Intersect Team
The Intersect Executive
Dr Ian Gibson, Chief Executive Officer
Dr Ian Gibson has extensive experience at executive level R&D management. He has a strong track record in the research, development and commercialisation of new technology across a broad range of electrical engineering, computer science and digital imaging.
Previously Ian was a Division General Manager at CiSRA, the Australian R&D lab for Canon. There he built research capability over several years to deliver original, world leading technology into a wide range of Canon's major product groups.
Ian has a PhD from the University of New South Wales in Computer Science, a BE in Electrical Engineering (Hons) and a BSc, is on several industry advisory boards and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland.
Mr Rodney Harrison, Engineering Manager
Rodney Harrison has overall responsibility for the Project Management Office, including managing the day-to-day operational aspects of projects and directly supervising the software engineering teams. Rodney worked with Avaya for 15 years, most recently as a Technical Manager in their Australian R&D team. He has a BSc from UNSW and he brings to Intersect 25 years of experience in growing organisations, delivering projects and developing engineering professionals.
Dr Joe Thurbon, Member Services Manager
Joe Thurbon is our Member Services Manager currently located at Southern Cross University. He has a research background in logic and diagrammatic reasoning, and has practiced software engineering for almost 20 years. Prior to joining Intersect, Joe worked at CISRA, Canon's Australian R&D company, researching and developing machine learning approaches to image processing problems. Joe has a BSc (Hons) from the University of Sydney in computer science and psychology, and a PhD in computer science from the University of New South Wales.
Mr Shane Youl, IT Manager
Shane Youl is Intersect’s IT Manager and coordinates a number of large infrastructure projects. Shane worked for the R&D arm of Canon (CiSRA) for 13 years, including six years managing the IT Services department and most recently as Deputy General Manager of Corporate Services. Prior to that Shane worked at CSIRO as a data analyst and in Computing Services / IT. Shane has a Bachelor of Applied Science in Mathematics from RMIT Melbourne.
Dr Markus Buchhorn, Strategic Initiatives
Markus Buchhorn engages with State and Federal Government agencies on behalf of Intersect's members, and assists with strategies for building Intersect's business. Markus has been a leader in eResearch for over 15 years. Markus was previously Director of ICT Environments at the Australian National University, and was an advisor on NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration program, the Australian National Data Service, and a member of the National e-Research Architecture Taskforce (NeAT). He has been involved in national infrastructure programs such as APAC, (Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing), for High Performance Computing services and GrangeNet for high performance network services, and continues to be actively engaged in a wide range of of national eResearch initiatives such as RDSI and NeCTAR, as well as international eResearch initiatives.
The Intersect Team
| Name | Position |
| Stuart Allen | eResearch Analyst |
| Diego Alonso de Marcos | Senior Software Engineer |
| Carlos Aya | Senior Software Engineer |
| Jared Berghold | Business Analyst |
| Johan Boshoff | eResearch Analyst |
| Alex Bradner | Casual Systems Administrator |
| Ryan Braganza | Software Engineer |
| Peter Bugeia | eResearch Analyst |
| Franc Carter | IT Architect |
| Andrey Chernyshov | Software Engineer |
| Elise Chong Sun | Office Assistant |
| Anne Cregan | eResearch Analyst |
| Aniruddha Dasgupta | eResearch Analyst |
| Donna Dunwoody | Human Resources Manager |
| Georgina Edwards | Senior Software Engineer |
| Karen El-Azzi | Casual Project Manager |
| Jake Farrell | Software Engineer |
| Fayette Fung | Project Administrator/Personal Assistant |
| Shahla Ghobadi | eResearch Analyst |
| Alan Glixman | Project Administrator |
| Elaine Gully | eResearch Analyst |
| Luke Harrison | Casual Tester |
| Leonie Hellmers | Communications & Grant Development Manager |
| Matthew Hillman | Casual Tester |
| Name | Position |
| Shuqian Hon | Software Engineer |
| Helen Huang | Casual Tester |
| Chris Kenward | Software Engineer |
| Sean Lin | Software Engineer |
| Veronica Luke | Software Engineer |
| Joachim Mai | HPC Support Specialist |
| Ingrid Mason | eResearch Analyst |
| Cameron Maxwell | eResearch Analyst |
| Sean McCarthy | Software Engineer |
| Sridhar Reddapani | ARCS Data Services |
| Glenn Satchell | Contract Senior Systems Administrator |
| Charles Shao | Software Engineer |
| Luc Small | eResearch Analyst |
| Ibrahim Taoube | Quality Assurance Engineer |
| Joshua Valencia | Senior Systems Administrator |
| Kali Waterford | Senior Tester |
| Elyse Wise | Casual Tester |
| Nina Wu | Junior Systems Administrator |
| Spencer Wu | Casual User Interface Designer |
| Leo Yang | Software Engineer |
| Simon Yin | ARCS Systems Services |
| Shane Youl | IT Manager |
| Marc Ziani de Ferranti | User Interface Designer |
Stuart Allen, eResearch Analyst
Stuart Allen has worked in the IT industry in a wide variety of roles for over 15 years. He spent two years working on the Meta Access Management System (MAMS) project at Macquarie University where he was involved with the design, development, and implementation of various software projects.
