Ewen Hill

I am currently a Senior Digital Developer for the Victorian Department of Health and during my extensive time at the department, I have been a Data Manager, Project Manager and IT developer as well as working in the emergency management space and have been nominated twice for the annual Secretaries award.

During COVID-19, I developed and deployed end-to-end systems including ,

• High-risk exposure site system which included over 2 million map views on one day alone and automation for social media posting,
• "Where to get tested" including developing the processes to gauge wait-times at testing sites in near-real-time.
• "Where to get vaccinated",
• "Travel restrictions" (international and locally),
• Daily case and vaccination data, maps, charts and datasets

I became the Operations Manager (Technical) for the COVID-19 / Mpox Waste Water Surveillance System roll-out and was responsible for a deploying a "pathology to public" system to monitor COVID-19 both at a quantitative and at variant levels. The development was a collaboration between department and two consultancies.

Other systems developed and deployed from end-to-end have been

• Procurement request system,
• Extreme Weather Alerting System (EWAS) for air quality, potential for epidemic thunderstorm asthma, heat stress and cold weather affecting rough sleepers,
• External dashboard for Emergency Department real-time status system,
• Illegal Solarium monitoring,
• Mosquito epidemiology and
• Document library for 20,000 publicly available documents

A number of these systems use Microsoft Platform and have been developed in Azure Data Factory, PowerApps, Power Automate, SharePoint and Power BI.

As a member of the Emergency Management Victoria surge workforce, I have operated as a public information(PIO) and Intelligence officer during the Black Summer fires in 2019 as well as connecting EMV and department social media teams onto a single platform for the COVID-19 response. I have also worked as a PIO and Personal Hardship Assistance team leader and have been a CFA and SES (NSW/QLD) volunteer which gives me a well rounded appreciation of both floods and fires.

Invited to nominate and being elected to the OSGeo Oceania Ltd board occurred during COVID-19 in 2020. The organisation promotes open-source geospatial systems and open data in Oceania and has run large conferences in Melbourne, Fiji, Wellington and recently Auckland. The conferences fund grants to communities to improve geospatial literacy and software development. During the time on the Board, positions included secretary and head of both the Membership and Communications working groups.

The membership approval process was laborious and there were duplicates and missing data. The system that was developed in Slack, Mailjet and Google Apps Script now allows a 24hr approval process and notification of success and is key to election transparency and improved membership satisfaction. With the organisation operating in multiple countries, governance, financial control and risk mitigation are key areas which require work,

• Developed systems for Licenced Aircraft Maintenance Engineer compliance
• Streamlined project processes by implementing Agile methodologies, resulting in increased efficiency and reduced costs.
• Developed management dashboards for identifying blockages

• Converted the company from waterfall to Extreme Programming (XP) paradigm which is similar to Agile to reduce cost and quote over-runs.
• Developed legislated Major Hazard Facilities databases for risk management for Australian Defence Industries and Huntsman Chemicals
• Created key manufacturing workflows for Kenworth Trucks, Ford Australia, GMH and Dunlop Surfactants

• Developed main-frame and pc based systems for equities,bond and hedge funds including a system to track the daily total position of all open trades, something that use to take overnight previously.
• Deployed SG's first CRM that allowed traders to identify potential clients and their mutual contacts through the key global financial markets resulting in a significant upturn in trades.
• Involved in the Y2K preparation by checking code automatically via a UNIX tool set as well as manually.