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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Primarily working within an agile team to deliver a range of new features across our existing SaaS platform (C#/.NET, MVC, AngularJS Front End, with NServiceBus/microservice back end) and by developing new RESTful.
• Worked on several features that required integration with 3rd parties (subscription/billing/payment providers)
• Part of a rotating Level 2/3 support roster whose responsibility is to triage, investigate and provide fixes for issues escalated by the level 1 support team

Sydney, Australia

• Daily responsibilities include developing new features, maintaining existing features and assisting to diagnose and resolve production support escalations as part of an agile scrum team
• Assist in supporting and promoting scrum practices and values within the scrum team
• Part of a small roster of individuals responsible for after-hours L2 support for our production environments. Escalations range from assisting with SME advice to analysing, diagnosing and rectifying production outages.
• Consistently liaise with our release and implementation team to ensure developed features are delivered all the way through to production. Likewise, working directly within the team on a number of occasions to own the.
• Involved in discussions with third parties including existing clients, potential future clients and vendors as a technical SME (clients include various FinTechs, financial services, banks, government, retailers)
• Lead a team of 5 contractors on a 2 month project to work through a backlog of security enhancements that exceeded the desired scope within the time frame

Sydney, Australia

• Responsible for all aspects of the test process within an agile scrum team developing large scale back end greenfield modernisation work
• Set up and carry out performance testing and stability testing for a number of projects including AS2805 switching, RESTful web services, cloud based message bus framework
• Work with product owners and the project's lead architect to understand the business requirements as well as providing feedback and suggestions on improvements
• Work directly with developers as part of a scrum team to resolve any defects during development
• Responsible for writing end to end test cases to ensure the product functions as per the business requirements
• Responsible for test case execution including gathering required test evidence

• IT Operations Engineer (March 2006 - December 2011)
• Monitor and maintain the internal company network and computer systems
• Set up and maintain back-end hosting services consisting of dedicated servers and cloud based services (including Amazon EC2 instances, S3 storage, SQS)
• Update and maintain back-end software including Ubuntu, CentOS, Apache, PHP, MySQL, DB2, memcached, tomcat
• Develop and maintain various Python scripts for importing data from both text and xls files into SQL data
• Responsible for all web SEO as well as implementing various content changes to our websites as requested

Bachelor’S Degree, Bachelor Of Information Technology, Distinction

Majoring in Software Development and Applications Majoring in Enterprise Information Technology 2012, 2013 & 2014 - Placed on the Faculty.

Certificate Iv In Network Administration, Network And System Administration/Administrator, Credit