Welcome to Mortimer XYZ
Welcome, it's great to have you here. Please read about the things I am interested in and what I have done.

A few things you should know upfront:
My name is Christopher, but most people call me Chris. I live and work in the capital of Australia, Canberra, and I’m passionate about technology and design. I specialise in Data Analytics, Engineering and Warehousing as well as web development.
Timeline (recent first)
Working @ Australian Government
Health Sector 2022/23 Primarily working as a Web Developer / Data Engineer / Data Scientist
- Full stack web development building a web application for integration of Natural Language Processing (NLP) predictions and labelling with business reporting.
- Python Flask, SQLite3, AdminLTE (built on top of Bootstrap) with JavaScript libraries including DropZone.js
- Use of Git (and Bitbucket)
- Configuration of Linux environment.
- Maintaining and developing R scripts that read and write from many data sources and targets
- Sourcing data from a data warehouse (Teradata) into R environment
Agriculture Sector 2021/22 Primarily working on Microsoft/Azure platform Data Science and CI/CD
- Contributed to architecture for an Azure Data Analytics platform
- Building solutions on Azure Databricks including configuring clusters, writing shell scripts, engineering data between on premises SQL Server to Azure SQL Managed Instance and Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen2)
- Configuring CNTLM proxy for authenticating against a Windows proxy from a Linux machine
- Refactoring machine learning models (Python) from SQL Server Machine Learning Services to Databricks
- Python development for automation of things and ML pipelines
- Strategies for source control of PowerBI PBIX files in Git
- Gathering requirements from business areas and subsequent development of PowerBI dashboards
Health Sector 2020/21 Primarily working on a website upgrade and Information Management
- Technical Lead for the refresh of Health Workforce Data including web development (Gulp, Fractal, Node.js) content, design and Business Intelligence (Tableau)
- Assessing the technology landscape and building proof of concepts in Tableau, Power BI, Qlik Sense
- Analysing usage of systems, parsing apache logs, and Windows file systems using Python, TPT scripts to load to Teradata in native JSON format, Qlik for analysis
- Powershell and Python for automation
- Implemented Git hooks for deployment
Worked @ Australian Government
2019/20 Primarily working on strategic Information Management projects
- Assessing the technology landscape and building proof of concepts in SQL Server, Power BI, Python and web technologies
- Analysis of social media data including sentiment analysis SQL Server: Graph and Machine Learning services; network and sentiment analysis; minor DBA tasks
- Jupyter notebooks for Python and R
- Scripting the download of data from public APIs and loading to SQL Server
- SSAS, Power BI and Cognos Analytics
- Web based documentation including system architecture diagrams Cytoscpe.js framework
Worked @ Consulting
Teradata 2016, working on a few end to end data projects from data sourcing to BI and Analytics
- Utilising the Teradata Aster Analytics platform (Teradata Vantage)
- Build dashboard in Tableau and SAS Visual Analytics and developing custom-built web applications (including usage of Jquery / Bootstrap)
- DBA work including database hierarchy, users and roles/privileges
- ETL development including Teradata TPT scripts, Python, bash, calling REST APIs, processing JSON, loading data to a SAS LASR server
- SAS Platform admin including managing SAS users and user groups
SAS 2019, worked on a new Viya deployment
- Designing and implementing the security model of a new visual analytics platform on SAS Viya
- Developing Python and bash scripts for the automation of processes such as adding new security groups on the OS (Linux Redhat) and SAS Platform
Worked @ Australian Government
Health Sector 2006->2016 In various data related roles including data analysis, ETL, time series forecasting, web development
- Developing a strategy for the warehousing of data in a Teradata EDW including data modelling and ETL
- Designing a web-based system for cleansing data using SAS Stored Processes
- Developing and expenditure forecasting model
- Developing improved UI for forecasting
- Transitioning to a Teradata EDW from a SAS midrange environment
Freelance
Sigma Motors ACT 2022 Web developer and Cloud infrastructure 2022
- Developed and deployed a marketing website for Sigma Motors ACT Sigma Motors ACT
- AWS/Google cloud platform/Azure virtual machine configuration, networking and firewall rules
- AWS Route 53 DNS configuration
- Gatsby.js for frontend and Contentful CMS for content
- Infrastructure and application installation and CICD (Nginx, Git)
Code
Here are the programming languages I’m either good at or have have used them enough to write them here.
%put SAS;
select 'SQL';
<h1>HTML</h1>
.css {
font: CSS;
}
console.log('Javascript');
print('Python')
echo 'Bash'
Write-Host 'Powershell'
print('R')
Studied
Australian National University 2002->2006
Majored in Mathematics (Computational), Minored in Physics