SkillsAnalytics (www.skillsanalytics.com) offers world-leading technology that helps organisations discover the expertise that is available in their employee base using data analytics, machine learning and natural language processing techniques.► Product development – Ideation to working product► Coordinated and drove the requirements definition for the product and technical architecture► Architecture, design, implementation and delivery using cloud architectures

WhoKnowsAbout is a cutting edge disruptor in the management consulting space allowing large corporations to minimize their management consulting spend and source alternative management consulting teams using data analytics, machine learning and natural language processing techniques.► Product development – Ideation to working product► Coordinated and drove the requirements definition for the product and technical architecture► Developed a system for analyzing biographical profiles and scoring and ranking them against more than 50,000 topics using analytics, machine learning and Natural Language Processing techniques► Architecture, design, implementation and delivery of a cutting edge “serverless” Javascript Single Page Application that runs across multiple form factors on the Amazon Web Services infrastructure using Amazon RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloudfront, S3, SES and other third party web services for authentication and help desk.► Managed outsourcing of part of the development and UX► Established and implemented the entire data processing pipeline to consume upwards of 400 million rows of data

Cuscal is an innovative and cutting edge payments service provider to 80+ institutions providing white label mobile applications, API’s, Apple and Android Pay, credit and debit card issuing, Merchant payment services (both ATM and EFTPOS), transaction processing, fraud and banking services.► Provided architecture, high level design for integrating 15+ applications into the environment, both on premises and in the AWS cloud across the entire cards processing portfolio► Responsible for rejuvenating the data architecture with respect to ingestion, processing, governance, metadata and security. Introduced Databricks (Apache Spark) into the company to act as the data lake for all the company’s data assets.► The go to guy for all things data – database design, data pipelining, ingestion, processing, optimization, tuning and overall data engineering for SQL and NoSQL database of varying sizes from a few hundred gigabytes to 20+ terabytes► Major contributor to defining new data related products from ideation, product definition, design and delivery to internal and external customers.► Architected a new billing system and designed, developed and delivered an Angular application to act as the enterprise “Billing Portal”► Architected and securely integrated a new Fraud monitoring solution into the enterprise with 99.99% availability and full multi data center redundancy whilst processing consistently at 200 transactions per second► Created an architecture to satisfy integration of high availability API’s with internal systems► REST API design and database design for various Cards portfolio products

SIRCA is an independent and leading provider of online large scale financial data services to academic institutions. In my position as consultant to the CEO and CTO I conducted a review of their cloud based platform (based on Amazon Web Services infrastructure) that delivers financial and other market data to most of the universities and academic institutions in Australia.► Completed the review and presented findings and a path forward to the CEO and board on the direction for the Academic Platform► Re-architected the platform using AWS technologies including Web API Gateway, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift and Hadoop► Conducted an evaluation and selection process of the major components of the re-architected platform including Hadoop vendors (MapR, Cloudera and AWS EMR), Cloud identity providers and other cloud based services for monitoring, alerting and usage tracking► Coordinated and drove the requirements definition for the platform► Provided Agile coaching and mentorship to teams

Delivery responsibility for payments switching, middleware, web services, web site, B2B integration and database projects. Managed several large customer accounts including ING and MasterCard along with international financial partner organizations► Led several major projects and enabled the increase of processing volumes from 500 to 800 million transactions per year. ► Delivery responsibility for payments switching, middleware, web services, web site, B2B integration and database projects. Additional responsibility for testing and device certification projects.► Grew the network by expanding into the Asian payments market and delivered mobile POS API’s to capture additional market share. ► Product innovation for a card less ATM withdrawal system involving IPhone/IPad apps (Digital Commerce), web services and payment switching. Architected, designed and delivered a Tokenization product for use by major clients including Australia Post and major banks. ► Architected and integrated various solutions including web service API’s, back office reconciliation and settlement solutions, B2B solutions and IPhone applications► Introduced Agile (SCRUM) into the organization to facilitate product delivery

Project management, architecture, design, development and delivery of all Back Office and data/database related projects for major clients including ING, Australia Post, the RBA, and other large merchants running ATM’s and terminals. ► Architecture and design of the data processing pipeline handling large transaction throughput in multi-terabyte databases whilst taking into account Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives. This included data warehousing billions of rows of transactional data, settlement reporting, reconciliation processes, billing generation and file delivery to various clients.

The Hotfrog team (www.hotfrog.com) within Reed Business International was responsible for designing, developing and running a multi-country (38 countries) and multi-lingual (18 languages) business directory using cutting edge technologies for data acquisition and classification► Directly contributed to growth in revenue from $5 to $35 million by developing innovative new data acquisition and processing strategies, increasing the number of listings by 400%, enabled expansion into 38 countries, drove and performed R&D► Multi-terabyte data warehouse design and development, utilized for multiple internal Business Intelligence (BI) projects including measuring the performance of the Hotfrog websites and for performing linguistic analysis to automate page classification► Designed and built an innovative multi-lingual crawling and parsing infrastructure that could consume the entire web (at the time approximately 370 mil websites) each month and then extract relevant data for appropriate cleansing and use on the Hotfrog websites► Managed regional multi-country projects to automatically categorize business related web content and increase the scale and efficiency of content generation and content classification and accuracy► PM and technical lead for a product related website to focus on generating traffic using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques by mashing content from disparate sources.► Automated the classification of business web content using custom crawlers and parsers, clustering techniques, co-occurrence analysis, and several external data sources including Wordnet and Google n-gram data. This was pure innovation and yielded extremely good results by automating previously manual processes.

Keycorp provided E-commerce solutions, manufactured EFTPOS devices and provided integrated solutions to the major banks.Commenced with Keycorp as a Front End Development Team Leader before subsequently moving in to management roles in 2001 as Software Manager and subsequently Head of Customer solutions► Architected solutions and project managed delivery of EFTPOS terminal software solutions to major Australian banks► Managed product development and delivery of an integrated development environment for embedded development that was sold to external software developers► Architected and delivered terminal management systems for sale to the major banks► Managed multiple teams of developers, technical support personnel and testers► Web development using ASP.Net, C#, HTML and Javascript