UNISOLVE - Key Persons


Anthony Carapetis

Job Titles:
  • Developer

Bianca Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Developer

John Bolland

Job Titles:
  • Developer

Scott Penrose

Job Titles:
  • Digital Dimensions
  • Expert at: Perl
Scott describes himself as an architect. Knowing a little bit about a lot of technology allows Scott to understand the integration and interactions of different systems and allows him to see the big picture. He has been building large systems with thousands of users since the early 1990s at Melbourne University, to millions of users through the late 90s and early 2000 with Schoolsnet/Myinternet/Editure, developing embedded monitoring systems in the Antarctic, running open source development international conferences, building large clusters of weather analysis systems for defence and consulting for the national education bodies. In his career Scott has built web filters for schools, large scale email system (SMTP, POP and IMAP), large scale webmail service, learning management systems, SIF implementations, SCORM/IMS Package integrations, student/parent portals, lab computer automatic build systems, embedded wave buoys deployed to Antarctica. Scott is an expert at: Perl, XSL, C, Javascript, GIS, RDBMS, HTML/CSS, Security, Linux, Embedded electronic development, version control, mobile application development, large scale clusters and more. Scott was a founding member of the Open Source Developer's Conference (a non-profit conference for developers of open source software), in Melbourne in 2004. OSDC has annual conferences in Australia, Malaysia, France, Taiwan and Israel. Scott was President of OSDC from 2004 until 2012 and is still on the executive committee.

Simon Taylor - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Principal
  • Founder and Principal of Unisolve and Co - Owner of Varsim.
Simon Taylor is founder and principal of Unisolve. He has extensive experience as a software developer, designer and consultant. His particular areas of expertise are web site and mobile app development, graphic design, database analysis and integrating with 3rd-party ERP environments. Specific software technologies Simon has worked with include Python, Perl, PHP, C, Node.js, Apache, ExtJS/Sencha, JQuery, CSS, MySQL, REST and SOAP interfaces, Gimp/Photoshop and GNU/Linux. He also has a strong interest in: Simon has extensive experience as a software developer, designer and consultant. His particular areas of expertise are web site and mobile app development, graphic design, database analysis and integrating with 3rd-party ERP environments. Specific technologies Simon has worked with include Perl, Python, PHP, C, Apache, ExtJS/Sencha, JQuery, CSS, MySQL, REST and SOAP interfaces, Gimp/Photoshop, OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice and GNU/Linux. Simon has been associated with various non-profit groups including Melb Perl Mongers, the Open Source Developer's Conference, ANZAAS (The Australian & New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science) and Humanity+ @Melbourne. In his private life, Simon enjoys being with his large and talkative family, is an avid reader, and hosts a weekly science show on Vision Australia Radio, a community radio station.