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Project Engineer for Vodafone Deutschland GmbH - Global Services Platform Test Environments, I am responsible for the concurrent project and technical management of multiple turnkey projects, which utilise mobile telecommunications, instant messaging/presence, digital rights and content management systems based on 3G, OMA and J2EE technologies running on Sun SPARC/Solaris and Intel/Linux platforms I am responsible for the deployment and system integration of the Instant Messaging Services, Digital Rights Management and Content Management systems within the Vodafone global services test environment. These systems make use of third party commercial software from the software vendors Followap, CoreMedia, and Mobilitec and are integrated into the Vodafone Live! portal, WAP Gateway SMSC, and billing system of each of Vodafone's world wide operating companies, as well as Vodafone partners such as MSN and Orange These projects require me to liaise with external vendors and internal Vodafone development groups located in Germany, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Israel and the USA I am required to gather systems requirements, review architecture design documents, provide technical advice regarding system architectures and configurations, development of project schedules for the establishment of test environments, which are required to be aligned to the production environment, for the deployment of the third party and internally developed software systems for the commencement of the quality assurance testing phase. In addition, I am responsible for coordinating the implementation of the testing environment, monitoring the test environment framework

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Experience Project Engineer for Vodafone Deutschland GmbH - Global Services Platform Test I am responsible for the concurrent project and technical management of multiple turnkey projects, which utilise mobile telecommunications, instant messaging/presence, digital rights and content management systems based on 3G, OMA and J2EE technologies running on Sun SPARC/Solaris and Intel/Linux platforms I am responsible for the deployment and system integration of the Instant Messaging Services, Digital Rights Management and Content Management systems within the Vodafone global services test environment. These systems make use of third party commercial software from the software vendors Followap, CoreMedia, and Mobilitec and are integrated into the Vodafone Live! portal, WAP Gateway, SMSC, and billing system of each of Vodafone's world wide operating companies, as well as Vodafone partners such as MSN and Orange These projects require me to liase with external vendors and internal Vodafone development groups located in Germany, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, France, Israel and the USA I am required to gather systems requirements, review architecture design documents, provide technical advice regarding system architectures and configurations, development of project schedules for the establishment of test environments, which are required to be aligned to the production environment, for the deployment of the third party and internally developed software systems for the commencement of the quality assurance testing phase. In addition, I am responsible for coordinating the implementation of the testing environment, monitoring the test environment framework

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Below is a selection of some of the organisations I have consulted to during this period: The National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems designing of a heterogeneous Unix / Windows server environment, consisting of SGI / IRIX, Sun / Solaris, Intel / Linux, and MS Windows NT / 2000 servers and MS Windows user desktops. Responsible for: o Reviewing and providing advice regarding the improvement and rationalisation of the existing Information Technology infrastructure. o Developing and implementing a refresh plan to rationalise and align the system to the organisations requirements. o Configuring and installing a consolidated CIFS server environment using Samba using RedHat Linux and a Sun D1000 StorEdge array configured with software RAID 5. o Installing and configuring of a Sun / Solaris mail and web server, based on sendmail and Apache web server, respectively. o Installing and configuring an ATL 4 / 52 automated robotic tape management system using Amanda backup running under RedHat Linux 9.0, and designing and implementing a comprehensive backup schedule. o Developing and implementing a migration plan from an MS Windows NT to MS Windows 2000 server environment; implementing Windows Active Directory (AD) service, whilst maintaining the legacy pre-AD environment. o Installing and configuring a choke/gate firewall architecture, using netfilter's iptables to establish the packet filtering and network address translation rules. This firewall was used to protect the hosting of numerous spatial applications that make use of ESRI ArcIMS and Oracle RDBMS. The South Australian Government - Department for the Environment & Heritage Designing and managing the implementation of an agency wide consolidated hierarchical storage management (HSM) solution using Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) technologies. Responsible for: o Researching and reviewing latest storage technologies, such as SAN, NAS, FC-AL, iSCSI and FCIP. o Selecting vendor hardware that best met the agencies present and future term requirements. o Managing the implementation of a 4TB Sun StorEdge 6320 SAN with an L100 SDLT tape library. o Evaluating HSM technologies such as Sun Microsystems SAM-FS and QFS, Veritas NetBackup and Storage Migrator, and Legato's Networker and DiskXtender. The South Australian Government - Department for the Environment & Heritage Researching and authoring a document on Web Services technology and its uses. The research paper covered the following aspects: o Web Services what they are and how they're used. o How Web Services can play an enabling role in the automation of business processes. o The Web Services model, the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and the Universal Description, Discovery & Integration (UDDI) registry. o Implementation of SOAP web services using TomCat web container, Xerces XML parser, and WSDL. o Security aspects of Web Services. LISAsoft - Software Engineering Consultancy Reviewing the performance of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System based on a multitiered J2EE enterprise architecture. Responsible for o Formulating a plan that concentrated on identifying the cause of the applications performance bottlenecks o Providing guidance to software engineers working on the project o Designing, documenting, configuring and tuning an environment for formal benchmarking of the application based on BEA WebLogic, Oracle 8i RDBMS, and Solaris 8 running on a Sun E3500 o Gathering, analysing, and documenting of the applications performance statistics

