Ben Wolrige Email & Phone Number

Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Built and promoted a highly performing, engaged and energetic team environment.• Worked with other leaders in the group to identity, coach and mentor the next generation of leaders and engineers within the group.• Contributed to enterprise governance model for the OutSystems Low Code platform.• Assisted with building of key parts of our pipeline and future capabilities.• Contributed to the delivery of projects and initiatives.• Contributed to tech scans that influence enterprise technology strategy.

Melbourne, Australia

• Product Owner of the OutSystems Low Code platform.• Built and fostered a group of passionate, highly skilled, engaged and motivated Solution Engineers• Facilitated and coordinated coaching, mentoring, training, and professional development programs within the group.• Contributed to, and encouraged team participation, in learning and development activities including industry updates, “lunch and learn” sessions, formal mentoring and formal training opportunities.

Melbourne, Australia

• Team Leader managing 3 developers a tester and a BA.• Ensure stakeholders are supported with new product and feature development.• Managing the outsourcing of development to centralised development team in Edinburgh.• Maintaining team morale during transition period.• Microservices Middleware SME assisting on refacing business critical enterprise application. Achieving up to 80% improvement of processing times on the newer distributed environment.• Reviewed and streamlined development teams processes, ultimately replacing SCRUM with Kanban.• Formalised coding and development standards, which the team holds each other accountable to.• Developed internal team dashboard that provides current throughput and cycle times. Consulted with the DevOps team to take this concept to the wider global development audience.• Assisted on development of a Visual Studio microservices template, reducing the cost of plumbing message queues, IoC and basic logging to almost zero.• Introduced BDD (SpecFlow) as a methodology. Effectively allowing a single tester with 0.5 FTE capacity to support 5 full time developers.• Consulted on migration of legacy VB6, COM+ and Winforms application deployment to Octopus Deploy.• Automated submission of application artefacts to Veracode for vulnerability scanning.• Formally mentored a number of Associate developers, assisting in their transition to the Computershare culture.• Managed migration to SQL Server 2016.• Work closely with Release Management team to submit RFC’s for approval by CAB.

Melbourne, Australia

• Worked with large development team on application integral to Computershare Communications Systems.• Front end developer on a large windows application utlising the DevExpress framework.• Lead the migration from the Perth data centre to Melbourne, centralising data hosting and management.• Refactored a complex middleware automated file processing service, implementing a multi-threaded model that reduced file queuing times from 2 minutes to a maximum of 15 seconds.• Took on SME role for the business critical processing service.• Developed technical and user manuals.• Instigated and drove the migration from expensive licensed packaging tools to the free open source tool, Wix.• Investigate and introduce to the team automated testing frameworks that align with Agile practices.• Exposure to Extreme programming.• Incorporate automated testing into the build definition to enforce that only the highest quality unit tested code is released to testers.• Early adopter and advocate of DevOps, introducing Octopus Deploy to development team. Octopus Deploy was subsequently chosen as the primary deployment tool in the organisation.

Melbourne, Australia

• Design and execute tests.• Investigate the use of automation tools.• Raise and triage bugs discovered during the testing phase.• Liaise with developers and Business Analysts to assist with design of the product.

Perth, Australia

• Document architecture SME for recently acquired Computershare Communications Service office.• Lead developer for commercial clients, notably RACWA and the State Revenue Dept of WA.• Key programmer on client critical documents, particularly dividend payments.• Consolidated extraordinarily complicated Wesfarmers dividend including multiple holding types with Notice of Meeting communication.