Hi, Mike Wiese here, the Principal Engineer with KSC. I've worked since the early 90's in industrial systems and software development, in Australia, Europe and the Middle East.

 

People engage me to build new capabilities, recover projects gone bad or undertake forensic analysis of software systems. I've crafted applications and products, configured industrial systems and created various simulated approximations to reality. I've sponsored and managed the creation of an organisation-wide software development capability . I've made many companies faster, leaner, more compliant and more competitive. I've even made a couple of people very rich (sadly not me, I still work bloody hard for a living)

 

I am the original author of Babelfish, a then-revolutionary real-time data visualisation system which exploded out of Perth in the early 2000's. Now developed by P2 Energy Solutions, it can be found in many of the largest resource and manufacturing companies around the world.

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I created CalcEnginePlus, a .NET component that parses user-entered calculations and wires them up to external data. It is the component that teams use to build any kind of analytics application where users specify their own formulas

 

I am also the development manager behind Akumen, a simulation and data-analytics product which took out an Australia-wide Innovation of the Year award in 2016.

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Over the course of nearly three decades in industrial systems engineering and software development, I've figured out how to build software applications, on time and on-budget.

 

I operate as a standalone contractor, or I can rapidly scale up to take on large projects on a fixed-price or time-and-materials basis. I do this in a cost-effective manner with the help of an outsourcing partner, a high-quality European software house who have been my friends and trusted colleagues since 2004.

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This company is the vehicle I use for my professional activities. This site is the entry point to engage me, and a platform for my thoughts on software, project management and various shiny bits of science/technology/sociology that fascinate me from time to time.