Christopher Beard
Technical Officer For Educational Media
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Beard is a seasoned systems administrator and technical officer with over a decade supporting diverse IT environments across the University of Oxford and further education. He combines frontline user support expertise (macOS, Windows, Active Directory, JAMF) with practical systems administration and AV/media technology management, having run recording studios, video suites and campus-wide services. Comfortable bridging technical and educational needs, he’s known for procurement and asset management as well as hands-on troubleshooting for staff and students. His background in computing and philosophy plus early database and VB/Access development gives him a pragmatic, process-minded approach to automation and user workflows. Based in Oxford, he brings steady institutional knowledge and a track record of enabling teaching and learning through reliable, well-maintained systems. An often-unseen strength is his ability to translate classroom requirements into resilient technical solutions that scale across multiple sites.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, 2:1 with Hons, Computing and Philosophy, BA, 2:1 with Hons, Computing and Philosophy at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddBTEC National Diploma, Music Technology, BTEC National Diploma, Music Technology at Abingdon and Witney College
Github Skills (11)
recipe9
virtualbox7
drupal6
python5
ansible5
vagrant5
cms4
macos4
docker4
cookbook3
processor2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ox-it/orchard-recipes-inhouse
Nov 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:45 PRs, 32 pushes in 1 year 2 months
houseorchardrecipespackagingautopkg
cdbeard/talks
Nov 2016 - Nov 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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