Andy Jackson

Current

• Digital Preservation Architect at The British Library

Past

• Senior Software Developer at The British Library
• Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Edinburgh
• Research Fellow at MacDiarmid Institute

• Applications Consultant at EPCC

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Education

• The University of Edinburgh
• University of York

Connections

46 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website

Andy Jackson’s Summary

Andy Jackson’s Specialties:

Consultancy, software design and architecture, programming, concurrent systems, digital preservation.

Andy Jackson’s Experience

• Digital Preservation Architect

  The British Library

  (Government Agency; Libraries industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Developing our preservation principles and consequent technical strategies. Building content management workflows and contributing to digital preservation projects, both internal and external. Continuing the work on the Planets Testbed, while also developing internal systems based on the Planets tools.

• Senior Software Developer

  The British Library

  (Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Libraries industry)

  October 2007 — September 2009 (2 years )

  Senior Software Developer on the Planets project.

• Postdoctoral Research Associate

  University of Edinburgh

  (Educational Institution; Research industry)

  2005 — 2007 (2 years )

  Parallelising Monte Carlo simulations of dense hard-sphere fluids.

• Research Fellow

  MacDiarmid Institute

  (Higher Education industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years )

  Simulating dispersive flow through porous media. Lattice-Boltzmann fluid modelling and virtual tracer particle simulation. At Victoria University Wellington.

• Applications Consultant

  EPCC

  (Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2005 (4 years )

  Varied consultancy work, for clients from both industry and academia. From massively-parallel algorithms on supercomputers through to data-driven web sites.

Andy Jackson’s Education

• The University of Edinburgh

  Ph.D. , Computational Physics , 1997 — 2001

• University of York

  MPhys , Computational Physics , 1993 — 1997

Additional Information

Andy Jackson’s Websites:

• My Website

Andy Jackson’s Groups:

•    Digital Data Experts
•    Digital Libraries

Andy Jackson’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch