Daniel Vandali

AWS Public Sector Cloud Alliance member 2020 Amazon Web Services 2020 Invite-only programme from AWS, for technical leaders and innovators in the Public Sector

1st place "Moonshot" Award, OUA Hackathon 2019 Open Universities Australia Dec 2019 A part of the winning team for the 2019 company-wide 2-day Hackathon.Delivered a fully functional Machine Learning recommendation system for prospective students to choose and compare degree options on the OUA website.The solution leveraged AWS Personalise and 6 months of production web traffic sourced from our Redshift Datalake to present students with related degrees based on previous browsing behaviour.

1st place, Ericsson Innovation Challenge 2014 Ericsson Oct 2014 Global 1st place winner, in competition category: 'Internet of Things'As a member of a team of four fellow Ericsson colleagues, our competition entry 'Dynamic Discounting for Toll Roads' was submitted among 300+ competition entries world-wide. Developed over the course of 5 months, our proposal presented the concept and business case for introducing a dynamic discount system that promotes the use of toll roads when not fully utilised. Our team progressed through several competition… Show more Global 1st place winner, in competition category: 'Internet of Things'As a member of a team of four fellow Ericsson colleagues, our competition entry 'Dynamic Discounting for Toll Roads' was submitted among 300+ competition entries world-wide. Developed over the course of 5 months, our proposal presented the concept and business case for introducing a dynamic discount system that promotes the use of toll roads when not fully utilised. Our team progressed through several competition rounds where we presented and refined our idea, finally culminating in a presentation at New York's Time Square and being awarded 1st place.http://www.ericsson.com/thecompany/events/ericsson-innovation-challenge-2014_957590551_c Show less

CGU Certificate of Appreciation - 2013 Presented by the CIO of CGU Insurance, in recognition of my contribution to the company-wide IT transformation project

Zanity Award for Excellence in Usability Engineering 2012 - 2012 Awarded to the student with the highest grade in the undergrauate class, Usability Engineering.

Kwong Lee Dow Scholarship Program - 2010 Awarded to high-achieving students entering The University of Melbourne