Wyndarra Consulting

Professor John F O'Callaghan

Current Contract

  • Director of Planning, VLSCI, University of Melbourne
    The main role of this position is to direct the development of the business plan for the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) – www.vlsci.unimelb.edu.au

Consultant Activities

  • Associate, Wyndarra Consulting
  • Consultant to research organisations on strategic planning for high-performance computing systems, grid computing, virtual environments, advanced visualisation and large-scale data management
  • Consultant to organisations on IT research, commercialisation and business development

Recent Consultancies

  • Member of a consultancy team to develop a needs analysis and business case for High-Performance Computing at Monash University (September 2008-January 2009)
  • Member of a consultancy team to develop a project plan for a supercomputing facility at the Australian Synchrotron (April 2008)
  • Member of a consultancy team to develop a business case for a Peak Computing Facility and Program at the University of Melbourne (January-March 2008)
  • Consultant to the Australian National University on its plan for a national computational infrastructure as part of the Federal Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (July 2007-)
  • Consultant to Hong Kong's Cyberport to assess applications for tenancy (2002-).

Title

  • Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University, 2008.

Awards

  • Pearcey Medal for significant lifetime contributions in one or more of Australian IT research, industry and professional development, 2005
  • Centenary Medal for services to Australian society in computer science and technology, 2003
  • One of the international ‘movers and shakers' in HPCWire, the leading US-based e-newsletter for high-performance scientific and technical computing, 2002
  • Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, 1995
  • Eminent Individual Award, Australasian Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, 1990

Qualifications

  • PhD (Pattern Recognition), ANU, 1969
  • BE (Hons.), University of Tasmania, 1965

Previous Positions

  • Executive Director, Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing, 1999-2007
  • Chief Executive Officer, CRC for Advanced Computational Systems (ACSys), 1997-1999
  • Chief, CSIRO Division of Information Technology, 1988-1996
  • CSIRO Division of Computing Research, 1969-1988
  • Chair, Australian Informatics Olympiad Committee, 1999-2007.

Professional Membership

  • Member, Australian Computer Society
  • Member, International Strategy Group, ATSE

Professor John O'Callaghan has had a distinguished career in the area of information technology and has made significant contributions to research and development on information technology systems.

He is recognised as an international expert in the area of high-performance computing, data management and communications.

He has joined Wyndarra to consult on business cases, strategic planning and implementation plans for major large-scale computing initiatives in research organisations.