Alan Bennie Email & Phone Number

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Current, and ongoing, developing an IOT device for use in a variety of industries but initially targetted to farming.
Development of 6 POC devices is complete with initial functional testing complete.
Developed an initial design for an enclosure aimed to be IP65 compliant.

Next steps are significant miniaturisation of the circuit board.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Clinical Quality Registry data - Review of data sharing processes, including development of Privacy and Ethical assessment for research purposes.

Documentation of technical changes to Managed Rehabilitation Equipment Service (MRES) with potential to significantly reduce operational overhead to ACC, Physiotherapists and others - with an added benefit.

Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Test analyst on project to upgrade an identity service (Savyint) within Canterbury University.

Short term engagement with BRANZ NZ (an independent building research organisation) - assisting in the migration of website content to a newly implemented instance using SilverStripe.

New Zealand

Involved in migration of 20 million documents to Enterprise Electronic document and records management system. Included review of documents and appropriate application of security constraints (access controls) to content to ensure access was only available to appropriate teams.

New Zealand

Provided technical BA assistance to the Web Services Manager in the final months of development of two Māori focused services - Kauwhata Reo and Tāhūrangi (Online Curriculum Hub) - distinct projects with synergistic outcomes.

These two projects use digital resources created for use within Te Mārautanga o Aotearoa (education.govt.nz) by teachers.

Wellington, New Zealand

MoE brought this instance of the IDAM Service in line with the Real Me service - operated, developed and supported by Datacom and hosted by DIA.

An Agile development with the same data implications in place with previous SAAS service, and its subsequent rollback, but included a further requirement to address data quality issues that had been.

Wellington

Employed for 6 weeks to document the requirements for annual developments for a suite of funding tools (Workspace, Performance Point) and also to undertake analysis and define resolutions to raised Production issues and defects.

Wellington, New Zealand

Education Sector Identity and Access Management Replacement project.

Replacement for an IAM service introduced in 2005/2006 and, in 2013, was rapidly approaching end of support from Microsoft.

Involved in testing the contracted delivery for the SAAS replacement service against available requirements. Post Go-Live for approx 2 - 3 months was a.

Wellington

Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Scripts and test execution for migration of Enterprise Service Bus to a later instance. Provided architectural content and detail for the architecture team.

Member of team testing multiple applications internal to TEC.

Specific test experience on Education Sector Secure Authentication (ESAA) service developed for the Education Sector.

Seconded to the Ministry of Education as Test Team Lead for the final stages of development Identity Management system.

Involved in the development of an Identity Management system - including operational frameworks and policy detail.
Specific tasks included development of identity provisioning and user profile update use cases.

Management of a 28,000 page knowledge repository for front-line staff.

Proposed and coordinated development of team, tools and methodology to undertake the first complete overhaul/review of all content within the knowledgebase.

Wellington, New Zealand

Digitizing of NZ land titles

Wellington, New Zealand

Reporting and tracking all "micro" projects which were defined as being less than $100k in value (typically no more than 200 projects running at a time).

Reporting included progress of the project, current and forecast spend management, addressing cost overrun.

Daily communications with vendors and with internal Project Managers of these.

Wellington, New Zealand

Process mapping of WestPac Trust retirement savings process in anticipation of transferring management to Jaques Martin.

Various employers. Employed as Commercial Glider pilot, Flight Instructor, extensive tourism flight experience based in Kaikoura New Zealand, short term with Air New Zealand as co-pilot

New Zealand

Primarily Gas Turbine Engineer providing technical engineering support to Stratford and Whirinaki Gas Turbine Power Stations (16 x PW FT4C engines). Engineering support and project management on a variety of projects at New Plymouth (gas fired steam turbine) and Wairakei/Ohaaki (geothermal) power stations. Mechanical support/maintenance at Tekapo A & B.