Dean Stalker Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Leading a team of developers during the integration phase of Ladbrokes Australia and Neds. - Working primarly with Go in a Microservice architecture on Amazon EKS/ECS- Assisting the Product Owner with resourcing, planning and integrations- Working closely with the systems architects to ensure system hygiene and performance.

Brisbane, Australia

Minor role assisting with planning out a move from a monolithic architecture over to micro services.

Brisbane, Australia

During this period I led a team of backend and frontend developers providing primarily people and planning support, as well as mentorship for our developers in navigating their way through our PHP code base at the time.This role led into running a team to assist with mitigating a number of low level architectural issues which were deeply impacting the company at the time. This led be into picking up a lot of work that no one else was prepared to pick up at the time, and we succeeded.

Brisbane, Australia

- Provided BAU support to existing systems

Develop and maintain SaaS applications built upon Symfony and Aurelia JS.

Develop and maintain a wide range of client sites using Drupal CMS (6/7)

Brisbane

Spending time working on a few freelance client sites as well as Open Source and Personal projects. Currently searching for contract/full time opportunities.

PHP Backend Developer, specialising in Bespoke and CMS work.Drupal 6/7WordpressSymfony2Magento

Front End development using prototype.js, on top of Joomla.

Worked on a number of probono and personal projects.

Sliced and coded websites from Photoshop MockupsMaintained client websites as requiredRewrote an in-house produced CMS into correct PHP5 OOP/MVC principles

- Day to day operational support as well as project implementation for the public facing websites: www.virginblue.com.au, www.flypacificblue.com, www.polynesianblue.com, www.vaustralia.com.au and www.velocityrewards.com.au.- Project implementation and testing for all business groups in the company, with varying scopes, criticality and deadlines.- Day to day operational support for internal web applications including the company intranet.- Revision control via SVN and CVS repositories- Coding standard checks for legacy, production and applications/sites in development.- Documentation of all systems under the Websites banner, including code documentation to phpDocumentor standards

• 1st Level Support for users for quick and precise trouble-shooting• 2nd Level Support to assist in resolving an issue hands on.• Delegation of tickets to the correct queues.• Prioritisation of tasks depending on criticality in the scheme of an Airline’s core operations• Identified Requirements including quickest access method, user friendliness, easy contributions, indexing methods, projected server load and costings. Implemenation & Testing of the Knowledge Base system incorporating the usage of PHP/MySQL incorporating a Smarty based Templating engine, PEAR frameworks. With front-end operations controlled with the jQuery library – Original specification allowed for a small user base, with the opportunity to increase resources in future to create a Public Self-help front end.• Implementation & Testing of tools interfacing Active Directory using LDAP via PHP to allow quick creation of user accounts and finger tip report generation for AD Security Group memberships. Front-end operations using the Smarty Templating system. – User base was set for 10 users.• Providing up to date Documentation on new Systems, Issues and Procedures stored in a Knowledge Base and Sharepoint Library.

Overall Duties Include:Compiling advertising for publishing on the Internet, Newspapers and other print mediaMaintaining records of advertising costsShowcasing properties through the use of photographyImplementation of an Intranet page incorporating PHP/MySQL backend with usage of HTML/Javascript and the AJAX framework. - User base was 10 users.Maintaining a MySQL databaseMaintaining IT assets within organisation

Overall Duties Included:Managing a Win NT4/2000 server based LAN with Win98/XP workstations (~145 workstations amongst ~700 clients) and a Debian Linux based Firewall/Proxy ServerDiagnosing and repairing problems with Network infrastructure, Computer Hardware and SoftwareDeveloping an Intranet using PHP/MySQL hosted on an IIS5 server - User Base was 145 workstations

Overall Duties Included:Implementation & Testing a custom Asset Management system utilising Visual Basic 6, interfacing an MS Access Database using SQL. - User base projected at 50 users.Building Workstations from scratchDiagnosing and repairing problems with Network and Computer equipment

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