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Adelaide, SA, AU

Adelaide, Australia

BHP Billiton - BAU Upgrades And Decommissions

• Engaged to manage and deliver a set of BAU projects, which included a mix of upgrades and decommissions. An assessment needed to be made on each upgrade project to understand the current state and the direction in.
• Server upgrades - new infrastructure and operating systems in compliance with company standards
• Server and workstation application upgrades for compatibility to the new platforms
• Data migration
• Impact analysis
• Budget allocationIn collaboration with the business, in house technical teams and vendors a positive outcome was delivered and projects were managed to completion as per the business needs. Where there was a dependency.

BHP Billiton - Cclas Application Upgrade

CCLAS is used at Olympic Dam for the capture, analysis and storage of laboratory data, which is used by a variety of downstream stakeholders and systems for the safe and reliable operation of the ore processing plant.In order for CCLAS to comply with the new desktop platform an upgrade was required to the latest version. Engaged as the Test Manager for the.

SA Power Networks - Regional IT Network Review

The SA Power Networks regional depots have struggled with a poor user experience when using the IT Network. IT Network links have been upgraded with no improvement to the user experience. An analysis was required to understand the problem and provide recommendations on what the organisation should do to improve.Engaged as a Business Analyst I had to work.

BHP Billiton - Piping And Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) App Upgrade

The BHP Billiton drawing office at Olympic Dam was due for an upgrade of their drawing application, SmartPlant P&ID, which was used on a daily office by the drawing team to update and generate Engineering drawings. The application was required to be upgraded to the latest available version and integrate with the new Engineering Document Management System.

BHP Billiton - Program Portfolio Prioritisation

The BHP Billiton Information Management department had to undergo an activity of prioritising the projects in their FY portfolio. The strategy used was to assess the risk of the project to the business over the cost of the project to the business, while taking any project dependencies into consideration. Workshops were conducted with the project.

DSTO Maritime Operations Division - Project Panorama Process Implementation

The DSTO R&D sonar product Panorama demonstrated the potential to significantly improve the Anti-Submarine Warfare and Torpedo Defence capability of the ANZAC Class, this assessment was made through comprehensive sea trials. The Naval Capability Committee approved a program for the evolution DSTO’s Panorama R&D sonar product to a commercially viable.

Telstra - Mobile Policy Management

Mobile Policy Management (MPM) project is one of Telstra Project New initiatives. Its business goal is to give the control back to customers, so customers are no longer required to contact Telstra call centres to implement restrictions on their mobile services. This phase of the MPM project would be offered to Telstra Consumers with future plans to offer.

Telstra - LTE Provisioning

The Telstra LTE (4G) launch was one of the key products in the current telecommunications market, which was to provide customers with data rates that far exceeded their Next G capability. In order to launch a large number of changes across the network were required, both hardware and software systems within the existing infrastructure.My role as a Test.

Lockheed Martin - JORN External Agency Interface (EAI) Upgrade

I was responsible finalising the hardware design using Australian standards, developing the hardware test document, installing and integrating into the existing system, acceptance testing and problem reporting. Some of the tasks that I was involved in included the Installation and modification of a C-Class ready cabinet at 5 sites, installation of all.

DMO - JDHR - JORN Document Hierarchy Rationalisation

My role on the JDHR project was to re-factor the subsystem requirements and design, component level requirements and design and to implement the solution based on the analysis. The goal of this task was to have an effective product that would reduce the integration and test effort to enable better engineering efficiency in the supporting the ongoing JORN.

APA Group - Enterprise Asset Management Program

The Enterprise Asset Management Program represented a significant organisational change for the APA Group in which they sought to move their entire business organisation from numerous disparate systems and diverse operating processes to a common platform for managing their business using Maximo 7. The test team helped enable APA’s vision of a unified.

APA Group - Energy Components Application Upgrade

Energy Components (EC) is APA’s gas trading management tool management of gas in the transmission business. Contracts are stored within the system and used to determine allocations of gas across a pipeline for each gas trading day. A key application and APA current version was at the end of the support contract putting the business at risk in an event of a.

APA Group - Webmethods Gateway Upgrade

APA’s Full Retail Contestability (FRC) gateways are used to exchange gas market transactions with the AEMO (Gas Regulator) FRC Hub. The gateway, at the end of its support contract, was due for an upgrade to renew the support contract. No upgrade was considered for over 10 years, putting the business at risk of not being supported in an event of a major.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Systems

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