Mark Aufflick

Current

Tech Lead - Security & Market Data at BlackRock

Past

Software Engineering Lead at Barclays Global Investors
Software Systems Consultant and Developer at pumptheory.com (Self-employed)
Tertiary Teaching Assistant at The University of Sydney

IT Infrastructure Specialist at The Boston Consulting Group
Technology Coordinator - Melbourne & Auckland at The Boston Consulting Group
National Communications Manager at Smooth Developments
Sales Manager: Victoria, National at Smooth Developments

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Education

University of Technology, Sydney
University of Sydney
EXIN - Examination Institute for Information Science

Centre for Career Development
The University of Melbourne

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Industry

Computer Software

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Mark Aufflick’s Summary

Business process software design and development. Human Control Interaction - Web UI focus. Infrastructure planning and implementation. ISP Internet technologies. Project management. Training & Education.

Key skills include innovation, strong lateral thinking and flexibility.

http://mark.aufflick.com/about/resume

Mark Aufflick’s Specialties:

Community and collaboration system design and development. Web and Intranet systems development. Business process software design and development, Infrastructure planning and implementation, ISP Internet technologies, Project management.

Perl, Ruby, Cocoa, Objective-C, OpenACS, AOLServer, tcl, sql, postgresql, Sybase, xml-rpc, soap, linux/unix

Mark Aufflick’s Experience

Tech Lead - Security & Market Data

BlackRock

(Public Company; BLK; Financial Services industry)

December 2009 — Present (1 month)

On December 1 2009 Barclays Global Investors became part of BlackRock. My position remains the same as below.
Software Engineering Lead

Barclays Global Investors

(Public Company; BCS; Investment Management industry)

November 2005 — December 2009 (4 years 2 months)

I am currently working with the global Knowledge Management/Market Data group. Previously the team was only in San Francisco and London, I was hired to start the technical team in Sydney.

Responsibilities

• Direct manager of Design & Development Engineers in Sydney and Singapore
• Primary maintainer/developer of two web-based interfaces to market data
• Development of batch systems that communicate with external vendors and BGI systems
- Design, implementation and modification of scripts and core frameworks
- Liaison with analysts, researchers and clients
• Resolution of scalability issues
• Mentoring of junior developers, support and QA engineers
• Part of Asia-Pac IT escalation team

Achievements

I have identified and resolved critical software and database scalability issues. Some of these changes have delivered order of magnitude improvements to throughput.

Re-designed and re-implemented software build process which is assisting in our migration to Linux from Solaris.

Successfully navigated some very high profile firm-wide technology outages.
Software Systems Consultant and Developer
pumptheory.com (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

2000 — 2005 (5 years )

Clients

Clients were located in Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Boston, London and Copenhagen. Examples include:
• SMEs such as insurance brokers and manufacturing companies
• Non-profit organisations (both paid and pro-bono work)

Responsibilities

My responsibilities varied by client and included:
• Consultation and design of business workflow processes
• Project management of software, networking & telephony implementations
• Design and development of software systems

Achievements

A small selection of achievements is:
• Liaising directly with the CEO of a specialist manufacturing company, I analysed the business process surrounding a manufacturing workflow. Based on this analysis, I designed and implemented a software system for the company that enabled my client to retain a government contract and reduce shipping costs.
• Successfully re-established telecommunication and network services to a financial client’s New York office after September 11 2001.
Tertiary Teaching Assistant

The University of Sydney

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

July 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 4 months)

Responsibilities

• Assisting development and delivering course content in areas such as:
- Networks, network applications, security, international considerations
- Human computer interaction
- Web UI & workflow systems development
• Providing tutor and student consultation
• Performing database and software development for research and funding projects

Achievements

• Developing content and teaching for new business systems & web application subject
• Assisting with new online-based delivery of course content for an existing subject stream
IT Infrastructure Specialist

The Boston Consulting Group

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

I was responsible for IT&T infrastructure in the Australia/New Zealand region, which was 3 offices (Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland) in BCG’s network of over 50 offices in 40 countries.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities listed were shared across the group globally. I was directly responsible in Australia and New Zealand.
• Managing IT & Telecommunications infrastructure & projects
• Vendor and contract negotiation and management
• Writing and executing global IT infrastructure strategy and policies
• Business continuity planning

Achievements

Together with the nine-member global infrastructure team, the following was achieved:
• Messaging/file/print/wan was standardised on ~200 servers, in 40 countries, in 10 months
• Designed and executed a successful Y2K strategy covering all IT & Telephony systems
Technology Coordinator - Melbourne & Auckland

The Boston Consulting Group

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Responsibilities

• Desktop, laptop & PDA hardware, software and network infrastructure
• Server hardware and software, phone and voicemail systems

Achievements

• Successfully managed the month-long Auckland CBD power outage of February 1998
National Communications Manager

Smooth Developments

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1995 — July 1997 (1 year 9 months)

The Mac’s Place Group was comprised of a national Apple Macintosh retail chain, a corporate PC sales company, a national IT importer/distributor and a specialist Internet service provider.

Responsibilities

• IT & Telecommunications design, implementation and management
• Design and implementation of policy and technical aspects for new business ventures
• Account management of top three corporate clients

Achievements

• Created an ISP including development of messaging, authentication and billing systems
Sales Manager: Victoria, National

Smooth Developments

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

June 1995 — November 1995 (6 months)

Based in Melbourne, I was responsible for sales and customer relations in all states except NSW.

Responsibilities

• Management of sales and technical staff
• Relationship management of priority clients
• Management of sales targets
• Supplier management

Achievements

• Attracted new corporate clients
• Improved all corporate client satisfaction feedback areas

Mark Aufflick’s Education

University of Technology, Sydney

Master , Law and Legal Practice , 2007 — 2012 (expected)
University of Sydney

Master , International Studies , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
EXIN - Examination Institute for Information Science

ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management 2008 — 2008
Centre for Career Development

Essential Skills for Managers , Business , 2006 — 2006
The University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Science , Computer Science, Geomatics , February 1992 — August 1998

Activities and Societies:

Mountaineering Club, Canoe Polo Club