Welcome to Mortimer XYZ

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