Benjamin Close’s CV
Personal Information
Below is the full contact information for Benjamin Simon Close:
| Name | Benjamin Simon Close |
| Benjamin.Close [at] ClearChain.com | |
| Home Page | http://www.clearchain.com/ |
| Address | 677A One Tree Hill Road, Gould Creek, South Australia 5114 |
| Phone | – |
| Mobile | 0417 525 843 (any time) |
Work Experience & Principal Responsibilities
| Since 8/2011 |
Senior Software Engineer/Infrastructure Engineer at Synrgic Research PTE Ltd. My role at Synrgic Research is to see the inception of a new product reach maturity. This involves work related to both the hardware and software of the new product. I’ve also been involved in setting up the company’s infrastructure, including servers, network and shifting hosting providers. Working under Linux, the job provided the ability to increase my management skills of other staff, specifically in an agile programming environment. All this from my desk at home as I work remotely for the Singapore based company. Synrgic Research, is a newly established sub company of parent company Synrgic |
| Since 8/2011 |
Visitor at Wearable Computer Lab, School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia My role in this position is to aid in the continued transition of the lab infrastructure both computing wise and software wise to other members of the Wearable Computer Lab. Having been with the lab for 10 years, vast amounts of knowledge were gained, this knowledge needs to be passed on, sadly there wasn’t always the required documentation. Hence I’m helping other members of the lab during this transition period via remote means. |
| Since 30/01/2007 |
System Administrator/Programmer at Secure Ehost Pty. Ltd. Currently working on the migration of live e-commerce shops between servers, my primary responsibilities are to aid in any programming required using php, java and perl, and aid in maintaining both the Linux Server and CPanel hosting server that the company runs. My other duties include supporting the other Secure Ehost staff in there day to day duties. Working in my spare time from home, my current achievements so far include:
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| 7/2004 – 7/2011 |
Research Associate / System Administrator at School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia my primary responsibility was to maintain the computing infrastructure for the Wearable Computer Lab as well as perform research in various fields. This included:
I also liaise with the School’s system administrators providing:
I am also System Administrator and the ‘Goto’ person for the Wearable Computer Lab ([http://wearables.unisa.edu.au). Hence I’ve gained experience in:
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| 9/2001 – 8/2005 | Chief Technical Officer of ClearChainAs CTO and Director of my own business ClearChain, my responsibilities were very varied but included:
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| 7/2001 – 7/2004 | Research Associate / System Administrator at School of Computer and Information Science, University of South AustraliaDuring this period my primary responsibility was programming an Orthodontic related application, based on varying requirements from an industry partner. The application provides the user with a visual representation of predicted orthodontic surgical changes. The application reached its initial prototype goal.
At the same time I worked one day a week as a System Administrator for the School of Computer and information science. My achievements as system administrator include:
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| 7/2001 – 2/2003 | Home Shopping Distributor for HomeCare, Adelaide, AustraliaIn aid of raising money for charity and maintaining fitness, I delivered home shopping catalogues and filled orders placed by customers. My area contained ~1600 houses. |
| 11/2000 – 6/2001 | Java Programmer / System Administrator at LISASoft, Adelaide, AustraliaInitially hired as a Java Programmer, within months I was promoted to Senior Project manager on one project looking after 3 staff members. At the same time I was given the reponsibility of System Administrator to maintain the numerous Unix machines running the GIS data used by the company. |
| 3/2000 – 2/2001 | Leaflet Distibutor for SALMATStarting as a holiday job I maintained the leaflet delivery job as a means of remaining fit. Delivering multiple leaflets to an area of 400+ houses on a biweekly basis. |
| 2/2000 – 11/2000 | Practical Supervisor for the GUI, UI & CIT courses at The University of South AustraliaI was responsible for:
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| 11/1997 – 1/1998 | Programmer at The Australian Superannunation Group, South Australian BranchMy primary job was to write numerous conversion applications aiding migration of the companies existing data records to the format required by the Australian Taxation Office. During this period, I also performed lots of data entry |
Publications
Please see my complete list of publications here
Education
| Nov 2000 | Bachelor Information Technology (Software Engineering) With HonoursUniversity of South Australia
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| Dec 1996 | High School Graduation Majoring in Mathematics, Chemistry & Physics |
Interests
- Softball
- previously View Eagles Softball Club Fundraising Officer, Webmaster
- Previously Central Districts Softball Association Match Director / Records & Clearance Officer, Webmaster
- FreeBSD (Kernel Hacker – wpi/iwn driver, base system coder)
- ‘FreeDesktop.org (System Administrator)
- Gardening (With a huge Vegatable patch)
- Electronics (MSP430 programming)
Aim
My aim with any job is to get the work done, quickly, with a fun attitude and do well. The old quote work smarter not harder is a firm motto I like to adopt.
Referees
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Ben Nicholas (Ex UniSA)- 0409 678 560 Abigail Davis (Secure Ehost) – 0409 830 927 |
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