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Wyong

Working primarily Scoping, Planning, and Project Managing the redevelopment of our Customer Portal by our development team, I fill out my time with building API glue to allow our Portal to talk to all of our various suppliers and internal systems.I also provide PHP/MySQL performance tuning consulting services to customers where required.With a huge team of.

Providing end-user support, system administration, and web/application development services to some 50 hosting clients. These clients range in size from bed&breakfast cottages, to the National Association of Community Legal Centers (providing email and conferencing services to all Community Legal Centers and Tenants Advice & Advocacy Services in Australia.

Newcastle

• Overseeing IT and Web Development operations throughout ICON and its subsidiaries. ICON have some 80 staff spread across two sites in Newcastle, and one site in each of Christchurch, Birmingham, and.
• Providing day-to-day management of IT/Helpdesk, Content Management, and Programming staff, liaising with stakeholders in all markets (AU, NZ, UK, IE) to ensure service delivery goals are met.
• Working with Service Providers in multiple countries to ensure… Show more Overseeing IT and Web Development operations throughout ICON and its subsidiaries. ICON have some 80 staff spread across two sites in Newcastle.
• Working with Service Providers in multiple countries to ensure local conditions do not adversely affect our global operations. Providing overseas branches with well-defined Computing Environment documentation, to allow.
• Ensure performance targets for both in-house computing environments, and externally collocated internet services are met – Courses Direct sources 99% of its turnover via its web properties, thus uptime and.

North Sydney

• Contracted to provide Backend Software Development (PHP, Perl, and Java) and Systems Administration support to the Software Development and Network Engineering teams.Responsibilities:
• Providing day-to-day systems administration and capacity planning across physical and virtual servers in 7 POP’s in 6 states and two countries. On a day to day basis, this usually involved managing staff and contractor.
• Providing day-to-day systems administration and capacity planning across physical and virtual servers in 7 POP’s in 6 states and two countries. On a day to day basis, this usually involved managing staff and contractor.
• Writing, implementing, and maintaining organisation-wide security and change-control standards.
• Developing customised FreeRadius proxies, to handle Platform’s large LAC/LNS authentication and switching load, and correctly fail-over interstate handoffs, during transit outages.
• Building API bridges between ‘The Platform’ provisioning portal, and upstream (Telstra LOLIG, Optus, iSeek B2B, etc) providers provisioning systems. Show less

Canberra, Australia

Late 2001, the direction at ISA changed, and we rebranded to Adaptive Systems. My pre-sales and project analysis work increased, with us bidding for (and winning) the 'ContentSafe' Content Management System for Corrs Chambers Westgarth, the 'Recruit' recruitment management system for Downing Teal, the 'Pulse' Donation CRM for The National Heart Foundation..

Canberra

ISA was one of the largest Web Development and Hosting houses in Australia for many years. We ran approx 60 servers, hosted ~500-600 web sites, had six web developers (php, jsp), a web designer, and two sysadmins.I spent much of my time until 2001 providing pre-sales and project scoping support to our sales staff, helping to scope both new work, and.

Running the Technical Lab in the Electronics Engineering department, ensuring stock levels were maintained, repairing Lab equipment, supervising students in practical activities, manufacturing cases for department-built equipment, tutoring students with lab activities where required

Built the Online learning system for all Electronics Engineering courses at TAFE's in Victoria.

Built loader&verification software to load firmware into train control systems.