These applications are an integral part of the infrastructure provided by Macquarie eLearning Centre of Excellence, (MELCOE) for the enhancement of the Australian Access Federation. In addition to this Stuart was also heavily involved in running technical workshops to assist institutions in the adoption of federated technologies with particular focus of the Shibboleth software suite.
Diego Alonso de Marcos, Senior Software Engineer
Diego Alonso is a software engineer with over 15 years experience in a variety of roles, including nine years in the telecommunication sector. While working for Ericsson he undertook a range of roles such as System Developer, Team Leader, and System Architect. He also worked providing support and solutions to several telecommunication operators.
More recently Diego worked as a Senior Support Engineer for Atlassian, providing support for customers using different web based applications.
Carlos Aya, Senior Software Engineer
Carlos Aya is a Senior Developer at Intersect, with broad experience in diverse roles in IT as developer, consultant, project coordinator and lecturer. His experience as software developer encompasses projects in traffic control, web site development, student assessment, computational linguistics and e-learning systems to name a few. Carlos has a BSc in Mathematics from Univ. Los Andes (Colombia), a BSc in Systems Engineering and Computer Science from the same university, and an MA of IT from University of Sydney.
Jared Berghold, Business Analyst
Jared Berghold has a research and development background in computer visualisation, interactivity and enterprise architecture. Jared has practiced software engineering for over eight years and prior to Intersect worked at iCinema, a research centre at UNSW, working on interdisciplinary projects with a focus on interactive and immersive narrative systems. Before this, he worked at Avolution and CiSRA, the Australian research and development lab for Canon.
Jared has a BE/BA (Hons) in Computer Systems and International Studies from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Johan Boshoff, eResearch Analyst
Johan brings a wide range of industry experience to Intersect after running his own software development company for 17 years. He has worked in a variety of fields including business management, livestock & agriculture, data warehousing, biometric systems and the hospitality industry. He is an experienced business analyst who helped to design and develop more than 60 business solutions for national and international clients. Johan is also an Oracle DBA with extensive database design experience.
Most recently Johan worked as a senior business analyst on the International Livestock Registry at the Agricultural Business Research Institute at UNE, providing agribusiness information services to more than 80 breed associations worldwide. Johan is the eResearch Analyst for the University of New England.
Alex Bradner, Casual Software Engineer
Alex is a casual Ruby on Rails software engineer working on multiple ANDS projects. He joined intersect in 2010 as a casual systems administrator, moved into QA/testing and joined the development team in mid-2011. He is currently completing his final year of a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at the University of New South Wales.
Ryan Braganza, Software Engineer
Ryan worked at Intersect as a casual tester for the Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank project and moved into a fulltime role as a Software Engineer in 2009. Ryan has previously worked for UNSW in a summer research position analysing various ORM implementations and teaching Java and design in computing.
Ryan has a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the University of New South Wales, (First Class Hons).
Peter Bugeia, eResearch Analyst
Peter Bugeia is the eResearch Analyst for the University of Western Sydney and the University of Wollongong.
Peter has 27 years IT experience across a wide range of industries including medicine, banking and finance, and media. He has worked in commercial, not-for-profit and public sectors and has held various roles from Senior Software Engineer and Test Manager to Project Manager, Enterprise Architect and Business Analyst.
Franc Carter, IT Architect
Franc Carter is Intersect’s infrastructure architect designing the office infrastructure, and having major input to the systems architecture of all Intersect projects and services. Franc has a background in building highly scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems for financial research. Franc has a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Sydney.
