John Dyer (Business and Technology Strategist)
John Dyer is the Business and Technology Strategist at TERENA. He is responsible for strategic issues and for overseeing development of new initiatives. His tasks include supporting the Task-Force on the Management of Service Portfolios (TF-MSP), developing the Compendium of national research and education networks in Europe and creating TERENA's long-term strategy for middleware.
John studied Physical Sciences at Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University) where he was awarded a BSc with First Class Honours. His Final Year Project was in the area of Nuclear Science with a particular emphasis on automation of data capture and handling techniques.
In 1983, he joined Green College of Oxford University where he undertook research, working in the Department of Paediatrics at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on the topic of Microelectronic Sensors for measurement of clinically important blood constituents. This included design and fabrication of semiconductor and thick film sensors for use in the laboratory. He also designed and built digital monitoring equipment based on Texas Instrument hardware.
In 1986, John moved to the Joint Network Team, the organisation that set up, developed and ran the UK Academic Community network - JANET. He remained with the organisation when it became UKERNA in 1994, managing the development programme and the SuperJANET applications programme before being appointed Business Development Director. As Business Development Director he was commissioned to undertake a study into the future architecture of UK Academic Networking.
John joined TERENA on a permanent basis in April 1999, after being on secondment to the organisation between July 1996 and September 1997.
His main interests are looking at the more business oriented aspects of networking including Identity Management, Security, Business Processes, Risk Assessment and Management and making the case for NRENs.
He successfully completed a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) during 2001.
You can find his personal website at: www.john-dyer.eu