Tim Bell
Governance, Risk And Compliance In The Office Of The CIO at CERN
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Bell is a seasoned IT leader with over 12 years of experience managing large-scale production services in research and finance, currently heading Governance, Risk and Compliance in CERN’s Office of the CIO. His career spans deep operational roles—from hardware and storage management to leading compute and monitoring teams—and strategic resilience work as IT Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Lead. Tim combines hands-on systems expertise (AIX/kernel-level consulting early in his career) with governance instincts honed overseeing critical infrastructure at Deutsche Bank, IBM and CERN. He has also contributed to major open-source documentation efforts for OpenStack, improving clarity for operators of a widely used cloud platform. Elected to leadership positions in the OpenStack community, he bridges technical, community and governance domains to deliver auditable, reliable services. Based in Geneva and Cambridge-educated in Computer Science, he brings a pragmatic, detail-focused approach to risk-aware IT at scale.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Lancing College, ShorehamWest Hill Park TitchfieldBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Queens' College, Cambridge
Github Skills (5)
sphinx10
documentation10
rs9
openstack8
computation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (3)
openstack/openstack-manuals
Dec 2013 - Mar 2016
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:8 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily focused on updating and correcting documentation related to the OpenStack project. Their commits involved adding descriptions for flavor CPU topology parameters, fixing spelling errors in documentation, adding documentation for a new CPU policy option, and correcting the flavor name in a slow VM example. The user’s contributions centered around enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the OpenStack administration and contributor guides.
manualsopendevopenstack
indico/newdle
May 2020 - May 2020
Open Source Collaborative enterprise meeting scheduling tool.
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
collaborativeschedulingdockerenterprise
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