IT Lead Consultant: Matt O’Kane
Matt has worked in online development and search strategy for over 15
years, and has worked with some of Australia’s largest online businesses,
as well as many smaller and newer websites.
First Focus
First Focus specialises in IT and network management for businesses from
10 to 500 users. It is a full service IT business offering hardware, software,
ISP, telephone and hosted solutions.
Matt has helped First Focus to
- relaunch its public website; - improve the business processes to increase
productivity and profitability; - upgrade its IT system to include business
dashboards, advanced reporting and business process rule enforcement.
Fairfax Digital
Matt has helped Fairfax Digital to
University of New South Wales (UNSW), School of Information Technology
Matt has been a guest lecturer to postgraduate students on ‘Decision Support
Systems’.
Primus Telecom
Matt worked with Primus Telecom in 2003 to analyse system requirements
for provisioning and management of private IP networks managed by Primus.
He also developed a system, complete with automated regression unit testing
and automated deployment, to allow for easy upgrading and maintenance
by other developers.
Start Corporation
Matt worked with Start Corporation (now bCode) to convert products from
ASP based development cycle into COM/VB objects. He redesigned the affiliate
software implementation process, and automated the customisation processes,
to overcome growth constraints.
Other IT experience includes:
GN Resound APLA Novell APSC Macquarie Bank Telstra GE Capital All Products
& Solutions
Awards, Qualifications and Memberships:
- Member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS)
- MBA, Australian Graduate School of Management
- First Class Honours, University of New South Wales, B.Sc.BIT (Co-op Scholarship)
- HSC
- 1st in NSW for Computing Studies
- 6th in NSW for 3U Business Studies
- TER 98.7
- Nominated for Young Australian of the Year Award for Community Service
and for Career Achievement
- Winner of the ‘CanTeen David Pike Memorial Award’ for social support to
teenagers living with cancer.