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The Maintenance Management System (MMS) is responsible for the implementation of the IBM Maximo Enterprise Resource Planner for asset tracking, maintenance management and service management. Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO), BAE and RLM utilise the MMS system to support the Australian Defence Force (ADF) Over The Horizon Radar (OTHR) capability.

Egon was responsible for managing the delivery of the requirements elicitation and hardware design phase. In addition to project management responsibilities, he was also responsible for ensuring the project followed the stringent Defence and Industry accepted Systems Engineering, Hardware Engineering and Software Engineering practices and procedures. Egon was responsible for managing the project stakeholder group in running a series of workshops to determine the customer?s needs of the systems. As the Systems Engineering he was responsible for developing the key systems engineering documentation including an Operational Concept Document (OCD), System Specification (SS), Software Requirements Specification (SRS) and System / Sub-System Design Document (SSDD) following military and industry standards. Egon is also responsible for planning and scheduling the project delivery phase.

The VIPA project entails the development of a new Defence capability for strategic and operational level logistics planning. Using emerging and advanced technologies and concepts such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) VIPA is developing a flexible and extensible application and enterprise architecture.

As the VIPA technical manager Egon was responsible for leading a 12 person multi-disciplinary team located around Australia developing the VIPA product. He was responsible for the VIPA architecture, technical direction, application design, systems engineering documentation, contract management, capturing requirements and deploying VIPA Version 1.0 for use by ADF personnel through the DSTO CITRIX environment. The architecture design and choice of technologies was completed by Egon and is key to the success of the VIPA system. Egon was also responsible for the development, maintenance and configuration management of the infrastructure supporting VIPA. He was also responsible for conducting numerous briefings and demonstrations of the VIPA capability to senior Defence officials

Responsible for creating a multi-site Logistics Research Test Facility for conducting future integration and logistics systems research. The Logistics Integration Facility Testbed (LIFT) provides the core Australian Defence Force (ADF) Logistics systems in an environment conducive to future research activities using true logistics systems increasing the realism of all research activities in DSTO.

Provide technical risk assessment, Enterprise Architecture, future integration technology and international coalition system integration advice. Liaise with staff in ADF involved with ADF Logistics systems, Enterprise Architecture development and integration activities.

Duties:

• Manage technical team comprising of DSTO staff and commercial contractors;
• Provide technical advice and guidance to various areas in Defence (Logistics Systems, Enterprise Architecture, Integration Systems);
• Develop logistics research facility to support DSTO research;
• Conduct research into advanced emerging Web Service standards;
• Conduct research into Agent technologies in relation to logistics;
• Conduct research into future application deployment and development techniques;
• Conduct research into advanced implementation of Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Bus concepts for Defence;
• Provide Liaison service between DSTO and various areas in Defence Logistics and Enterprise Architecture groups;
• Facilitate interaction between multiple DSTO projects to better "productise" DSTO outcomes for Defence clients.

Responsible for the direction of the Australian technical team on the Coalition Theatre Logistics (CTL) program. CTL is a joint project between the Australian and US Defence organisations to develop a prototype to support coalition logistics operations.

Provide technical project risk analysis to support the Chief Defence Scientist for the approval of logistics projects in Australian Defence.

Duties:

• Manage technical team comprising of DSTO staff and commercial contractors;
• Provide technical project management, task reporting and technical guidance to CTL management;
• Administer DSTO and external task finance;
• CTL systems analyst;
• Enterprise software architect;
• Requirements analysis for defence customers;
• Liaise with US Technical team and Australian defence logistics systems staff in the integration of national systems into the CTL system;
• Represent Australian Defence Organisation (ADO) during foreign CTL activities;
• Develop J2EE and Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) based solutions;
• Keep abreast of technical developments in commercial and defence industries;
• Conduct awareness of CTL program throughout defence and client groups;
• Maintain development Intranet site and test environment;
• Create technical documentation for the CTL architecture and Australian developed components;
• Support the transition of CTL into the Australian Command and Control Support systems for future operational use;
• Support international software demonstrations;
• Research internet-based applications development techniques;
• Develop operational version of CTL;
• Provide project risk analysis for defence logistics projects.

