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Professional Bio

David W. Slattery B.Sc.(Hons.)

Summary

IT professional with a creative, innovative mind, analysis, high-quality presentation and 18+ years of IT experience.

Strong technical, business analysis, project planning, team-management and development skills spanning many IT technologies. Relaxed, level-headed under stress and a good sense of humour. Technically very strong in software development, open-source technologies, infrastructure, Unix/Linux administration, high end web application scalability.

Typical Roles

IT Architecture (solutions, infrastructure), senior consultant, technical solution design, IT Manager

Key Skills

  • Systems Design
  • Linux/Unix
  • Solaris 9,10
  • Open-source technologies
  • Apache
  • Content Management Systems
  • Grails (Groovy on Rails)
  • PHP, Symfony
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Python, Django
  • Systems Analysis
  • High traffic scalable web applications
  • Systems Development
  • Web Design, DHTML
  • Business Analysis
  • Functional Specification
  • Project Management
  • Systems Administration
  • Lotus Notes, Domino, Websphere
  • Virtualization (Containers, Xen, Vserver, VirtualBox et al)
  • Solaris/Oracle/PHP stack
  • Java, JEE (J2EE)
  • networking
  • scalability, availability, storage (NAS/SAN)
  • load balancing (F5, BigIP)
  • clustering
  • Resource management
  • Commercial management
  • Planning, scheduling & estimation
  • Scalable web applications
  • process, methodology (PRINCE,PRISM,TDP,IDP)
  • IT Management
  • Senior Consultant
  • Postgres
  • Oracle
  • scripting
  • Windows Server
  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Qualifications

  • Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
  • B.Sc.(Hons.) [Applied Mathematics, astrophysics], First Class Honours, 1990
  • Member of the Institute of Actuaries (England) (1990-1991)
  • Member of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (1990-1991)

Professional Experience

Ego Pharmaceuticals

ICT Manager

Telstra

Solutions Design

JadeLynx (VNH Systems)

Senior Technical Architect

KAZ Technology Services (ASPECT Computing)

Senior Consultant, Team Leader, Open Source Practice Manager, Consulting as project manager, architect, designer

Candle Corporation (Somerset Systems)

Consultant Team Lead – Lotus Domino/Notes Practice

Pacific Dunlop

Project Leader, Lotus Notes & Internet Development, Pacific Dunlop Year 2000 Program Manager, Business Analyst / Senior Analyst Programmer, 2IC, Project Management

Telstra

Project Manager – Conferlink Systems Development, Manager Workforce Management Systems, Analyst/programmer

Mercer Campbell Cook & Knight – Consulting Actuaries

Actuarial Analyst

For more detail, visit my LinkedIn profile or contact me.

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