Grant Perry

Online medium evangelist

South Brisbane Area, Australia

Current
  • Technical Business Analyst at Department of Infrastructure and Planning
  • Lead Technical Advisor at Cintra Solutions
Past
  • Senior IT Officer at Department of Infrastructure and Planning
  • Applications Services Manager at Department of Infrastructure and Planning
  • Senior IT Officer at Department of Tourism, Fair Trading and Wine Industry Development
  • Senior IT Officer (Web Services) at Department of Tourism, Fair Trading and Wine Industry Development
  • Web Developer at Education Queensland
Education
  • Dynamic Web Training
  • New Horizons
  • Yellow House
  • TAFE
  • Microsoft
  • RedDot
  • Microsoft
  • Rapid Web Solutions
  • DTSC
  • DTSC
  • SEA
  • QANTM
Connections
60 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

Grant Perry’s Summary

Grant Perry’s Specialties:

Project Management, Change Management, User Interface Design, Graphic Design, Web-based application design and development with competencies in the following technologies: CSS, XHTML, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, Zend Framework, ASP, Windows Server 2003, IIS 5, IIS 6, Linux, Apache, XML, XSLT, Subversion, MS SQL, MySQL


Grant Perry’s Experience

  • Technical Business Analyst

    Department of Infrastructure and Planning

    (Government Administration industry)

    March 2009Present (5 months)

  • Lead Technical Advisor

    Cintra Solutions

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2006Present (3 years 1 month)

  • Senior IT Officer

    Department of Infrastructure and Planning

    (Civil Engineering industry)

    December 2007March 2009 (1 year 4 months)

    Architectural design of new DIP Inter/Intranet applications environments utilising IIS 7, Apache 2.2, MS SQL Server 2005, MySQL 5. Project managed the transition of several custom built key business applications (client-server, intranet-based, internet-based, spatial) to a new environment and network. Managed the ICT implementation of a Web Content Management System (WCMS). Assisted the business with requirements gathering and analysis of their WCMS. Architecturally designed, then managed the implementation of a number of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) sites. Preparation of GITC contracts and specifications for smaller outsourced projects managing contractors and their deliverables. Relieving in the position of Manager Application Services.

  • Applications Services Manager

    Department of Infrastructure and Planning

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2008September 2008 (2 months)

  • Senior IT Officer

    Department of Tourism, Fair Trading and Wine Industry Development

    (Government Relations industry)

    November 2006December 2007 (1 year 2 months)

    Management of a small web services team whose responsibilities included 2 WCMS, 5 high traffic sites, numerous web-based applications. Implementation of a Change Management process and selection, then subsequent configuration of a Change Management System.

  • Senior IT Officer (Web Services)

    Department of Tourism, Fair Trading and Wine Industry Development

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2002November 2006 (4 years 1 month)

    Implementation and operational management of Rapid Web Publisher (now TowerSoft TRIM WCMS). Provision of end user training and 3rd level product support. Development of complex XSL templates utilised by the WCMS.

    Responsible for requirements specification, selection and implementation of email distribution software (Lyris ListManager). Ongoing provision of ListManager support and training, in addition to the development and cross mail client testing HTML email templates. Development of an optimised PERL script for validating and removing duplicates in hundreds of thousands of email addresses exported from business systems.

  • Web Developer

    Education Queensland

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

    February 2000October 2002 (2 years 9 months)

    Development of over 50 static websites. Contributed to the testing and development of the original Consistent User Experience (CUE) template and standard, now a mandatory requirement for websites across Queensland Government. Development of some dynamic web sites one featuring it's own moderated forum. Enforcing departmental and style guides rewriting web content suitable for the online medium.


Grant Perry’s Education

  • Dynamic Web Training

    Advanced Microsoft Access 2003 - Masterclass 20092009

  • New Horizons

    Microsoft Excel 2003 - Level 3 20092009

  • Yellow House

    PRINCE2 Foundation 20092009

    PRojects IN Controlled Environments (PRINCE 2) Project Management Methodology

  • TAFE

    Diploma of Strategic E-Business Development , 20062009

  • Microsoft

    • IIS 6.0 Critical Problem Management , 20072007

  • RedDot

    • RedDot CMS Administrator , 20072007

  • Microsoft

    Updating Web Server Skills to IIS 6.0 , 20062006

  • Rapid Web Solutions

    Rapid Web Publisher CMS Administrator , 20052005

  • DTSC

    XML Advanced Modules , 20012001

  • DTSC

    XML A technical Introduction , 20012001

  • SEA

    Database driven websites , 20002000

  • QANTM

    Diploma of Multimedia , 19991999


Additional Information

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Grant Perry’s Interests:

Long distance running, Indoor and Outdoor rock climbing, Trialing new technologies and gadgets

Grant Perry’s Groups:

  •    ITSM (ITIL) Professionals
  •    Zend Framework Developers

Grant Perry’s Honors:

Corporate Services Division Award, Excellence Awards 2006 (DTFTWID)


Grant Perry’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

  • job inquiries
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
  • reference requests
  • getting back in touch

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