John Good B Appl Comp (Hons), RSH Dip HI (NZ)

Software Engineer

 

Academic and professional history:

  • 2004 – present, Software Engineer, Lincoln Ventures Ltd
  • 2004 – Bachelor of Applied Computing with First Class Honours
  • 2002 – JADE Prize in Object-Oriented Programming (Lincoln University)
  • 2002 – Hewlett Packard Scholarship Award for Excellence in Software Engineering (Lincoln University)
  • 1996 – Oxford University Press Public Law Prize (Massey University)
  • 17 years experience in Environmental Health, Policy and Planning positions for New Zealand District and Regional Councils and as a consultant to Local Government.

Research subjects:


- Design and production of scientific software using modern Object-oriented - programming tools.
- Object-oriented software design,
- High-performance computing

- Grid computing

 

Current projects

- Groundwater Quality Protection

- Groundwater Allocation

 

Recent publications:


Bidwell, V. J. and J.M. Good (2007) Development of the AquiferSim Model of Cumulative Effect on Groundwater of Nitrate Discharge from Heterogeneous Land Use over Large Regions. In Oxley, L. and Kulasiri, D. (eds) MODSIM 2007 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2007, pp. 1617-1622. ISBN : 978-0-9758400-4-7.

Good, J. & J. Bright (2005) An Object-Oriented Software Framework for the Farm-Scale Simulation of Nitrate Leaching from Agricultural Land Uses - IRAP FarmSim. In Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M. (eds) MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, pp. 662-668. ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9.


Good, J. (2005) The Benefits and Practicalities of Using Extensible Markup Language (XML) for the Interfacing and Control of Object-Oriented Simulations. In Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M. (eds) MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, pp. 655-661. ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9.


Bidwell, V.J., L.R. Lilburne & J.M. Good. (2005) Strategy for Developing GIS-based Tools for Management of the Effects on Groundwater of Nitrate Leaching from Agricultural Land Use. In Zerger, A. and Argent, R.M. (eds) MODSIM 2005 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, December 2005, pp. 1354-1360. ISBN: 0-9758400-2-9.

 

Good. J. M. (2003). A Pragmatic Approach to the Implementation of Agile Software Development Methodologies in Plan-Driven Organisations.  Honours Dissertation, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand.

John Good

Contact Details

Tel: +64 3 325 3706
Fax: +64 3 325 3725

Email:
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