Sean Welsh

Experience

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  Alice Lisle Inn

  Jun 1984 - Oct 1988

  Landlord

  Was landlord (along with my parents Greg and Marie) of the Alice Lisle Inn. Worked behind the bar mostly and in the cellar when I was not studying at the University of NSW.

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  Navitas

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1989

  Teacher

  Responsible for teaching English as a Foreign Language to Asian and European Students. At the time I was there the school was called the Australian College of English or ACE. I worked mostly at the Manly College on Raglan St but also did some courses at the Bondi Junction campus.

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  International House

  Jul 1990 - Oct 1991

  Teacher

  Responsible for teaching English as a Foreign Language to Asian and European Students. I worked for International House Queensland which is related to the parent IH in England.

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  Castaway's Backpackers

  Jan 1991 - Jan 2004

  Proprietor

  Castaway's Backpackers was a family business. It started with a flop house called the Hi-Way Inn (sic). I interested the rest of the family in buying this property and later I suggested we convert it to a backpackers. We started a travel agency Castaway's Travel to handle the tour and travel bookings from the hostel. In June 1995 I made my first online sale which was 2 Quicksilver Outer Great Barrier Reef Cruises and 2 Down Under Tours Kuranda Day trips for a grand total of AUD 440. (I remember it distinctly.)After a couple of years of selling travel online I decided to pursue a career in IT.The family purchased another hostel, Uptop Downunder, and did well for most of the 90s. However with the coming of S11 and SARS there was a major downturn and we were forced to sell Uptop in 2004 to a property developer who demolished it.At this time my sister and I left the business. My mother retained the majority ownership of Castaway's until her death in 2015. Castaway's was then sold. Show less

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  BT Group

  Jul 1997 - Apr 1998

  Design Consultant

  Design Consultant, Online and Multimedia Operational Support Systems. Worked on various intranet applications supporting BT Wireplay, BT Touchpoint, BT WebWorld and BT Connect for Business.

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  Telstra

  Apr 1999 - Aug 1999

  Web Specialist

  Web Development work - mixture of maintenance coding and new projects - Javascript, HTML, Cold Fusion and Oracle.

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  Vocus

  Sept 1999 - Mar 2006

  Technical Operations Manager

  Volante was absorbed into Commander after I left. I started at Volante as a Contract ColdFusion developer in Sept 1999. Came back as Technical Operations Manager in March 2000 and then worked on a part time remote basis as an Oracle DBA after my return from London from May 2002 to March 2006.My major project at Volante was the Exodus project. This involved the relocation of CustomerConnect - the application used by Sales Reps to quote deals for Customers.Some code rewriting was required and coordination of the relocation of some 20 servers.Other activities involved updating feeds that loading pricing data into CustomerConnect and routine DBA tasks such as Backup and Recovery and some intense periods of Performance Optimisation (tuning SQL) when CustomerConnect had scaling problems. Show less

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  Fitch Ratings

  Apr 2001 - Mar 2002

  Developer / DBA

  My main project at Fitch was transforming the production of the Grey Book from a Word Macro running off an Access Database in London to a Crystal Reports template running off an Oracle Database in New York. Oracle functions I developed were also used in the rewrite of the Credit Disk application.In the process I learnt a thing or two about credit ratings.

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  James Cook University

  May 2002 - Feb 2006

  Multimedia Designer

  While I did some projects in Flash that I would call Multimedia, my role was to quote, design and develop web database systems using Oracle and ColdFusion. Effectively, I operated as a cost-recovery freelancer within the University. I was responsible for capturing requirements, producing a functional spec and an estimate, getting approval for same (or varying and re-presenting), developing, and testing the application, I did not roll code into production, I handed it over to IT&R who owned the production servers. I dealt with any ongoing maintenance issues, feature enhancements and bug fixes thereafter. I used COSMIC-FFP for estimation purposes which worked well for the nature of the projects I was assigned - typically business process workflow systems. Show less

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  All Hours Communications

  Jun 2006 - Sept 2007

  Programmer / Proprietor

  Developed reservations application in ColdFusion and Oracle to replace existing Clarion application. This was used to support reservations for approx 40 Cairns entities including Skyrail, Sunlover Cruises, Cairns Dive Centre, Deep Sea Divers Den, Passions of Paradise, Ocean Spirit, Ocean Freedom, Trek North, Johnstone Shire Council and the Qld Dept of Main Roads.

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  Lumata

  Nov 2007 - Mar 2013

  Solution Architect

  I worked on design and build for Lumata projects and products. Technical Lead for iMM and IOU in Australasia. I also worked on the Payments system and iCE.Most recent projects were the Optus Christmas Campaigns of 2012 and SSAS cubes for reporting and analytics purposes.Previous major projects were the various iterations of Recharge and Always Win, the rewrite of IOU Credit, the Globys project (a variation of iCE), reporting for the Payments system. Reporting via Rocky back to the Optus Data Warehouse. Technical Lead and Solution Architect for the Telecom New Zealand implementation of iMM. Show less

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  University of Canterbury

  Mar 2013 - Apr 2017

  PhD Student

  My thesis is entitled "Exploratory Moral Code: Formalizing Normative Decisions Using Non-Modal Deontic Logic and Tiered Utility."It centres on the question: how would a robot or AI make a moral decision? This requires the formalization of normative decisions so they can be made in a computer. I use a "non-modal deontic logic" and a concept of "tiered utility" in my formalization. This is ethically informed by the "triple theory" of Derek Parfit. Triple theory is a hybrid moral theory that fuses elements of Kantian deontology, Sidgwickian utilitiarianism and Scanlonian contractualism. Show less

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  Falcon Robotics

  Apr 2017 - Jan 2018

  Founder

  During this time I worked on proofs for Ethics and Security Automata and various other writing projects.

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  University of Canterbury

  Feb 2018 - Dec 2018

  PhD Student

  My thesis is entitled "Exploratory Moral Code: Formalizing Normative Decisions Using Non-Modal Deontic Logic and Tiered Utility."It centres on the question: how would a robot or AI make a moral decision? This requires the formalization of normative decisions so they can be made in a computer. I use a "non-modal deontic logic" and a concept of "tiered utility" in my formalization. This is ethically informed by the "triple theory" of Derek Parfit. Triple theory is a hybrid moral theory that fuses elements of Kantian deontology, Sidgwickian utilitiarianism and Scanlonian contractualism. Show less

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  Falcon Robotics

  Jan 2019 - Jul 2022

  Founder

  Working on MVP for an edtech application and a board networking application. Published two books and many articles. Ghost writing another book.

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  Engine No.2

  Oct 2021 - Apr 2023

  Technical Director

  Digital Transformation Roadmap development. Customisation of EMR solution.

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  Centacare Brisbane

  Apr 2023 - now

  Data Lead

  Digital Transformation.