Architect, Integration Developer, Development Manager, Vendor Technical Liaison:– Infor Pathway SaaS Migration Project– Technology One CiAnywhere SaaS Migration Project– PlanSA ePlanning Project – Geocortex workflow– Adelaide Central Market Authority – Shopify to TechOne– Parking Infringements Project – DCA PinForce to Pathway– Contract & Procurement Management Project – OpenWindows/TechOne- ICRS Civica ‘Modern.Gov’ SaaS- Fujifilm Kofax OCR solution – TechOne integration- Assetic - Asset management & Field Worker Solution- GIS Upgrade -ArcGIS & Geocortex

A member of the Strategy, Architecture & Security team. Responsible for the development, evolution and support of strategies and IT principles. Over 7 year delivered many solution architectures for a very broad variety of significant IT capital projects including Mobile Work Order Application, Field Worker Safety, Timewise time sheeting & capitalisation, Advanced Dispatch (Click), GIS Replacement (Geocortex), eCatalogue (Zycus), Maximo Upgrade, SharePoint Upgrade, BizTalk Upgrade, ABB Ellipse Upgrade and the introduction of new capabilities in SCADA, mobility (devices, security, integration) and asset management domains, to name but a few. Involved in the Technical Assurance Review Committee and managed the IT Design Authority.

Solutions & Software Architect

The Parks Passes project & SOA Proof-of-Concept involved reviewing and costing numerous technology proposals before architecting the preferred solution option. The innovative solution for Parks Passes delivered considerable savings to the department and make it possible for the public to order, download and print passes to government owned & managed parks over the internet. An administrative web application enabled staff to manage the solution. For the backend I managed and oversaw a SOA proof-of-concept of 6 weeks with a team of 4 developers using Oracle SOA Suite. I assisted the project manager with the project schedule and prepared a system design document with entity relationship diagrams, sequence diagrams and state transition diagrams for the development team. I also assisted generating database schema, implementing web services, developing service bus proxy and business services and transforms, as well as some GWT development. The OSB integrated with the Westpac QValent payment gateway, MS Dynamics CRM, the department’s LDAP server, Google web services, etc.

Introduced and implemented many new technologies at the University with the Student Portal project, which was delivered on time and budget for first semester 2010. Such was the success of the project that it won the 2010 Oracle Middleware International Innovation Award. Delivered was a portal secured by central authentication service, offering single-sign on to other University systems (email, calendar, etc), and custom portlets rich in information and functionality. The backend was a sophisticated SOA employing both a Service Bus and Business Process Management. Portlets retrieved data via service bus proxy services that in turn queried underlying systems via business services, or triggered BPEL processes. I was responsible for the choice and acquisition of the physical hardware and software, based on an active-active, 2-node cluster, 3-tiered architecture designed for maximum performance, reliability and versatility. The team was small and agile, so I was very hands on, being responsible for the installation and configuration of the OSB & SOA Suite whilst overseeing an international team responsible for the installation of the portal, and a local contracting firm to which the development of some portlets was outsourced. I also led a small internal team, developing portlets, canonical data formats, service bus proxy services, business services and XQuery transforms.

The SACE Board of South Australia, formerly SSABSA, introduced new and significantrequirements for the Certificate of Education. The opportunity arose to retire a suite of legacy Visual Basic desktop applications and upgrade the variety of external web applications used by schools and students. Tasked to review the software development process employed by Information Services, I made several recommendations that were subsequently implemented: introducing a custom software lifecycle process; automated nightly ‘heartbeat’ builds; code reviews; unit testing; and coding standards. I was asked to review all existing applications and suggest future technology directions. Visual Basic applications were replaced by a Java Swing plugin architecture using Java Web Start as a deployment mechanism. I implemented a proof-of-concept over 3 months. The prototype was accepted by the Board, and I led 3 contractors developing plugins for the framework.

The Attorney Generals Department commissioned Intec to develop a proof-of-conceptpilot demonstrating a citizen/business centric portal solution, with access to two AGDagency applications - Business Names Registration (OCBA) and Person Seeking Approval (OLGC). I was contracted to assist the development of the pilot. My primary focus was the end-to-end implementation of the Business Names Registration portlet. I used the BEA WebLogic Studio for portlet and web services development and AquaLogic for BPM development.

In 2007 full retail contestability was introduced into the Queensland natural gas market. I was commissioned to author a Java batch application to parse incoming/outgoing EB & ASE/XML messages (a standard format between energy retailers & distributors) into an Oracle database. The application was successfully deployed not only to QLD but VIC & SA. Ant scripts automatically created the database schema and deployed the application to environments. Also responsible for the installation, configuration, support, & maintenance of the Actuate reporting tool in DEV/UAT/PROD environments. While Actuate adequately serviced Origin management’s reporting requirements, there was evident need for a similar, but cheaper, tool to be used internally. I suggested Eclipse BIRT and provided a proof-of-concept which was subsequently deployed to production. I authored both the portal and most of the reports.

ARAMIS, the Asset Register & Management System, was a bespoke management system for assets within SA national parks. As senior systems architect, I was responsible for implementing coding standards and gathering requirements. I designed the web application framework (MVC-II), employing J2EE design patterns (delegates, facades, service locators, transfer objects and data access objects). Implemented much of the complex business logic as stateful and stateless EJBs.

