P.O Box 334, Oatley,

Sydney 2223, NSW, Australia

Home Phone : Silent Number

Mobile : 0417 447 538

DOB: 24/2/1963

Marital Status: married

I.T.&T, Technical Consultancy and Systems Integration

Senior UNIX Administration at Managerial and hands on levels

Distributed Computing Platforms,

Telecommunications Sector,

Quality Software Engineering Practices,

Network Management Systems,

1998 – Current Independent Contractor and Director, of MLP Consulting Pty. Ltd.

Previous Clients include: AAPT, Sydney Water, Unix Network Services, APC, MLC, Clarity International, Xdirect, QANTAS, SITA, Telstra, Clearcom, NSW Fisheries

1997 – 1998 DCN, UNIX and Integration Consultant, IBM, GSA

1995 – 1997 Network and Systems Interconnect Specialist, Telstra, ITG

1993 – 1995 Network Interconnect Specialist, AOTC Information Systems Group

1992 – 1993 Software Engineer Broadband Applications, AOTC, TDG

1990 – 1992 UNIX Systems and LAN administrator, OTC, Research and Development

1987 – 1990 Senior Technical Officer, OTC, Technical Training Section

1986 – 1987 Technician, OTC, Engineering Branch

AAPT: (36 months) Senior UNIX Admin and S/W Systems Engineer. My role was to support AAPT's Engineering in their role out of AAPT's Network Management Systems.

The role covered everything from:

• Hands on Solaris Admin, Backups, Configuration/Performance Management, Software rollout, System Builds, Network and Node Security
• C, Perl, SH, AWK, Java, Java Script, HTML, XML, CGI, Database (Sybase/Oracle/Informix) programming through to
• Analysis, Design, Implementation, Project Costing, Procurement, Director level consulting, WWW design and implementation, Security Systems, Firewalls, Telco - Telco provisioning, direct Switch provisioning and
• Training of in house staff on Solaris, TCP/IP, OO S/W development methodologies and the Perl programming language.

Sydney Water: (14 months)

Consulting S/W Engineer. Main role was to ensure various internal Systems and Networking staff were capable and skilled enough to move a mainframe based GIS system to a suite of UNIX mid-range platforms.

This involved Executive level meetings both internally and with Sydney Water's major UNIX suppliers ensuring that platform scoping was correct at the UNIX and Networking levels. Also training and up-skilling of the work force and System build/Disaster recovery procedures were provided. Coupled with the procedures I provided complete automated system build environments based around Solaris Jumpstart, Perl and SH scripts.

As you can see this was a very broad role at one level whilst being highly specific down at the UNIX level. Two roles actually.

Telstra IND (Intelligent Networks Division): (4 months)

My role was as a S/W Engineer brought in by the Senior designer of their hands-off automatic build system for IND's large and varied Solaris systems. This revolved around Solaris Jumpstart, Perl, Auto CD booting and Network booting of systems.

The specific role was to debug and enhance an already built system that others found too difficult to comprehend. This meant reverse engineering the system and explaining it to System Admins, Documenters and Management whilst adding the required enhancements.

Current

1992 - 1993

1990 - 1992

BE Computer Systems Engineering [First Class Hons], UTS (Sydney)

Director [4 yrs];

Project Management [9 yrs];

Object Oriented Technology [7 yrs];

Networking and Distributed Computing [10+ yrs];

Network Management [10+ yrs];

UNIX Systems Administration [10+ yrs];

Telecommunications Industry [20+ yrs];

Information Technology [15+ yrs]

Total Quality Management [4 yrs]

Undertook management and operational responsibility for the network infrastructure components of the FIN (Future International Network) project for Telstra (International Business Unit) in my capacity as Network Interconnect Specialist. Responsibilities included:

• Project management,
• Technology assessment,
• Network rollout,
• Contractor/vendor liaison for multiple concurrent projects,

As an additional function (related to the FIN work above) I assumed management and overall responsibility for the information technology infrastructure for Telstra’s International Network Operation’s Operations Support System. Responsibilities included:

• Team leader,
• Integration consultant,
• UNIX , network and distributed computing consultant and
• Special projects.

