Director, Emerging Technologies at TIBCO Software
Melbourne Area, Australia
Director, Emerging Technologies at TIBCO Software
Melbourne Area, Australia
Extensive experience as an Enterprise Architect, Software Engineer in major system integration and software development projects in Australia, the United States and Asia. Specialising in large-scale system integration, advanced database systems, business applications of internet and web-services technologies.
Service-Oriented Architecture, Complex Event Processing, Event Driven Architecture, System Integration, Message-Oriented Middleware, Business Process Management, Business Activity Monitoring.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TIBX; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — Present (9 months)
Heading up the Emerging Technologies Group for Australia-New Zealand and India. This group is responsible for developing new solutions based on TIBCO products and emerging technologies such as complex event processing, real-time analytics and master data management.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TIBX; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — Present (8 years 8 months)
I am a Principal Architect working as part of TIBCO's Global Strategic Architects group and covering the Asia-Pacific region. My team and I ensure that our clients get the most value out of their TIBCO investment by advising on best-practices with distributed, service-oriented system integration architecture.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1998 — October 1999 (1 year 7 months)
Technical lead for a technology startup specialising in the combination of internet and geographical information technologies for the transport, mining and engineering sectors. Developed solutions for major companies around the world to aid in asset management, logistics and environmental monitoring.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
December 1997 — April 1998 (5 months)
Independent consultant working on a number of projects involving database design, software architecture and web development.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1993 — December 1997 (5 years)
Filled many positions as an Analyst/Programmer, Architect and Consultant for this company on a number of projects for various energy and telco customers in Australia and the United States.
Was lead technical architect and product manager for Spatial Data Manager (SDM) - an innovative spatial-relational database management system using technology licenced from the CSIRO. This product broke down the traditional barriers between spatial/vector data and associated attributes. It made possible the management of large amounts (terabytes) of spatial data with flexible options for data access from CAD systems through to lightweight web interfaces.
(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)
December 1989 — May 1992 (2 years 6 months)
Research scientist and instrument specialist on the Hubble Space Telescope, Faint Object Spectrograph team. Project managed Science Verification phase for the instrument. Research on Active Galactic Nuclei.
PhD, Astrophysics, February 1985 — October 1989
PhD Research Student at Mt Stromlo Observatory Australia (part of the ANU). Thesis on optical and radio emissions from Active Galactic Nuclei. Explained correlation between radio and optical line emissions via plasma jets interacting with interstellar medium. Spent 1 year at VLA facility in new Mexico.
BSC (Hons), Physics, Mathematics, February 1981 — November 1984
Software Engineering, System Integration Architecture, Semantic Web, Web Services, Internet, SOA, Complex Event Processing
IEEE Computer Society, Australian Computer Society, Australian Institute of Management, Java Community