I was born in Sydney, Australia in the mid-1960s and lived there until I moved with my family to Tamworth, New South Wales in the 1980s. I got my Honours degree in Computer Science in the 1980s from U.N.E in Armidale, New South Wales.
When I graduated, I moved down to Canberra, ACT in 1989 to work in a Distributed Operating Systems research group at the Australian Defence Force Academy, a campus of the University of New South Wales. Having completed my Ph.D in Internet network congestion, I lectured at ADFA from 1992 to 2001 teaching Operating Systems, undergraduate and postgraduate Data Networks, Systems Administration and half of the first-year Computer Science and Information Systems courses.
In 2001 I moved up to the Gold Coast in Queensland, where I lectured at Bond University. My main subjects were Introduction to Programming, Data Networks and Network Security, Advanced Programming and Operating Systems.
In 2013 Bond, in their infinite wisdom, closed the IT School. After a year of turmoil I got a job with TAFE Queensland, where I taught the Diploma of IT Networking and the Cybersecurity Cert IV.
In 2021 I retired from teaching, and I now live on a five acre property and help my wife Kaz (in the above photo) with her dressage riding passion.
My computer related interests are operating systems and networks, the history and preservation of Unix. I have passed the OzTiVo baton on to other people and I've pottered around on other smaller projects.
Other interests are horses, movies, SF and science history books, music by Mike Oldfield and the Alan Parsons Project.
I played bass in a blues band until my Uni grades started plummeting. I can still bang out a song or two on my guitar as well.
Warren Toomey wkt @ tuhs.org, May 2026