Taking a short break out of IT, I created, operated and subsequently sold 2 food businesses with business partnersThe first being 'nook nosh Kitchen & Bar’ - located in Unley, providing locally produced food & beverage in a unique New York style venueThe second being a pop-up food business, 'hubba hubba hummus' catering delicious, fresh and healthy food at major events and festivals in South Australia and Victoria. Examples include Womadelaide and the Adelaide Fringe Festival, Tour Down Under, and Meredith Music Festival

Within a team of 3 Analysts, 5 Developers and 1 Tester, delivered the ‘ViziRail .Net’ system, a whole of system replacement project comprised of 18 major subsystems, 250 online forms, and 30 external system interfaces of varying complexity in an n-tier high availability environmentDelivered a variety of other solutions for ICG Transport systems’ clients including: - Designed and delivered VB6 + SQL Server application enhancements on Windows - Performed SQL Server database schema upgrades with application changes - Scripted deployment of new SQL Server databases for new clients (database schema + loading reference data) - Delivered ASP .Net Web Services and some classic ASP web services - Performed application and database performance tuning

Initially working as a Senior Analyst with a team of 12 Analysts, Developers, and Testers; delivered the ‘G1’ system - a replacement and enhancement of a legacy order management and invoicing system built with Object Pascal (Delphi) on an Oracle 10g database. Deliverables included both design artefacts and codeDelivered followup rounds of enhancements to incorporate additional features. Deliverables included both design artefacts and codeAfter being promoted to Senior Developer and Team Lead, designed and delivered significant enhancements to the ‘G1’ system and associated online portal to meet the requirements of the UK and German arms of the businessThe ‘G1’ system comprised 5 major sub-systems, approximately 80 forms, 40 data driven PHP web pages, and approximately 80 database entities at that time

Initially worked with a team of 4 Analyst Programmers supporting and maintaining the ‘OMS' system. Since commissioning of the system in 1997, Ausbulk had consistently experienced issues with stability of system and data integrity issues, so a strong emphasis was placed on improving the stability of the 61 individual applications that comprised the systemWith a team of 10, delivered the ‘AusGrow’ system - an integrated Customer Management System comprised of 4 major sub systems, 70 Win Forms and 10 major batch processes. This project was the first step in consolidating the many individual applications that comprised the ‘OMS’ system into a single integrated applicationWorking as a Business Analyst in a team of 13, designed the ‘AusStock’ enhancements to consolidate the remaining myriad of individual ‘OMS’ applications. The enhancements to the system comprised 8 major sub-systems, 250 Win Forms, and 30 batch processes/interfacesDue to a company merger, the ‘AusStock’ project was placed on hold. I was re-tasked as Software Development Team leadRapidly delivered urgent enhancements to the remaining OMS applications to facilitate successful business operations during the merger period.