Lead Developer - e-switch
Working Systems Solutions - Perth
Software Development and Consultancy Services
July 2002 - Present

Senior Network Administrator / Technical Manager
Working Systems Solutions - Perth
Software Development and Consultancy Services
September 2000 - July 2002

Senior Systems Administrator
Vianet Australia - Perth
Internet Service Provider
February 1999 - September 2000

Communication Systems Manager
Notre Dame University Australia - Fremantle
Private Catholic University
November 1995 - December 1998

Self Employed
Magnetic Designs - Leeming
Design and Programming Consultants
1992 - 1995

Key strengths include the ability to work as a team member, to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines, work unassisted and use initiative, maintain confidentiality, have a good personal image taking pride in appearance and manner.

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Skilled programmer in multiple languages, and able to apply programming knowledge to simplify and automate every-day tasks. Eager to apply Perl knowledge to many tasks. Author of HTTP Layer Firewall (http_filter) and Perl mail client (mailtail).

Active member of the Open Source Software movement. Active Bugzilla developer and reviewer.

Skilled Graphic Designer and Desktop Publisher, both for print and World Wide Web.

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July 2002 - Present
Lead Developer - e-switch
Working Systems Solutions

Responsibilities

Responsible for design, development and product proving of a middleware switching product utilising the following technologies:

- Delphi, Visual Basic and Perl codebase
- Interprocess communication using OLE
- ActiveScript implementation and calling with VBScript/JScript/PerlScript/Python/Ruby

Responsible for:

- Development and Maintenance of Development process management (bugtracking, source management, etc)
- Driving technology direction and initiatives
- Managing intra-product communications between inhouse and 3rd party products

Designed and implemented complete middleware solutions for communications between health system, including:

- Medtrak
- IBA
- BOS
- STOCCA
- chiron
- e-Pas

Key Achievements

Developed application utilising the HIC-Online API (approx 170,000 lines of code)

Developed APIs for integration with PKI solutions, including HESA and PGP

Designed and Developed HL7 interface engine, with ability to parse and create HL7 message of any version, type or event

Undertaken major roles in the development, testing, refinement and implementation of middleware platform, and management of the versioning and deployment of releases and patches

Made a significant contribution to the generation and documentation of business processes for product development

Developed complex web based administration console (approx 22,000 lines of code)

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September 2000 - July 2002
Senior Network Administrator / Technical Manager
Working Systems Solutions

Responsibilities

Responsible for setting up and maintaining all Information Technology systems operating at a large publicly listed software development company.

This included

Maintenance of development and administration environments, comprised of

- Windows 2000 Servers with Exchange 2000
- Redhat and Debian Linux's
- Windows NT Servers
- SCO Unix

Configuration and maintenance of Internet, WAN and VPN connectivity, comprised of

- Cisco and Ascend Pipeline routers
- Linux packet layer firewall
- Application layer firewall (http)
- Cisco VPN
- Microsoft VPN

Defining and enforcing security measures from external and internal attacks

Overseeing of Desktop maintenance (Windows 9x, 2000 and NT)

Steering direction of technical services across three locations (Perth, Melbourne and Singapore) in ensuring a collaborative environment exists

Development and Consulting, both internal and for clients, in a wide range of areas including security and web based applications

Key Achievements

Initiated, implemented and enforced tight security model (firewall, DMZ and content filters)

Authored application layer firewall to dramatically improve IIS’s security model

Developed a large number of scripts to automate systems administration tasks

Developed complex web based administration console for translation engine (e-switch)

Design and implementation of collaboration and communications infrastructure between corporate offices

Developed company Intranet focusing on applications development methodologies

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February 1999 - September 2000
Senior Systems Administrator
Vianet

Responsibilities

Responsible for setting up and maintaining all Information Technology systems operating at an Internet Service Provider. This included

Setting up and ongoing maintenance of at least 14 Linux servers

Setting up and ongoing maintenance of Windows NT servers

Setting up routers and Network Access Servers

- Cisco (3640, AS5300)
- Bay/Nortel Networks (5399)

Setting up and maintaining network-wide security measures

- Setting procedures
- Configuration and maintenance of software

Setting up the following services and applications in a large scale environment

- Apache with mod_perl, SSL, PHP and Virtual Host support
- SendMail with anti-spamming rules and Virtual Domains support
- Squid
- MySQL, MS-SQL 6.5 and 7
- IIS with SSL, Virtual Web Hosting, Virtual FTP
- Network and Systems monitoring and paging services
- Many other services including POP3, FTP, SSH, Telnet, HtDig and DNS

Maintaining SQL databases

Managing a team of two Assistant Systems Administrators

Investigation and deployment of leading edge technologies

Key Achievements

Development a large number of automated systems, including

Web-based Helpdesk diagnostic tools

Web-based application forms for dialup and web hosting accounts

Many tasks automated on UNIX systems by Perl scripts

Development of Perl scripts to gather billing data via SNMP and via NetFlow from Cisco routers

Fault detecting and notification systems, including SMS messaging and automatic rollovers

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November 1995 - December 1998
Communication Systems Manager
Notre Dame University Australia

Responsibilities

Overseeing University wide computer network of more than 200 computers

Supervision of two full time and one part time staff

Setup and maintenance of seven servers running Novell Netware 4.11, Windows NT, Linux and Solaris.

Technical and user support for most major applications and workstation operating systems.

Coordinator and main provider for telephone and e-mail support for dial-up Internet connections for about 300 paying customers.

Hardware diagnostics and problem solving for common hardware platforms (Wintel, Macintosh, Printers, Copiers)

Authoring systems to automate common tasks to increase efficiency and reliability.

Systems to maintain Notre Dame’s Internet and Intranet pages

Systems to maintain Information Technology’s knowledgebase

Employment of multiple languages : Turbo Pascal, Perl, UNIX Shell Scripts, DOS Batch Scripts, JavaScript, and HTML

Key Achievements

Initiated, setup and maintained lab distribution systems:

- PCRdist for DOS and Windows 3.11
- Assisumlator for MacOS
- Ghost for Windows NT

Initiated and set up user-pays printing system

Internet services set up and management, including:

- Internet IP routing
- DHCP
- Internet Proxy server (Squid)

Used programming know-how to automate set up and maintenance of staff and student computer systems, and to automate network administration tasks.

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January 1992 - June 1995
Self Employed
Magnetic Designs

Responsibilities

Self employed in a partnership offering computer programming and graphic design solutions.

Key Achievements

Winner of 1992 Nescafe Big Break Award of $20,000 grant.

Authored and sold point-of-sales box office management software for the Macintosh

Name

Byron Anthony Jones

Email / Web

jobs @ glob.com.au
http://www.glob.com.au/

Date of Birth

15th September 1975

Place of Birth

Christchurch, New Zealand

Marital Status

Married

Education

Leeming Senior High School
Partially completed Computer Technology Degree at Curtin University

Interests

Reading
Interactive Multimedia
Composing music
Coding

Referees

Laurent Ramelet
e-switch Development Manager
Working Systems Solutions
laurent.ramelet@ws.com.au

Bryn Jones
Director of Management Services
Notre Dame University
(No longer working at Notre Dame University)
bj@ictpd.net