Ben Roberts Email & Phone Number

Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand

Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand

We want to share our love of dining out with you.- Find a new restaurant to try from over 1,400 restaurants globally- Get in quick to score the ‘first table’ of breakfast, lunch or dinner- Book a First Table for $10 and get 50% off the food bill for two, three or four people

Queenstown, New Zelanad

Adventium Technology™ offers a suite of products and services to support efficiency and promote business growth in both local and global business. Empowering travel and operational management though a suite of Software products; Website Travel, OperatorHub (J6), MySites, Travel Desk and Concierge Desk.Key responsibilities and role milestones: * Member of the group's IT Steering Committee * Audits on the groups technology infrastructure * Appraisal of new potential start-up acquisitions * Roadmap for merging dis-separate technology stacks * Recruitment, nurturing and reviews of development and support teams * Architectural oversight of in-progress and future functionality * Long distance feature planning, price strategy and market positioning * Rebranding of Junction6 to Operator Hub * Engaging and managing outsourced development teams * Exhibiting at tech tourism expo events * Identifying risks, mitigations, and providing innovation to ensure company survival and growth

Queenstown, New Zealand

Junction 6 - A cloud based booking and operation management platform for travel and tourism companies. The General Manager role saw me running company sales and growth strategies, whilst maintaining oversight of product development, infrastructure and long term scaling plans.Key clients included Kiwi Experience, AJ Hackett International, Stray Travel. * Setup AWS stack and oversaw major version upgrades * Prototyping of new products and components * Provide architectural, technical and best practices guidance * Strategy, sales, top level pitches. * Personally closed and on-boarded largest to-date client - Kiwi Experience * On-site deployment * High profile client liaison * Communicating technical concepts to non-technical personnel * Managing software development teams to ensure maximum efficiency and outcomes for the business and customers

Queenstown, New Zealand

Heading up the development team of a versatile cloud based travel operations and booking system. Making key strategic feature and scalability decisions for an aggressive growth roadmap for both client onboarding and development resources. * Recruited, trained, mentored 10+ developers * Up-trained Client Rep to Scrum Master * Produced and enforced coding, testing and style guides. * Final testing, sign-off and deployment responsibilities * Large scale data migrations and mapping (2m+ records) * Delivered high-quality software on time and on budget

Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown, New Zealand

Southampton, United Kingdom

As a certified Scrum Master I have take a team of 10 production staff from a 50% completion rate to 95%+ over the course of six months through a process of substantial change and constant refinement. A self motivated role which has allowed me to develop strong motivational and people management skills; quickly building rapport and achieving results, within a team of strong personalities.

As a Backend Developer I successfully delivered a number of high profile sites, the personal highlight of which was redeveloping THQ’s global gaming site. The site, built in Java, needed to be re-engineered into a PHP stack, because of the size of the site the Customer facing and client CMS areas needed to be launched in two separate phases, meaning the new site needed to be build around a fixed data structure. This process took three months, compared to the year it took to put together the original Java build. As well as having completed projects using industry leading frameworks, I have built a custom framework for rapidly building sites of medium complexity without the server overhead of a full ORM. Earlier in this role I also developed Workflow, our trafficking system, which is now pivotal to the organisation; it was developed over a period of four months closely linking development with traffic managers. It was a challenging system to build requiring complex SQL for dealing with time based work schedules, tasks spanning days or weeks and being able to view 50+ projects over a month long period all in a single view. This all had to be achieved whilst keeping the system responsive to use. Over the course of two years I oversaw the development of a client extranet, corporate intranet and a number of business analysis and reporting tools. These systems, integrating with accounting and other company systems, have helped the business secure clients and save money whilst affording the company systems that precisely met their business needs.

Stepping in to cover a sudden departure, I reported to the Marketing Director. Over this period, I maintained, and then overhauled the company’s entire web and e-commerce systems.While keeping the legacy system running – incorporating new products and fixes - I also developed and then implemented an entirely new database driven ASP e-commerce web-site. On the customer-facing side, this has an improved ‘look and feel’, with custom built smart search facilities and streamlined ecommerce, and, by catering for both account and casual customers, has doubled the reach.Four particular operational features have also proved their worth – high resilience, through error-trapping; a simplified user-interface, enabling unskilled staff to manage and up-date the site; a standardised brand- and corporate-identity enforced through CSS; and, not least, automated management and SEO tools to measure and increase site performance. As a result the Company enjoyed over 600,000 internet visitors annually at the time.During my time at Keytools, I also created an Intranet, which provides live information from the accounting and CRM systems, and a number of simple productivity tools such as an on-line credit card validation system.The final phase of my work at Keytools involved the recruitment, training and transfer of skills to a permanent web-master.