Paul K. Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Canberra, Australia

Paul is a Technical Solution Professional in the Business Productivity Search Team at Microsoft. He is the FAST Specialist responsible for the Australia / NZ region positioning and scaling the FAST business in Microsoft and the wider partner community. This is a hybrid Technical and Sales role encompassing both deep technical knowledge, solution selling, account planning, forecasting, cross team collaboration and partner management.

Microsoft acquired FAST in 2008, with Paul continuing his role as a Specialist Search Consultant on Enterprise and Internet Search and Monetisation; Providing continuity for existing and new search business, and domain expertice in the wider integration of FAST into Microsoft.

Specialist Search Consultant on Enterprise and Internet Search and Monetisation. Paul's role included both Technical pre-sales, and implementation in FAST Global Services including most of Australia's largest and lighthouse FAST accounts such as Telstra, Sensis, Fairfax Media, and News Ltd.

Principal Software Engineer / Architect for Salmon Asia Pacific.Salmon specialise in custom software solutions and outsourcing. Responsibilities included:* Principal Software Engineer / Architect* Design and implementation of Java / J2EE systems and frameworks* Business Development and Technical Liaison* Technical Architecture and IT StrategyCustomers:Energy Australia, Hutchison Telecoms, Metcash, Brightpoint, EDS (Westpac), Bristol and West (UK)

Re-architecture of the "3" Netwrok subscription based content engine. Overall J2EE (JEE) design and architecture, management, and participation in the Java development to deliver the project. The subscription engine was designed as a highly scalable / distributed architecture involving multiple Weblogic server clusters, billing system integration and web service endpoints.

Solution Architect: Working with financial analysis and IT stakeholders to provide a road map to re-engineer the existing XBRL / Java based returns system to improve productivity and quality of data received from financial institutions.

Principal architect, in a team of 10 consultants. Energy Trading System re-write / migration to J2EE architecture. Software lifecycle and process change to improve productivity, quality, and development cycles.

Principal architect in the development of the Australian Liquor Marketers (ALM) B2B portal providing web order placement for licensed premises across Australia and NZ. Facilities included order tracking for all order channels, invoice download, stock availability, customer based pricing, quantity discount allowances, promotions, personalisation and end to end integration with existing mainframe systems.

Java Architecture and DevelopmentFoundation of core standards, and frameworksJava training and mentoring.- Development of middleware connectors (Tuxedo, Tibco, EJB)- Customer portal – WEB / WAP e-mail and diary- WAP finance Application (Reuters)- Network coverage checking- Credit card gateway - On-line account balance and bill payment- On-line bill presentation- IVR and billing Interfaces

Upgrade of Inmarsat-A Satellite earth station to CCS7

Software development (C, assembler) for CT2/CAI digital mobile base stations

Software development and team lead (mainly in C) for a variety of real-time embedded systems for defense projects. Embedded Micro-controller design