Dwight Walker's Resume

WWWalker Web Development

Contact Details

• PO Box 1476, Orange NSW 2800 Australia
• tel +61-412-405727 (mobile), fax +61-2-97772058
• email: info at wwwalker.com.au

Jobs

• I am a freelance Web developer working for my own company WWWalker Web Development Pty Ltd (1997-) with 35 sites under my belt including 7 portals
• I was a library/computer consultant for TOAN (The Orchestra Association of NSW) setting up a music catalogue for all the orchestras of NSW (1997)
• I was the Australian and NZ Society of Indexers' inaugural Webmaster (1995-98) and Newsletter Editor (1996-97) (honorarium) and setup the Web indexing prize (1996) which became the Web award and has been on hold since 2002
• I pioneered Web indexing by writing many articles and doing online training for US clients for several years till competitors got the better of me.
• I am life member and past President of the Waverley Randwick Philharmonic Society Inc (1996-98) (Secretary 1995-96)
• I worked at Commercial Economic Advisory Service of Australia (CEASA) as desktop publisher, researcher, computer support and internet guru (1993-97)
• I am a professional indexer (1991-95) - mainly concentrating on science literature and online indexing - e.g. Sky & Space Magazine 1988-92
• TAFE computer studies teacher, public librarian (1991-93)
• several real-time computer programming and operating system support jobs in the Defence and transport industries in NSW (1988-90)
• Australian Bureau of Statistics clerk in trade and transport including Qld traffic accidents (1982-88)

Education

• I hold a Certificate in Small Business Enterprise IV from TAFE NSW (1998) - Baulkham Hills TAFE, NSW
• I became a Registered Indexer (1996) through the Australian and NZ Society of Indexers
• I studied librarianship at University of NSW in 1991 - Graduate Diploma in Information Management - Librarianship - this course is no longer offered at UNSW as of 2006, now MIS and ecommerce focused BIT
• I first studied a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology at University of Queensland in 1987 (see ITEE Reunited for UQ IT alumni)

Professional Associations

• IEEE Computer Society - Associate (up to 2002?)
• AALIA (Associate Australian Library and Information Association) (up to 2002?)
• Australian and NZ Society of Indexers - Member, Webmaster, Newsletter Editor, Committee Member (NSW and National) (up to 2000?)

Skills

• Web developer/Webmaster
• Computer programming - Turbo Pascal, Ada, Fortran, BASIC, C, C++, Java, Perl, CGI, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, Python
• Systems Programming: Linux, UNIX, DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, NT, XP, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, bash shell, awk
• Graphics: Photoshop, The GIMP (ex Paint Shop Pro)
• Web databases: Windows NT, IIS, Access, ODBC, Apache, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Interbase
• Network Support: Novell, LANtastic, Microsoft, TCP/IP
• User and systems support for mini and microcomputers
• Research - economics, government statistics
• Indexing - journals, Web indexing prizes and research (ANZSI) and Web development (WWWalker)
• Developed WEBIX Web indexing add-on (very basic but functional)
• Developed online interactive Web indexing course, 1998
• Editing - AusSI Newsletter, Australasian Corresponding Editor for The Indexer (UK), Online Currents
• Desktop publishing and research - economics, advertising and marketing, grocery industry, brochures - PageMaker, Excel - CEASA
• Leadership for local community music society during turbulent period - Waverley Randwick Philharmonic Society Inc.

