About Ronald

Background

Ronald has worked as an Industry Professional for over 18 years primarily in Database Modeling and Large Systems Design. Projects have included clients in Australia, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, United Kingdom and USA, and work locations in Australia, United Kingdom and USA.

Significant experience in a number of large distributed systems design, development and support with the Ingres RDBMS both in government, semi-government and corporate organizations until 1996 lead to Ronald becoming the "Ingres Specialist" to Oracle Corporation - Design and Migration Services based in Brisbane Australia doing R&D in the Ingres to Oracle Conversion Workbench. Portions of this R&D work are still in operation today within Oracle Migration Products.

Significant Database Modeling and large systems design in the Oracle RDBMS suite during 1996-2000 lead to successful projects deployed locally and internationally. These included projects consulting for Oracle Corporation - Design & Migration Services, as well as independently.

For more then the past 8 years, current design and development has been focused in Web Design and Development using Open Source technologies including the MySQL Database on Linux Operating Systems and Java software technologies, while also using and comparing both Oracle and Microsoft RDBMS software products.

Sample Projects

• Metal Road - Online Services for the Heavy Construction Industry
• Molecular Simulations (UK) - R&D with Unilever
• Oracle Corporation - ITOC Project - Ingres to Oracle Conversion Workbench
• TAFE Queensland - CAP Project - Ingres Distributed System (33 statewide locations) for Student Management
• Lion Nathan - Growth Incentive Management (GIM) - 100% Oracle Designer Generated Application (excluding some complex reports)
• United Christian Broadcasters - Custom Integrated Donor and Media Management CRM

A full list of engagements can be found at my Linked In Profile.

Resume / CV

Refer to my Linked In Profile for my online resume/CV.

Recommendations

"... His work was excellent, detailed, and thorough, his reports were detailed and helpful, and his participation was an invaluable help to us. I'd recommend Ronald for any organization that wants to make sure their use of MySQL is congruent with "big chair" practices..." -- Scott Henry

"... He is an expert resource always willing to help, a subject matter expert on database and application design and scalability, resourceful, and entirely dedicated ..." -- Marc Simony

"... I found Ronald to be extremely professional in both work and demeanor. I have found his work to be of the highest caliber and his character to be one of dogged determination whenever a problem was encountered..." -- Michael Sztachanski

Qualifications

Ronald holds a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree (1987-1989) with dual majors in Mathematics and Scientific Computing from the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba Australia. [University Web site]

Incomplete Post graduate studies in a Master of Information Technology (1991-1993) at Queensland Institute of Technology, Brisbane Australia 1991-1993. [University Web Site]

Ronald is also MySQL certified having completed all available certifications including MySQL DBA, MySQL Developer, and MySQL Cluster. [MySQL Certification Web Site]

Information Technology Trivia

• First Computer - 1983 -Dick Smith VZ200 [Wikipedia Reference]
• First PC Computer - 1984 -Epson QX-16 [Wikipedia Reference]. This computer was actually a dual processor with a Z80 and Interl 8086 chip, allowing for two different operating systems to run seperately. Purchased for between $3,000 and $4,000 while earning approximately $5 per hour on a weekend job, it took a very long time to pay for my first machine.
• First Cell Phone - 1993 - A Nokia phone. [Wikipedia Reference]
• First PDA - 2006 - A Nokia E61 (I was a late adopter).
• Present Equipment - 2008. Apple Macbook Black (250GB HDD, 2GB RAM) [Web Site], IBM/Levona T60 (company supplied) [Web Site], Dell Inspiron 5150 [Web Site]. Apple iPhone [Web Site].