Steven Hayes
| Business Developer & Project Manager Archaeological Computing Laboratory Room 312 |
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Often introduced as a ‘commercial refugee' at the various meetings I attend around the university, I have returned to the ACL in the role of Business Development and Project Manager after a ten year absence during which I ran a small internet consulting business specialising in distributed mapping and database systems. My commercial projects included designing and building map based data gathering systems for Sydney Waters Streamwatch project, the related Waicare project in Auckland, the NSW Department of Education's Sustainable Schools project and the Reachout youth suicide prevention project. While a decade of consulting has exposed me to many different working environments in large and small business as well as government I have striven to apply my analytical skills to projects furthering environmental and social sustainability.
My role at the ACL sees me heavily involved in the conceptualisation, design and construction of the FieldHelper application which aims to provide a simple but powerful methodology to index and cross reference digital files collected as part of field work projects. The application relies heavily on emerging standards in the fields of markup and digital archiving and the use of intuitive user interfaces and visualisation. The Dictionary of Sydney project which aims to gather and collate a significant quantity of digital resources relating to the history of Sydney and make them publicly available online also claims a significant part of my time. These and a number of smaller related projects build on the ACLs long term reputation for research and development in the field of online information management in the humanities and I see it as an important part of my role to continually seek out new projects for the ACL that build on this reputation.
