• Born 2 October, 1978, in Carnarvon on the Gascoyne River.
• Citizen of Australia by birth and Éire by descent.
• Studied as a programmer and applied mathematician at Griffith University in Brisbane, followed up with a mixture of further study and IT subcontracting around outback Queensland, wants to be independently wealthy and free to hack on interesting problems in the natural sciences.
• Plays far too much go, reads speculative fiction in industrial quantities, tests out as a Jung-Meyer-Briggs INTJ, is a practicing Roman Catholic.

• Speaks eloquent Python, fluent C and PHP, rusty Java, SQL, Haskell, VBA and Matlab, pidgin FORTRAN 77 and 95, Prolog, C++, Perl 5, bash, Javascript, TeX. Prefers Haskell or Python but will code in anything.
• Has built small servers and workstations out of multiple dialects of Windows and Unix (including Arch Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Solaris and OS X); is comfortable getting work done in most POSIX-compliant environments.
• Can teach and assess small groups; has taught Java, C, Python, discrete and continuous mathematics in Australian undergraduate subjects.
• Knows how and why to use Subversion for source revision control, and Trac for ticket tracking and project documentation.
• Can use undergraduate-level applied mathematics and statistics to solve problems and answer questions; has used Matlab and SAS and NumPy to get this done.
• Can do basic administration of MySQL on Unix via command line and PHPMyAdmin, has used the standard Python and PHP bindings for MySQL to write applications, can write raw SQL to taste.
• Can install and administer Apache, CherryPy, lighttpd, postfix, BIND, NTP, ssh and IMAP daemons on Unix.
• Has mapped and analysed spatial data with ArcGIS, especially the Spatial Analyst toolbox and scripting with the Python API, after installing ArcInfo on Windows XP and 7.
• Has processed satellite and aerial imagery with ENVI, likewise.
• Builds dynamic web sites out of Wordpress. Can install, configure and debug plugins and themes and bbPress forums for same.
• Has written presentations, spreadsheets, correspondence and other documents with Microsoft Office, LibreOffice, and iWork.
• Writes fluent (X)HTML and pidgin CSS, with or without Adobe Dreamweaver.
• Knows when and how to ply first aid (current Australian senior first aid certificate).
• Can do the miscellaneous work of an Australian university research group (proofreading, filing, stores, OH&S as a trained WHSR, mail, data entry, sample curation, logistics), independently and as part of a team.
• Can run small voluntary associations (organise events and tournaments and the catering and venues thereof, run and constructively participate in committee and general meetings, keep correct records and report from them, write and debug group constitutions, write budgets and disburse or procure according to them, handle petty cash and banking, recruit and manage volunteers, build and maintain group social media) as a leader or subordinate.
• Speaks the northern dialect of Auslan as a second language.
• Holds a current Queensland class C license (manual and automatic under 4.5t) and a current IDP.
• Can write and read scholarly articles (has reviewed for several CS conferences, and the magazine IEEE Distributed Systems Online).
• Plays go at second kyu strength, Australian amateur rankings.

• Studying the hydrogeochemical dynamics of salt on North Bowen Basin coal mines.
• Full-time candidature on APA(I) scholarship until December 2009.
• Part-time candidature from January 2010 to March 2010.
• Leave of absence from March 2010 until cessation of candidature in May 2011.

• Studied the application of operational transformation control algorithms in the Access Grid collaboratory context.
• Full-time candidature on GUPRS scholarship until January 2004.
• Part-time candidature from January 2004 until withdrawl to take up a position at UQ.

• Wrote a message-passing framework for eventual consistency maintenance between Matlab instances using Remote Method Invocation and the Matlab Java API. Documented it for the honours thesis.
• Coursework in advanced functional programming, parallel and distributed programming, and numerical computation.
• Griffith Award for Academic Excellence, 2000.

• Majors in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Supercomputing.
• Weighted grade point average of 6.25.
• Final-year project was porting the Genehunter maximum-likelihood genomic analysis code onto the university supercomputing cluster using MPI.
• Griffith Award for Academic Excellence, 1998.
• Graduated with 1999 Bachelor's Medal in Applied Mathematics.

• Queensland Senior Certificate
• TEPA overall position 1 and field position 1 in fields B,C,D.

• Assessed and reported upon JCAC's network and computing infrastructure.
• Assessed, reported upon and planned the Yiwaji College's initial network and computing infrastructure.
• Emergency audit and security of JCAC core information systems after abrupt senior personnel turnover.

• Administer Unix servers and Windows workstations at the Brisbane headquarters, liaise with vendors and other stakeholders as required to maintain and upgrade.
• Implementation of upgraded enterprise resource planning systems.
• Support staff in using the software on their computers to accomplish their work.

• Staff the AskIT help desk at the Social Sciences and Humanities Library, and answer calls to the student telephone help line.
• Advise and assist university students with the University's computing resources, including internet access, library and database access, printing, and software.
• Open, close, and supervise the public computing rooms in Duhig Building, including the Assistive Technology Rooms for disabled students.
• Loan out hardware and room keys, and supply incidental advice and direction as required.

• Assessed and reported upon Pormpuraaw community's network and computing infrastructure.
• Carried out vocational IT training at Pormpuraaw CDEP.
• Reported to the CDEP training officer.

• Full-time principal developer for ACARP project C15001, March 2005 to July 2006, reporting to Professor Chris Moran.
• Other duties as required (clerical, stores, WHSR, system administration, logistical), June 2005 to June 2006.
• Part-time sessional appointments for programming and system administration work during full-time study, August 2006 to March 2010.

• Visually counted passenger movements on and off carriages of metropolitan trains in Brisbane.

• Delivered web and server administration training into NT Learnscope project 5548.
• Built web server and web pages for http://www.maningridajetcentre.edu.au/ (site lapsed).
• While in town, resurrected the Maningrida Arts and Culture art database.