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During this period I held the position of Project Manager and Software & Systems Architect. These roles required me to perform the following: As Project Manager, I was responsible for: o Scoping out and costing consultancy work. o Identifying, understanding, and capturing customer requirements. o Preparing, presenting, and submitting tender responses. o Negotiating contracts. o Communicating with customers and vendors. o Establishing and implementing aspects of quality management systems, using ISO 9001 (AS3563) guidelines. o Managing all aspects of the project team; such as identifying project roles, selecting project team members, identifying project phases, tasks and milestones and allocating these to the project team, resolving all manner of problems that may arise. o Establishing project plan baseline. o Convening project kick off meeting and progress meetings. o Establishing software development processes and environments. o Managing the procurement of hardware and software that is required by a project. o Tabling reports, making presentations and answering technical and non-technical questions of management. o Commissioning and handing over. As Software & Systems Architect, I was responsible for: o Liaising with management, business analysts, technical staff and end users. o Establishing a clear understanding of business requirements and expectations. o Designing of n-tier corporate applications using appropriate messaging middleware and database technologies. o Developing, prototyping, and benchmarking selected software architecture designs. o Designing, scoping, and sizing the hardware system for the deployment of the corporate application. The following are a selected list of some of the major organisations that I have consulted during this period: The South Australian Government - Department for Environment & Heritage Project Manager / Software and Systems Architect Software Architecture design and management of a multi-million dollar system migration of the South Australian Land Title Register from a legacy UNISYS mainframe to an Open Systems environment. Responsible for: o Establishing project schedules for the proto-typing and development of the designed systems. o Convening project kick off meeting and progress meetings. o Reviewing the existing online-transaction-processing architecture of the legacy land titling system. o Identifying the feasibility of the system being migrated to a COBOL and C / Tuxedo / Oracle / Solaris environment. o Developing software architecture designs and software requirements specifications to be used by TATA / UNISYS for the development of the migrated application. o Prototyping and benchmarking the proposed online-transaction-processing software architecture based on BEA Tuxedo TP monitor, Oracle 7 RDBMS, and Sun Solaris. o Convening technical review meetings with TATA / UNISYS to produce a detailed design document in collaboration with TATA / UNISYS. o Conducting software development review meetings with TATA / UNISYS. o Auditing the software developed by TATA / UNISYS and resolving software design issues that might arise. o Benchmarking the migrated online-transaction-processing system. o Documenting the requirement specifications for the test harness. o Developing acceptance test plans for formal integration and acceptance testing of the migrated system. o Managing and mentoring a team of four software engineers. o Managing the integration and acceptance testing process. o Commissioning the developed system into production. The South Australian Government - Department for Primary Industries Reviewing the existing departmental computer systems infrastructure, and providing recommendations for the consolidation and future positioning of the Departments information technology infrastructure. The consultancy focused on: o Documenting existing network and computer systems architectures. o Identifying the business roles that are performed by each of the computer systems. o Analysing existing Information Technology practices and interviewing Primary Industries and EDS staff to understand the business and technical processes performed. o Designing and costing the replacement computer system based on a Sun E4500 with A1000 storEdge arrays. o Authoring a report, which outlines the consultancy's findings and recommendations, and presenting the findings to management and staff. The South Australian Government - Department for Administrative & Information Services Implementing integration and acceptance test, and a production environment for the Computer Assisted Valuation System. Responsible for: o Designing, configuring and technically supporting an integration and acceptance test environment. This environment is based on a distributed computing environment that is composed of two Sun servers, IBM's MQ-Series messaging middleware and the Oracle 7 RDBMS. o Commissioning of the corporate application into a production environment. o Authoring of build and installation documentation to be used by software release staff, and of operational documentation to be used by operations support staff. The South Australian Government - Department for Environment & Heritage System design and management of a multi-million dollar system migration of the South Australian Land Title Register from a legacy UNISYS mainframe to an Open Systems environment. Responsible for: o Developing and implementing the baseline project plan. o Convening kick off meeting and progress meetings. o Designing and procuring the network, computer systems and software required to establish the new production, disaster / recovery, and software development and quality assurance sites. o Managing the identification and selection of common-off-the-shelf applications to be used in the newly established environments. o Managing the configuration, deployment, testing and commissioning of the new production, disaster / recovery, and software development and quality assurance sites. Developing and implementing documentation standards and templates used throughout the project. o Technical interface to EDS, Sun Microsystems, UNISYS, TATA, and interested Government agencies. o Developing with TATA / UNISYS formal integration and acceptance testing environments for testers to accept the converted COBOL and C code. o Managing the development environments as per TATA / UNISYS specifications. o Designing and managing the implementation and commissioning of a new integrated development, configuration control and build environment based on CVS and perl scripting. o Managing the introduction and training of the legacy system software development staff to the new software development and configuration control environment. Managing the hand over of the systems administration tasks to EDS staff. The South Australian Government - Department of Mines & Energy System and network audit of the agencies critical UNIX and Novell servers. Responsible for: o Reviewing the existing configuration of the critical UNIX servers. o Gathering and analysing performance statistics from each of the UNIX servers. o Managing the sub-contracting of the review of the Novell servers. o Authoring a report outlining the findings of the audit and providing prioritised recommendations. o Presenting the findings to management and EDS. The South Australian Government - Department for Environment & Heritage Managing the multi-million dollar system migration of the South Australian Digital Cadastral Database Maintenance and Spatial Delivery System from a legacy Data General mainframe to an Open Systems environment. Responsible for o Developing and implementing the baseline project plan o Establishing a project team of eight software engineers o Allocating roles, responsibilities and work activities to project team members o Convening weekly project review and software development meetings as well as software development desk audits o Designing an n-tier client / server architecture using a Sun Solaris / Oracle RDBMS / BEA Tuxedo environment and having responsibility for all architectural design decisions o Designing aspects of the entity relationship data model used in the development of the system o Providing training and mentoring to the software development team in the usage of BEA Tuxedo and Oracle. o Developing and implementing coding and commenting standards to be used through out the project o Developing the software design and test plans for a major software module Managing and co-ordinating the integration and acceptance-testing phase o Developing and implementing processes for reporting and handling of software defects

