Paul Trafford

Junior Webmaster at St. Cross College

Oxford, United Kingdom

Current
  • Junior Webmaster at St. Cross College, Oxford
  • Director (voluntary) at Dhammakaya International Society of the UK
Past
  • Trustee (voluntary) at International Interfaith Centre
  • Internet Resource Developer at University of Derby
Education
  • University of Oxford
  • Kingston University
  • The University of Glasgow
  • University of Southampton
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Industry
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Paul Trafford’s Summary

Following a naturally inter-disciplinary and integrative approach, I seek a holistic view of people, systems and technology: a doctorate in computer science, 10 years full time in I.T. services in H.E. as an e-learning specialist (6 years running Virtual Learning Environments at Oxford University), and considerable voluntary work in interfaith (local to international). My strong mathematical training and a combination of the intuitive and analytical means I can sense future technology trends and deliver sound, meaningful and sustainable solutions.

Am currently a full time Master's student in the study of religion (started October 2008), covering many disciplinary approaches concerning the nature of religion and the study of two world religions (Christianity and Buddhism). Am writing a dissertation on the topic of the fifth precept (i.e. refraining from intoxicants) as social protection.

Future? Two main avenues: academic research (especially Buddhist studies) and/or further exploration of I.T. in education (mobile/Web2.0) systems.

Paul Trafford’s Specialties:

E-learning systems,mobile and ubiquitous computing, charities, interfaith, Buddhist studies, religious studies


Paul Trafford’s Experience

  • Junior Webmaster

    St. Cross College, Oxford

    (Higher Education industry)

    September 2008Present (11 months)

    Part time role working with members of the College in maintaining the Web site.

  • Director (voluntary)

    Dhammakaya International Society of the UK

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Religious Institutions industry)

    May 2002Present (7 years 3 months)

    As a Director of DISUK, my main role is to use my knowledge of the charity work in the UK to help facilitate the integration of Thai Buddhist traditions and practice, especially meditation, in the UK, so as to provide benefit to local communities.

  • VLE Administrator

    Oxford University

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

    January 2003August 2008 (5 years 8 months)

    Operational management of centrally hosted Virtual Learning Environment (aka Learning Management System) serving staff and students at Oxford University. Covers system administration, user support, teaching, and support for systems development (QA etc).

  • RAMBLE Project Manager

    Oxford University Computing Services

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    September 2004April 2005 (8 months)

    Project Manager and System Analyst for JISC-funded research project entitled, 'Remote Authoring of Mobile Blogs for Learning Environments.'
    Details at: http://ramble.oucs.ox.ac.uk/

  • HCDT/ACDT Project Officer

    University of Oxford

    (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    June 2000February 2003 (2 years 9 months)

    Project Officer in the Academic Computing Development Team (formerly Humanities Computing Development Team), covering project management and system development of bespoke software projects for academics at Oxford University.
    Programming Skills: PHP,Perl,MySQL,XML,XSLT,JavaScript
    Details of some projects at: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~pault/

  • Trustee (voluntary)

    International Interfaith Centre

    (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; International Affairs industry)

    April 2000October 2001 (1 year 7 months)

    As one of about 12 Trustees of the IIC, my main role was to facilitate online communications within the International Interfaith Organisations Network with IIC as the hub.

  • Internet Resource Developer

    University of Derby

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

    October 1998June 2000 (1 year 9 months)

    Technical Management of MultiFaithNet service (everything from server procurement and management through to Web application design, development, hosting and support). Skills: Linux, Apache, Perl/CGI, HTML,JavaScript,Flash).
    Multi-Faith Centre campaign member (Buddhist rep) - giving presentations on Multi-Faith Centre etc.


Paul Trafford’s Education

  • University of Oxford

    M.St. , Study of Religion , 2009

    Junior Member of St. Cross College.

  • Kingston University

    Ph.D. , Computer Science , 19931997

    Supervisor: Dr. K. J. Norrie
    Thesis: 'Use of Formal Methods for Safety-critical Systems.'

    Activities and Societies:
    Founder member ('94) and President ('95-'96) of KUGOS Meditation Society.
  • The University of Glasgow

    M.Sc. by research , Mathematics , 19901992

    Supervisor: Prof. Robert Odoni
    Research in Number Theory. Thesis title: 'Norms of Ideals in direct sums of number fields and applications to the circulants problem of Olga Taussky-Todd.'

  • University of Southampton

    B.Sc. , Mathematics , 19871990

    First Class Honours.

    Activities and Societies:
    Chess Club Treasurer ('89/'90), Member Cathsoc

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Paul Trafford’s Interests:

mobile learning,holistic education,interfaith,meditation

Paul Trafford’s Groups:

  •    Interfaith
  •    Handheld Learning Group

Paul Trafford’s Honors:

ACH/ALLC Bursary, 2001
Bacon and Woodrow Scholarship in Actuarial Studies, 1988-90


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