• Building and administering a series of web servers, web sites, and small-scale network services, including the Pathways to Employment project portal.
• Other numerical analysis and short-form prose generation as a subcontractor on consulting work.
• Domain and database administration (MySQL on OS X and Linux) for the company.
• Reported to Queensland principal consultant of RRR.

• Tutored 1104CIT Programming II and 1108ECS Business Statistics in Semester I.
• Relief lecturer for subjects 1101CIT Discrete Mathematics and 1102CIT Concrete Mathematics in Semester II, 2004.

• Lecturer for CIT2134 Programming Paradigms and Languages (introduction to Python, Haskell, Prolog and C).
• Revised curriculum completely.
• Lectured it to a class of ~130.
• Taught tutorial sections of ~30 students.
• Coordinated a teaching team of four.

• Administered their Flying Fish server; Flying Fish is a digital learning application for coursework in the quantitative disciplines via the Web.
• Developed assessment and teaching content in Java and DHTML, and performed related support tasks, including occasionally rebuilding the server on Windows NT.
• Reported to Professor Evan Gray.

• Mowed client lawns.
• Associated weeding, shovelling, other gardening tasks as required.

• CIT1102 Programming I under Dr. Andrew Rock for Semester I, 2000.
• CIT1504 Programming II under Professor Rodney Topor for Semester II, 2000.
• CIT1101 Discrete Mathematics and Logic under Dr David Billington for Semester I, 2001.
• CIT1102 Concrete Mathematics under Dr David Billington for Semester II, 2001.

• Coding graph algorithms in Matlab for random research.

• Porting a parallel version of Genehunter from Griffith University's SP2 parallel computer to QUT's SGI Origin.

• Evaluating an experimental variant of Galerkin's method for preconditioning matrix equations linearised from Laplace's equation.
• Trial implementation was written in MATLAB on a Sun box.
• Reported to Dr William McLean.

• Writing a small air conditioning hours tracking package using VBA to script Microsoft Excel.

• Shelving and book binding.

• Member of ACM SIGGROUP from June 2003 to its termination.

• Member of the Institute's Computer Society since March 2001.

• Achieved CTM certification in June 2000 and CL certification in December 2000.

• Full-time volunteer for the prequel miniconferences, the main conference and the immediate tear down.
• Duties: coordinate room teams, introduce and support speakers, operate camera and audio equipment as part of a team for recording of presentations, generic logistics and crowd control.
• Reported to Raymond Smith of HUMBUG, working independently and in teams of three.

• Management committee member since November 2007, currently national treasurer and webmaster.
• National secretary from November 2009 to November 2011. Duties were: write and receive correspondence, coordinate the selection of Australian representatives to international tournaments, keep minutes and other records, organise and report to general meetings, maintain association web pages.

• Ran a small community trial of what indigenous kids would do with XO-1 laptops in an unstructured environment.
• Borrowed half a dozen from the OLPC Friends collective in southern Australia for the purpose.
• Three days working with local children, teachers of the local school, and the local child care centre.

• Helped put a moribund and derelict community computer lab in the back room of MHAC back together using Ubuntu Linux and a lot of elbow grease.
• Three days on-site as part of a small team of volunteers, including one open day for the public.

• Management committee member since February 2005.
• Club secretary since March 2008
• Current duties: organise tournaments, other events, and catering thereof, keep meeting minutes and other records, assist treasurer with bookkeeping and financials, originate and receive correspondence, manage compliance with Queensland incorporated association law, organise and report to general meetings of the club, maintain club web pages.

• Represented the postgraduate students of Griffith University on the university's governing council.
• Between mid-1999 and February 2004, also served terms as elected or appointed postgraduate member on the Council's Community Service Committee, Academic Committee, Finance and Property Committee, University Appeals Committee, and Research and Postgraduate Studies Committee.

• Member of the Institute's Computer Society since March 2001.
• Served as volunteer on Distributed Systems Online magazine's collaborative computing area from 2002 to 2005.
• Served on the editorial board of DS Online from 2004 to 2005.

• Served terms as Communications Officer in 2000 and 2001.
• Served terms as Nathan Campus Coordinator in 2002 and 2003.
• Served as webmaster and emeritus committee member as required.

• Served one term as Sergeant-at-Arms and two terms as Vice-President (Education).

C.Cote, C.J.Moran, C.Hedemann, H.Davis, N.Silvester, C.Koch and C.Tollari: "Systems Modelling for Water Management in Mining and Minerals - Bowen Basin Coal", Proceedings of the 2006 AusIMM Conference on Water in Mining, Brisbane, Australia, November 2006.

A.H.Davis, C.Sun and J.Lu: "Generalizing Operational Transformation to the Standard General Markup Language", Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, New Orleans, November 2002.

A.H.Davis, J.Lu and C.Sun: "Structuring Distributed Computation and Visualization using Facet Trees", Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, Hong Kong, December 2000.

A.H.Davis, "Structuring Collaborative Visualization using Facet Trees: Design and Implementation of a Prototype System", honours thesis, School of CIT, Griffith University, Australia, October 2000.

Postdoctoral fellow, Cardiovascular Sciences IRG,
Cardiff University School of Medicine, Wales Heart Research Institute, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XN, Wales
Email: SilvesterNC@cf.ac.uk
Phone: +44 292074 4516

AskIT team leader, Social Sciences and Humanities Library,
University of Queensland, QLD 4067, Australia
Email: l.auld@library.uq.edu.au
Phone: +61 7 334 60547

Head, Protect and Maintain Culture, Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation,
Tennant Creek, Northern Territory 4560
Email: sokar.phillips@julalikari.com.au
Phone: +61 4 2803 8036