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While continuing to build the group travel planning platform YouLi Travel, I was offered to step up into the role of CTO, managing the small development team that we are growing and guiding the technical direction of the platform and company.I continue to lead the development of the system, in addition to managing all DevOps pipelines, which has included a full migration of the system from AWS to Microsoft Azure.

Developing the YouLi travel management platform, and supporting the business and our customers through the early stages of validation that are critical to all startups. Working with our UX Designer to turn her creations into reality, my role covers development (Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 5), devops and system administration, as well as leading the technical direction of the platform and providing support to clients.YouLi (as in "You Live To Travel") is a mobile and web platform to create beautiful and unique transformational travel and destination event websites. Enabling travel organisers to manage invitations, payments and travel schedules for guests, all in one place. The platform was launched in December 2017.

Design, creation and maintenance of websites, including small, medium and large businesses, and not-for-profit organisations. I build solutions which will provide maximum benefits to the client based on their specific needs, so every site is customised completely for the given customer.I am also available for shorter term contract work, including on-site and remote.I employ various technologies and offer everything from site development, hosting, email and domain registration/support.I have been running this business full time since 2008, after it being a side project since 2000.See my website for a portfolio of my work, or contact me for more information and/or a quote!

Development and maintenance of an existing CRM system for Jeanswest, which I had previously worked on during my time with True Digital and then with Smart Melbourne. Jeanswest requested that I come onboard directly with them to continue the maintenance of the system, and to assist them with a future replacement of it.During mid-2009 I was contracted again to plan, design and develop an internal website application for staff training and information purposes, which I developed in ASP.NET and deployed on an internal server.

Contracted by Smart Melbourne to perform project planning and web development for a large ASP.NET website working with one other developer. The site was for Greyhound Racing NSW -- www.thedogs.com.au, which is now live.

My work at True Digital included the maintenance of existing websites that had been created or taken over by the company, as well as the leadership in technical direction for new projects that were underway.I acted as the system administrator of their web server (originally a Linux server running Apache), and later performed a migration of all the existing sites (10+ in use at the time) from that Linux server to a newly acquired Windows Server 2008 system. I set up and maintained IIS 7.0, PHP, MySQL and SmarterMail on the server, and migrated the sites over, which included an upgrade to both PHP and MySQL. I was involved in the planning and technical management of the commencement of a major project, the development of a new website for Greyhound Racing NSW. Regrettably the company went into liquidation in July 2008, which led me to the contract role at SMART (see above).

In September 2006 I moved into a Team Leader position on a Support and Maintenance Project, and after around six months I took over the project management. I then took on the project management of five other small support projects, including one that was supported from Logica’s office in Bangalore. During this time I also continued to perform some development work, investigating and resolving defects and change requests as time permitted around my main role. The main responsibilities in the project management roles included completion of financial and status reports, managing client expectations and reporting to them on a regular basis, and resolving any conflicts of interest. I was also the driver in the implementation of improved QA processes and methodology on the project, and managed all resourcing.

Prior to my role as a Project Manager, I was originally employed by Logica in March 2000 as a Software Engineer / Analyst. I was involved in a number of projects for a variety of industries and clients.This work covered the entire lifecycle, including presentations of the product to potential clients, analysis and requirements gathering, preparing specification documents, development, testing, installations, training and ongoing support. I worked extensively with clients, on a one-on-one basis between myself and their team leaders. This work also required strong skills in time management, due to the amount of work coming in from new clients plus the existing support work. I trained new team members on the system and development of same, and was seen as the best source of knowledge for the product on the team.Senior Developer - from 2002 to 2006, I worked on an energy trading system, for the support and maintenance of the product, including large customisations for new clients. The product consists of a UNIX backend, written in C++ with some external libraries, frontend PC clients, written in Visual C++, using TIBCO Rendezvous middleware and an Oracle database. Developer - I was involved in the development and support of a number of smaller applications written in a variety of languages, such as Visual Basic, C++ and C#, with Oracle and SQL Server databases.Developer – from 2000 – 2001, major work on a project for a large telecommunications company in Sydney, including extensive work on back-end (C++, Tuxedo middleware), and front-end (Vantive, VBA, PL/SQL). Also included working on Testing Team, followed by time working on Warranty and Support of the program, and then returning to back-end development.Web Developer and various - Other small projects during the initial six months, such as creation of testing and user documentation and some web development work.