Andrey Chernyshov, Software Engineer
Andrey Chernyshov is a Java Developer with 8 years experience in the software development industry.
Prior to joining Intersect in 2009 he worked on projects in Internet advertising, including for ValueCommerce and Phorm, a company specialising in delivering behaviourally and contextually targeted Internet advertising.
Elise Chong Sun, Office Assistant
Elise oversees the day to day running of the Intersect office, drawing on over two years experience working in administration at Farmoz, an Australian agricultural company. Prior to joining Intersect, Elise worked as a volunteer in Thailand teaching English to school children.
Elise holds a Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) from the University of New South Wales.
Dr Anne Cregan, eResearch Analyst
Anne Cregan has a diverse background in a range of academic disciplines. Her commercial IT background encompasses programming, business analysis, data mining and senior level management, as well as project management and co-ordination.
Anne has a doctorate in Computer Science from UNSW, specialising in semantic web technologies. She is on the Program Committee for several semantic Web-related conferences. She has a BSc (Hons) from the University of Sydney.
Aniruddha Dasgupta, eResearch Analyst
Aniruddha Dasgupta is our eResearch Analyst at Macquarie University. Aniruddha has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry having assumed a wide variety of project roles such as project manager, business analyst, system architect and programmer. He has also worked as a lecturer at the University of Wollongong and universities in India.
Aniruddha has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Jadavpur University, (India), a MSc. in Computing and Information Science from the University of Guelph (Canada) and is currently waiting for his doctorate to be conferred from the University of Wollongong.
Donna Dunwoody, Human Resources Manager
Donna is the HR Manager for both Intersect and SIRCA. She is responsible for the HR function across both these companies including recruitment, performance management, training and development as well as policies and procedures. Donna has over a dozen years experience in HR Management, working primarily in professional service industries including legal, investment and property. In addition to her qualifications in HR Management, Donna also has an education in training and teacher education.
Georgina Edwards, Senior Software Engineer
Georgina Edwards is a Java developer with extensive experience building complex web-based systems. She is an expert in a range of open source tools and technologies, and has a background in agile development methodologies.
Before joining Intersect in 2009, Georgina was a Senior Developer at Macquarie Bank. Georgina has a BE (Hons) in IT & Telecommunications from the University of Adelaide.
Karen El-Azzi, Casual Project Manager
Karen El-Azzi has over 10 years experience working in the commercial IT environment. Karen started her career as a software engineer, before spending the last 5 years managing a wide range of software development projects.
Karen has a BSc in Computer Science from Macquarie University.
Jake Farrell, Software Engineer
Jake graduated in 2010 from the University of Birmingham (UK) with a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng Hons) in Computer Interactive Systems with Business Management. He also has a National Diploma in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, (triple distinction). Jake is currently working on the AMMRF project as a software engineer.
Fayette Fung, Project Administrator and Personal Assistant
Fayette Fung reports directly to Intersect’s CEO and the executive team. She liaises with internal and external stakeholders and her role includes PA duties, as well as general administration tasks.
Before joining Intersect in 2009, Fayette worked at University Churches with international students, assisting the Senior Minister and looking after a large group of students. Fayette was previously a Senior Personal Banker with ANZ bank, helping the manager build the team and achieve targets as well as providing customer service.
Fayette has a BA in Psychology and a BComm in Banking and Finance from the University of Queensland.
Shahla Ghobadi, eResearch Analyst
Shahla Ghobadi is Intersect’s eResearch Analyst at UNSW. Shahla Ghobadi has a BEng in Industrial Engineering, a MSc majoring in Information Technology – Management, and a Doctoral thesis in Information Systems from the University of New South Wales. Prior to joining academia, Shahla worked as a business analyst in manufacturing industry. Her research covers a broad range of topics including collaboration in multi-party software development teams, knowledge management, group conflicts, and online activism. She has collaborated internationally as a program committee member /reviewer in business and information systems conferences and journals.
Alan Glixman, Project Administrator
Alan Glixman is the Projects Administrator for the National eResearch Architecture Taskforce. He has 25 years experience working in commercial IT environments. For the last 10 years he has assisted in the running of project offices and programme management offices overseeing a wide range of both IT and non-IT projects. Alan has a BSc in Computer Science from UNSW.
