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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Classroom based General English classes for adults.* 15 - 32 contact hours a week* A1 - B2

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Classroom based General English classes for adults.* 8 contact hours a week* A2 / Pre-intermediate

Vietnam

Classroom and online based lessons for students aged between 3 and 17, with the odd adult lesson. Classes focused on all elements of student centred communicative English including pronunciation skills, use of grammatical structures, vocabulary building, fluency/free speaking activities, reading, and listening skills. In addition, all courses contained specific lessons based around the various Cambridge English tests, and I also taught several IELTS writing and speaking classes .

Spain

* Conducting weekly UIMP immersion courses for Adults (18-30).* The course content focused on all elements of communicative English including: pronunciation skills, use of grammatical structures, vocabulary building, fluency/free speaking activities, reading, and listening skills.* 37.5 - 43 contact hours per week * A2 - C2

Madrid, Spain

Conducting conversation based speaking classes.

Madrid, Spain

Completing a part-time CELTA

Salamanca, Spain

Working towards fluency in Spanish.

Brisbane Area, Australia

* Gosu development and configuration to Claim Center 7* Java enhancements to integration and supporting middle-ware layer* High performing Agile team* Continuous Integration with releases every 4 weeks* Multi-project pipeline, across all Personal Insurance products

Brisbane Area, Australia

March 2014 - August 2014* Configuration, bug fixes, and enhancements to Claim Center* Java bug fixes and enhancements to the integration layer and supporting middle-ware layer.* Agile based project teamsMarch 2012 - Feb 2014* Maintenance, configuration, bug fixes, and enhancements to Claim Center* Production support, data fixes, and on-call for Claim Center* Java development / alterations to integration layer and supporting middle-ware layer.* Agile team

Central America, North America, South East Asia

* Volunteering* PADI Divemaster Internship* Travelling

Brisbane, Australia

Analysis, development, and support. * Supported and enhanced an application written in Java with an Oracle back-end* Support developer on a large Java EE project with an Oracle back-end. * Completed customer directed enhancements and fixes, from quotation through to deployment for a VB6 application with an SQL Server back-end.

Brisbane, Australia

* Maintaining propitiatory MVC based applications with both Oracle and application back ends * Development, updating and enhancement of MVC based User Interface and supporting Java code, that interacted with an SOA middle ware. * Updating and enhancement of JavaEE SOA (EJB 3.0, JPA) middle ware with Oracle back end.

Brisbane, Australia

* Liaising with clients* Conducting workshops* Verification and assessment of user requirements* Development of Functional Requirement Specification* Development of Requirement Use Cases

Brisbane, Australia

* Research and Reporting* Data collection* Research paper development and presentation

Bachelor Of Network Computing(Honours), Networked Software Development - Java, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Student council officer, IT Representative, Network Computing Society officer* Developing Java applications.

Certificate Iv, Information Technology(Computer Science)

Activities and Societies: Member of Student Council