Mark Mclaughlin Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

Independent software tools and process consultant. Helping my customers managing requirements right through to deployment and operations.My background in a wide variety of roles and platforms and experience with many software tools gives me useful real word insights into practical solutions regardless of where your team is today. Requirements Management, Development, Testing, DevOps, SecOps, and Operations are all areas where I can help.If you have some older tools (particularly… Show more Independent software tools and process consultant. Helping my customers managing requirements right through to deployment and operations.My background in a wide variety of roles and platforms and experience with many software tools gives me useful real word insights into practical solutions regardless of where your team is today. Requirements Management, Development, Testing, DevOps, SecOps, and Operations are all areas where I can help.If you have some older tools (particularly those in the IBM/Rational family) that need upgrading, replacing, or extending then I can very likely help with that. If you just aren’t sure if you should do anything except tweak your process or if you are considering investing more heavily in tools, then I can help with that too. Show less

Sydney, Australia

Primarily technical presales for BMC's range of automation and operations tools

Sydney, Australia

Pre sales and consulting services primarily for IBM Rational products. Also led the Rational practice for much of this time. Certus acquired my previous employer Software Traction

Software Traction is an IBM Rational Business Partner.Help software development organizations with their process improvement programs. In particular provide implementation services for the Rational tool set.

Worked throughout Asia Pacific primarily in pre-sales and implementation of Agitar's tools that help Java developers improve their quality and productivity. Helped enable partners in various countries in the region, and helped enable new hires to become productive. Travelled extensively and gained valuable insight into development processes, strengths and weaknesses throughout the region.

After Rational was acquired by IBM... Led the Marketing team for Rational Asia Pacific and also a leader in the project to integrate Rational into IBM

Encompassing time at Atria Software which merged with Pure Software to form Pure Atria, which in turn merged with Rational Software.Performed a variety of Asia Pacific wide and Australian roles - both technical and managementApril 2002 Rational Software Performance Incentive AwardApril 2001 Rational Software Performance Incentive Award

See Rational description

See Rational descriptionDecember 1996 Systems Engineer of the Year South East Asia

Including time at Legent (merged into CA August 1995)Involved in presales and postsales technical work for a variety of products - primarily the Endevor line.

See Computer Associates description.October 1993 Legent Outstanding Performance Award

Including time at Capita Services (merged with MLC in July 1990).Last position was as development team tools support specialist. Helping the development team select and deploy tools. Also enabling teams through education and problem managment.December 1992 Lend Lease quality service awardDecember 1991 Lend Lease quality service award

Started out as Analyst Programmer / Technical Support Analyst - working with DB2 based applications. Later became Technical Specialist - tools support for the development organisation.

Started out as a trainee programmer in 1982. Performed a wide variety of jobs over seven years in the development organisation. Included time as tools specialist, 3rd party package evaluation. Exposed to a wide variety of business applications from customer managment, account, billing, and service call management.