Elaine Gully, eResearch Analyst
Elaine is the eResearch Analyst at University of Wollongong. She has worked previously as a project manager and business analyst and has an extensive I.T background. Prior to Intersect she worked for Qantas on a large Oracle financials project. She has also worked for a large shared services organisation servicing a number of NSW Government agencies providing HR, IT and finance solutions and services. Elaine has a BSc Degree in Computer Systems and Software Engineering from the University of Limerick in Ireland and is also a certified PRINCE2 Practitioner.
Luke Harrison, Casual Tester
In 2011 Luke commenced his first year at the University of New South Wales studying Computer Science. Luke works as a Casual Tester for Intersect.
Leonie Hellmers, Communications & Grant Development Manager
Leonie joined Intersect in 2008 and provides communication and special project support. Leonie worked in the digital humanities as a project lead, manager and advocate for 15 years, variously for the National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia, Fairfax and Brainwaave Interactive. Before joining Intersect she founded the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online for a national consortium of universities and cultural institutions led by UNSW. She delivered communication solutions for the Australia Council, Australian Heritage Commission and the private sector, and worked extensively as a journalist and broadcaster. Leonie has a BA in Fine Arts, Literature and Politics from the University of Sydney.
Matthew Hillman, Casual Tester
Matthew is in his first year at Sydney University studying for a Bachelor of Software Engineering degree. Matt is currently working at Intersect as a casual tester.
Shuqian Hon, Software Engineer
Shuqian graduated in 2010 from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree.
Shuqian has worked on a variety of projects including the Work Observation Method By Activity Timing (WOMBAT) project - Intersect's first Android app. He is currently working on the UNSW Data Capture & Integration project.
Helen Huang, Casual Tester
Helen is currently in her third year at the University of Technology, Sydney studying for a Bachelor of Science in IT. Helen is working at Intersect as a casual tester.
Chris Kenward, Software Engineer
Chris Kenward has over 18 years experience in commercial software design and development, and has worked across many sectors including defence, air traffic control, business intelligence, and email security. Before joining Intersect in 2009 Chris was a senior developer at Websense Inc. in Australia. Chris is a Master of Applied Science in Library & Information Management from Charles Sturt University, and a Bsc (Hons) in Computer Science from the Polytechnic of Wales.
Sean Lin, Software Engineer
Sean is a software engineer on the AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) project.
Sean has over six years experience as a Perl developer in the telecommunications industry in China and Australia. He specialised in areas such as intelligent policy routing, VPN, networking metrics and visualisation appliance. He also spent three years working as a Linux/Unix engineer and developer for the China Railway Communication Group. Sean holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University.
Veronica Luke, Software Engineer
Veronica undertook her BCST, (Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology) at the University of Sydney, with First Class (Hons) from UNSW. Her first job was in Canon's Research and Development lab CiSRA, working on embedded java applications for photocopiers. She then became a firmware engineer at Cochlear, working on the behind-the-ear sound processor. Veronica has now returned to object-oriented design and high level language programming.
Dr Joachim Mai, HPC Support Specialist
Joachim is an eResearch support specialist with extensive experience in supporting High Performance Computing. He was formerly head of the IT group for the State Bureau of Statistics, Lower Saxony, Germany (Landesamt fuer Statistik). Joachim has a PhD in computational chemistry, and undertook postdoctoral fellowships in the US and Spain. Joachim’s research areas include statistical physics, polymer physics, protein folding, chemical reactions on surfaces, computational chemistry and models of spreading diseases. He has studied at the Technical University of Braunschweig, University of Kiel, University of Freiburg, University of Southern California at San Diego and Universidad de Barcelona.
Ingrid Mason, eResearch Analyst
Ingrid has twenty years experience in diverse roles (project manager, repository manager, business analyst, librarian) working with technology in the university, cultural and government sectors in New Zealand and Australia. She has a Bachelor of Arts (English Literature) and Masters of Library and Information Studies (Victoria University of Wellington).
Ingrid's role at Intersect includes establishing and pursuing a program of activities targeting humanities, arts and social science research disciplines, and acting as the primary contact point for ANDS for NSW universities.
Dr Cameron Maxwell, eResearch Analyst
Dr Cameron Maxwell has a broad development and research background. As a developer and designer he has been the recipient of two innovation awards. More recently Cameron has consulted as an enterprise architect on national and international enterprise systems. His research at UTS pioneered the optimisation of software, system and enterprise architectures. He has also collaborated internationally on the development of next generation cloud and grid computing architectures.
