Patrick Cusack

Patrick Cusack
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Patrick Cusack

Technical Director

Patrick is a founding partner at HotHouse with extensive experience in the design and development of web applications for a wide variety of major corporate clients. Patrick pioneered the development of database-driven publishing systems in Australia and he has been a driving force in the evolution of platform design and execution for key HotHouse clients.

Patrick has proposed, designed and developed large-scale transactional projects including SAP Supply Chain interfaces, Online Health Insurance Services, Customer support portals and Internet Auction services for over 60 major Australasian corporate clients including Toyota, Optus, HCF, Solution 6, Channel 7, Coca Cola Amatil, Daihatsu, Disney, L.J. Hooker, McDonald's, Microsoft, Office of Information Technology, SOCOG, Stuff Auctions, Testra BigPond and Vodafone.
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Patrick's role is in the the conception and design development of HotHouse's technical projects, with a specific emphasis on new client requirements and identifying candidate technologies in the tender selection stage.

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Patrick Cusack
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Patrick Cusack

Technical Director

Patrick is a founding partner at HotHouse with extensive experience in the design and development of web applications for a wide variety of major corporate clients.Patrick pioneered the development of database-driven publishing systems in Australia and he has been a driving force in the evolution of platform design and execution for key HotHouse clients.

Patrick has proposed, designed and developed large-scale transactional projects including SAP Supply Chain interfaces, Online Health Insurance Services, Customer support portals and Internet Auction services for over 60 major Australasian corporate clients including Toyota, Optus, HCF, Solution 6, Channel 7, Coca Cola Amatil, Daihatsu, Disney, L.J. Hooker, McDonald's, Microsoft, Office of Information Technology, SOCOG, Stuff Auctions, Testra BigPond and Vodafone.
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Patrick's role is in the the conception and design development of HotHouse's technical projects, with a specific emphasis on new client requirements and identifying candidate technologies in the tender selection stage.

Patrick Cusack

Patrick Cusack

When integrating a large insurance company's mainframe, Patrick Cusack, chief information officer of Sydney-based HotHouse, felt that large supply chain systems were not designed for the high traffic generated by the web."They have a very specific static number of users and are engineered accordingly.SAP, for example, is entirely inappropriate for real-time transactions, especially if using media, as it creates extreme spikes in the traffic," Cusack says.

The solution: "You must decouple.That is, broker snapshots of the data and deliver those (to the website) ...You never plug anything into SAP or AS390.A lot of people make a living saying you can but none of my clients are comfortable with that," Cusack says.