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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Weta Digital is a world leading VFX studio. The projects are many and varied to deliver high quality VFX scenes. I work on the Production Engineering team, providing bespoke Java solutions including high scale / highly available data storage and efficient use of the render farm.This role involved industry leading data pipeline and storage solutions.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Stuff is a media content producer. At Stuff I worked on a green field Java project delivering an industry leading content management system. I focused on the technical direction and decisions, building a reference implementation following Clean Architecture practices. I also provided guidance on implementation and Angular architecture reviews. We deployed.

Wanaka

Providing angular consultancy and development at a best of breed travel insurance provider. Working with typescript and angular 4+.This role was completed fully remotely from Wanaka, New Zealand on a per project basis.

Sydney, Australia

I've been a part of a team that has delivered game changing software to the insurance industry.Joining the team in very much a start up phase as one of only 6 developers I have been involved in many parts of the growth of the company and we now have around 40 developers.Working on many and varied projects with recent technologies from Spring Boot through.

London, United Kingdom

Brisbane

Caterpillar provides high quality mine management software developed in house. Recently they have been moving strongly into the autonomous mining space providing fleet management solutions. In this position I had many responsibilities from providing technical consultancy to the architecture team through to development and maintenance.

Brisbane, Australia

TNS is a credit card processing company which processes over 4 billion transactions a year. I was responsible for a range of development activities from bespoke 'fixed price' development to 'road map' product enhancements of the system. TNS runs a agile development methodology with an extensive peer review system in place.

Providing consulting services on design and architecture of spring based applications involving a wide range of Spring technologies including security, webservices, esb integration.Also designing and implementing hi volume batch processing leveraging springs batch mechanisms.

J2EE development and maintenance.

Project re-factoring. Providing analysis and design improvements to an existing system to enhance maintainability and performance. The project is following proven scrum methodolgies. The project is written to the EJB 3 specification leveraging the JPA api with openjpa as a persistence provider.

My role includedJ2EE architecture/design and codingLiasing with off shore teamsSOAP Webservices (Axis 2)Database design (Oracle)Struts 1 & 2 / Spring 1 & 2 / Hibernate 3.2Providing technological guidance to other programmersPerformance enhancements on database / application / app servers / web serversVarious server set up / administration tasks

J2EE architecture/design and codingXML / W3C SchemasDatabase design (MySQL)Providing technological guidance to other programmersPerformance enhancements on database / application / app servers / web servers

2IC on fully custom Java CMS for Toyota2IC on large scale marketing information delivery system across Toyota’s intranetWorked closely with a Verity consultant to implement a verity search across the Toyota siteFatwire CMS implementation (www.olympus.com.au)Maintenance of existing products in Java, JSP, ASP and TCL