iOS engineer in the profile team

A range of consulting work for different clients. Systems integration, CRM, CMS, e-commerce development.

November 2011-PresentSenior engineer in the connected devices team, building iOS and Android applications. Lead engineer for several projects, responsible for architecting and desigin apps, mentoring and training other team members.* Lead engineer on 7NEWS iOS application (2014)* Lead engineer on 7SPORT iPad application (2014)* Lead engineer on Plus7 catchup TV iOS application (2013)* Managed third party development teams building various apps for Yahoo!7 (2012/13)* Member of project team responsible for building iOS foundation libraries that power all Yahoo7 apps (Framework includes UI components / Secure data dispatching and caching / Push notification subscriptions and management) (2012)* Lead engineer on My Kitchen Rules iOS application (2011)Jan 2011-October 2011:Engineer on NZ Yellow pages project.* Built APIs and web services for listing platform* Implemented Continuous Integration system for project

Automating people and paper intensive process for organisations across government, financial services and supply chain.The role includesConsulting and Solution Delivery:• Leading and supporting team members in discovery• Leading and supporting solution design workshops with clients• Solution Architecture – designing solutions and developing the components of the solution including interfaces• Delivering high quality project documentation including business requirements specifications, statements of work, solution design specifications, project schedules and reports• Systems development activities including programming, configuration and other activities using Metastorm, C# and other technologies• Supporting applications once in live operation. Pre-sales• Developing an understanding of a clients business requirements and how a BPM solution will deliver business improvements to their operation• Client proposal developmentInternal• Researching and investigating technologies as required that may assist delivery of solutions to clients• Contributing to internal knowledge base, delivery methods and product development / offering

I worked on Sitely (http://www.sitely.com.au), an application that allowed users to quickly create websites for their business.As an analyst I wrote technical documentation including functional requirements. I captured and designed system workflows and specified and designed system APIs, did gap analysis of our competitors and researched different technical approaches for integrating with several third third party systems.I was a senior member of the core development team writing this Zend Framework application. Work involved coding core libraries and system functionality, database design, integrating the product with many third party systems (payment gateways, dns providers, google analytics, social media, etc), testing and quality assurance.

Work involved development of new co-branded website for The West Australian Newspaper (http://www.thewest.com.au) serving hundreds of thousands of unique visitors a day.I built up a library of reusable PHP modules for this site that generated common generic html. These modules were then reused across Yahoo's many media properties.

As an architect I was responsible for defining backend architecture / data structures for an enterprise Web 2.0 project collaboration tool. I also built up core backend and frontend UI functionality into the product. Features I worked on included users shared and private calendars, a web based document management system, an email client, social bookmarking, wiki, contact management etc.Development was done in PHP5 (OO) with the Zend Framework and jQuery runing on LAMP.

My main responsibility was project management of a corporate website refresh.This included overseeing development of a new CMS, development of new site functionality, migration of tens of thousands of pages of multilingual content, a site redesign and rebrand.Throughout this project I was responsible for* Developing test plans and functional specifications* Defining systems and workflow processes for Bird and Bird's content management requirements* Chief contact point for multiple external design agencies and technical consultantsI also was in developing a PHP extranet product to provide information about international employment legislation to Bird and Bird's clients.

Working in the systems team of Linklaters Knowledge Management Group, I analysed systems and solutions for KM strategy. Responsible for researching and adopting Web 2.0 technologies (wikis, enteprise RSS, credentials database) for the firm.

Designed, developed and maintained several web systems at Australia's leading commercial law firm.

Developed and maintained web sites for PC World, Computerworld, CIO and bespoke PHP content management system.