Michael Lockhart

Current

• Services Information Developer (Specialist) at HP Enterprise Services

Past

• Information Specialist at EDS
• Helpdesk officer at Forestry Tasmania

Education

• University of Tasmania

Connections

34 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Michael Lockhart’s Summary

Application Developer, Support Engineer, Database Developer, Database Administrator and System Administrator in a wide variety of technologies from embedded systems to mainframes. Particularly interested in SOA and relational database design, data modelling and data representation. Remain at the cutting edge, always interested in improving the life of support engineers through better monitoring and reporting tools, and through streamlined process.

Michael Lockhart’s Specialties:

* Sun Certified Java Developer for J2SE 1.5
* Extensive experience through the full Software Development Life-cycle, ranging from small enhancements to very large development projects
* Capable under pressure: consistently producing high quality deliverables on parallel time lines and tight deadlines
* Six years database design and implementation experience with SQL and stored procedure writing skills
* Developing on and for Unix (Solaris and Linux), Windows and MVS environments

Michael Lockhart’s Experience

• Services Information Developer (Specialist)

  HP Enterprise Services

  (Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Continuing his 10 year career with EDS, Michael joins Hewlett Packard Company as part of HP's Enterprise Services business.
  Enjoying challenging and exciting new roles as part of the world's largest IT company.
  Current engagements are with the Australian Federal Government on a new government services web portal.

• Information Specialist

  EDS

  (Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1999 — October 2009 (10 years 9 months)

  Dynamic ten-year computer systems integration and engineering career with diverse experience and outstanding performance in the computer, financial and government industries. Remain on the cutting edge, delivering award winning and robust solutions in high profile, complex, mission critical applications.
  
  Michael holds current, high-level security clearance with a number of Australian Federal Government Departments.

• Helpdesk officer

  Forestry Tasmania

  (Renewables & Environment industry)

  July 1998 — January 1999 (7 months)

  6-month position with Forestry Tasmania's internal IT department servicing their scientific and field staff

Michael Lockhart’s Education

• University of Tasmania

  Bachelor of Applied Computing (HONS) , Computer Science, Information Technology, Music , 1993 — 1998

  Honors thesis: tracking icebergs in synthetic aperture radar satellite images. Artificial vision, artificial reasoning, IDL, heuristics, shape metricss.
  Summer job: research assistant, Virtual Heart system. Developed prototype virtual ECG machine to teach nursing students about electrocardiology.

  Activities and Societies:

  Assistant lecturer K-12 education studies (Information Technology),
  Graduate tutor undergraduate computer science

Additional Information

Michael Lockhart’s Websites:

• My Blog

Michael Lockhart’s Interests:

computers, internet, extreme programming, software hacking, new technology, databases, computer graphics, fathering, playing music, hiking, bicycling, martial arts, physics, drawing, reading novels, reading source code

Michael Lockhart’s Groups:

blue mountains concert band, mountain wolves tae kwon do

•    The UNIX and Linux Forums Users
•    Open Source Universe
•    Sun Certified Java Programmer
•    Java Skills Management: Developers, Managers, HR

Michael Lockhart’s Honors:

Outstanding Contribution award for software development, 2005, 2006
Service Excellence Award, 2001
Outstanding Contribution award, 2000

Michael Lockhart’s Contact Settings

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• reference requests
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