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Role: Director - Principal Consultant Stephen is a director of the company and also fulfills the role of principal consultant. He has considerable experience across a range of roles in the acquisition, development and delivery of information systems.
- Over 25 years experience in IT development in Australia in consulting, team leading and project management roles.
- Experienced IT Consultant and Developer with strong multi-disciplinary qualifications and experience in a range of application areas providing a sound technical basis.
- Extensive experience in liaison with end users and management, and the provision of education and training.
- Adaptable, with the ability to work as a project manager, team leader or team member on group or individual projects
FOCUS AREAS - Strategic analysis
- Business analysis
- Evaluation and review of existing systems
- Data mining, data matching and knowledge discovery in databases
- Knowledge management
- Proposal development
- Systems acquisition
- Project management
- Technical development and implementation
- Preparation of technical documentation
EDUCATION Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Computer Science, La Trobe University Bachelor of Commerce, The Australian National University Bachelor or Law, The Australian National University
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Ribtex International Importation & Distribution Project Manager / IT Consultant May 2005 - Present Ribtex embarked on the development of an IT Strategy and engaged Stephen to plan and manage this process. Stephen organised and facilitated the workshops with senior business executives, and coordinated the delivery of the final strategy report. Stephen was subsequently further engaged to manage and deliver several initiatives arising from this activity, including: - Upgrade of the existing IT infrastructure environment, including server consolidation, networking, firewalls, VPN’s and associated security services.
- Implementation of EDI with one of Ribtex major suppliers.
- Developing training and support programs for internal IT and non-IT staff.
- Developing and maintaining relationships with external IT suppliers to provide products and services.
State Revenue Office Government Statutory Authority Consultant June 1998 - Present Stephen has managed a succession of consulting engagements to develop and implement the SRO CICAP (payroll tax compliance enhancement) system. Duties: - Establishment of an integrated data repository for data from a diversity of internal and external sources.
- Preparation and deliver of user training.
- Preparation of system documentation.
- Development and implementation of data scrubbing sub-systems.
- Data analysis directed to identifying entities potentially being at risk of non-compliance
- Delivery of custom reporting and analysis software.
- Contractual negotiations with other government departments
State Revenue Office Government Statutory Authority Consultant May 2000 – December 2004 Development and subsequent sale of Australian Company Navigator (ACNav) services and software, a proprietary enquiry and analysis tool applied to Australian company data. This involved: Duties: - Concept initiation and realisation.
- Complex data analysis of large data sets using third party data.
- Preparation and presentation of training materials and user documentation.
The Australian National University Faculty of Economics and Commerce Department of Commerce Lecturer August 1984 – December 1995 As a lecturer in Information Systems and Commerce responsible for the preparation and delivery of courses in several degree programs both independently and in association with colleagues. Extensive experience in the preparation and presentation of teaching and training materials associated with tertiary studies. Also presented special purpose courses for external agencies. Duties: - Course prepartion and presentation, including student assessment.
- Preparation of tutorial and reference material for a wide range of software applications.
- Preparation of general course materials.
- Preparation of articles for publication.
- Review of teaching materials and associated documentation.
Other Employment History 1997 –1998 Analyst/Programmer (Contractor), Airservices Australia 1995 –1997 Project Officer, Australian Federal Police 1984 –1989 Private consulting in Information Systems (part time) 1977 –1984 Computer Systems Officer, Australian Public Service |