John
Paschoud
Institution -
London School of Economics
Role on HeadLine
Project Manager
Co-ordinating the work of the Project Team
(nominally only three full-time posts, but actually involving regular
significant contributions of work from at least all the people appearing on
these staff pages);
Maintaining contact between the Team and the Project
Board and Steering Group;
Playing an active role myself as a systems
designer and an IT 'technician';
... and doing most of the more boring
bits, like the accounts :-(
Previous
Experience/Expertise
Workpackage Leader for Access-control,
Accounting and Document Delivery aspects of the
Decomate-2 project in which LSE
is currently participating;
Information Systems Engineer at the British
Library of Political & Economic Science (at the LSE), developing and
supporting various systems to provide digital access to library materials;
IT Specialist in the LSE team participating in the
Decomate project, which was
successfully completed on 28th February 1997;
Consultant to the
Labour Party on electoral and related
information systems and strategies, and accredited IT support consultant to the
Parliamentary Labour Party;
Consultant and systems development manager for
Geographic Information Systems, mainly for government and local government
applications;
....various other roles designing, developing and supporting
information systems, or training other people to do likewise, all the way back
to 1972 (and yes, they did have valves inside then!).
Interests/Professional
Activities
Local politics - as a Labour Councillor in the
London Borough of Lewisham
-
particularly interested in (town) planning, urban regeneration, transport and
better public participation in democracy;
Promoting professional
standards in IT/IS, through the British
Computer Society;
Using IT in politics - mainly as a member of the
National Management Committee of Computing For Labour since 1992;
History of computing and computing machinery (I try and keep a bit of all
the hardware that I've been around when it's become obsolete and been scrapped,
but I'm not as organised about it as these guys);
Science fiction books
and films;
Theatre - but mostly 'alternative' rather than Shakespearian or
things that run in the West End;
Music - a wide range, particularly
contemporary folk (such as Show of
Hands), but broadly classifiable (by my kids anyway) as "ageing hippy" -
and exclusively as a listener;
My immediate family (aged 43, 18, 13, 10 and
7).
Link to
personal home page
