Contacting Bob Jansen

Mobile: 0414 297 448

For International Callers: +61-414 297 448

Skype: bobjtls

Email: bob.jansen@turtlelane.com.au

He has over twenty publications in peer-reviewed conferences and journals to his credit in such areas as digital preservation, multimedia, artificial intelligence, electronic publishing, oral history and user interaction to IT systems. He has served on the program committees of many prestigious international conferences and been an academic course reviewer and advisor at the University of Western Sydney for its IT courses.

He has successfully attracted over $200,000 in R&D grant funding

He has worked or consulted for organizations such as the ABC, the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, CSIRO, ICL, The Historic Housing Trust (NSW), Mitsubishi Australia, Toyota Motor Corporation (Aust), The National Archives of Australia, The National Library of Australia, the University of New South Wales, the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, NSW Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, TAFE NSW, South East Sydney & Illawarra Area Health Service and the NSW Department of Education & Training.

Bob Jansen is a founding member of the NSW Cancer Institute’s Ci-SCAT Advisory Board; the NSW Melanoma Network and the NSW Cancer Institute’s NSW Oncology Group for Melanoma. In these positions he is bringing to bear his extensive experience in ICT and eHealth to improve cancer treatments and increase patient survival from Melanoma.

Qualifications

• PhD (Artificial Intelligence) University of New South Wales, 1991
• BASc (Applied Physics & Mathematics), University of South Australia, 1976

Areas Worked In

• artificial intelligence
• database design
• digital archiving
• digital broadcasting
• e-commerce
• e-Health
• electronic publishing
• electronic records management
• event capture systems
• expert systems
• file and record tracking systems
• functional analysis
• hypertext systems
• information retrieval
• knowledge-based systems
• markup systems
• multimedia systems
• museum interactives
• network services
• preservation of digital information
• project management
• requirements analysis
• strategy formulation and monitoring
• streaming video and audio applications
• systems analysis
• systems design
• urban planning systems
• visual arts
• web information systems

Recent Work Experience

Job Title Project Manager, South Eastern Sydney & Illawarra Area Health Service

Industry Healthcare

11/2006 to current

• Managed the implementation of a paperless electronic medical record supporting all aspects of patient care at the St George Cancer Care Centre and the Sutherland Hospital Oncology Daycare Centre. A large component of this project was change and expectation management of the clinicians, the Area health Service IT support groups and the software vendor.
• Managed the liaison with the various stakeholders to upgrade the IT infrastructure, the implement the three-site IT environment and to drive workplace change through the organizations.

Job Title Senior Research Fellow & Director IT, Centre for Health Informatics, University of New South Wales

Industry Healthcare

11/2003 to 11/2006

• Designed and implemented CHI network infrastructure including a move to new premises.
• Established IT policy and procedures to manage IT infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented Centre-wide backup and recovery strategy.
• Designed and implemented Centre-wide archiving strategy for digital information objects and records.
• Managed IT infrastructure including security, dataset software licensing, network access, hardware purchasing and network links to the wider University network environment.
• Implement eGroupware collaboration environment based on PHP/MySQL database on a Linux server. Design online policy manual and knowledge base for online procedure descriptions. Implement online bug report and tracking system.
• Designed and implemented upgrade to web site utilising TeamSite software as implemented by UNSW
• Designed and implemented a simple contact management web site.
• Designed and implemented an IT Asset Register web site for managing the IT assets of the Centre.

Job Title Research Leader, National Archives of Australia

Industry Government / Public Sector

04/2002 to 11/2003

• Collaborated in workflow analysis and design for digital archiving workbench using synXpert workflow documentation tool.
• Designed and prototyped the workflow management tool using PHP and MySQL database running as a web service using the Apache web server product.
• Performed requirements analysis for determining how archived digital objects would be made available to the researchers and the public.

Job Title CEO & Chief Scientist, Turtle Lane Studios Pty Ltd

Industry Computing - Software

02/1997 to Current

• Manage the company, Turtle Lane Studios Pty Ltd, including grant applications, all legal/corporation requirements etc.
• Commercialise the Events on Line architecture, initiated whilst I was at CSIRO, into Testimony Software. This is now a commercial product.
• Negotiate collaborations with Australia Street Consulting Pty Ltd, Museum Planning Services Australia Pty Ltd, Greenhouse Graphics and Ground Glass Productions.
• Design and implement the web sites for Turtle Lane Studios, attendonline and the Australian Centre for Oral History.
• Perform contracted services for clients, such as National Library of Australia, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, Tenterfield Shire Council, Laperouse Museum, Hyde Park Barracks Museum, Mitsubishi Motors, Toyota Australia, etc. Contracts involved development of multimedia products, web design, online quiz design. and implementation, design and programming of desktop/online applications and web sites using Filemaker Pro, iShell, Testimony Software, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL,

Job Title Consulting Director, Impart Corporation

Industry Computing - Software

03/1997 to 03/1998

• Design and implement IT infrastructure including central admin server and appropriate information services.
  &Mac183; Project manage the development of the Impart web site including identifying and choosing the external contractors.
• Project Manager of requirements analysis project for an online education and training environment.

Job Title Invited Professor, European R&D laboratories

Industry Computing - Consulting / Professional Services

09/1992 to 02/1994

• Collaborative R&D in European laboratories, including the Centre National des Recherches Scientifique (CNRS), University Paris 6 - Jussieu, University Paris1 - Sorbonne, Nokia Research Laboratories (Finland), Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Main focus was electronic publishing and multimedia including further development of the IntelliText software tool.
• Developed an information system design tool based on the Remora modelling language. The tool was able to generate code from the specifications input by the user.
• Applied the IntelliText tool to the development of an electronic archive of the manuscript of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.

Job Title Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences

Industry Government / Public Sector

04/1986 to 08/1992

• Program Manager of the Knowledge Based Systems program.
• Laboratory Manager of the Knowledge Based Systems laboratory.
• Research scientist in artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, electronic publishing and multimedia.
• Developed the IntelliText tool, one of the first electronic publishing tools.
• Project manager of the Siratac Plus expert system redevelopment project - a cotton pest management tool developed in OPS5 and VAX RDB.
• Redevelopment of the Garvan ES1 Expert System using modern information systems technology adapted to cater for knowledge objects.

Job Title Senior Product Specialist, ICL Australia Pty Ltd

Industry Computing - Software

03/1978 to 11/1985

• Senior Product Specialist in free text retrieval systems, eg. Status, Basis, etc. Implemented many STATUS database systems, including Federal Parliamentary Library, WA Consumer Affairs Department, Port of Melbourne Authority, West Australian Aboriginal Affairs Commission.
• Designed and implemented a records management system for the Victorian Ministry of Housing using STATUS, COBOL and IDMS.
• Software Support, first, second ands third line for COBOL compiler, IDMS database systems, STATUS.
• Software Developer in COBOL, FORTRAN and BASIC.