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 == History ==
-Member of the Computing Team.  Officially poached from URY at [[Woodstock 2011]] when he wandered in and started to help us de-rig, but had been liaising between URY and YSTV for the year leading up to that, facilitating sharing of equipment and resources.
+Alex is not a paid member of YSTV, and never has been, owing to becoming active in the society after having left university; he is, however, an unofficial member of the Computing Team due to his background in server administration.  The party line is that he was poached from URY at [[Woodstock 2011]] when he wandered in and started to help us de-rig, but had been liaising between URY and YSTV for the year leading up to that, facilitating sharing of equipment and resources.
 Spent a lot of time after his degree finished  contributing to YSTV's software, hardware and infrastructure.  This includes developing the current webcam logging/distribution software (Autumn 2012,) consolidating switches and refreshing the network patch bays (Easter 2013) and coordinating the move to the *.ystv.york.ac.uk domain for all our machines (ongoing).  He also designed and developed the [[Roses 2013]] website, http://roses2013.co.uk.
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 He primarily exists at the society to be friendly, and provides technical support (specifically with audio) as an afterthought.
+== Responsibilities ==
+* Server administration (Win2k8, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora)
+* Email configuration (Exim, Dovecot, etc)
+* Repairing TV cameras (the infamous Sony ones)
+* C programming (in particular the Webcam software)
+* Circuit design (normally reverse engineering things that [[Michael Chislett|Chis]] made, didn't document, and have now broken...)
+Despite not being a member of the society, Alex, for some unfathomable reason, tends to eagerly pick up the projects that sane people wouldn't touch with a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35WgpMq6e3o 39-and-a-half-foot pole]].
 == Credits ==