Sean McCarthy, Software Engineer
Sean is a software engineer with 14 years experience, utilising a variety of languages including Java, Perl, Python and C++. Sean has significant experience with web applications and played a leading role in building the back ends for some of Australia's leading websites, including Excite Australia, Optus Internet and The Australian Financial Review. Before joining Intersect in 2009 he was involved in building the new Sculpture by the Sea website in his previous role with MOB Labs.
Sean has a Bachelor of Technology (Information and Communication Systems) from Macquarie University.
Sridhar Reddapani, ARCS Data Services
The ARCS Data Services Team provides help and expertise to Australian researchers in all questions related to movement of data and access to data storage and databases. It is currently working with researchers from many different areas to provide them with tools and services.
Sridhar has an MA in Computing (Networking) from University of Western Sydney and certifications as a Cisco Certified Network Professional and a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator.
Glenn Satchell, Contract Senior Systems Administrator
Glenn works in onsite technical consulting, system design and architecture, system administration, security analysis, internet firewalls, sendmail, web servers, training and software development. Glenn is working for Intersect on the PHRNi project.
Charles Shao, Software Engineer
Charles is in his final year at University of Technology Sydney, studying for a Bachelor of Engineering (ICT/Software) degree and diploma in Engineering Practice. Previously a casual tester, Charles is now working as a software engineer.
Dr Luc Small, eResearch Analyst
Luc has a BSc in Computer Science, a BA (Hons) majoring in Philosophy and a Doctoral thesis in Philosophy from the Australian National University. For the past ten years, Luc has worked as a programmer, technical writer, and architect of education, search, and metadata-related software in a variety of settings both locally and internationally.
As an eResearch Analyst, Luc assists researchers at the University of Technology, Sydney maximise their use of ICT resources, high-performance computing facilities, and online collaboration tools.
Ibrahim Taoube, Quality Assurance Engineer
Ibrahim has recently graduated from UNSW earning a Bachelor of Computer Science majoring in Web Applications Engineering.
Joshua Valencia, Senior Systems Administrator
Joshua oversees Intersect's systems and networks, covering day-to-day operations, project work and future infrastructure planning. He has previous experience working in IT roles within digital media, financial services, and consumer electronics firms.
Kali Waterford, Senior Tester
Michele (Kali) has over eight years of experience testing & quality assuring websites and software. She has tested projects for the NSW Rural Fire Service, the Department of Defence, and the Department of Lands, as well as for other organisations including Ticketek, TrueLocal & Hays Recruiting. She is dedicated to enabling and ensuring a satisfying user experience and, as a super-user, is a keen advocate for efficiency and ease of use.
Elyse Wise, Casual Tester
Elyse is in her third year at the University of New South Wales studying Computer Engineering. She has previous experience in interaction design. Elyse is working as a Casual Tester for Intersect.
Nina Wu, Junior Systems Administrator
Nina has experience in various areas of IT including web design and content management, Siebel CRM and Business Intelligence. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology (major in Internetworking and Applications) from the University of Technology, Sydney, and is also a Microsoft Certified IT Professional.
Spencer Wu, Casual User Interface Designer
Spencer joined Intersect in 2009 as a casual User Interface Designer, and works on a wide range of projects. Spencer has a Bachelor of Design Computing from the University of Sydney.
Leo Yang, Software Engineer
Leo has seven years experience working as a software engineer in different sectors such as electronic design automation, mobile CRM solutions and Telco business intelligence. He has used a variety of languages including Perl, C++ , Java and Tcl. Leo completed a Master of Engineering (Circuit and System) and Bachelor of Engineering (Electronic Engineering) at Zhejiang University, China. Leo is currently seconded to work at AustLII (Australasian Legal Information Institute) as a software engineer.
Simon Yin, ARCS Systems Services
Simon Yin has a background in High Performance Computing (HPC) and electronics engineering. Before joining Intersect in 2009 he worked in HPC/IT administration at the UNSW Centre for Quantum Computing Technology (CQCT). Prior to that he was an electronics design engineer for Cochlear Ltd.
In his current role, Simon is maintaining Linux servers for the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS), particularly for Versioning Control, Wikis, Issues Tracking and Gateways for Grid Computing.
Marc Ziani de Ferranti, User Interface Designer
Marc is a user interface designer, with experience in web, print and interface design. For the past two years Marc has worked as a designer at the medical advertising agency, Ogilvy Healthworld.
Marc studied at Billy Blue College of Design, and holds a Bachelor of Communication Design from Swinburne University.