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Ray Moloney Award for Innovation
Winners
2005 - Bob McPherson
2006 - Theo Ten Brummelaar
2007 - Andrew Mickan
2008 - Stewart Smith
Criteria
The 22nd Annual MX Association Conference, held in Darling Harbour, Sydney, saw the establishment of the "Ray Moloney Award for Innovation" to honour the memory of the late Ray Moloney and to recognize innovation and excellence in MX design and development.
The committee of the time was hopeful this award would become an annual institution, presented at each conference to a deserving recipient chosen by the members and committee of the MX Association.
At the time of its inception some concerns were raised that this may lessen the value of the award, and that the award should be presented only to well deserving recipients and not necessarily on an annual basis. There was general agreement by the body of delegates and it was agreed that any future presentation of the award would be initiated by the current committee. That being said, this year’s Committee feels it could be advantageous to present the award again at the 2006 MX Conference in Hobart, to help consolidate the integrity of the award, so that it is not thought of as a "one off" presentation.
At the 2005 conference, no real guidelines or criteria were set up to establish who would make worthy recipients of the award. Rather it was left up to the incoming 2006 Committee to establish a set of guidelines to be used by the current and future committees in their search for, and selection of, a worthwhile candidate.
The following ideas are an attempt to set down some working criteria so that we can identify worthwhile candidates and consider their worthiness for this award for this, and future, conferences.
The recipient of the award shall be either,
a past or present user or developer of MOSS/MX or,
be associated with the use of MOSS/MX through a management, support or similar role and,
has provided a genuine and substantial innovative contribution in the MX field as either a user or developer of the product or,
has provided direction for the implementation of advanced technologies leading or contributing to further development of the MX software suite, or
be instrumental in any advanced applied use of MX that has been of a substantial and continuing benefit to the vast majority of MX users in Australasia.
Special Tribute
Sadly, 2005 saw the passing of Ray Moloney, former founder and Director of Infrasoft Australia Pty Limited (formerly Moss Systems Pty Limited). Ray was instrumental in establishing the first agency for the MOSS program in 1982 in Australia, while a Director for Tritek.
Through a series of twists and turns, Ray helped establish MOSS Systems Australasia in 1988. It was very successful at marketing and supporting MOSS in Australia and New Zealand through the 80's and 90's and later took the name of Infrasoft Pty Limited when Infrasoft Corporation, the then USA MOSS Agent, acquired Moss Systems Limited UK. Later Infrasoft Corporation also acquired the Australian operation and a year after, in January of 2003, Bentley Systems acquired the whole of Infrasoft to form part of the Bentley Civil team. This provided Ray even more the opportunity to focus on the challenges of trail-blazing the product into the 21st Century.
Ray was certainly one of the thinkers of this world, and reveled in his position of software researcher and developer, developing such things as PaveMOSS - the fore-runner of MXRENEW, and DynaMOSS - a lead-in to MXROAD. He was also instrumental in the development of the quick alignment options, pavement layer design, MXRENEW, MXURBAN and parts of the visibility and superelevation tools.
Ray's ability and character quickly became well known throughout Bentley's world-wide offices. Ray was a very proud Australian, and certainly took a big slice of it wherever he traveled, always leaving a lasting impression with all those he associated with along the way.
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