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Rotorua, Bay Of Plenty, Nz

Rotorua, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

• Making decisions on product design and implementation, facilitating and leading meetings with the business.• Leading business analysis, configuration, and testing for: Enterprise Cash Receipting, all compliance applications and requests within Policy, Cemetery and Sports/Recreation business areas.• Designing business process automations for the business areas and working with consultants for the configuration.• Contributing to stronger collaboration between project teams: Data Migration, Change management and Training.Project: ERP System implementation across almost all of council’s areas, with the following products: Compliance Application driven by Business Process Automation (BPA), Request, Policy, Infringement and Cash Receipting. This is the first Technology One Ci Anywhere implementation in NZ, which required many modifications to meet the NZ legislative requirements.

Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Zeald is one of NZ’s largest digital marketing and web development agencies. Their proprietor platform allows for the development of heavily customized sites, marketplaces, learning management systems, and endless API integrations.• Gathered requirements via interviews, observations, interface analysis, and the use of mock-ups.• Designed solutions in collaboration with developers and designers for many features and integrations.• Revamped collaboration in teams by implementing agile methodologies and running stand-ups with Kanban boards.• Managed project Kanban boards with two to four developers, one designer and one content creator.• Pared down feature lists typically by 25% to enable more rapid development of the minimum viable product.• Achieves the highest customer satisfaction rating (5 out of 5) by developing a very good understanding of the real needs through observations, interviews and analysis of their marketing performance.• Developed marketing strategy and collaborated with the marketing team for the implementation.Projects:• NZ Lawyers education – Revamped website and learning platform with new features. Managed to secure additional funds through understanding the real pain points, clearing old outstanding issues, and holding weekly sprint meetings with client.• BPIR – Improved UX with human centred design and improved search and filtering of the business research studies. Created a new database diagram for 10 data types with tagging and categorisation, which also allowed internal linking.• Inspiry – Managed to get the project back on track by reducing the scope and setting clear goals with the client. Gained confidence from client with additional funds and successfully launched the marketplace for interior designers and suppliers. • Some other projects I owned with extensive development work: Battery Warehouse, Santa Fe, Concept 2 and ID Solutions.

Rotorua

• Development of marketing materials for market introduction of products.• Build model to predict inventory needs to guarantee supply.• Assist in the development of product vision and brand strategy with various studies.• Support with product presentation and sampling on events.

Rotorua

• Sold web development and marketing services to local businesses, and established long-term relationships.• Created marketing strategies and ran campaigns on Facebook and Google. Reached high conversion rates by doing deep marketing research, and optimising UX with sales funnels. Achieved conversion rates in top 10% - rated by Google.• Developed websites with custom build functionality in OO PHP and managed VPS hosting on CentOS Linux.

Tauranga

Antwerp Area, Belgium

Equans provides security for federal police, national defence, federal government, airports and high voltage grid operators. Their proprietary security system integrates video surveillance, facial recognition, access control, and fire detection.Projects:• Led a team of four engineers and up to eight contractors to install a new fire detection system with 1500 detectors in the buildings of Federal Government Department of Justice. Collaborated with software engineers and drafters, ordered all equipment, managed long term and day to day planning. • Created security system plans for six service stations and 360kV substations for the national high voltage grid operator Elia, and managed the implementation on multiple sites simultaneously from design to project delivery.• Designed new processes for retrofit installation of a new public transport ticketing system, managed the roll out spread over more than 50 locations with two teams of two engineers, and successfully delivered the project within the timeframe.

Lommel Proving Grounds

• Achieved a 20% increase in vehicle dynamics performance for model V363 by developing new bushes through data-driven research in collaboration with suppliers.

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Master's Thesis & Project: Implementation of an Active Electronic Differential Applied in a Formula Student Race Car

Master, Electronics-Ict, Major In Automotive Engineering, Magna Cum Laude

Key Courses: Data Communication, Network protocols, Computer Networking, Telecommunication, Electronics, Power Electronics and Alternative.

Internship Abroad (7 Months)

Master’s Thesis: Implementation of an Active Electronic Differential Applied in a Formula Student Race car. - Designed and programmed.

Bachelor, Automotive Technology, Major In Electronics

Activities and Societies: Erasmus study: CAE course at ESTACA in France, Socrates intensive programme: ''Alternative fuels and drive lines.

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Study Abroad (6 Months)

Bachelor’s Thesis: Analysis of a Vehicle Model in Matlab/Simulink Key Courses: Project Management, System Engineering, RAMS, Marketing.