Simon Wail

Experience

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  Australian Signals Directorate

  Dec 1987 - Feb 1988

  Computer Programmer

  - Internship prior to starting PhD research

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  RMIT University

  Feb 1988 - Dec 1990

  Lecturer/Tutor
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  CSIRO

  Feb 1988 - Oct 1992

  Computer Programmer
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  IBM

  May 1994 - Dec 1994

  Research Project Leader
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  Australian Computing and Communications Institute

  Jan 1995 - Jul 1997

  Senior Software Engineer
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  MARCONI MEDICAL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES LLC

  Oct 1997 - Apr 2000

  Senior Staff Engineer

  - Team Leader for design and implementation of Internet/Java based clinical results distribution system.- Involved development of multiple backend servers for receiving images and clinical data, storing and processing the data and serving the information to Java clients.- Company representative on DICOM Working Group 6 (Base Standard), DICOM Working Group 14 (Security), DICOM Ad-Hoc Workflow Working Group, and IHE Technical Committee.- Project Manager for PACS installation at University Hospitals of Cleveland.- Attended RSNA ’97 and ’98 as Image Management demonstrator. Attended RSNA ’99 as IHE demonstrator.- System administration of SGI Origin 200 development server and multiple Sun UltraSPARC workstations. Show less

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  Comview Medical Systems

  May 2000 - Jun 2002

  Senior Software Engineer

  - Team Leader for design and implementation of Java based cardiology image capture, viewing and storage systems.- Instrumental in the complete design and implementation of a 100% Pure Java DICOM Toolkit. This toolkit provides a comprehensive API for all DICOM applications from low level TCP/IP network and PDU communications up to complex SOP Class and IOD functionality.- Instigated a complete software development environment, including source code control and configuration management for all company development. Show less

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  LabVantage Solutions, Inc

  Jul 2002 - Feb 2007

  - Team Leader for the architecture and design efforts of a n-tiered high throughput laboratory information system.- Collaborated to define requirements, specifications, design changes, enhancements, maintenance and testing of application systems, ensuring a quality product was delivered.- Designed and developed prototype for device integration manager. This application allowed disparate devices to interface with the core laboratory information system.- Implemented a software development environment for team source code control and configuration management. Show less

  • Software Development Manager

    Jan 2003 - Feb 2007

  • Software Development Team Lead - Informatics

    Jul 2002 - Dec 2002
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  Orca Informatics

  Jul 2007 - Feb 2010

  Senior Consultant

  - Lead a team for the complete implementation of software solutions for bio-specimen repositories (BioBanking).- Perform business analysis and requirements gathering from customers to develop functional and technical specifications.- Communicate design and requirement issues between the customer and the implementation team to ensure an optimal solution is provided.- Perform design and code review sessions, and oversee testing of the software throughout the implementation to deliver a high quality, robust solution that meets all the requirements and the customer’s expectations. Show less

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  IBM

  Mar 2010 - Apr 2021

  - Lead the multi-media analytics team as they developed new machine learning and deep learning models for the detection and prediction of eye disease from retinal images.- Subsequently, lead the cognitive analytics team and their industry (finance, government and defence) focused AI projects.- Liaised with Business Development and external clients to establish and negotiate joint research projects.- Worked together with Client Executives to develop and present AI and Cloud based research proposals for government (federal and state) and defence initiatives. Show less - Technical lead for a cross-laboratory research project in medical imaging with the goal of building the radiologist's assistant of the future. This involves the development of a fast anomaly detection engine used in conjunction with decision support, comparative analytics and statistical systems.- Consulting on various high performance computing (HPC) projects in genome wide association studies, neural tissue simulation and seismic full wave inversion modelling.- Assisting in image analytics projects with system interfacing, image analysis techniques, platform development, containerisation and software engineering. Show less - Ongoing user and application support for the IBM supercomputers (Blue Gene/P, Blue Gene/Q and iDataPlex) at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI). Includes installing and maintaining system libraries and specialised codes, as well as user requests for software applications and packages.- Developing, porting, tuning and optimising user's scientific computation codes for the IBM Blue Gene/P and Blue Gene/Q supercomputers.- Supporting users and research, including advising on algorithms, computational methods, tools and techniques.- Received Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA) for benchmarking of scientific computation codes on pre-released development Blue Gene/Q systems. Show less

  • Data Science Research Manager

    Aug 2018 - Apr 2021

  • Software Engineering Researcher

    Oct 2012 - Jul 2018

  • High Performance Computing Specialist

    Mar 2010 - Sept 2012
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  Monash University

  Aug 2011 - Feb 2013

  Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

  - Porting and supporting NIMROD on the IBM Blue Gene/P and Blue Gene/Q.- Adding support for the IBM Blue Gene version of SLURM as a resource manager for the Parallel Tools Platform (PTP) in Eclipse.- Designing and implementing the scalable debug manager portion of PTP to support the IBM Blue Gene/P and Blue Gene/Q systems.- Membership to the “HPC Committee” at Monash University to build ties between Monash and IBM.

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  Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited

  Aug 2021 - now

  Director of AI Research