1. Résumé: CROMWELLHOOPER; Telephone: +61 4 8135 7316; Email: cromwellhooper@gmail.com
Career Objective: To play my part in an organisation of sound principles and values, making genuine contributions
towards making the world a better place. To depoly well and further refine my extensive development, training and
management skills and experience.
Languages: Python,C#, VB.NET and VB6, HTML, XML and XSL (/XSLT/XPath), SQL including stored
procedures and triggers, PHP, Perl and BASH shell. Like most developers, well versed in learning new
software development paradigms "on the fly".
Tools: Microsoft Visual Studio 6 and 2005 - 2013 with associated Team Foundation Servers, design and
development for Microsoft SQL Server (and JET) including installation, maintenance and tuning, Postgres,
Apache and IIS; Microsoft Office objects; Kofax Capture and Xtrata, Teleform; VMWare and VirtualBox;
IMR's Alchemy, Trim; Vi and Notepad, (i.e. quite comfortable “hand coding” where required).
Operating Systems: RT-11; OS/2; OpenSolaris; MS DOS Executive to Windows 10; Windows NT 3.1 to
Windows Server 2012; Linuxes Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS, LFS (i.e. well confident at the console).
General Skills: Dynamic SQLHTMLXSL-generating SQL, scripting language interpreters, fault-finding in
others' sources; day to day code changes as determined from client requirements; experienced in wide
range of scenarios for extracting and manipulating key information from large unstructured data sources;
patching and scripting for process optimisation;
Exposure To And Worked With: GIS and QGIS, Hardware and software installation and configuration; PC
and Solaris servers, switches/routers, modems, Citrix, network printers, UPS; High end
database/content/etc – Liberty, Alchemy, SAP, Lotus, Sharepoint, Oracle (including some scripting);
MYOB and Quicken; Serving and consuming network services and data communications from and to
Linux environment; Microsoft Project; SmartDraw, Dia, ArgoUML, yED, Visio; HTML 5; Java and
Android, ASP and Javascript, C/C++, Common Lisp and Scheme, Gtk# and MonoDevelop, Tcl/Tk, Eclipse,
NT scripting, MySQL, SQLite; IIS, OpenErp and Express; PRINCE2, Agile, Logical Framework and
Technology of Participation methodologies spanning infrastructure, systems and transitionchange
Qualifications and Education
● TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (2012)
● 2373B Programming with Microsoft .NET Frameworks (2009)
● 2541B Core Data Access with Microsoft Visual Studio (2009)
● 2546B Core Windows Forms Technologies with Microsoft Visual Studio (2009)
● Defence Information and Communications Security (1993)
Employment History
July to November 2014: Facilitators’ Assistant for Vocation Training
Duties: Preparing/adapting training venue resources and materials as appropriate; assisting facilitator as required
and responding to the needs and interests of clients as much as reasonably possible.
Skills: Training, administration, stakeholder liaison
Achievements: Assisted both Facilitator and Students achieve their training goals.
2006 - 2013: Administration / Liaison for WTR Community Initiative
Duties: Consultancy, executive administration, fund-raising, training facilitation.
Skills: Programme Development, Project Management, ICT, Training Development.
Achievements: Introduced digital mechanisms for formalising vague notions of processes; provided criticisms to aid
formation of longer-term goals; steered an unmanaged community of volunteers to a registered NGO on the Securities
and Exchange Commission of The Republic of the Philippines achieving great works on the global stage; drafted the
templates and prototypes required for maintaining/creating accountable training package systems.
2. 2003 - 2011 : Software Developer for Advanced ProfessionalSolutions
Duties: Software development on demand; peer assessment; writing of product and process explanatory materials.
Skills: Software development; documentation.
Achievements: Co-designed and co-developed the organisation's first credit-management solution; developed the
ascCapFun scripting-language for incorporation of dynamic pattern-recognition/correction of massive data-streams
into standard accounting software; developed an initial style-guide for documentation of products and services;
designed automation tools for consultants' reporting.
2002 - 2003: Vice President for Computer Bank South Australia
Duties: Administration and liaison.
Skills: Programme development, volunteer management
Achievements: Developed an amalgamation framework for the volunteer, staff, clients and hardware databases to co-
ordinate client software/hardware requirements with volunteers' training requirements, effectively creating a tool for
continuous training of personnel with varying abilities and from varying circumstances in life.
1997 - 2002: Software Development Manager for Solutions 2001 Australia
Duties: Software design; project management, documentation and technical writing.
Skills: Software development; leadership; stakeholder liaison; documentation and training.
Achievements: Instituted framework for automating client-customisations to an otherwise esoteric data-capture
package. Designed and developed processes for dynamic-pattern recognition and correction for massive data streams.
Assisted many clients through the steps from initial perceptions to studied understanding of their genuine
requirements; led team through numerous varying projects; wrote many training documents and presentations.
1994 - 1995: Quality Control Officer for Mobile Computer Cleaning
Duties: As initial ``dummy`` franchisee - quality tester for indoctrination and training, procedures and processes.
Skills: Training and assessment; basic business skills.
Achievements: Initiated business representation in Victoria and established informal meetings for franchisees mutual
support and discussing concerns.
1993 - 1994: Ships' Engineering Officers' Technical Writer for The Department of Defence - Navy
Duties: Secretarialand PA/EA,travel and billeting management; conference / event management; resources co-
ordination; proof-reading of training materials; ensuring satisfaction of international law requirements;
administration of maintenance schedules and reports.
Skills: Pay and accounts,administration, technical writing, para-legal
Achievements: Drafted initial proposal for a maintenance scheduling database to describe all schedules of all checks
and maintenance for whole-of-defence hardware requirements. Assisted develop initial prototype for HMAS Sydney.
Personal Interests
● Cultural Security and Community Development
● Voluntary manual labour for worthy causes,e.g. The Victorian Task Force.
● Ethnomusicology and whole-of-community music training and performance.
Referees: The full C.V. of this résumé,referee contact details and references are available upon request.