Publications

• Beyond Book Indexing: How to Get Started in Web Indexing, Embedded Indexing, and Other Computer-Based Media, edited by Marilyn Rowland and Diane Brenner, American Society of Indexers, Info Today, Inc, NJ, 2000, ISBN 1-57387-081-1 - I wrote a chapter in this book on Web indexing
• Web indexing: an exercise in hypertext navigation (requires password), LASIE, Sep 1996 - aimed at indexers and non-technical library staff, assumes knowledge of indexing skills (out of print)
• The Indexer
  1. AusSI Web indexing prize, The Indexer, 20(1):6-7, April 1997
  2. Web indexing prize 1997, The Indexer, 20(2), October 1997
  3. BS ISO/IEC 23026:2006, Software engineering - Recommended Practice for the Internet - Web Site Management and Web Site Life Cycle, review, The Indexer, 25(216), April 2007
• Online Currents
  1. Caches and proxies, Online Currents, November 1997 Vol 12(9)
  2. Images and graphic editors, Online Currents, December 1997 Vol 12(10)
  3. Shareware, Freeware and Freely Available Software by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, January/February 1998 Vol 13(1)
  4. Web Indexing - the State of Play: the Networkshop by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, March 1998 Vol 13(2)
  5. Music on the Web - Internet Explorer by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, April 1998 Vol 13(3)
  6. Domain Name Server (DNS) - the Network Database by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, June 1998 Vol 13(5)
  7. MilliCent - Selling Small Amounts Online by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, July 1998 Vol 13(6)
  8. Thin Client Technology - Pros and Cons by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, October 1998 Vol 13(8)
  9. IPng - Second Generation Internet by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, April 1999 Vol 14 (3)
  10. Radio LANs - a Plus for Australia's Rural and Campus Networks by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, March 1999 Vol 14 (2)
  11. xDSL - Getting More Down the Phone Line by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, June 1999 Vol 14 (5)
  12. Frame Relay - High Demand Networks by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, September 1999 Vol 14 (7)
  13. Net Conferencing, Not! by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, January 1999 February 1999 Vol 14 (1)
  14. LDAP: Message and Meta Directory Services by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, October 1999 Vol 14 (8)
  15. The Internet today: Mobile Knowledge Workers by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, March 2000 Vol 15(2)
  16. Application Service Providers: the increasingly wired world by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, April 2000 Vol 15(3)
  17. Using Domain Registries and LDAP E-mail Directories by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, June 2000 Vol 15(5)
  18. WAP: the Beginning of the Mobile Internet by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, October 2000 Vol 15(8)
  19. SMS: Low-tech Mobile Internet by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, November 2000 Vol 15(9)
  20. RosettaNet: E-Commerce Standards by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, December 2000 Vol 15(10)
  21. Communications Update by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, April 2001 Vol 16(3)
  22. Speech Recognition Roundup by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, September 2001 Vol 16(7)
  23. PKI: Securing the Internet by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, December 2001 Vol 16(10)
  24. E-Records in E-Health by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, April 2002 Vol 17(3)
  25. WAP E-Commerce by Walker, Dwight : Online Currents, September 2002 Vol 17(7)

Hobbies

• Music Bio
• I played violin in the RooRythmics Bush Band (1989-2002)
• I played bush fiddle in Macarthur Sounds, Campbelltown and Canowindra, NSW (1998-2001, 2006) and launched a self-titled CD of Australian country music in 4/06.
• I played bush fiddle in Ten Penny Bit Bush Band in Orange NSW in 2003 and 2007.
• I am life member, past president and past secretary of the Waverley Randwick Philharmonic Society Inc where I was leader of the second violins and sang tenor
• I was a member of Sydney PC Users Group - Music SIG (MIDI) - old domain www.sydneypc.com
• I was a member of Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)
• I was a member of Amateur Chamber Music Society, Sydney
• I used to go bushwalking with SU Bushies
• I was a member of the NSW MK Network (Missionary Kids Network - nswmknet at hotmail.com) - a support group for Australian missionary children and young adults.
• I used to go on RTA Sydney Spring Cycle run by Bicycle NSW from Nth Sydney to Parramatta over the Harbour Bridge, through Glebe and Rydalmere.

Beliefs

• member of Wesley Mission, Sydney in the 1990s - played violin at 7pm congregation when Gordon Moyes was superintendent; as of 2008, this congregation now meets at 6pm on Sundays

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