Rob Farley Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, SA, AU

Adelaide, SA, AU

My role at LobsterPot Solutions is two-fold, as I am both the owner and a consultant.As the business owner and sole director, I am ultimately responsible for every aspect of the business. I have employed a General Manager who I work with to set the company direction and internal culture, and to ensure that we have the structures in place to develop the.

I work as Father Christmas at shopping centres and for organisations in the holiday period. It's incredible rewarding to bring joy to children and families. One of the highlights is interacting with adults who have special needs and still believe in the magic of Santa Claus.

I have led the user group since before SQL Server 2005 was released and seen the group grow into a strong community of data professionals. It's an informal gathering of people who meet to listen to presentations about SQL Server and the wider Microsoft data platform, with a networking time to foster the community. Many of our presentations include remote.

I was appointed to the PASS board in August 2011 based a recommendation from Microsoft, and was subsequently elected to the position of Director-at-large in late 2011, a role which I served in for a further two years. PASS was an organisation created to support professionals within the Microsoft data space, and I was brought on to assist with globalisation.

I was a mentor/trainer, delivering training and consultancy in the SQL Server space. This included developing courseware myself and, and delivering courseware created internally and by Microsoft.

Redmond, Washington, US

I developed Microsoft official exams in March and July 2006, January 2007, and was approached to 'fix' some exams in 2008. The highlight was being asked to develop interactive questions to better assess candidate's skills.

I managed the Application Development Department, and was often hands-on, designing/writing software myself. I built confidence in our internal systems and developed custom tools for monitoring and issue-management.

London, London, GB

I managed programmers and designers in Windows and Web environments for cScape's client base, primarily within not-for-profit organisations. I also acted as the go-to person for database technologies, particularly Oracle and SQL Server, due to my technical ability.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

I was a consultant to many large corporates. My key skills were seen as developing customer relationships through problem solving and programming expertise. I was primarily involved in database-related projects, with a particular focus on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

Victoria, 3800, AU

As a research assistant in the Computer Science department, I wrote software to realise some of the research done by various professors in the department. This involved code in Java, CAM/L, Tcl/Tk, and others.

Bcomp(Hons 1St), Computer Science

Bsc, Computer Science, Mathematics

Ba, Japanese, German

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