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 at Australian universities and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland.
Dr Markus Buchhorn, Director of Services
Markus Buchhorn has been a leader in the emerging field of eResearch for over 15 years. Markus was previously Director of ICT Environments at the Australian National University, and is 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 international eResearch initiatives.
Rodney Harrison, Engineering Manager
Rodney has worked with Avaya for the past 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. Rodney will have overall responsibility for the Project Management Office, including managing the day-to-day operational aspects of projects and directly supervising the software engineering teams.
The Intersect Team
| Name | Position |
| Stuart Allan | eResearch Analyst |
| Diego Alonso de Marcos | Senior Software Engineer |
| Carlos Aya | Senior Software Engineer |
| Ryan Braganza | Software Engineer |
| Raul Carrizo | Software Tester/ Engineer |
| Franc Carter | IT Architect |
| Andrey Chernyshov | Software Engineer |
| Dr Anne Cregan | eResearch Analyst |
| Donna Dunwoody | Human Resources Manager |
| Georgina Edwards | Senior Software Engineer |
| Howey Fu | Software Engineer |
| Fayette Fung | Project Administrator/Personal Assistant |
| Adam Gill | Learning and Development Specialist |
| Alan Glixman | Project Officer |
| Elaine Gully | eResearch Analyst |
| Leonie Hellmers | Communications Manager |
| Name | Position |
| Amit Jaiswal | eResearch Analyst |
| Chris Kenward | Software Engineer |
| Amy Lo | Casual Tester |
| Veronica Luke | Software Engineer |
| Joachim Mai | HPC Support Specialist |
| Nina Man | Junior Systems Administrator |
| Dr Cameron Maxwell | eResearch Analyst |
| Sean McCarthy | Software Engineer |
| Sridhar Reddapani | ARCS Data Services |
| Dr Clare Sloggett | eResearch Analyst |
| Luc Small | eResearch Analyst |
| Ibrahim Taoube | Quality Assurance Engineer |
| Joe Thurbon | eResearch Analyst |
| Joshua Valencia | Senior Systems Administrator |
| Lauren Vincent | Office Assistant |
| Simon Yin | ARCS Systems Services |
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 a MA of IT from University of Sydney.
Ryan Braganza, Software Engineer
Ryan has worked at Intersect as a casual tester for the Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank project and has now moved into a fulltime role as a Software Engineer. Ryan has previously worked for UNSW in a summer research position analysing various ORM implementations and teaching Java and design in computing.
Ryan recently graduated from UNSW with a Bachelor of Computer Engineering, (First Class Hons).
Raul Carrizo, Software Tester/ Engineer
Raul is in his third year at Sydney University studying for a Bachelor of Software Engineering degree. Raul's work for Intersect has included testing on the Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank project and the Genomic Data Analysis project.
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 6 years experience in the software development industry.
In 2008 he worked on projects in Internet Advertising, including ValueCommerce and Phorm, a company specialising in delivering behaviourally and contextually targeted internet advertising.
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 continues to advise NICTA on technologies and strategy to enable the digital economy. She is on the Program Committee for several semantic Web-related conferences. She has a BSc (Hons) from the University of Sydney.
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 8 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 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.
Most recently, Georgina was a Senior Developer at Macquarie Bank. Georgina has a BE (Hons) in IT & Telecommunications from the University of Adelaide.
Howey Fu, Software Engineer
Howey Fu graduated last year with a Bachelor of Software Engineering (First Class Hons) and Commerce-Finance from the University of NSW. Howey will join the Innovation Projects Team and begin work on the Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank project immediately.
This is the first appointment in an ongoing strategy intended to address critical eResearch skills shortages by providing training, professional development and career opportunities.
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.
Most recently, Fayette worked at the University Churches with international students, helping the Senior Minister and looking after a large group of students. Fayette was previously a Senior Personal Banker with the ANZ bank, assisting the manager in building the team and achieving the targets and providing customer service.
Fayette has a BA in Psychology and a BComm in Banking and Finance from the University of Queensland.
