Rob Jarvis

Experience

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  Monash University

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Academic Tutor, Mathematics

  Conducted tutorial classes for students in undergraduate mathematics subjects:• "Statistics and Integral Transforms for Engineering" (third-year engineering)• "Multi-variable Calculus" (second-year science)

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  Defence Science and Technology Group

  Jan 2007 - Feb 2017

  Research Engineer, Power Systems

  Mathematical modelling, simulation and electrical engineering to forecast the behaviour of power systems and the performance impacts for naval surface ships and submarines.Leader and manager of team of four. Obtained and invested over five million dollars to establish hardware-in-the-loop modelling and simulation research facility and university collaborations.Author on technical reports advising federal government and Department of Defence, predominantly on power and energy related aspects of Australia’s future submarine. Wrote and presented papers at industry conferences. Show less

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  Readify

  Feb 2017 - Apr 2021

  In September 2019, Readify and several other Telstra-owned technology companies were combined and relaunched as Telstra Purple. My role wasn't affected. I've merged the details for my time at Readify into the Telstra Purple section of my work experience.

  • Managing Consultant, Data

    Jan 2018 - Apr 2021

  • Senior Analyst

    Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
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  Telstra Purple

  Sept 2019 - Apr 2021

  Managing Consultant, Data

  My role didn't change when Readify became part of Telstra Purple. This section includes details from both Readify and Telstra Purple.Most of my work has been in establishing the emerging data capability within Victoria and across Australia.Details:• Educating the business on data science and the role it plays in our offerings• Leading teams and being the interface to our customer• Teaching technical and professional skills• Helping career growth, guiding, conducting job retrospectives• Recruiting new consultants and graduates• Member of the Victorian leadership group, working on strategy, assisting in operations, being conduit between executives and consultants• Member of national data leaders' forum• Pre-sales, meeting customers, writing proposals and tender responses, estimating effort, drafting of statements of workHighlights:• Machine learning model of housing prices. Presented to audience at a large customer to explain machine learning and demonstrate our capability. Using Azure Machine Learning tools, Docker, R and Python.• Data preparation and analysis for a government department. Processing data collected from Telstra antennas, we estimated population locations and movements. Data aggregated to customer's specifications. Using Spark, Hadoop HDFS, Scala, Bash and Power BI.• Modelling of business efficiency for electricity companies. Econometric modelling consistent with how they're evaluated by market regulator. Using R and Shiny.• Consulting for a manufacturing line. Found data spread across line and business that could be joined to track materials and equipment settings for each run. Proposed building a model from the data, finding the important parameters in determining quality, and recommending ranges for those parameters.• Tender response for Ambulance Victoria. Designed data architecture in Azure, from ingestion, through data lake and warehouse and into machine learning models. Presented architecture to tender review team. Show less

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  Mantel Group

  Apr 2021 - now

  Principal Consultant, Data

  Co-founder, Principal Consultant and leader of the Databricks-specialty practice within Mantel Group (which was previously the brand known as Cuusoo).