Mohammad Islam Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Australia

Level 13, 50 Carrington Street, Sydney Nsw 2000

• Lead and coordinate Intersect’s digital data initiatives nationally, working in close collaboration with stakeholders in order to efficiently deliver eResearch outcomes at both a state and national level.• Perform role as a Project Lead for all Intersect data management initiatives and as the Lead Consultant for all new data science projects, develop methodology and tools which could be used in current and future projects.• Interpret and communicate statistical results, develop data science solutions including application development.• Manage, coach and mentor project personnel and development staff, encouraging a culture of continuous learning.• Assume responsibility for all business development activities including new partnering and funding opportunities.• Establish and maintain partnerships/collaborations with relevant stakeholders in order to support the development of strategic transformation and change initiative.• As a Lead Consultant developed an end‐to‐end data strategy for ProCan at the Children’s Medical Research Institute (the world's first industrial cancer proteomics centre) which aimed to analyse 70,000 tumour samples. Led the consultancy project which focused on developing a framework for the data generated by research activity.• Developed an innovative data management system for the NSW node of the Australian Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis (AMMRF) which facilitates a reliable, secure and streamlined transfer of data from two flagship instruments to the Characterisation Virtual Lab (CVL) and a high‐speed data submission system for International collaborators in my role as a Lead Consultant.• Successfully engaged with eHealth NSW, NSW Health researchers and clinicians, AARNet, the AAF to deliver an integrated storage, compute, data management and discovery platform for the NSW Health Research Data‐as‐a‐Service initiative as Project Lead.• Developed various software integration pipelines within various projects as the Project Lead.

Level 13, 50 Carrington Street, Sydney Nsw 2000

• Led and managed optimised complex IT operations to ensure the consistent availability and quality of Intersect’s IT platforms which involved purpose‐built research compute cloud and cloud storage infrastructure on time and within designated budget.• Managed, led and coached a team of IT technical professionals to achieve results and managed relevant staffing budgets.• Engaged in all aspects of people management and mentoring within Operations and Support groups with a strong client focus.• Ensured the effective and efficient operation of the organisation’s cloud, server, network and security IT infrastructure.• Conducted staff performance appraisals and address employee issues in a tactful manner to enhance productivity.• Determined strategies to enhance company productivity by providing effective methods in business operations. • Developed and implemented budgets, forecasts and financial projections, maximise growth and analyse cashflow.• Developed strong vendor relationships and advocated various research use cases to improve research productivity.• Successfully negotiated a flexible the data center contract which enabled Intersect to scale up its infrastructure on demand with a significant reduction in ongoing operating costs, enabling the company to stay viable during a time of significant funding pressures.• Managed a data migration project to migrate 2 Petabyte data from legacy infrastructure to new infrastructure with no data loss.• Developed new operating procedures which actively improved efficiency and client experience/research productivity.• Led a range of technical/change management projects to implement and operate high‐end e‐infrastructure services to thousands of researchers in Intersect member and other organisations.• Successfully transitioned the hosted environment (Virtual Machine platform) to a new self‐service OpenStack platform to streamline the provisioning process from a couple of days to under 30 minutes.

Level 13, 50 Carrington Street, Sydney Nsw 2000

• Worked in close collaboration with some of Australia’s leading researchers and most important datasets. • Assisted researchers with data analysis, modeling and systems design using advanced ICT methods. • Developed relationships with a variety of stakeholder groups including Research Data Storage Infrastructure engineering and infrastructure teams to specify and implement research data management services, based on those requirements.• Trained researchers on using cloud infrastructure and data management platforms to improve research productivity.• Liaised with the researcher's’ institutional IT support groups, other nodes of the RDSI and potential end users.• Worked with researchers to identify the storage, access, computational analysis, curation requirements of the research data collections and to ingest research data collections onto the RDSI.• Played a key role in the successful design and operation of the nationally NCRIS funded cloud storage platform for NSW.• Successfully analysed use cases, devised solutions and migration plans for approximately 80 nationally significant data collections which were approved under the NCRIS Merit Subsidy Scheme.• Analysed data management systems to identify and design core services for management, mobility and compatibility from existing environments into specialized research data storage facilities.• Appointed member of the National RDSI working group to evaluate various data management tools.• Technical Lead for the med.data (http://med.data.edu.au/about/) project for NSW node.

Balaclava Road, North Ryde Nsw 2109

• Worked on a project involved in identifying biomarkers for diseases using machine learning and text mining techniques. I was involved in research design and studies utilising high‐throughput bioinformatics and big data analytics.• Contributed to the supervision, mentoring, induction and direction of other research staff and students.• Analysed and recorded results of all studies and contributed to the drafting and submission of papers for peer review.• Successfully implemented scientific workflows such as the TranseqAnnotator and Helminth Secretome Database.• Developed a purpose‐built data sharing, collaboration and discovery platform (Customary Medicinal Knowledgebase, CMkb) for aboriginal bush medicine data.

4 Julius Avenue, North Ryde Nsw 2113

• Led, managed and supervised the optimisation of a 24x7 operation of 35 personnel responsible for the remote support of the Micros application across Australia, New Zealand and Pacific.• Managed operational activities, team recruitment and personal development and other resources.• Developed, nurtured and optimised relationships across the Asia Pacific region with country Support Managers, Operations Managers, software development teams and the internal support team and participated in regional QA of new product/version release.• Implemented a continual service improvement plan which increased all product certification levels from 20% to 100%.• Created training videos to provide client‐side education on recurring issues and increased web case logging.• Increased revenue ($500k) through reformed processes for managing the Licensing system and Annual Maintenance billing software.• Introduced KPI based accountability and increased employee satisfaction levels through improved performance measurement and feedback approaches.• Implemented a fairer Performance Assessment and Planning Review System incorporating recruitment and selection, training and development, performance management, counselling and disciplinary measures.

4 Julius Avenue, North Ryde Nsw 2113

4 Julius Avenue, North Ryde Nsw 2113

4 Julius Avenue, North Ryde Nsw 2113

Doctor Of Philosophy, Bioinformatics

Master Of Philosophy, Bioinformatics

Bachelor Of Science, Computing & Information Systems