Experience

Data to Decisions CRC

• Defense & Space
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Data Scientist

  • Jul 2015 - Present

  On long-term secondment from Defence Science and Technology Group. Research engineering, software development and development operations support for major CRC project to develop a platform for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection and analysis. Collaborate with university participants to adapt cutting-edge academic research on information extraction (especially multimedia information extraction) and knowledge base construction and exploitation. On long-term secondment from Defence Science and Technology Group. Research engineering, software development and development operations support for major CRC project to develop a platform for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection and analysis. Collaborate with university participants to adapt cutting-edge academic research on information extraction (especially multimedia information extraction) and knowledge base construction and exploitation.



Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)

• Australia
• Defense & Space
• 700 & Above Employee

• External Engagement Manager

  • Nov 2014 - Jun 2015

  Primarily a Business Development role.Primary duties to assist researchers and research leaders in Defence Science and Technology Group to connect with university researchers and defence industry companies. Assist in contract negotiation, ensure compliance with internal procedures, provide general advice on issues such as IP protection.Represent Defence Science and Technology Group at external events (e.g. Avalon International Airshow.)Assist senior executives in their relationship management activities.Author handbooks and reports on topics relevant to these duties. Show less

• Computation Theory and Programming Specialist

  • Oct 2005 - Oct 2014

  Data scientist and data mining research role, providing support to advanced analytics teams in Defence and National Security organisations. Primary duties in software development, architectural advice, data collection support. Java server and desktop programming, client/server systems (RESTful Java backends, HTML/CSS/JS front-ends).Big Data collection and analysis systems (Hadoop, Map-reduce, Hive, HBase, Spark).Spatio-temporal data analysis, social media exploitation, unstructured text analysis and information extraction. Show less