Charles Curran

Current

Head at Ideas, Skills, and Solutions
Teacher at Speak English Better (Self-employed)

Past

director at UKUUG
systems development at University of Oxford
systems development at Oxford University Computing Services -- OUCS

founder / committee member at UK+EU Convex User Group (UKCUG & ECU)

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Education

St John's Seminary, Wonersh

Connections

107 connections

Industry

Think Tanks

Charles Curran’s Summary

all levels of IT ... from OS writing up (¿down?)

Business analysis

Charles Curran’s Specialties:

Thinking -- ideas...solutions
Teaching English as a second+ language
Computer administration
Coding in various computer languages
Project management

Charles Curran’s Experience

Head

Ideas, Skills, and Solutions

(Partnership; Think Tanks industry)

2002 — Present (7 years)

ideas, skills, solutions, and audits
Teacher
Speak English Better (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

2002 — Present (7 years)

one-to-one English; fix articulation and other deficiencies; it's fun and can be very easy.
Currently offered in Sevilla.
Intensive courses in other locations considered.
director

UKUUG

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 2004 (6 years)

UKUUG Ltd (UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group):
director from 1998-2004, treasurer 1998-9, chairman of Council 1999...2003.

In reality, UKUUG has no "employees". I worked for it almost full-time in my latter years on Council.
systems development

University of Oxford

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

1973 — March 2002 (29 years)

Coder/Administrator: academic IT, covering writing, implementing, and supporting computer operating systems, mainly on mainframes and other large systems. Generally introducing newer IT technologies.
Key role in forming IT-security awareness, policy, and incident/response team in University (OxCERT) and achieving its association with international teams (eg FIRST).
Heavy involvement in forming and participating in national and international computer user groups.
Two years seconded to the University's Registrar leading Y2K project which (despite what was written internationally) was really a business-continuity audit, awareness exercise and being able to deal with all obfuscation and apply any fixes; also University's representative on others' advice panels and working-groups.

To contact me, see http://www.ox.ac.uk/contact/.
systems development

Oxford University Computing Services -- OUCS

(Higher Education industry)

January 1973 — 2002 (29 years)

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[Universidad de Oxford]
founder / committee member

UK+EU Convex User Group (UKCUG & ECU)

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

1987 — 1995 (8 years)

co-founder of user groups &
co-organizer of their meetings in UK (1988-1995) and EU (1989-95)

Charles Curran’s Education

St John's Seminary, Wonersh

1969 — 1972

Additional Information

Charles Curran’s Groups:

UKUUG {'82...}, UKCUG / ECU / CUG: UK and other Convex user groups {'87-~'96}, (ICL) Perq User Group {~'82-'85}, SACU (Society of Anglo-Chinese Understanding) {~'73-'80}, UK FOE (Friends of the Earth) {~'70-84}, Soil Association {~'74-~'82}, AUT (Association of University Teachers)--now UCU {~'85...}, Amnesty International {~'75...}