BIOGRAPHY
James Turnbull works for the National Australia Bank as the manager of
the CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team).
James has previously worked as an Executive Manager of IT Security at
the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the CIO of a medical research
foundation doing Web-based clinical trials, managing the architecture
group of an outsourcing company and in a number of IT roles in gaming,
telecommunications and government.
He is an experienced infrastructure architect with a background in
Linux/Unix, AS/400, Windows, and storage systems. He has been involved
in security consulting, infrastructure security design, SLA and service
definition and has an abiding interest in security metrics and measurement.
James is involved in the Free and Open Source Software community as a
developer and contributor. He was the Treasurer, member of the papers
committee, and coordinated the mini-conference program at linux.conf.au
2008 in Melbourne, Australia. He is also a member of Linux Australia,
including serving on the Executive Council in 2008.
He is currently on the committee of Linux Users of Victoria.
In his spare time his interests include cooking, wine, political theory,
photojournalism, philosophy, poetry, and cats.
