Webel IT Australia

Type of organisation
Where
Sydney, Australia
Activities
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  • Details of work performed are subject to commercial confidence.

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  • Trainer and Consultant for Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
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  • Consultancy in Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

    (Details subject to commercial confidence.)

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  • Employed OMG Systems Modeling Language v1 (SysML®) for development and for schematic diagrams for a patent specification of an electronics device.
  • Employed Blender3D for 3D design diagrams for patent specification figures.
  • Specifics are not detailed for reasons of Intellectual Property protection.
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  • Drupal™ CMS technology assessment for Webel IT Australia.
  • Developed a Drupal8 information site for other Drupal developers with assessment of the readiness of core and contributed modules for the emerging Drupal8 Content Management System (CMS) technology version.
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  • Drupal™ CMS technology assessment for Webel IT Australia.
  • Developed an educational Drupal7 site with tutorials and modules demonstrating the Drupal 7 custom module development API, and a unique object-oriented PHP bridge module Object-Oriented Examples (OOE) for Drupal7, which aims to demonstrate “one of each” of the capabilities of the Drupal7 module, form, and theme APIs. Includes unique graphical Unified Modeling Language (UML®) models of the OOE module’s object-oriented PHP code and of the Drupal7 architecture. Includes reviews and demos of many useful Drupal7 contributed modules, and a wealth of information on Drupal™-related web development topics.
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  • Developed music and media sales site as demonstration of Drupal™ eCommerce with the Ubercart system, including PayPal integration. Offers digital music, art, and videos online with integrated audio and media players, extensive custom image galleries and views, custom CCK types, custom theme, and shopping cart.
  • Music composition, audio recording, editing, post-production.
  • The animated "sound circles" logo was created using synchronised PureData/GEM audio and video synthesis.
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  • Migration of a personal trainer exercise web site to a Drupal™-driven Content Management System (CMS) using MySQL database and PHP, with Drupal CCK custom content types, custom views, and custom theme.
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  • Introduced a newsletter authoring, subscription, and distribution system leveraging the Drupal™ Simplenews module including:
    • A composite layout Newsletter composed of sections that can be easily independently edited for future Newsletter editions, with Drupal views for accessing newsletter elements.
    • Tuning and testing of the Newsletter layout for readability on various email clients.
    • Developed PHP-scripts for automated migration of various newsletter email subscription databases to the Drupal Simplenews system, and for executing bulk administration actions on the newsletter subscription databases conveniently.
  • Editing of newsletter content promoting UML, SysML, Java, and XML software engineering services, and Drupal CMS web site services.
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  • Migration of the Webel IT Australia site https://www.webel.com.au to a Drupal™-driven Content Management System (CMS) dynamic web site using MySQL database and PHP, with Drupal CCK content type design, as an educational demonstration and IT information site.
  • Authoring of over 1000 pages of demonstration web site content from past Webel IT science, engineering, IT, and media projects.
  • Promotion of Webel IT software engineering, systems engineering, and IT training services.
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  • Developed a generative XML Schema (known as NeXML) and EMF Java bindings for the NeXus scattering science data format, for presentation to the NeXus International Advisory Committee (NIAC) meeting organised by the ANSTO Bragg Institute in Sydney on 30 Oct 2008 as a technical report and narrated screencast movie presentation.
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  • Adapted the Drancing gestural performance air instrument system to use PureData/GEM patch-based synthesis and Nintendo Wii remote controllers as wireless 3D accelerometers via Bluetooth for real-time generation of music and visuals from human movement and dance. Edited videos and educational online screenshots of the patch-based synthesis.

    Created the LED-based Drancel (R,G,B) system for translating body movement into light shows and visuals.

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  • Worked internationally from Sydney with teams in Europe, Asia, and the USA, with frequent trips to the No Magic Asia Development Centre in Thailand to train developers and oversee software processes.
  • Conducted analysis of UML® and SysML® tool conformance against OMG language specifications using Parsing Analysis.
  • Directed re-development of the MagicDraw SysML Plugin for MagicDraw® UML, including:
    • Introduction of MD SysML stereotypes encapsulating implicit SysML specification concepts.
    • Integration of the JIRA issue tracking system with metamodel-oriented feature analysis and SysML-based activity and structure models of the development process.
    • Improved traceable specification of requirements and features, and testing and bug prevention.
    • Supervision of technical team members and assessment of MagicDraw SysML white papers.
  • Advised on use of the Plone CMS for co-ordinating internal software development artifacts and process.
  • Provided priority customer assistance to science and engineering customers.
  • UML and SysML education

    • Developed and held workshops to train developers in UML-driven Java software development.
    • Developed and held SysML systems engineering workshops.
    • Authored an advanced UML & SysML training course for customers.
  • Established the MagicDraw® UML Online eSchool with hundreds of web pages of Unified Modeling Language (UML®) and Systems Modeling Language v1 (SysML®) examples, tutorial trails, and tips (using the Drupal™ content management system).

    Please note this system is no longer maintained in its original form
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  • First online examples of the UML® Parsing Analysis recipe for translating technical texts into UML models.

    First online examples of port-based UML2 Composite Structure Diagrams of rotational aperture synthesis radio-astronomy in the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST), using UML® Parsing Analysis of text from an honours thesis from 1988.

    Continued development of the LED-based Drancel (R,G,B) triaxial accelerometer light show system.

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  • Developed the first XML Schema and EMF Java bindings (known as the NeXML project) for the NeXus scattering science data format, for presentation to the NeXus International Advisory Committee (NIAC) meeting in Sydney on 30 Oct 2008 (a technical report and movie presentation are available on request).
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  • Developed a Java™-based information system and UML entity model for the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) radio telescope using Java Data Objects (JDO) persistence and JavaServer Pages (JSP) web technologies, including a Java3D modelling and animation client, a JSP web client, and a Java Swing client. Employed Unified Modeling Language (UML®) analysis, design, reverse-engineering, and documentation throughout the project.
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  • Establishment of Scientific IT Consultancy Webel IT Australia (webel.com.au).

    Development of in-house WebEl web authoring and serving software in object-oriented Perl, including interfaces for online database access and dynamic web display.

    Preparation of web-based dynamic presentations for clients developing online business ventures.

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  • Continued development of a Java Swing GUI for the DranceWare control software for Drancing, a gestural performance instrument employing 3D accelerometers as motion sensors for real-time synthesis of music and generation of visuals and gestural controls.
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