Achievements:

• Created CTL architecture being used and under consideration for use in the wider defence community for sharing all coalition data during coalition operations;
• Successful CTL system demonstrations in multi-national exercises including: Multi-National Experiment 3 (MNE3 2004), Thailand (Cobra Gold 2003), Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (JWID 2002);
• Implemented prototype CTL solution that demonstrates Australian Logistics systems integrated with US systems;
• Published multiple DSTO reports outlining the CTL architecture and implementation details;
• Operational Deployment of CTL system for use by the Australian Defence Force;
• Successful transition of CTL to ADF in-service agencies.

Manager of the Coalition Federated Battle Laboratory Network (CFBLnet) South Australian node. Research the use of Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) for the defence environment. Support in development and general programming of defence related software systems.

Duties:

• Develop and support demonstrations/activities conducted on the South Australian node of the CFBL international defence demonstration network;
• Local network security officer for CFBLnet;
• Research Enterprise Information Portals (EIP);
• Develop Java-based software solutions;
• Provide guidance and support in the use of web-based technologies in software development programs.

Achievements:

• Successful implementation of the South Australian node on CFBLnet;
• Implemented geospatial filters to make commercial products support new emerging standards;
• Provided input on the CINC21 project in the development of coalition information sharing system.

Develop software to support the operational analysis work conducted by the group. Provide operational analysis support.

Duties:

• Develop Microsoft Access database to store and manipulate analysis data collected during operational analysis gathering;
• Develop software tools to support the collection and analysis of data during exercises and defence studies;
• Support in conducting interviews in user feedback studies;
• Support operational software in multinational demonstrations;
• Provide support to operational analysis studies,

Achievements:

• Developed a Web-based online questionnaire software system (Web Data Collection Tool (WDCT)) to support the analysis of software demonstrations over the CFBLnet for Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstrations (JWID) (Multinational technology demonstration program);
• Successfully used the Online questionnaire tool in multiple international software demonstrations to illicit feedback from military users;
• Provide support in the analysis of the transition from the old AUSTACCS to the new BCSS software system to be used by the Australian Army.

Implement a simulation systems database to enable the storage of information about the simulations and models developed by the group.

Duties:

• Design database to store information about simulation systems developed by the group;
• Create web front end to the simulations database;
• Provide technical guidance on the selection of technologies and implementation methods.

Achievements:

• Implemented Oracle database and initial population of data;
• Prototype Active Server Page (ASP) web front end completed with connection to online database.

Responsible for the design and development of graphics and layout of all pages used within the web-based information kiosk to be used at the Naracoorte Caves information centre.

Duties:

• Create graphics using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator;
• Develop web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML.

Achievements:

• Information Centre was successfully opened to the public by the South Australian premier.

Support in the development of new online training material for science students. Help in the support of the Windows based computing environment.

Duties:

• Develop web pages to migrate teaching material from applications to online training sites to support teaching over the Internet.
• Install new hardware into laboratory computers.

Conduct tutorial session and laboratory classes for a variety of computing subjects.

Duties:

• Conduct Information Technology 1 laboratory sessions;
• Conduct Java Programming 1 tutorials.

Education

Studies included computer science, psychology and professional communication. Subjects included, (not all listed):

DSTO Early Career Achievement Award (2004)
Oracle Database Administration
IONA Corba
Visual Basic 6.0
Sun Java Programming I - Language Foundations
Sun Java Programming II - Developing Multithreaded Networked GUI Applications
Informix Database Administration
DSTO Residential Management Course
Project Management Course (run by Performance Development Group)
Rotary Youth Leadership Award (residential course)
Occupational Health and Safety Course