The Team

Paul Bristow: BSc. MA. APM. FIFL. MBCS

Electrical Engineer, Project and Service Delivery Manager

A highly qualified, effective, electrical engineer, project manager and service delivery manager, specialising in the leadership, management and delivery of core business-critical systems to internal and external stakeholders. Over 13 years of high-level academic and professional experience, employing current Prince 2 and ITIL project methodologies to ensure consistent success.

Responsible for designing, developing and project managing successful bespoke IT network infrastructures and IT software installations from £K-£M with particular emphasis on delivering on time, within budget, satisfying business requirements, employing industry best practices, and ensuring a positive attitude within the project team.

Key Strengths:  leadership, accountability, organisational skills, prioritisation and developing effective operational and management processes and procedures, an effective communicator at all levels within public or private sector organisations, dedicated to providing high expectations with customer service whilst maintaining a professional business standard, with a flexible ‘hands-on’ approach to teamwork, teambuilding and strategic decision making with the ability to formulate complex strategies and action plans for future-proofing business critical systems.

As a committed educationalist and researcher I have continued to develop my own academic performance and study with that in mind I have authored and had published a number of articles and papers researching learning resource centres and the digital world. These papers are ISBN registered and available online they form part of my own wider doctoral study into the digital native use of social networking in learning resource centres forming new online communities of learning.

Peter Membrey M.Sc.

I’m a Chartered IT Professional living, working and studying in Hong Kong. I hold a master’s degree from the University of Liverpool in Information Technology with a specialization in Information Security. I graduated with distinction and received two awards from the university; one for the highest GPA that year and one for the best dissertation (highest grade). My dissertation was on the viability of integrating SMS based two-factor authentication in agent based systems.

I’m currently studying at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for a PhD under the supervision of Professor Keith Chan as my Chief Supervisor. I am also extremely lucky to have Dr. Yuri Demchenko a leading researcher in the security field from the University of Amsterdam as a co-supervisor.

I am an active member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) where I sit on the Hong Kong Branch Committee and ICTS Section Committee. I am also a member of the British Computer Society, ACM and IEEE. I also hold ICTTech (one of the first eight in the world – see IET press release). and EngTEch professional registrations with the IET. I also took part in the IET mentoring scheme where I mentored two IVE students through their final year project. I look forward to taking part again this year.

I’ve worked with Linux for nearly 15 years in a production environment and earned my first RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) in Red Hat 7 at the age of 17. As far as I know I am still the youngest person to have taken and passed the exam. I currently hold four RHCEs with the latest being certified in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. My RHCEs can be verified by clicking here. My RHCE is current.

I have co-authored two books on CentOS (a RHEL like operating system), the Definitive Guide to CentOS and Foundations of CentOS. Both books have been endorsed by the CentOS project, with the Definitive Guide having the unique claim of being the first ever dedicated CentOS book published.

I have also co-authored a book on MongoDB, the Definitive Guide to MongoDB, a fantastic document orientated database system and performed the technical review for Getting Started with Windows 7 for Friends of ED. I am also currently working with Eelco Plugge and David Hows on a new book called Practical Load Balancing and have just finished doing the technical review for Windows 7 Made Simple.

I have contracted for Red Hat UK for many years and had the privilege to work for Red Hat full time as a consultant for two years where I worked with some of the best and  brightest Linux experts in the industry.  As a consultant I provided consultancy to numerous industries but mostly in the financial, telecommunications and retail sectors with a large number of FTSE100 companies.

Peter’s blog @WordPress