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Personal Information <\/span><\/h2>\n
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Below is the full contact information for Benjamin Simon Close:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Name<\/td>\nBenjamin Simon Close<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Email<\/td>\nBenjamin.Close [at] ClearChain.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Home Page<\/td>\nhttp:\/\/www.clearchain.com\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Address<\/td>\n677A One Tree Hill Road, Gould Creek, South Australia 5114<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Phone<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mobile<\/td>\n0417 525 843 (any time)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Work Experience & Principal Responsibilities <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Since 8\/2011<\/td>\n\n

Senior Software Engineer\/Infrastructure Engineer<\/p>\n

at Synrgic Research PTE Ltd.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

Synrgic Research, is a newly established sub company of parent company Synrgic<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Since 8\/2011<\/td>\n\n

Visitor at Wearable Computer Lab, School of Computer and Information Science<\/a><\/strong>, University of South Australia<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Since 30\/01\/2007<\/td>\n\n

System Administrator\/Programmer<\/strong> at Secure Ehost Pty. Ltd.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/a> in there day to day duties.<\/p>\n

Working in my spare time from home, my current achievements so far include:<\/p>\n

7\/2004 – 7\/2011<\/td>\n\n

Research Associate \/ System Administrator<\/strong> at School of Computer and Information Science<\/a><\/strong>, University of South Australia<\/a><\/em> my primary responsibility was to maintain the computing infrastructure for the Wearable Computer Lab as well as perform research in various fields. This included:<\/p>\n

9\/2001 – 8\/2005<\/td>\nChief Technical Officer<\/strong> of ClearChain<\/a><\/strong>As CTO and Director of my own business ClearChain, my responsibilities were very varied but included:<\/p>\n
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  • Setup and maintainence of the ClearChain servers (DNS,Web,Mail,SSL)<\/li>\n
  • Financial Record keeping<\/li>\n
  • Customer support<\/li>\n
  • General Computing including\n
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    • Win32 \/ .Net application creation supporting low level ISDN communication handling<\/li>\n
    • Win32 Performance Counter \/ Com application creation<\/li>\n
    • Record management system for inventory application creation<\/li>\n
    • Various Website construction<\/li>\n
    • Hardware computer upgrades<\/li>\n
    • Virus \/ Spyware removal off infected machines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/2001 – 7\/2004<\/td>\nResearch Associate \/ System Administrator<\/strong> at School of Computer and Information Science<\/a><\/strong>, University of South Australia<\/a><\/em>During 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.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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  • Construction of a Unix print server supporting Unix and Windows clients<\/li>\n
  • Migration of multiple aging webservers to a new amalgimated webserver with zero noticable impact to the users<\/li>\n
  • Upgrade of the School’s website from adhoc html to CSS, Templates<\/li>\n
  • Setup of a CVS server for students, with NIS authentication<\/li>\n
  • Assisted in setup of a Campus wide Wireless Network<\/li>\n
  • Construction of secondary MX server, and primary DNS for a numerous domains<\/li>\n
  • SMS based alert monitoring system to keep track of the state of the Schools servers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/2001 – 2\/2003<\/td>\nHome Shopping Distributor<\/strong> for HomeCare<\/a><\/strong>, Adelaide, Australia<\/em>In 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/2000 – 6\/2001<\/td>\nJava Programmer \/ System Administrator<\/strong> at LISASoft<\/a><\/strong>, Adelaide, Australia<\/em>Initially 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/2000 – 2\/2001<\/td>\nLeaflet Distibutor<\/strong> for SALMAT<\/strong>Starting 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/2000 – 11\/2000<\/td>\nPractical Supervisor<\/strong> for the GUI, UI & CIT courses at The University of South Australia<\/strong>I was responsible for:<\/p>\n
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  • Educating students in the User Interface, Graphical User Interface and Computer & Internet Technology courses<\/li>\n
  • Setting assignments for the Graphical User Interface Course<\/li>\n
  • Setting up and maintaining a submissions system for the UI & GUI courses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/1997 – 1\/1998<\/td>\nProgrammer<\/strong> at The Australian Superannunation Group<\/strong>, South Australian Branch<\/em>My 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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Publications <\/span><\/h2>\n

Please see my complete list of publications here<\/a><\/p>\n

Education <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n
Nov 2000<\/td>\nBachelor Information Technology (Software Engineering) With Honours<\/strong>University of South Australia<\/p>\n
Dec 1996<\/td>\nHigh School Graduation<\/strong> Majoring in Mathematics, Chemistry & Physics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Interests <\/span><\/h2>\n