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Efficiently solving business challenges through software systems for large Australian utility customers.

Development Lead for Datacol's flagship software system. This includes delivering software upgrades for external customers like Sydney Water and Trust Power and DataCol's internal operations team.Key Responsibilities• Mentoring and assisting technical team• Planning and Designing application features• C#, MS SQL development, database administration• Analysing requirements and release management• Delivering multiple Agile and waterfall projects in parallel• Server, Handheld, and client software

Christchurch, New Zealand

The role is managing Hewlett Packard’s New Zealand’s team of database administrators and interfacing with their customers. The DBA team is spread across Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch.Key Responsibilities Responsible for delivering high quality services to customers and growing the Christchurch team. During my time in this position the team has grown from 2 to 13 team members.• Create training plans, team strategy and resource team appropriately• Ensure best practices and standards are implemented across the team• Responsible for technical leadership and architecture of the team• Perform technical tasks as required

Christchurch, New Zealand

Managing the quality and delivery process of software and documentation is this role’s core objective. The project is a multi-year staged redevelopment of the Department of Internal Affairs’ (DIA) core internal IT system.Key Responsibilities• Create release processes that are stable, reliable, and sustainable for the wider project team of around 100 members• Set release policies and processes for the team• Manage multiple environments (Development, Integration, Training, Test/Quality Assurance) that replicate DIA’s IT systems• Review and manage documentation so that it is at an appropriate standard and detail level and ensuring well documented internal IT processes• Assigning tasks to Infrastructure, Development, Testing, and Customer teams for resolution

Christchurch, New Zealand

This project was an upgrade of Agtrac’s main software product FarmHQ to prepare for significant changes to the Farming industry over the next few years. One of the main features of this upgrade was enabling the tracking of individual animals via a RFID tag. Key Responsibilities• Develop and test new software components and existing features to specification and within budgeting constraints• Thoroughly review end user use cases and specifications while planning out the required software changes• Explore cost efficient alternative approaches to software features with Agtrac’s business analyst through brainstorming sessions while considering the environment the software and organisation operate within• Consider the full impact of proposed changes and ensure estimates are accurate and allow for design, development, and testing effort

Christchurch, New Zealand

This role’s core objective is evaluating technology solutions that improve operations and open up new business opportunities for the company while ensuring projects achieve their goals.Key Responsibilities• Review new business opportunities and create a supporting cost versus benefit analysis to assist with decision making• Identify and communicate benefits, complexities, and risks to business and technical teams• Provide pre-sales technical expertise while dealing with customers’ staff from the operations to executive level• Responsible for enterprise infrastructure, systems, and software for supporting DataCol’s business.• Oversee projects for interfacing with new customers and new service offerings• Systems Architecture and management

Christchurch, New Zealand

The central aspects of this role are delivering high quality products on time that meet customer and end user expectations, ensure code is well structured, tested, and documented. Continually keep the larger project goals, architecture, and approach in the forefront of the teams mind to guide the development, customer interaction, testing, and documentation.Key Responsibilities• Systems Architecture• Analyse, estimate, and design new functionality and alterations• Set standards and pursue continual improvements• Track project performance and status and ensure progress is on schedule• Setup 1st, 2nd, and 3rd line support infrastructure for external clients: including contracts, pricing, processes, reporting, and call centre• Manage key customer accounts including project management, reporting, and accounts

Christchurch, New Zealand

Team Leader / Senior Software Developer July 2004 - July 2005This role is to successfully develop, lead, and manage key projects that support DataCol’s goals.Key Responsibilities• Quickly come up to speed with .NET, Microsoft SQL, and the existing applications, while taking on the lead technical and customer contact roles for the FarmHQ project• Design new application features for performance, maintainability, and usability• Work with product management teams to design new application features that achieve set targets

Christchurch, New Zealand

Focus on designs, long term maintainability, fast performance on resource constrained devices, interoperability, and single source code projects that run on desktop and handheld operating systems.Key Responsibilities• Implement new features and enhance functionality to design and specification using Visual C++, and Source Safe, along with time tracking and bug tracking tools. Software targeting the lowest common denominator, in terms of device capability, to ensure cross platform interoperability• Successfully manage day-to-day running of the TerraSync software project. TerraSync is a data collection software package that integrates with Trimble’s GIS package and runs on desktop and handheld devices

Bsc Combined Honours, Computer Science And Mathematics

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