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Consulting Services Manager, I was responsible for: reporting to the board of directors, managing the sales and marketing, planning, human resource management, management, and consulting aspects of the consulting services business unit The roles and responsibilities included Sales and Marketing o Promoting the company as the premier Consulting Services Company in South Australia o Developing and maintaining a high market profile for the company's Consulting Services o Developing consulting products and packages that can be tailored to the demands of the market o Establishing, developing and maintaining customer contact o Introducing company services and their benefits to potential customers o Developing consulting budgets and forecasts, and presenting them at board meetings Scoping out and costing consultancy work o Preparing, presenting and submitting tender documents o Developing and presenting reports to the Board on all aspects of the Consulting Services business o Interviewing, hiring and dismissing of employees o Negotiating employment contracts o Resolving employee conflicts o Managing seven junior consultants Project Management o Organising and managing projects through out their entire project life cycle o Identifying resource requirements and establishing the project team o Allocating project work to consulting services consultants o Monitoring the status of projects o Customer interface and liaison Consulting o Consulting to the company's customer base of thirty clients o Taking on a consultative role in software design, coding, and testing phases of software projects o Taking on a consultative role in the system and network design and administration of computer systems In this role I was able to increase the customer base by 10% per annum and grow revenues by 30%, with revenues reaching $AUD 600,000

