
Software Entrepreneur and IT Integration Specialist
Melbourne Area, Australia

Software Entrepreneur and IT Integration Specialist
Melbourne Area, Australia
Justin is a consultant and advisor on IT systems integration for large and very large corporations.
He has a background in UNIX systems, IP networking and midrange storage.
Justin is the creator of the libsnmp Python library.
Justin is the creator of the NetAppZAPI Python library for administering NetApp filers using the Python programming language.
Justin is the creator of the SCM configuration management and auditing tool.
Justin is the creator of the ModiPY change automation tool.
Complex systems integration projects.
Enterprise shared storage/Cloud systems.
IP networks.
UNIX systems, particularly Solaris and Linux.
Software development, particularly in Python.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)
I am responsible for the development of our flagship IT management suite, seafelt. seafelt helps you make sense of a sea of data. seafelt combines flexible statistics gathering with a powerful reporting system to provide a superior IT management tool.
seafelt was developed to provide a cost effective alternative to poor quality free tools or expensive, inflexible and overly complex proprietary tools. Our consultants have successfully used seafelt to help our clients over the past several years.
(Public Company; Financial Services industry)
February 2009 — December 2009 (11 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TLS; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2008 — November 2008 (7 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TLS; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2007 — May 2008 (1 year )
Sensis is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telstra and is the Australian market leader in directory services. Their products are household names, including YellowPages, WhitePages, Whereis.com.au, CitySearch and TradingPost.
I was responsible for managing a team of storage technology specialists. We design, build and manage the storage infrastructure that underpins all of Sensis' commercial products.
I was responsible for managing the strategic direction of storage and backup technology within Sensis.
I was the senior technical specialist for IP-SAN technology.
I was the senior technical specialist for Data Protection technology.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — May 2007 (1 year )
Design of shared storage solutions as part of IBM Storage Services.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TLS; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 7 months)
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2004 — August 2004 (7 months)
(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — December 2003 (1 year 2 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — July 2002 (2 years 2 months)
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year )
GAICD , Company Directors Course , 2006 — 2006
Computer Systems Engineering 1997 — 1999
Telecommunications Engineering 1995 — 1997
Cycling, photography, snowboarding, wine
Australian Institute of Company Directors