Created system architectures, both HW and SW, for a scalable distributed computing system with highly reliable infrastructure facilities. In addition I developed a suite of programs for handling P-cell machine failover to partner machines (Backup machines masquerade as failed machines on the network and handle failed machine's load as well as their own). The following was provide:

• Client and Server X11 failover,
• NFS failover,
• Inter/intra P-Cell machine failover,
• Network traffic diversification and
• Scaleable network compute servers

Development of numerous Perl modules and scripts such as:

• Pdist - extensions to Rdist (1).
• Talker - a chat scripting module
• Scalar_Trig – uses Perl "tie" functions to provide pre/post triggers for scalar variables
• Event – an event handler used for network monitoring in an SNMP environment
• Pwrap – uses the above and an SNMP daemon to monitor user defined SNMP variables (i.e. processes, disk space, swap usage and so forth)
• Ipsrv – used as the basis for a multiple console, intelligent, interactive logger for UNIX machines.
• Ptelnet, Pftp – provide scripted automatic telnet and ftp
• Pnet – provides a network view of hosts, processes and traffic flow

Team leader (and facilitator) on a number of TQM teams / initiatives within OTC and Telstra

Lecturing at the University of Technology in the areas of:

• C programming
• Interprocess communication and Client Server systems
• IP networking.

During my career, I have been involved in a number of major (and minor) projects. Accordingly, over the years, I have acquired experience (ranging from an in-depth knowledge to an operational awareness) with numerous ‘advanced’ technologies and techniques.

Examples include:

Object Oriented Systems - Analysis :,Booch, Model5W; Design : Model5W, Booch; Languages : Perl 5, C++, Python, JAVA, Newton Script; Programming Environments : SunWorks Pro, Borland C++, Kappa; Databases : ObjectStore, Newton Soups

Distributed Systems - Distributed Object Systems: CORBA; Tools : DSET, Kappa CommsManager; Message Architectures : DSET, RPC, Sockets, TLI.

GUI - Environments: UNIX (Open Look, X11, Motif), Windows 1.x, 2.x, 3.x, 95/NT; Apple Mac; Tools: Dataviews, TK; Hypertext: Hypercard, HTML, SGML.

Software Engineering – Quality: SEI CMM; Tools : TeamNet, Purify, CVS, RCS; Techniques : Prototyping, Formal Methods; Languages: Z, Object Z.

Operating Systems - Solaris, SunOS 4.x, Minix, Xinu, Linux, HP-UX 9.x and 10.x, DOS, QNX, RSX-11M, VMS, BSDI, BSD, FreeBSD, NT 4.0, M$ Windows

Machines - E35xx, E65xx, Ultra 1/2, SS2000, SS1000, SS20, HP 9000, SS2, IPX, IPC, SS5, ELC, Classic, SS1+, Firewalls, PC

Storage - HDS, Clarrion, Sparc Storage Array, DLT tapes, Exabyte, DAT, CDROM, RAID, SAN technology

UNIX subsystems – DNS, NIS, Sendmail, NNTP, NTP, Shells, IPC, TLI, sockets, RPC, UFS, NFS; Security SSH, Certificates, SSL; Web servers - Apache

Databases - Sybase, Oracle, Informix; SQL, TSQL, Stored Procedures

Below are some of the other Telecommunications Products and Services that I have been exposed to; some to a greater degree than others:

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Broadband Networks: FTTH and FTTC concepts and design

Video Conferencing: LAN Based, Internet Based.

Transmission Facilities: PDH; SDH; ATM; DXC; Frame Relay.

Switching Facilities: Switches - S12, AXE, DMS, AKE; STP.

X.25 Networks: Packet Switched Data Services.

Cable Systems and Networks: Fibre Optic Backbone, Intelligent Cable Environment; Network Topologies Star, Ring, Mesh; Network Types Ethernet, SNA, X.25, IP, Point-to-point; Microwave Networks

Networks and Management; Network management, SNMP, ITU, LANs, VLANs, Ethernet switching, Routers, VPN, Data Networks.

Protocols: TCP/IP - OSPF, RIP, ARP, RARP, UDP, IP, ICMP, RPC, NFS, DHCP, BOOTP, Telnet, FTP, TFTP, SNPP, SNMP, RMON, VPNs and Tunneling, PPP, X11, SSH; OSI - CMIP/CMISE; CCS7

Some of my other activities include:

• S.C.U.B.A diving in and around Sydney and the Great barrier reef
• Building in wood and metal
• Helping people overcome drug and alcohol addictions. I’m an "elder" in the Uniting Church at Kogarah where we provide food, clothing and counseling for those in need.
• Managing my own investments
• Boating
• Bringing up children and family life