Derek Kowald

Current

• Snr Analysis/Programmer at sunsuper

Past

• .NET SW Engineer at Dept. Of Public Works
• Release Coordinator & Technical Specialist at QLD Police Dept.
• Snr SW Engineer at Volante

• IT Officer at QLD Health
• Snr SW Engineer / Team Lead at Volante Solutions
• Snr SW Engineer at Department of Corrective Services, Queensland
• Deputy SW Architect / Technical Lead at Boeing Australia
• SW Engineer at Contractor

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Education

• Self Education
• The University of Queensland
• The University of Queensland

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Connections

26 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• WarHammer

Derek Kowald’s Summary

Enterprise Application development on the Windows platform.

Derek Kowald’s Specialties:

.NET C#, SQL, XML, Web-services

Derek Kowald’s Experience

• Snr Analysis/Programmer

  sunsuper

  (Financial Services industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

  Technical Architecture and design external facing web applications.
  Development of web applicaitons in SCRUM style team.
  Code reviews, design reviews etc.

• .NET SW Engineer

  Dept. Of Public Works

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 10 months)

  Maintain / enhance various web applications.
  Major enhancement to in-house win-forms DMS.
  Organise implementaiton of TFS.

• Release Coordinator & Technical Specialist

  QLD Police Dept.

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry)

  November 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  2 part contract.
  Firstly release coordinator for QPRIME project BI Components (AS / Sharepoint / Report server & Mapping services).
  2nd part: Arch / Design / Develop / Test an enterprise tool for QPRIME system components (BizTalk / Web-services / AD).

• Snr SW Engineer

  Volante

  (Computer Software industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

• IT Officer

  QLD Health

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  September 2004 — December 2004 (4 months)

  Fix in-house developed SSO solution. C++, Win32, LDAP work backed by a novel eDirectory server; front-end with custome GINA. Working in the deployment team as the developer whilst remainder of the team resolved deployment / roll-out issues across the state.

• Snr SW Engineer / Team Lead

  Volante Solutions

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2004 — August 2004 (5 months)

  Design and Developer work on 2 tenders that Volane wone.
  1. Corrective services module for the DCS - IOMS project.
  2. ANTA (Australia National Training Association) web upgrade system, and migration of existing electronic documetns to RDBMS solution.
  Tech: .NET, ASP.NET in-hould designed portal; web-service tier. Backed with Oracle persistance tier.

• Snr SW Engineer

  Department of Corrective Services, Queensland

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Law Enforcement industry)

  December 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 4 months)

  One of the first QLD Gov .NET projecs. (AFAIK, Only QLD Health had a .NET project at the time). I worked as leader of 3-man team to implement one of the systems modules. Tech: ASP.NET; Web services; SQLServer 2000 (standard arch).

• Deputy SW Architect / Technical Lead

  Boeing Australia

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  January 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 8 months)

  Started as a on-the-floor developer in HFMOD project, ended as Deputy SW Architect. Project was a very-large system, with software based on a distributed object architecture, using CORBA for middle-ware. Tech: C++, CORBA.

• SW Engineer

  Contractor

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 1994 — December 1999 (5 years 10 months)

  This is a place-holder for a variety of earlier contracts. During this period I worked
  1. As a developer for University departments.
  2. As a consultant / developer for startup company in the Security industry.
  3. As a developer in the finance ( insurance) industry.
  Tech: Win32 / MFC / RPC / ODBC

Derek Kowald’s Education

• Self Education

  MCAD , 2003 — 2003

  Self education to certify as a .NET developer (MCAD).

• The University of Queensland

  MSc , Mineral Sands (mining industry) / Image Analysis , 1992 — 1994

  Research Masters in mining industry.
  Apply techniques of Image Analysis to the Mineral Sands industry, to (partially) automate determination of mineral content from loose-sand samples.

• The University of Queensland

  BSc (hon Physics) , Science / Physics , 1988 — 1991

  Physics honours stream from start of degree.

Additional Information

Derek Kowald’s Websites:

• WarHammer

Derek Kowald’s Interests:

Online Gaming, IT, SF Books / Movies, Model Driven Architecture (MDA), XAML

Derek Kowald’s Groups:

•    4impact

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