Netware Servers - [BASIL, SYBIL - turned off 12/2000] REHABTECH
  And now we have a bunch of win2003 servers (ecse-cluster, wsus, filemaker)
• Hardware design and support - Last really big project was the dreaded 8-bit Micro - limited instruction set discrete component 8 bit microprocessor for teaching purposes
• Software design and support
• Wow what an old list:Administration of Netware servers, Unix systems and Computer Centre supported systems
  Now replaced of course by Admin of win2003 cluster, Unix (all variants), mac, and ITS systems
• Postmaster & Webmaster for the Department, IPv6 contact.
• PC specification, purchasing, installation, setup ...... (and it DOES go on and on) DITS Support
• Macintosh " " " " " (see this: Aus Mac link page)
• Provision of Backup Facility for servers and Administrative Macintosh computers. This has grown over the years - from an exabyte 5gb tape (for netware servers) to an AIT2 Tape robot with about 2 Terabyte capacity!.
• Computer Centre's CRUX system and how to run it Needs a password!
• ... and anything else I am asked to do.

Personal Details

•  My ECSE Individual Staff Member Page
•  CTIE Staff list
•  My ctie staff entry
• A picture of myself and my son Richard
• What more should I tell you? Married, one son born Feb00.