Chief Technology Officer at Capital Markets CRC Limited
Sydney Area, Australia
Chief Technology Officer at Capital Markets CRC Limited
Sydney Area, Australia
My key area of specialty is text analytics (e.g., extracting entities, properties, keywords, relationships or events from text), information integration, text classification, knowledge-based systems and adaptive recommender systems.
Language technology, text analytics specifically in the intelligence/surveillance area; social network analysis; text classification; digital libraries; business analysis; object-oriented analysis and design; system integration; business intelligence; identity management; user modelling; artificial intelligence; cognitive science; human-computer interaction; knowledge-based systems.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2008 — Present (8 months)
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
May 1999 — December 2007 (8 years 8 months)
Consulting, mentoring, training and development services in leading-edge IT.
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
January 2007 — March 2007 (3 months)
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
July 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 8 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 1999 — July 2005 (6 years 3 months)
Developed training courses, provided training and mentoring in system architecture, object-oriented analysis and design using UML, Java, XML, and requirements analysis.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2001 — April 2004 (2 years 11 months)
Designed and implemented core components of a customer information integration system from ground up. Technical activities included overall architecture design, high and low level analysis and design (using UML), implementing specialist language technology components (in Java), and selecting and liaising with outsourcing companies for general system components. Also involved in business decision making, staff selection, management, etc.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)
October 1993 — May 1999 (5 years 8 months)
Research and development in leading-edge artificial intelligence systems, including speech and language technology, automatic text production, customisation/personalisation, e-business, search systems, new breeds of interface (web, natural language, mobile phone), and decision-support systems. Project and staff management. Study leave 1995-1998.
(Public Company; Research industry)
February 1995 — February 1998 (3 years 1 month)
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
March 1997 — July 1997 (5 months)
Invited to implement my PhD research in ILEX, a web-based interactive museum system at the University. This allowed the ILEX system to automatically generate comparisons between items in the museum in order to (i) build on the visitor's knowledge and/or (ii) guide the visitor to similar
items of interest.
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Utilities industry)
December 1991 — October 1993 (1 year 11 months)
Integrated Energy Management Centre:
-> Project manager.
-> Client manager: managed both small and large government clients for energy efficiency measurement and management.
-> Programmer: developed an Energy Management Program for the analysis and correlation of energy consumption and environmental conditions. This work was recognised by:
--> a Hydro-Electric Commission Employee Recognition Award; and </li>
--> a Department of Primary Industry National Energy Award for the IEMC in 1993.
Information Services Group
-> Programmer for several PC database and legacy systems
-> Client manager
-> Project manager
(Mining & Metals industry)
December 1989 — December 1990 (1 year 1 month)
Constructed an object-oriented thermodynamic model of the zinc refining process. This work was acknowledged by the Premier's Award for energy efficiency to PMEZ.
PhD, Computing (Language Technology), 1995 — 1999
BSc (Hons), Computer Science and Mathematics, 1988 — 1991
Matriculation 1986 — 1987
Spending time with my family, reading (mostly autobiographies and non-fiction), psychology, travel, music & scrapbooking.
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Females in Information Technology and Telecommunications (FITT)
PhD Research Fellow Scholarship, Microsoft Research Institute, 1995-98
Employee Recognition Award, HEC 1993
Department of Primary Industry National Energy Award, 1993
Premier's Award for energy efficiency, 1990