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Educational Services Manager, I was responsible for o Promoting, developing and maintaining a high market profile for the company's education services o Preparing of business plans, quarterly and annual budget forecasts and reports to be presented to the Board of Directors. o Managing the acquisition, or in-house development, of new training courseware o Developing yearly course schedules, marketing strategies and literature o Implementing, managing and monitoring tele-marketing processes used in marketing education products to customers o Developing and implementing systems to manage the logistics of holding simultaneous training courses o Negotiating license agreements with vendors; negotiated exclusive agreements with the following vendors: Sun Services, Sun Soft, Digital Equipment Corporation, Silicon Graphics o Keeping abreast of latest training technologies o Managing a pool of course trainers o Co-author to the following in-house courseware: UNIX in a Nut Shell, UNIX for Users, UNIX for Systems Administrators, X-Windows for Administrators and TCP / IP Networking o Holding the position of trainer for the following in-house developed courseware: UNIX in a Nut Shell UNIX for Users, UNIX for Systems Administrators, and TCP / IP Networking course o Holding the position of trainer for the following Sun Service Education courses: Fundamentals of Solaris Solaris Systems Administration, Solaris Advanced System Administration, Solaris Network Administration Working with SunNet Manager, OpenWindows for Users In this role I was able to achieve annual revenue growths of 50% with revenues reaching $AUD 500,000

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Senior Consulting Engineer - Communica Systems, Australia As the Senior Consulting Engineer, I was responsible for: o Responding to Request for Tender, scoping and costing of consultancy work, quoting on consulting work, developing project plans, managing personnel, monitoring project progress, liaising with and managing customer relationships. o Software and systems architecture design, prototyping, software development, unit testing, documentation, and commissioning of the system and the software application. o Evaluating, ordering, installing and configuring of commercial software products. Providing on call UNIX system administration services to a customer base of more than thirty customers. o Mentoring junior engineers. The following are a selection of some of the major organisation that I have consulted to during this period: Vision Systems Engineering High speed recording systems for the Royal Australian Air Force. Responsible for: o quoting on the consultation, project planning, liaising with the customer, selecting the software development team, managing and mentoring software developers. o Responsible for developing software to interface and control IEEE-488 HP-IB high speed tape recording devices. The South Australian Government - Courts Administration Authority Security and Network audit. Engaged to perform a security audit on the Departments network of Sun servers. COPS and Sun's ARM were installed and used during the audit. A technical report was authored and presented to management describing audit methodologies, findings and recommendations. Telstra Australia Network management project. Responsible for quoting on the consultation, planning, installing, configuring, administering and commissioning of the SunNet Manager network management system. The Australian Federal Government - National Rail Authority Responsible for advising, configuring and tuning of a cluster of Sun SPARC / Ingres database servers, and the installation and configuration of SunNet Manager to the customers requirements. The South Australian Government - Department of Lands Responsible for the response to a request for tender for the Product Ordering, Accounting and Billing System of the survey database system. Responsible for the project planning, customer liaising, designing, coding, acceptance testing and commissioning of the software to the customers specifications. Software developed on a Sun SunOS platform, using C, Oracle Pro*C, SQL*ReportWriter and SQL*Forms. South Australian Centre for Manufacturing Designing and implementing an organisation wide office automation system. Responsible for the implementation and set to work of an organisation wide (300+ personnel) networked office automation system. The system was based on a Sun UNIX servers, with a UTP Ethernet 10Base-T network, using PC and Macintosh machines as the desktops. Fujitsu Australia & Harris Scarfe Retail Store Integration of the Fujitsu Atrium whole-of-store point-of-sale software. Responsible for the response to a Request for Tender for tailoring of Atrium POS software to Harris Scarfe requirements. Responsible for the initial design, coding, tailoring, acceptance testing, implementation, and training of staff on the tailored software. The software was written in a Borland Delphi C / C++ environment. Defence Science and Technology Organisation Authoring a 100-page booklet on the introduction to computing for the Trusted Computer Group. Responsible for the quotation on the consultation, the research, design, authoring, layout and style of the booklet titled introductory guide to computer technology. The guide introduced users to Information its terminology and concepts

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Consulting Engineer - Communica Systems, Australia The following are a selection of organisations I have consulted to during this period: Vision Systems Engineering Part of the quality assurance group of the Laser airborne depth sounder (LADS) project for the Royal Australian Navy. The South Australian Government - Courts Administration Authority Systems Architect / Systems Engineer Networked office automation system. Responsible for the planning, design, and deployment of a WAN and LAN UNIX network of 20+ Sun SPARC machines. The South Australian Government - Department for Engineering & Water Supply Software Engineer Development of an X-Windows based graphical user interface for a pump optimisation system. The Australian Federal Government - National Rail Authority Software Engineer Design, coding, acceptance testing, and commissioning of the Dangerous Goods Tracking System based on a distributed computing model using Sun Microsystems ONC / RPC