Profile

Geraint Williams, Infrastructure Manager

I obtained my MSc with Distinction in Internet Technology from the University of Luton and completed my BSc at Hatfield Polytechnic. Prior to joining the University I worked for a number of companies including British Aerospace and Marconi Instruments.

One of the most interesting jobs I have done was the 7 years I spent working at Millbrook Proving Ground, which is a 400 acre Vehicle Proving Ground near Ampthill in Bedfordshire.

Here I was a Senior Engineer working within the Safety Test Lab involved in the simulation and actual crashing of vehicles, trains, aircraft and marine seats.

I even made an appearance on World in Action documentary on what happened to occupants in Mini-bus and Coach Seats when involved in crashes.

At this job I could truly say I worked with dummies as I had responsibilities for the Anthropomorphic Test Devices aka the Crash Test Dummy. Click on the image to see the whole family. Although these dummies were no dummies with up to 104 channels of data that could be recorded during a test

I have been at the University of Bedfordshire since March 2000 where I have been leading the Technical Support Team within the Academic department of Computing and Information systems.

Teaching Areas

• Computer Hardware
• Networking
• Social & Professional Issues in Computing
• Security & Forensics

Research Projects

• Teaching and Learning Project, University of Luton. Automated attendance tracking

Future Research

I completed my MSc in October 2003 and the thesis was on the the implementation and Management of a Beowulf Cluster.

Hoping to do research into Digital Forensic and Computer Security which is an area of interest and career development.

Publications

Refereed Conference Papers

2006

• Geraint Williams, Carsten Maple, Yong Yue, 'Reliability, Availability and Security of Wireless Networks in the Community', IADIS International Conference e-Society 2006, 13-16th July, Dublin, Ireland

2009

• Geraint Williams, Carsten Maple. “Development of a facility to aid the teaching of Computer Security and Digital Forensics at the University of Bedfordshire", 3rd International Conference on Cybercrime Forensics Education & Training 2009, 1st-2nd September, Canterbury, UK. Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-899253-44-9

Refereed Journal Papers

2007

• Carsten Maple, Geraint Williams, Yong Yue, 'Reliability, Availability and Security of Wireless Networks in the Community', Informatica Journal,  Volume 31, Number 2, 2007

Presentations

2008

• "Biometrics: Physical Identification", Herts BCS Branch Meeting, 30th Sept 2008

2010

• "Hollywood Forensics", Herts Branch INSTMC & IET, 27th Jan 2010
• "Computer Security: Protecting Yourself", The Knowledge Network, University of Bedfordshire, 24th Mar 2010

Consultancy

• East of England Development Agency Innovation Voucher "Investigative report into the feasibility of High Speed HTTP modification" for PluginSEO, May 2009

Internal Activities

• Technical Support Representative, Faculty Academic Board (2003-2005 & 2009-)
• Technical Support Representative of the CIS Undergraduate Field Board
• Technical Support Representative of the CIS Post graduate Field Board
• Editor for CIS Department section of the University of Bedfordshire web site and for the CIS Labs web site.
• Member of the IRAC: Institute for Research in Applicable Computing
• Health Safety Committee representative (2009)

External Activities

• Visiting Lecturer, Barnfield College (1999-2004)
• Technical Coordinator and Moderator for ubiqwiki support the Scalable Global Ubiquitous Computing Grand Challenge (GC 2/4)
• Membership Secretary Herts Branch of the BCS

Professional Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) since 2003
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) since Aug 2006
• Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator(CHFI) since Aug 2006
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since Feb 2007
• Chartered IT Professional since Sept 2008
• Prince2 Practitioner since Oct 2008
  
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) since Jan 2009
  

Professional Memberships

• Member of the British Computer Society
• Member of the BCS Information Security Specialist Group and Cybercrime Forensics Specialist Group
• Member of the ISSA
• Associate Member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers

Contact Details

Geraint Williams
T: +44(0)1582 743289
W: Computing & Information System Labs