About Mod3

The partnership existed long before it had a name: three friends with a driving passion for getting things done, done once, done right; between them more than 30 years of systems administration experience.

A number of small private and commercial ventures persuaded them to put the partnership on a more permanent footing, and Mod3 took shape one cold day in 2005. These days, though, the sun never sets on Mod3. With offices in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, it doesn't matter where you are; we're always awake.

Chris Reece

Chris is a Computer Science graduate and an experienced Senior Systems Administrator and Programmer. Chris' UNIX experience begins in 1992, with AIX v3, and extends over 14 years, through IRIX 5 and 6, SunOS and Solaris, with detours into Mac OS, NT4 and W2K system administration along the way. He's also an Oracle developer, with years of commercial PL/SQL and OCI under his belt. Chris has particular expertise in Network Appliance Data OnTAP, database design and naming services, especially DNS.

In time not taken up by computers, personal projects, house renovation and family life, he enjoys motorcycling, both on- and off-road. He is often to be found elbow-deep in some "vintage" motorcycle or air-cooled Volkswagen. In the rashness of his youth, he transgressed the boundaries of polite bathroom protocol to the detriment of the venerable Wietse Venema, embarrassing only himself. Chris once emigrated to Finland for five days, and the worst year of his life was spent writing fake C++ for real money. Chris is now resident in New Zealand. Wild horses could not drag him away.

Matt Holmes

Matt is an Electronic and Computer Systems Engineer and a graduate member of the IET. He is an accomplished systems administrator and project manager, with particular interests in the dark arts of networking and mobile technologies. Matt sees the time he spends administering Windows 2000 domains as penance for being paid to stage a FreeBSD-powered coup in his machine room. He wonders whether he should disable a few services now and then to make the users feel more at home.

Matt worked his way through University managing a local McDonalds; consequently, he is thoroughly versed in what doesn't make customers happy. Ironically, he needs that hair-net now more than ever.

Gavin Atkinson

Gavin is an Electronics Engineering graduate and a respected and talented Systems Administrator and Programmer. He first fell in love with the joys of computing after poking bits of metal into his Commodore 64's joystick port and wondering why Jet Set Willy would no longer walk left. Being the youngest, he's the only member of staff at Mod3 trusted to program the video recorder, but his immense height does mean that it only takes one staff member to change a lightbulb.

In the past, Gavin has been referred to as a technological sponge, by people who know little about technology and less about sponges. Gavin's a DJ in his spare time and enjoys nothing more than playing the music he likes to roomfuls of people who don't.