Mark Damien Ireland
14 Highs Rd
West Pennant Hills 2125
0415 119 126
(02) 9634 2782 (message)
16th August 1960
Australian
Single
Bachelor of Science
Macquarie University 1985

Employment

2010 11 - 2011 02

One of a team of eight programmers working on an intranet for McGrath Real Estate using Coldfusion, AJAX and the jQuery javascript library.

2007 06 - 2009 11

Manager of Application Development for James Cook University working on student and staff systems, including a web application that augments the Tech One Student One system.

2007 02 – 2007 05

Worked for www.cowwws.com on Pentax Australia, as well as a collaboration site for a real estate group, a public access site for the G2 alliance group of regional councils, an ecommerce site for Coco Republic and a survey application for Mahlab using open source Adobe Coldfusion, mySQL and Microsoft SQL databases.

2006 10 – 2007 01

Worked on a geographical info system (GIS) at nams.gov.au using Coldfusion, JSON, webservices, dynamic pdf generation, the postgres gis database and javascript.

2006 03 – 2006 08

Newcastle University

Lead developer in team of three. Application and database designed from scratch. Collaborated with Oracle developer to integrate new database with legacy systems using an object-component based approach with data access layer components and a role based security. This is an intranet application for the collection of researchers’ evidence portfolios for use in applying for funding.

2005 03 – 2006 03

Crocodiles

Sole developer of fan site for sporting team. Pages are physical ColdFusion files that are managed by a document system. Added DHTML features and liquid stylesheet.

BHPBilliton

Sole developer.
Developed BHPBilliton intranet around a content and document management system for a remote mine. A CSS liquid design using ColdFusion and Oracle/MSSQL databases. Includes a scoreboard of mining statistics (specifically safety incidents and amount of ore trucked and elevated to surface) and a mining site travel booking system.

2004 11

Harvey World Travel

Developer in team of six.
Wrote new systems for producing Annual Reports for franchisee company intranet. Enhanced system for processing frequent flyer point credit card transactions.

2004 09

NetReturn

Sole developer.
Wrote Superannuation forms for the Royal Automobile Association of Victoria site using double encryption and personalisation. A delimited file is uploaded monthly and members can login to view their superannuation details. Members can submit changes to their details and Administrators download these changes. Session variables control security.

2004 08

SENTRY
Sole developer.
Developed query building pages for TSN health system using Coldfusion and mySQL. Matches an organism to a treatment and reports on the organisms resistance to an anti-biotic. The database has 20 million records and complex queries are run over all records in just over two minutes. These Coldfusion query building pages produce a result page of all records that matched the query including the result sign and all fields specified in the query. Developed filter building pages that produced a cross-tab of drugs by organisms for use when the above result set was too large to download over a low bandwidth connection. Created html pages with summaries of record counts for key fields. Analysed data looking at data quality. Designed future enhancements that restrict access to data based on region, state and institution. One design used separate datasets and the second used session variables. The third design did not use the internet.

2004 06 - 2004 07

Dept WLBC

Sole developer.
Web development for the South Australian Dept of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation using the ArcIMS www.esri.com ColdFusion connector with kavaCharts applets, servlets and fusionCharts A page displayed hourly updates on water quality and wind measures in Lake Alexandria as an interactive map. Wind direction and speed was displayed on a polar chart.

2003 08 - 2004 05

Produced the documentary film entitled 'multiPlayer'.

2003 06 - 2003 07

Danaclese

Developer in team of two.
Contracted by www.danaclese.com.au to add to ColdFusion programs used at www.adgp.com.au A subscription link was added to all pages. When the page was updated the subscriber was notified by email.

2003 04 - 2003 05

School of Graphic Arts

Teaching streaming media course at the School of Graphic Arts.

2002 07 - 2003 03

Personal development. Produced music cd The Foley Artists

2002 05 - 2002 06

Computer Graphics College

Contracted to write notes for Dreamweaver/ColdFusion course at Sydney Computer Graphics College

2000 01 - 2001 10

Microset/MBComms

Developer in team of two.
Employed by Microset a web development and hosting company to build a large content management system for FinanceAsia.com using Spectra and Adobe Cold Fusion. The database was MS SQL This is an interactive content management system that allows journalists and subeditors in twelve Asian countries to submit articles. The technical director through the back end system controls forty different advertising schedules. The site is hosted on MS IIS. E-commerce sites included http://www.chairbiz.com and http://www.SitBackandRelax.com.au The product information and images are served through a database with a Coldfusion system. Business to business sites included the G Point, K point and L Point sites A magazine site for each is generated by Spectra. Advertising campaign and market research sites included the Nokia Formula One site. Customers were sent a postcard with a password that allowed them to log in and enter a draw for tickets to the Adelaide Grand Prix. A Coldfusion system tallied the number of visitors and generated a series of reports on the response to the campaign that updated continuously over the period of the campaign.

1999 01 - 1999 12

DWR Publishing

Developer in team working with a designer.
Employed by DWR Publishing to develop database driven web pages using Coldfusion for a news database. Designed eight sites including www.itNews.com.au www.itGraphics.com www.downloadwarehouse.com and www.itresearch.com. Developed mail listserver for itNews flash service.
Created online survey systems and subscription systems. Maintained Advertising Confirmation system.

1998

Stroudgate Publishing
Employed by Stroudgate Publishing to create database of companies with offices in the United Kingdom and or New Zealand for publishing in a trade magazine and on the internet.

1997

Centurion Marketing/Reliable Mailing

Developer in team of four.
Employed by Centurion Marketing/Reliable Mailing Services as programmer. Researched and duplicated marketing system for Toyota using xBase and Crystal Reports. Wrote programs used in direct marketing.

1996

EKAS Marketing

Employed by EKAS Marketing Services. Supervised the production of regular reports generated by a Computer Aided Telephone Interviewing system. Wrote a system for sampling phone numbers by postcode using FoxPro. Maintained a system for distributing reports over email.

1994 - 1995

NSW Dept of Health/NSW Cancer Registry

Employed as Researcher. Continued record linkage projects (eg the Coal Miner Cancer Study) and assisted in survival analysis. Used MapInfo in Mammographic Screening report for Cancer Council. Linked Petroleum Workers Health Watch cohort to cancer database.

1993

AGB McNair

Employed by AGB McNair as a Researcher. Documented a market research system and provided statistical support in media analysis.

* All of the projects listed above required

See http://www.MarkIreland.com.au for portfolio.
References will be forwarded on request. Hobbies and interests include film and video making, design, the Japanese language and culture, music, computing, the Internet and the other arts.

Education

Bachelor of Science
Macquarie University 1985
Masters of Science (never completed)

Biology

Design and Analysis of Biological Experiments

Computing

Sociology

Tradition of Science
Topics in Social Philosophy
Person and Society
Industrial Sociology

Statistics

Statistical Design
Nonparametrics
Computer Simulation
Applied Probability

Geography

Earth Materials
Geography of Economic Activity
Resource Utilisation
Geography of Transport and Communications
Urban and Regional Development
Geography of Industrial Organisation