Dr Michael Rumsewicz

Telephone	+61 8 8313 0290
Position	Business Development Manager
Email	michael.rumsewicz@adelaide.edu.au
Building	Engineering North
Floor/Room	2 31c
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Civil Environmental and Mining Engineering, School of

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Biography/ Background

Michael Rumsewicz's studies were undertaken at the University of Adelaide. He graduated with a first class honours degree in Applied Mathematics in 1984 and was awarded his PhD in 1989. Michael has worked primarily in the telecommunications industry and academia, and is currently the Business Development Manager in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering.

Michael Rumsewicz joined the the University of Adelaide in October 2002 as a Senior Research Fellow, and became a Professorial Research Fellow in March 2004. From 2004 to 2009 Michael was Director of the TRC Mathematical Modelling and the Centre for Defence Communications and Information Networking. Michael led a team of 10 staff, mostly PhD qualified, undertaking high end commercial research and development work, primarily in the telecommunications space. During that time, Michael led major projects supporting Telstra's mobile network, developed links with the defence community, and led major initiatives such as the creation of the Defence Systems Innovation Centre and the establishment of the South Australian Networking Laboratory with funding from the Premier's Science and Research Fund.

From 1999 until 2001 he was with Ericsson Australia as the Team Leader for the Ericsson - Melbourne University Laboratory (EMULab) which specialises in network performance research. He has also undertaken a number of consulting projects for his own companies, Look Forward Pty Ltd and Telic Australia Pty Ltd. His consulting activities have included projects for Austel, the Office of the Telecommunications Authority (Hong Kong), Telcordia (USA), NSW Crown Solicitor's Office, Olympic Co-ordination Authority, Qnetworx (USA) and the Metropolitan Ambulance Service Royal Commission and the Victorian Department of Justice.

From 1988-1994 Michael worked at Bellcore as a member of the Network Services Performance and Control Group, specialising in performance analysis of telecommunications systems and played a leading role in Signalling System Number 7 congestion control research and outage analysis efforts. In 1994 he returned to Australia and led performance analysis research at The Software Engineering Research Centre of The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1994-1999), where he developed new concepts on robustness and scalability for distributed web server platforms and subsequently managed their technology transfer to Ericsson.

He has written over 40 refereed journal and conference articles, has 3 patents granted or pending, has been a reviewer and programme committee member for a number of international conferences.

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012

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