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Toowoomba City Council (2003 - 2008) |
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Written by Sam Moffatt
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Tuesday, 22 February 2005 |
From the period of October 2003 to January 2005, I was employed as a
trainee in Toowoomba City Council's Strategic Planning and Information
Management Branches, completing a Certificate III in Multimedia from QANTM. After this, I was employed on a casual basis to continue my work whilst I continued my studies at University. In March 2008, Toowoomba City Council ceased to exist and became Toowoomba Regional Council.
Whilst working for Council, I:
- Maintained websites for Council including their main website, internal websites, the Safe Toowoomba website and the Community Information website.
- Developed Flash animations for the WaterWise education division.
- Research projects for the advancement of IT systems (such as
automated centralised PDF generators, internal CVS/SVN and project
management systems).
- Integration of corporate directory systems involving Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory.
- Implementation of Single Sign On with Microsoft Windows Clients and Kerberos for corporate intranet
- Joomla (previous Mambo) component development (such as the Community Information Directory)
- Liason with various Council divisions (Information Management
Branch, Strategic Planning Branch, People Development, Asset
Management, etc) to provide technical support and conferencing on
projects.
- Internet Communication systems installation and maintainence for the Safe Toowoomba website.
- Linux system administration, installation and management.
- Documentation of procedures and systems into centralized Council databases.
- General telephone and office application (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc) experience.
- Customer support and fault resolution experience.
- Large Scale Document Conversion
- Strong development on the LAMP stack.
- Construction of specialized Eclipse builds for staff
- Work with ESRI software and "GeoServer" to provide open mapping solutions including Google Earth integration.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 18 March 2008 )
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