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Sydney, Australia

- Responsible for the application architectural direction, development practises and procedures, QA and delivery & release management functions.- Implement continual workflow optimisation. Regular client interaction at both management and end user level.- End to end project lifecycle management through Agile SCRUM.- Introduced Agile practices to the development team to improve project efficiency and achieve successful and timely deliveries.- Implemented Extreme Programming practices of pair programming with remote and local workforce to improve quality of output and improved on boarding of new resources.- Use of TFS (SCRUM template) for source control, workflow and bug tracking.- Integrated a 3D Visualisation engine into the Drill Management Suite, Enspec’s core C#.Net product. This pioneering technology delivered the ability to see many concurrent drilling operations and multiple disparate data sources (ranging from 3rd party sourced CAD documents to application data from a SQL database) in one 3D view.- Use of Microsoft SQL Server database replication to transfer data from an occasionally connected site to central data hub.- Implemented significant optimisation of low performing areas in the database by reviewing and a reimplementing the existing indexing strategies.- Designed and developed a head up display (HUD) tool for drillers, reducing the need for multiple expensive resources to be assigned to each drilling location. Data is transferred and reviewed from a central location and instructions are relayed as required. This led to significant cost saving per operation and ability to increase capabilities without expanding the existing team.

Sydney, Australia

- Responsible for the development, release management, infrastructure and application architecture of loyalty program retail stores- Responsible for the code management, branching strategy and code release processes into multiple test environments; employing best practices of branching strategies to allow for multiple concurrent projects to be developed on a single codebase.- Delivered 11 new business major projects across 8 clients totalling $8 million implementation budget during tenure, whilst simultaneously maintaining existing client products.- Managed the restructure and growth of small development team over 18 months, incorporating a satellite office in Singapore.- Appointed 5 direct reports, facilitated cohesive teamwork through individual and team mentoring and coaching, resulting in 100% on-time, on-budget delivery success rate during tenure.- Co-developed the prototype of the core product innovation roadmap and directed the migration of the core product from ASP.net to MVC.- Support Sales team with business development efforts by presenting AIMIA’s technical capabilities.- Continued successful releases of core application including migration of a legacy client (CBA) onto the core framework and introduction of a new major client (e.g. TAB, Standard Chartered Bank).- Optimisation of transactional database to manage a client’s data throughput (exceeding 1 million new transactions a day). This process involved reviewing the loading of indexes from disk, isolating the cause of the issue, leading to reducing the core table’s index to enable it to be held in memory.- Provide mentoring and coaching to grow skills of staff on technical standards and guidelines for application support and development.- Provide support to business units with regards to the working and implementation of key features within core product.- Employee of the Year 2009, for self leadership.

Sydney, Australia

- Technical Lead within a small dynamic team- Engage in regular client liaison and site visits to establish system requirements- Developed drilling operations management application in C#.Net and full object model to support application- Developed solution to represent operations, monitor progress and view local geology in 3D environment, implemented with DirectX and fixed 2D mode in C#.NetImplemented SQL server replication to transfer data from an occasionally connected site to central data hub- Use of TFS for source control and work/bug tracking- Developed dynamic template-based, client customisable Excel reporting engine from application- Developed advanced mathematical functions and rules that determine most efficient drilling path to achieve a target, taking into consideration local geology. Targets are ~20-30cm diameter and drill paths are up to 2km in length

Bracknell, United Kingdom

- Lead Developer, within a 10 strong team, of flagship Internet software product for the analysis and reporting of media spend data and advertising creative- Application of creative solutions to achieve effective management of exceptionally large database and optimising reporting delivery speeds to end user- Global roll-out with country specified variations, including multi-lingual interface and localised data- Introduction of VB.Net and ASP.Net coding practices- Development and implementation of a C# interface to feed data into the Ad Dynamix application in real-time- Full migration of existing systems to .Net environment- Implementation of a cluster using .Net Remoting for data requests- Consultancy at Senior Management level on all future developments of Ad Dynamix, Creative Dynamix (on Global and Local level)