Adam Gill, Learning & Development Specialist
Adam Gill has been designing and developing learning solutions for more than a decade. He has worked across many sectors including banking, control systems and IT. Adam has a BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and a Post-diploma Certificate in Information Technology from the Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology.
Part of Intersect’s services portfolio is the development of the skills base in our members, including researchers and support staff, as well as Intersect’s own staff. Adam is building and implementing L&D solutions for these purposes.
Alan Glixman, Projects 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 currently 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.
Leonie Hellmers, Communications Manager
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, Brainwa@ve and for a consortium led by the University of NSW as founding Project Director of the Dictionary of Australian Artists Online. Previously she delivered communication solutions for the Australia Council, Australian Heritage Commission and the private sector, and worked extensively as a journalist and broadcaster. Leonie provides communication, liaison and HASS support to Intersect. Leonie has a BA in Fine Arts, Literature and Politics from the University of Sydney.
Amit Jaiswal, eResearch Analyst
Amit is a software engineer with seven years of experience in analysis, project management, design and development and has worked across a variety of industries including agriculture, commercial real estate, business and marketing research and finance. Amit has a BE in Computer Systems Engineering and a Diploma of Engineering Practice from the University of Technology, Sydney.
Amit is currently an eResearch Analyst at Intersect.
Chris Kenward, Software Engineer
Chris Kenward has over 15 years experience in commercial software design and development, and has worked across many sectors including defence, air traffic control, business intelligence, and email security. Most recently, Chris was a senior developer at Websense Inc. in Australia. Chris has 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.
Amy Lo, Casual Tester
Amy is currently working at Intersect as a casual tester for the Australian Microscopy & MicroAnalysis Research Facility project. Amy has previously worked for NICTA in a summer research position analysing various methods of compressing XML data. She has also worked for UNSW as a developer for an Academic Rules and Advice System and teaching Perl in computing.
Amy is in her final year at UNSW studying for a Bachelor of Engineering (Bioinformatics) degree.
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.
Joachim Mai, HPC Support Specialist
Dr Joachim Mai is an eResearch support specialist with extensive experience in support of High Performance Computing. He was previously head of the IT group for the State Bureau of Statistics, Lower Saxony, Germany (Landesamt fuer Statistik). Joachim has a PhD in computational chemistry, after which he undertook postdoctoral fellowships in 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.
Nina Man, Junior Systems Administrator
Nina has experience within various areas of IT including web design and content management, Siebel CRM and Business Intelligence. She has a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (major in Internetworking and Applications) from the University of Technology, Sydney, and is also a Microsoft Certified IT Professional.
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 12 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. Most recently 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.
Sean is currently a Software Engineer with Intersect and has been seconded to work at AustLII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute).
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
Dr Clare Sloggett, eResearch Analyst
Dr Clare Sloggett works with researchers at member universities to solve their eResearch needs and understand the research requirements of Intersect's development projects. Clare has worked in commercial IT and a background in physics, computing and bioinformatics. She recently completed her PhD in Physics at UNSW and has a BSc in Physics and Computer Science.
Luc Small, eResearch Analyst
Luc has a BSc in Computer Science and a BA (Hons) majoring in Philosophy from The Australian National University. His Doctoral thesis in Philosophy, also completed at the ANU, is currently being examined. 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.
Joe Thurbon, eResearch Analyst
Dr Joe Thurbon is an eResearch Analyst, located at Southern Cross University. He has a research background in logic and diagrammatic reasoning, and has practiced software engineering for almost 20 years. Immediately 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.
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.
Lauren Vincent, Office Assistant
As Intersect's Office Assistant, Lauren reports directly to Project Administrator Fayette Fung as well as the Executive team. She liaises with both internal and external stakeholders and works closely with Intersect's project managers, researchers, and university and government representatives.
Lauren spent the previous three years working as a Key Account Manager in promotional marketing. She also holds a BA in Communications from Charles Sturt University.
Simon Yin, ARCS Systems Services
Simon Yin has a background in High Performance Computing (HPC) and Electronics Engineering. His recent roles were 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.