Experienced IT consultant focused on improving software process for agile business delivery
Melbourne Area, Australia
- Current
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- Executive committee secretary at Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC)
- Configuration Management Consultant at Alcatel-Lucent
- Principal Consultant at Voga Consulting
- Past
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- Process and Release Specialist at ANZ
- Secretary at Melbourne Perl Mongers
- Australia and New Zealand Technical Manager at Tripwire
- Senior Manager of Application Development at Challenger Financial Services
- Director of Product Development at HeadWest Software Inc.
- Configuration Management Consultant at Tabcorp Holdings Ltd
- Senior Consultant at Serena
- Consultant at TCA Syntec
- Consultant at Olivetti
- Consultant, Designer and Programmer at Various Companies
- Education
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- Open University Post Graduate IT
- Maidstone Grammar School
- ITIL Foundation Certificate
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Alec Clews’s Summary
Alec delivers software development and ALM improvements that are:
► Business focused
► Simplified
► Process Driven
► Instrumented
► Automated
with the objectives of being
► Predictable
► Repeatable
► Documented
(ALM - Application Lifecycle Management see http://xrl.us/bei4ap)
Alec has over twenty five years in software: managing development and implementation projects; consulting; design work and programming. Alec is unusual because he can manage wider project issues and understands what business value is, whilst still remaining very technical.
Alec has been part of the Open Source Community since 1993 and using the Internet since 1992. His experience spans embedded microprocessor systems to z/OS mainframes and includes significant Windows and Linux/UNIX knowledge.
On-line Contact details
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* email: alec.clews@voga.com.au
* Skype: alecclews
* Jabber or GTalk: alecclews@jabber.org
* MSN: alecclews@gmail.com
* Twitter or Identica: alecthegeek (NB non professional posting as well)
* Facebook: Alec Clews (NB non professional networking)
Code on GitHub: http://github.com/alecthegeek
Alec Clews’s Specialties:
► System implementation; training; mentoring; integration
► Development process implementation; configuration and change management
► Open Source and proprietary software systems experience
Alec Clews’s Experience
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Executive committee secretary
Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
The Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC) is a non-profit conference for developers of open source software
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Configuration Management Consultant
Alcatel-Lucent
(Public Company; ALU; Telecommunications industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
Supporting complex document delivery with processes, tools and training
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Principal Consultant
Voga Consulting
(Computer Software industry)
March 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Alec helps people in software development organisations make the most effective use their development budget by:
* Implementing appropriate lightweight processes that include the stakeholder and their requirements
* Using tools to automate as much development overhead as possible
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Process and Release Specialist
ANZ
(Public Company; ANZ; Banking industry)
April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)
Detailed implementation of process for Configuration, Change and Deployment across large scale enterprise applications
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Secretary
Melbourne Perl Mongers
(Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year)
Perl Mongers organise regular meetings for local Perl programmers and are part of the local Open Source Developers meeting programme.
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Australia and New Zealand Technical Manager
Tripwire
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 2007 — April 2008 (8 months)
Alec was jointly responsible for the regional establishment of Tripwire in Oceania. This work focused around working with partners and customers to ensure that Tripwire's enterprise solutions are understood and implemented correctly through the delivery of services, training and knowledge to the market.
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Senior Manager of Application Development
Challenger Financial Services
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)
April 2007 — September 2007 (6 months)
Managing a team of twenty developers maintaining various mortgage management applications, all implemented using different MS technologies (VB, Access, ASP.NET). A major thrust of the work was to improve process maturity whilst still doing business as usual
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Director of Product Development
HeadWest Software Inc.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2006 — January 2007 (10 months)
Alec was responsible for the implementation of project planning and software development management tools using Open Source technology.
HeadWest is a young company developing a range of products to help business stakeholders understand how their money is spent and reduce the burden on developers to manually report progress. -
Configuration Management Consultant
Tabcorp Holdings Ltd
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TAH; Entertainment industry)
April 2006 — January 2007 (10 months)
Consulting for Tabcorp's extensive SCM installations including tools from Serena, IBM Rational, Microsoft and Open Source.
*CM Planning
*Tool migration
*Integration
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Senior Consultant
Serena
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 1997 — March 2006 (8 years 5 months)
Consultant for large change management, software configuration management tools and software development process, including Serena Dimensions.
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Consultant
TCA Syntec
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years)
Project management and implementation for application integration hubs. City of London banking customers
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Consultant
Olivetti
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1994 — 1997 (3 years)
Consultant on UNIX and RDBMS systems for retail customers
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Consultant, Designer and Programmer
Various Companies
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1982 — 1994 (12 years)
Various positions working in financial terminals, ATM's and retail back office systems. Work included inplementation, low level coding, software design, small team management, teaching, writing course material and pre-sale work
Alec Clews’s Education
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Open University Post Graduate IT
Post Graduate Certificates in , Relational Database Systems, Project Management, Software Engineering , 1993 — 1998
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Maidstone Grammar School
1978 — 1980
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ITIL Foundation Certificate
Foundation Certificate
Additional Information
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Alec Clews’s Interests:
Lightweight methods, Configuration Management, system integration, application lifecycle management, change control.
Alec Clews’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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