Chris Fry

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; FJTSY; Information Technology and Services industry

July 2010 – December 2011 (1 year 6 months) Perth Area, Australia

IT Infrastructure project scoping, solution design, technical escalation and consultation with organisations in primarily WA state government and mining sectors.

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; FJTSY; Information Technology and Services industry

December 2009 – September 2010 (10 months)

Projects Database Administrator, primarily for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and 2008 and some MySQL. This role included customer facing technical consultation, SQL Server builds (clustered and standalone), DTS and SSIS package administration and redesign, pre-sales work, and standard database administration activities.

June 2009 – May 2010 (1 year)

3XCD is the only "independent" financial advisory firm focused exclusively on Board compensation governance issues and compensation design.

Worked on the design of a trainable document parser for extracting data and statistics from financial proxy statements. The design revolved around a database of scorable regular expressions (RegEx).

I have also provided server task automation scripts, SQL Server Database Administration and Replication, VPN (IPSec) tunnel configuration between Perth and Toronto, Microsoft SharePoint migration (from WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0) and integration of a personalised SharePoint site with Microsoft Remote Web Workplace.

July 2008 – May 2009 (11 months)

Telstra Complex Billing Services (CoBS) is part of Telstra's Enterprise and Government group, providing specialised billing and reporting solutions for Telstra's larger, Enterprise and Government customers.
My role at Telstra included performing primarily technical, systems analysis tasks both for the design of new billing system components or reports and modification or complicated trouble-shooting for existing software components. This usually involved writing or modifying technical specifications based on business requirements. At times, my role would veer into both less technical (business analysis) type tasks such as file format design and more technical tasks such as specialised scripting for large file, format conversion or for proof-of-concept coding. This role placed a heavy emphasis on robust and efficient software design. My recent work included reviewing and writing technical specifications and requirements for external organisations Accenture and Mastersoft as part of the Telstra Transformation project for major billing system components.

Technologies used at CoBS included Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), .Net (primarily Visual Basic) and various custom software components. CoBS utilises strict development standards in an Agile development environment
including document and file management systems.

July 2005 – July 2008 (3 years 1 month)

This role included the management of a network of about 80 workstations, 8 servers, a Virtual Private Network with Terminal Services logins, and 2 auxiliary, small networks one a VPN extension of Marymead’s network.

Selection of Achievements:
- Reduced helpdesk calls by approximately 70%
- Improved disaster recovery policies and successfully recovered fully from major disasters such as accounting-system failure (including database corruption) and server hardware failure (less then 20 min down time)
- Automated the verification of multiple cost centre shift processing for HR - the single most time consuming aspect of payroll
- Designed and deployed a corporate VPN solution as well as a number of VPN based data transfer applications
- Designed several multi tiered applications, including a “Google Desktop Enterprise” solution (deployed using an MSI through Active Directory and Group Policies) and a 3 tier, database application
- Successfully integrated a Linux file server with Windows, Active Directory Authentication
- Successfully upgraded and virtualised (VMWare Server) Windows Servers and Microsoft Exchange 2003

March 2005 – June 2005 (4 months)

Contracted to Marymead for several months before being recruited as their IT Manager. The project involved design and development of a 2 tier database application using Access 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Nonprofit; 5001-10,000 employees; Nonprofit Organization Management industry

October 1999 – September 2000 (1 year)

Contacts Database development with search and mail merge functionality for Oxfam’s Canberra City office using Access 2003 and VBA.

January 1999 – January 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Established and managed a music tuition business until being recruited by Marymead for database development in 2005.