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Surry Hills, New South Wales, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Led multiple teams and oversee all systems and delivery for Envato’s flagship Markets (themeforest.net, codecanyon.net, videohive.net, audiojungle.net, graphicriver.net).- Provide leadership, direction, coaching, mentoring and development to direct reports - Manage other managers to scale effective practices across the delivery teams- Responsible for the 24x7x365 availability, performance, security and technical risk management of Envato Market- Maintain a healthy balance between commercial and technical decisions and investments- Ensure teams demonstrate an understanding of the commercial context they're working within

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

• Understand and analyze business requirements in order to design and implement technical solutions• Write high-quality code and, where appropriate, uses Test-Driven Development practices• Set and follow development processes and software design principles• Investigate, diagnose and resolve outages and issues on the production site while being on-call• Lead delivery of mid to large scale projects by cross-functional teams• Manage multiple stakeholder interactions and expectations• Coordinate developers on the team and allocates tasks for a project team• Plan and execute the delivery of a project onto production infrastructure and coordinate the communication to the community• Manage the release process of projects• Ensure projects meet an operational standard, are supportable by the rest of the team and that suitable• Actively work towards improving team processes• Provide leadership, direction, coaching, mentoring and support of other developers• Educate the team on emerging technologies and approaches that are relevant to business

- Design and implement new features for financial analytics software- Maintain and improve backend processes

- Provide software development services for web, mobile, and enterprise companies.- Consult on software development best practices, with specialities in Ruby on Rails, React, and iOS- Design and implement fun educational apps for kids, such as Rocket Speller , Rocket Speller PLUS , and Little Big Car Factory.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

- Developed a complex loan management platform that handles tens of millions of dollars in loans. - Successfully implemented a TDD/BDD development flow, using parallel testing to ensure rapid test execution.

- Lead a team building an iOS health and fitness app backed by a Ruby on Rails RESTful web service. - Implemented an agile development process using scrum, Jira, BDD, and retrospectives.

Paris, Idf, Fr

- Developed parts of multi-retailer e-commerce platform (http://www.westfield.com.au) as a senior member of a large agile team.- Contributed to various parts of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)- Contributions included: fraud detection, shopping cart/funnel optimisation, order lifecycle, payment processing, facetted product search, product category management, retailer product APIs, SEO- Achieved 80% reduction in the runtime of some test suites as a result of test refactoring, database optimizations, and system settings.

Richmond, Victoria, Au

- Developed and delivered a content platform for real estate agents as a senior member of an agile team.- Participated in the introduction of an agile process into the team.- Influenced technical and architectural designs for the platform.

- Recruited and managed a team of 12 including: developers, designers, system administrators, and data-entry professionals. The geographically diverse team consisted of mostly outsourced talent.- Delivered a scalable, fault-tolerant consumer website built using Ruby on Rails. The high traffic (200,000 requests/day) website currently has over 100,000 registered users.- Responsible for all company budget and resourcing decisions.- Accountable for financial performance of the company. Provided regular financial updates and forecasts to investors.- Achieved a 70% increase in revenue per user through a closely measured conversion optimization campaign.- Reduced the cost of user acquisition by 80% through marketing, press, and SEO initiatives.- Negotiated and implemented partnerships with stationery, registry, photo book, and domain name registration companies.- Used architecture decisions, database design, and code optimizations to deliver a highly optimized product.- Developed a mobile version of the product using HTML5 and CSS3.

Petržalka, Bratislava, Sk

- Worked with clients of our enterprise security software to develop and implement roll-out plans.- Responsible for liaising with clients and the development team to ensure the product roadmap addressed client needs.- Managed the re-seller network for the distribution of our security product. This included training, co-branding, and co-ordinating sales and technical staff.- Involved in all product planning decisions including the segmentation of our security product into solution focused categories.- Oversaw the development of all marketing and training materials including the company website, white papers, case studies, and technical guides.

La Jolla, California, Us

- Developed FPGA support for electronic CAD (printed circuit board design) tools.

- Managed a team of 7 engineers in developing detailed power modelling software for FPGAs.- Co-ordinated cross functional teams in Toronto, San Jose & Malaysia to ensure that hardware, software, and testing components worked together seamlessly.- Responsible for the scheduling, milestones, and status tracking of long term (6-10 months) projects.- Ran weekly status meetings to keep projects on track and communicated the status to senior management.- Successfully delivered production software on schedule.- Exceeded model accuracy goals by 33% in the first release.- Initiated site wide code architecture reviews to promote knowledge sharing and encourage high quality code.- Delivered 20% reduction of overall power usage of FPGAs 6 months ahead of schedule.- Involved in the recruitment, mentoring, and career development of team members.