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Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

• Processing of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) through eDiscovery tools such as LAW PreDiscovery, including the culling documents using date ranges, document type filtering, deduplication etc at an early stage.
• Extracting and manipulating information from client supplied Ringtail and Relativity exports such as document date/time, relevance, issue categorisation and host/attachment relationships by means of SQL, Excel and.
• Converting problematic document types such as Excel spreadsheets using a suite of approaches such as preprocessing, multipass processing, QAing/flagging, macros, deduplication/re-propagation, and document clustering to.
• Preparing complicated print jobs using a variety of data manipulation techniques and tools such as regular expressions, batch scripting, Excel, VBA, etc to facilitate document ordering, extraction and conversion
• Hardcopy processing including logical document delimiting, physical delimiting, OCR and stamping
• Liaising with colleagues to determine job volumes and time-frames, negotiating with the client where necessary in regards to scope, timing, output, batched delivery, etc to match client expectations to resource.

Canberra, Australia

• Developed HTML5 based web-games on a Linux based development environment
• Contributed to the Puzzlescript open source HTML5 game framework, utilising version control software to track bugs, submit performance, feature enhancements and patches; and otherwise collaborate remotely with.
• Removed performance bottlenecks through the use of profiling tools and knowledge of algorithms/data structures
• Conducted testing across multiple browsers and operating systems to ensure cross-platform compatibility

Canberra, Australia

• Examined a broad range of patents, both national, and international, across a range of technology areas, including: mining, oil/gas, valves, earthmoving equipment, foundation engineering and hydraulic engineering
• Created and executed search strategies through various patent databases, utilising techniques such as: fuzzy searching, wildcards, boolean logic, proximity and comparison operators, etc to find relevant prior art
• Refined searches as necessary based the applicability of search results and categories/patent citations of most relevant results
• Reported on patentability of applications by applying the various legal tests to the application as compared with prior art, taking into account legislation, case law and patent office procedure

Melbourne, Australia

• Subjectively coded documents in Relativity for relevance and categorisation regarding particular legal issues utilising host/attachment propagation, document clustering, duplicate searching, etc where appropriate to.

Melbourne Area, Australia

• Digitised hardcopy documents, including pagination, scanning, QA and delimiting
• Objectively coded documents for electronic evidence discovery for export into various client facing systems such as Ringtail, Relativity and Concordance
• Utilised techniques such as document type clustering, operator filtering, etc to increase efficiency and accuracy of QA review

Melbourne, Australia

• Recorded and updated information relating to encumbrances over CSIRO's IP into a proprietary IP specific database system
• Liaised with IP managers and other staff to make changes to the structure of the database to better reflect the information requirements of the organisation
• Analysed legal agreements to determine the type, scope and extent of licences granted in relation to parts of the IP portfolio

Melbourne, Australia

• Conducted independent research into the effects of various process conditions on mineral extraction from copper ores
• Examined existing literature and planned experiments to supplement existing knowledge
• Analysed results in order to produce meaningful conclusions
• Provided basic insight into the nature of examined ore to internal and external stakeholders

Sydney, Australia

• Conducted research to determine the legal obligations of the organisation with regards to chemical storage and OH&S
• Inspected chemical stores and laboratories and liaised with relevant stakeholders to change unsafe procedures
• Increased chemical safety in a number of locations

Darwin, Australia

• Developed and implemented a small project management database
• Oversaw data migration from numerous personal spreadsheets into a centralised network database with a functional concurrency model
• Dealt with document management, and liaised with internal and external parties in relation to a range of issues ranging from native title and capital works funding to environmental regulations
• Assisted with the preparation of complex digital documents to supplement cabinet and ministerial submissions

Graduate Diploma In Law, Commercial Law

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb)