Matt Johnson

Systems Programmer
Computing Support Group
Department of Computing
Imperial College London

Homepage

Telephone: (020) 7594 8440 (x48440)
Email: mwj@doc.ic.ac.uk
Web: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mwj/

Welcome to my web pages. Here, you will find:

• Some information about me and my areas of experience.
• My MEng Project (Multi-Protocol Content Filtering)
• Esoteric hints for DoC systems
• How you can make your systems administrators' lives easier if you are an end-user.
• My personal website (now an offsite link)

I graduated from the Department of Computing, Imperial College London with an MEng Honours (2₁) degree in June 2003.

I then joined the Department's staff as a Junior Systems Programmer in the Computing Support Group, continuing my previous three years of part-time work for the Group as part of the Tutorial Support System. In late 2005 I was promoted to Systems Programmer, with specific responsibility for IT security.

My primary responsibilities within the Computing Support Group are:

• assisting my colleagues in the administration of the Department's Linux infrastructure
• handling computer security issues for systems connected to the Department's network
• currently, assisting in the development and roll-out of the new SunSITE Northern Europe

I often also handle second-line support issues relating to Linux or network configuration.

I also occasionally collaborate with members of the Department's AESOP Research Group, providing systems-level network and security knowledge. A paper I co-authored with members of the group has been accepted for PASM 2005.

As of April 2006 I am also a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET).

My particular areas of experience:

• Systems administration on Linux and Solaris, and can find my way around a Windows 2000 domain if I need to.
• I prefer to program in Perl (or PHP for web development), but can hack competently on C and Java.
• Good understanding of MySQL and PostgreSQL relational databases.
• Server software configuration (Exim, ProFTPd, Apache amongst many others)
• Software packaging systems -- I prefer RPM, but have worked with DEB and Solaris PKG in the past.
• Network intrusion -- detection, prevention, post-intrusion forensics, network monitoring.