BCSS was a digital Battlefield Command Support System developed by Saab for the Australian Army. With military clearance, Jerome was responsible for the communications subsystem allowing BCSS to integrate with Mercury, a defence messaging system. I was then placed in a ‘skunkworks’ group to rectify hot issues and problems with other components in the system. Subsequently I was sent to America with a small delegation to attend the military and developer-related sessions of the ESRI Users Conference in San Diego. I spent an intensive week with ESRI staff prototyping MapObjects and MOLE (Military Symbology) before returning to Australia to evolve the BCSS battle map.

The Australian Virtual Herbarium (AVH) was an online botanical information resource providing access to the wealth of scientific plant specimens held in each Australian herbarium. Six million specimen records were enhanced with images, identification tools, and maps displaying geographic distribution. I was responsible for extending the South Australian herbaria’s web site, Perl CGI script web app and Texpress database.

I architected and implemented the MapVu project, a web application for the generic browsing of ESRI spatial datasets. I developed use-case documents and UML diagrams. A Struts-based front-end queried an EJB container which employed ESRI ArcIMS servers and services to generate spatial images from ArcSDE datasets. Complex JavaScript was employed for advanced, dynamic map manipulation.

Liaised with the management and staff of Adelaide’s Adelaide, Mt. Lofty & Wittunga botanic gardens to gather the requirements for the Online Living Collections, a web application providing both the staff and public a means to textually and spatially query the gardens flora. Generated use-case documents and UML diagrams, before managing the team implementing this J2EE project. The project became a template for others in the department.

Designed and implemented various components of the web-based Asset Register & Management System (ARAMIS) enabling park rangers to manage the assets within their national parks, and for the central agency to reconcile asset finances. Dynamic maps enabled staff to locate assets within a park.

As a director of Alesia Pty Ltd, tendered and won the contract to design, develop, and deliver Internet Broadcaster’s SodaCast, a web application intended to provide an easy way to upload, encode and host streaming media. Essentially a YouTube precursor. Authored Software Requirements Document, Software Design Documents, etc using UML methodologies. Configured and managed the source-code repository which resided on the client hardware and accessed via SSL using WinCVS. Remotely managed team of 4 developers over 6+ months. Solution employed the MVC-II design pattern, using JSP for web client and a Java controller directing requests to model entities. Backend was an Oracle database with embedded PL/SQL. A remote payment gateway was utilised to process client’s monthly subscriptions.

Contracted to develop code for a multi-million dollar airborne geophysical sensing system, designed by CSIRO and research partner World Geoscience Corporation. Mounted in a light aircraft, the Cerberus Mineral Mapper collected reflectance spectrometer covering the VNIR and SWIR wavelengths continuously from 500nm to 2500nm to identify mineral deposits. Cerberus was designed around a VMEbus with a Motorola MVME2700 CPU, running the embedded VxWorks RTOS. Code was written in C/C++ using the WindRiver Tornado development environment. I additionally designed and implemented a cross-platform (Windows & VxWorks) solution to gather spectra from the interferograms, perform numerous real-time operations (levelling, centring, fast-Fourier transformations), and store the results for later remote download. Authored utilities to manage remote diagnostics and low-level socket communications, serial port communications, shared memory queues, and semaphores. Authored test harness to time and validate operations.

S3000 & S4000 Queensland Rail Train Simulators. Authored the real-time, threaded, socket-based Simulation Manager responsible for the co-ordination of communication between the reality/physics modeller, driver console PLC, instructor's station, audio & video system. Programmed the PLC to handle user input from the train console and control train gauges in simulation mode. Laster re-engineered the S3000 simulation code to handle the different operational requirements of the S4000 series train simulators.

The Land Information Systems Architecture (LISA) project. Designed and developed LISA, a joint CSIRO and DENR project, providing an open, distributed, 3-tier client/server architecture designed to optimize remote procedure calls for both atomic and streamed (high-volume) data delivery services. I then developed ArcView (Avenue) and MapInfo (MapBasic) proof-of-concepts to demonstrate the power and functionality of the LISA API in a custom DLL. With the advent of the internet, I conceived, designed & implemented an innovative web-based application to deliver LOTS and DCDB data to the public. Commercialised as PropertyAssist, it seamlessly integrates textual and spatial land information. Developed a C++ Tuxedo-based client/server spatial lock manager using Oracle OCI calls to permit the safe multi-user editing of digital cadastre data. Finally, used HandsOff, a C++ multi-user load-testing tool, to author an application to stress-test hardware from Sun, HP, Fujitsu and DEC as part of a large tender for hardware to host textual and spatial DBs.

The LOTS (Land Ownership and Tenure System) Redevelopment project involved the conversion of the LOTS database from a legacy Unisys DMS-II database to a Unix Oracle database. Comprising over 170 tables with complex relationships, it is the source of truth for ownership, certificate of title, valuation and sales details for properties within South Australia. I designed and developed an application, executed daily, to maintain the concurrency of the Oracle database by retrieving, parsing, and converting DMS-II audit trails into appropriate SQL operations. This utility and supporting Bourne shell scripts remained in operation until the original Unisys system was retired.

WebGenie, with support from Luminis (University of Adelaide technology transfer company) and the Playford Centre, achieved an average growth of 85% per year from inception. It developed applications that add customised dynamic content to a web site, such as shopping carts and email forms. As Technical Director, I redesigned and maintained the web site. Responsibilities included product enhancements, Perl CGI scripting to process online orders and user feedback forms, and processing customer technical enquiries.