ADP EXPERIENCE in the R.T.A
# 4 years as CSO4 Business Systems Analyst [detailed in appendix 'E'].
# 3.3 years as CSO4 Expert System Officer [detailed in appendix 'E'].
# Technical consultant on
the CIS (Customer Information
System) pilot. A Multimedia,
touch screen, PC based
information kiosk.
# Staticial programming (SAS) of participant survey, and usage traces.
# MHS-net and Unix system administration of RTA, internet / email gateway.
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Managing the Design, Building
& Implementation of the
ProFiSy expert system for
capital works ranking.
ProFiSy has been implemented on UNIX workstations and features-
* a user friendly Graphic User Interface ( Motif/X-Windows ),
* a fast 'C' based expert system inference engine.
* User access the system from PCs running X-Windows.
# A Year and a month as CSO2 Planning & Control Officer.
Building, Designing, Maintaining small Oracle DBs for Standards distribution.
Firstly assisting and then
leading R.T.A. Expert System
Proof of Concept Project.(that
became ProFiSy) General
research for the above.
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The R.T.A. computing
environment is the largest
commercial Unix site in the
Southern Hemisphere with
approximately 5,000 user
connected to various Unix
mainframes (FUJITSU M780 &
M760) and Unix workstations
(Apollo DN3500 DN4500, HP7000,
Acer386 & Acer486).
utilizing various flavours of
Unix (UTMS, Sys5.3,
BSD4.3, SCO ODT1.1). The
authority access these
facilities from Dos PC(s) and a
few X-terminals.
My
work entailed the use of a
variety of Dos packages,
Mainframe applications and Unix
tools(vi, grep...) available
here. Such as :
Unix utilities (in BSD4.3, Sys5.3 & Apollo Domain 10.4)
X-windows & Motif utilities (xterm, xload, mwm etc.)
Oracle tools ( SQL database access and report writing tools)
Eshell/X ( FUJITSU Lisp based Backboarding Expert System Shell)
Nexpert ( Expert System Shell )
Word5 ( Microsoft's Dos Word Processor )
Timeline ( Project Management Software )
SAS ( Statistical Analysis System )
ADP EXPERIENCEin the A.B.S
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Five years in Computer Services
Branch of ABS in general
programming duties, involving
development writing, testing
and documenting for
camera-ready tables, graphs and
photocompositions for
publications and management
information systems.
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Acting as a Class 4 in the USER
SUPPORT area, where I needed to
possess a high degree of
computing experience to allow
me to assist users to solve
their computing problems
ranging from simple editing
problems at a terminal to
debugging programs of various
languages and difficulty.
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As a Class 4 then Acting CSO1
in the PROGRAMMING area,
maintaining and supporting
National Systems. (New Motor
Vehicles Registrations and
Award Rates of Pay Index).
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Filled numerous adhoc requests
for other such things as
development of computer
generated logos & maps and
consultation on development of
Computer Graphic Publication
Standards in the office.
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The A.B.S. computing
environment was a terminal
based system utilizing both
online and batch facilities
connected through a network to
a FUJITSU M382 in Canberra,
entailing my use of a large
number of computer packages and
utilities which were available
there. Such as :
SAS ( Statistical Analysis System )
SAS/GRAPH ( SAS Graphic extension )
TPL ( Table Producing Language )
JOL ( Job Organization Language )
TSS ( Time Sharing System )
PREDIT ( COBOL Command Pre-processor )
NATURAL ( 4GL for ADABAS Database )
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My duties also involved work on
MICRO's (IBM PC & OLIVETTI
M24's using PCDOS & MSDOS
running BASIC, MS.CHART MS.WORD
and OLIVETTI M28's running
VENTURA) and a MINI (a
TEKTRONIX 4170 using CPM/86
running FORTRAN IGL and BASIC).
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5 months as Assistant Network
Controller responsible for
installation, maintenance, of
hardware in Sydney Office of
ABS. Installed a CT.Network , a
Bayan Lan, X25 Network, Telex
Controller, terminals &
printer . Supervision and
training of the three
Operations Staff.
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Development of Barcode
generator written in PASCAL to
run on micros, sending a
POSTSCRIPT output-files to an
Apple Laserwriter.
ADP EXPERIENCEprior to joining the A.B.S
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6 months on a PDP 11/GT40
developing heuristics programs
in BASIC and FORTRAN IV for
generating sculptural and film
designs. ( While studying
Computer Graphics.)
TRAINING EXPERIENCE
Experience presenting training course,
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Delivered 28 A.D.P. training
courses (equivalent to 45 days)
as part of the ABS technical
training programmes . `Basic
Computer Concepts II'(P.F.D.)
& MICRO Introduction
courses put on by C.S.B. for a
number of years.
Experience designing and presenting of lectures
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From 1984 to 1989 I was guest
lecturering at (N.S.W.I.T.)
U.T.S. designing then
presenting a course of
`Aesthetics for Computer
Graphics' to final year
computer science students.
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First semester 89, I was a
Part-time lecturer at Penrith
T.A.F.E. successfully
presenting the `Advanced Basic
Course.'
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