Sanjesh Kumar

Experience

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  University of the South Pacific

  Jan 2011 - Dec 2012

  Developing an online knowledge base for USP's EU and AusAID funded Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (PACE-SD) to consolidate the research efforts of academics and expatriates, whilst providing a central repository for the official publication of academic work by the centre. A further project included consolidating the university's research publication efforts from various faculties into a central official research hub, hosted by the Research Office of the university. Assist students in the academic fields of Computer Science and Information Systems, through the Student Learning Hub. This included hourly informal tutoring sessions of 200 and 300 level students of diverse ethnicities who need assistance and guidance in their courses.

  • Web Developer

    Jun 2012 - Dec 2012

  • Senior Mentor

    Jan 2011 - Jun 2012
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  Carpenters Fiji Limited

  Jan 2013 - Jun 2013

  Application Developer

  The position involved designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software applications for the various subsidiaries of CFL, such as, MH, Carpenters Shipping, Carpenters Hardware and IMEL. The applications were both web based and standalone desktop software, in a multitude of languages (PHP, VB, C#, JavaScript, CSS and HTML to name a few).

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  The Digital Nexus

  Jan 2013 - now

  Managing Director
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  Bank of South Pacific

  Jul 2013 - Feb 2014

  Programmer

  Undertake the design, development, deployment and maintenance of proposed in-house projects expected to expedite the banks internal and external processes. Collaborating with vendors from various countries in designing, developing and implementing core upgrades to the e-Channels branch of the banking system. Administrate the banks SharePoint deployment, providing technical support for and maintaining health of critical applications implemented in SharePoint.

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  The University of the South Pacific

  Feb 2014 - Aug 2015

  Graduate Assistant

  Pure graduate research position, along with part-time teaching assistant. Primary area of research in the field of web-semantics based context-awareness, in the broader field of artificial intelligence. This involved an application of both artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms, or more generally referred to as neuroevolution. The goal is to streamline self-learning semantics of data and metadata such that it can operate and evolve in a big data environment setup. Applications of this can range from intelligent geographical assistants to highly user-customized recommendation systems, and even m-learning. Show less

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  UXC Eclipse

  Oct 2015 - Feb 2017

  Microsoft Dynamics NAV Developer

  Development work on Microsoft's global ERP solution Dymanics Navision, in accordance with client requirements and Microsoft development standards.

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  Sportsnet Corporation Pty Ltd

  Feb 2017 - Jun 2017

  Manager IT Systems

  Subsidiary: Tropica Island Resort: Managing and overseeing operation, support and upgrades of end-to-end information and technology systems (software and hardware) in a multi-site environment, that involved creating and implementing policies for data usage, protection, security, back-up, authorization, and reporting. Also involved working with various internal business units (BUs) and external vendors to achieve deliverables within budget and time. Additionally, successfully designed and implemented SharePoint for document management and workflows for resort-intrinsic business processes, automated reporting, and time-specific checklists/registers/manifests. Show less

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  ACTON (Fiji) PTE LTD

  May 2017 - now

  Director
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  Pacific BedBank Ltd.

  Jun 2017 - Sept 2017

  Senior Software Engineer
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  KPMG

  Apr 2023 - now

  Director