Curriculum vitae

Solution Architect, Digital Transformation Office, Land Systems Division

Department of Defence

Lead an integrated team of permanent and contracted staff delivering data & AI capability for the Land domain, including DSLab.

• Established DSLab, a collaborative data science platform for Land and Air domains.
• Led an in-house team to run and upgrade an air-gapped OpenShift platform on IBM Fusion HCI.
• Built platform observability that took the cluster from stable to understood: zero chronic alerts and 30+ dashboards.
• Demonstrated computer vision to automate assessments for a Land capability project.
• Applied natural language processing to extract configuration data from technical documents for an ERP migration.

Solution Architect, Vulcan Data Engineering & Analytics

Department of Defence, Land Engineering Agency

Led an integrated team responsible for the Land domain's data engineering and analytics.

• Established an analytics platform giving Army Headquarters, fleet managers and unit workshops an integrated view of vehicle condition, maintenance and cost.
• Implemented the Oil Condition Monitoring framework, featured in the Defence Data Strategy 2021-2023.
• Delivered an offline-capable mobile app (Python and React) for vehicle inspections.

Solution Architect, Health & Usage Monitoring System (HUMS)

Department of Defence, Land Engineering Agency

Designed an automated end-to-end IoT pipeline calculating usage and condition metrics from sensors on land vehicles across Australia.

• Achieved security accreditation for the solution.
• Extended an existing data warehouse with R for interpolation and signal processing of vehicle data.

Data Warehouse Program Manager

Defence Materiel Organisation

Managed a team delivering an end-to-end business intelligence service, from requirements to sustainment.

• Ran an Agile maturity assessment with an industry partner and moved delivery from months to weeks using Scrum and Kanban.
• Delivered the Major Acquisition Project Performance Dashboard with a commentary workflow for projects breaching cost and schedule targets.
• Implemented a data quality framework so remediation focused on the data elements that matter to decision makers.
• Automated annual contract performance reports distributed to the Senate, Defence executives and industry.

Data Warehouse Sustainment Manager

Defence Materiel Organisation

Managed in-service support for the Data Warehouse Program and rejuvenated an ageing platform.

• Upgraded the database, data integration and business intelligence layers (Db2, InfoSphere Information Server, Cognos).
• Implemented a four-tier virtual server architecture and reduced infrastructure cost by consolidating environments.

Business Intelligence Specialist

Defence Materiel Organisation

Developed and supported the Cognos business intelligence capability.

Consultant, Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence

BearingPoint Australia (formerly KPMG Consulting)

Data warehousing and BI developer for public and private sector clients in Victoria and New South Wales.

Honours, Decision Support Systems

Monash University

Thesis: An experimental evaluation of an alternative to the pivot table for ad hoc access to OLAP data

Bachelor, Information Management & Systems

Monash University

Tutor, Masters units

Monash University

Dimensional Modelling; Data Warehouse Development Methodologies

IBM Champion

IBM

Recognised by IBM for community advocacy.

An experimental evaluation of an alternative to the pivot table for ad hoc access to OLAP data

Peter O'Donnell and Nick Draper. IFIP International Conference on Decision Support Systems (DSS2004), Prato.