Systemsolve provides specialist consulting services in the areas of:* application development* application maintenance* data automation* systems management and administration* strategic and tactical directionsSelected ClientsRivusTV Ltd/Spondo (see below)Connect4, now part of Thomson ReutersI was engaged by Connect4 to migrate its information products and their underlying systems from a diverse set of applications and servers to a single Red Hat Enterprise Linux system, with severe time and cost constraints, and with the brief to rationalise the use of ad-hoc software components to standardised releases from Red Hat.Subsequently I have been engaged to improve all the information products in respect of function, appearance, performance and reliability. Technologies: Linux, Java, Python, Perl, Django, Postgresql, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery, Solr, PDFThe Border MailI was engaged by the Border Mail as a systems consultant, and subsequently to develop a complete plateroom system for Border Mail Printing, providing for external clients to submit pages for printing. The plateroom system is responsible for the collection, checking and plate imposition of PDF content as automatically as possible. Visual monitoring tools for plateroom staff was a significant requirement. The first business-ready version was delivered in just 6 weeks.Technologies: Linux, Tcl, C, Oracle, PDF, Postscript

I compose and arrange music for all sorts of players. Works have been played by many groups, including the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Grainger Wind Symphony, the Australian Army Band Melbourne, Heidelberg Wind Ensemble, Oakleigh Brass, Maroondah Symphony Orchestra and Boroondara Symphonic Band.I also teach composition to selected students.I am published by Wirripang and by Musos Media.

Spondo, the trading name of RivusTV Ltd since 2012, specialises in the monetisation and syndication of digital content, in particular on-demand and live video. This required the design, development and ongoing maintenance of a flexible content management platform, to suit changing delivery and asset management technologies.I am responsible for the entire software architecture, the development of the system data management, and a significant part of the user interface. The ability to adapt quickly to different ways of delivering and storing content has been a tribute to the far-sightedness of the original architecture.I have also designed and built the data model and application server for RivusIQ, a corporate training and assessment system. This uses Java EE currently atop the Glassfish server.Programming languages: PHP, Javascript, Java, Tcl, HTML, CSSTechnologies: Unix/Linux, Amazon Web Services, ReST (Tonic, Laravel), Java EE, Doctrine ORM, Smarty, AngularJS, jQuery, BootstrapDatabases: Postgresql, MySQL

I was responsible for all technical architecture decisions and the design and development of software.

My role was to investigate particularly thorny production requirements and design solutions for them. The highlights were the replacement of a monolithic queued OPI system by a dynamic processing module, and the redevelopment of plate generation to allow the News of the World to produce 42 editions in one night with increased colour content and printing to remote sites across Europe.