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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Search and Listing Platform teams, I take responsibility for the product direction of the listings ingestion and search backend technologies. I seek to evolve these systems, which are critical to Domain Group’s listings business, in alignment with those of the organisation. I work closely with key stakeholders in the Product team to refine high-level objectives, and maintain close, day-to-day relationships with the software engineering teams. Product… Show more As a Senior Technical Product Manager in the Search and Listing Platform teams, I take responsibility for the product direction of the listings ingestion and search backend technologies. I seek to evolve these systems, which are critical to Domain Group’s listings business, in alignment with those of the organisation. I work closely with key stakeholders in the Product team to refine high-level objectives, and maintain close, day-to-day relationships with the software engineering teams. Product and Engineering functions act as equal partners and I aim to facilitate a process where a team of capable and empowered professionals turn customer-centric objectives into workable and sustainable technical goals.A key responsibility of my role is defining the product roadmap for both of these teams. This draws on the cultivation of ongoing relationships with key stakeholders, as well as frequent collaboration with engineering teams through Agile rituals and planning workshops. I also take responsibility for the communication of product roadmap updates to the organisation.As a former software engineer, I leverage an in-depth technical understanding to stay well informed of the progress and potential pitfalls of highly tech-centric initiatives. As a Product Manager, I stay informed of developments within the business and the wider world. Combining a knowledge of technical possibilities, as well as the “big picture”, I bring this contextual awareness to inform the work of both myself and my colleagues. Show less

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

At Domain, I'm working in the Search and Listings team, which develops and maintains features on both the front and back-end of the web site.I am specialising in the development of the search back-end; helping to index the masses of listing data into an AWS-hosted Elasticsearch cluster to provide fast search results, insightful aggregations and high level of horizontal scalability as the company, and data, grows.

Sydney, Australia

In my current role at Fiserv I am responsible for feature development and maintenance of the Westpac Live application, Westpac's online banking system with approximately 4 million retail and business customers. I was part of the team that developed version 1.1, Westpac Live's first release to customers, as well as version 1.2 the first release to business users. Now that the initial implementation is complete, I have been selected to stay on and perform ongoing upgrades and feature development.… Show more In my current role at Fiserv I am responsible for feature development and maintenance of the Westpac Live application, Westpac's online banking system with approximately 4 million retail and business customers. I was part of the team that developed version 1.1, Westpac Live's first release to customers, as well as version 1.2 the first release to business users. Now that the initial implementation is complete, I have been selected to stay on and perform ongoing upgrades and feature development. My reponsibilities include:Full-stack software development on a scalable, multi-tier application, working across all technology layers; applying advanced knowledge of the .NET Framework, C#, SQL, JavaScript, JQuery, KnockoutJS, WCF and ASP.NET MVC.Ensure that features are implemented to a level of quality sufficient for a high-availability web application.Develop ongoing relationships with key stakeholders; including business analysts, project managers, user-experience designers and quality assurance personnel.Gain a thorough knowledge of the payments functionality of the banking application, including the mechanics of foreign currency transactions.Perform the duties of a constructive team member on one of the largest software engineering projects in the country, collaborating in a continuous integration environment with up to 100 onshore and offshore developers. Show less

Sydney, Australia

OneSaas is an innovative startup software-as-a-service company. Based in St Leonards, it provides cloud integration services to thousands of global customers in the eCommerce space.My primary responsibility at OneSaas was to develop new product features. OneSaas is composed of over 50 separate connectors which perform the task of migrating data between third-party cloud applications and OneSaas. The most complex category of connectors is those of accounting applications, for which I… Show more OneSaas is an innovative startup software-as-a-service company. Based in St Leonards, it provides cloud integration services to thousands of global customers in the eCommerce space.My primary responsibility at OneSaas was to develop new product features. OneSaas is composed of over 50 separate connectors which perform the task of migrating data between third-party cloud applications and OneSaas. The most complex category of connectors is those of accounting applications, for which I implemented two connectors.I also developed a user interface with which resellers and vendors of OneSaas's services could manage their relationship with OneSaas, redeem commissions, access training documentation and customise the styling of OneSaas's front-end for their customers.The key technologies I used at OneSaas were C#, ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, HTML and SQL.I was able to gain valuable project management experience, performing the technical management of the company's corporate web site (http://www.onesaas.com). This involved taking the business, design and SEO requirements from the company's marketing and management representatives and translating them to technical goals and project milestones. These were communicated to an offshore development company for implementation. Throughout the life of the project, I worked with the marketing manager to track the progress of the project, ensure that technical targets were being met and that key stakeholders were informed of progress through to its completion. Show less

Sydney, Australia

In this role I was responsible for analysis and development of departmental web applications, as well as security analysis on existing applications. Key technologies were C#, ASP.NET MVC and JQuery, SQL and Entity Framework.I left this contracting role to join OneSaas.

Responsible for developing and maintaining features of the Symantec Management Platform (SMP). The SMP is a server-based application framework which provides a single integration-point for a number of applications in the endpoint management space.As a developer for a product which is deployed at hundreds of sites around the globally, was responsible for implementing software to a world-class standard of reliability.Used the following technologies: Microsoft .NET Framework, C#… Show more Responsible for developing and maintaining features of the Symantec Management Platform (SMP). The SMP is a server-based application framework which provides a single integration-point for a number of applications in the endpoint management space.As a developer for a product which is deployed at hundreds of sites around the globally, was responsible for implementing software to a world-class standard of reliability.Used the following technologies: Microsoft .NET Framework, C#, SQL, ASP.NET, JavaScript, AJAX, WCF, Silverlight.Documented features for developers of SMP-based solutions, in the form of software API documentation and high-level feature documentation.Mentored new team members; helping them get up to speed with development practices on a large complex product, and helping them become effective individual contributors through an induction into the internal workings of the business unit.Was involved in development for several new user interface features, including a re-implementation of the SMP’s reporting feature using Silverlight.Promoted from Senior Software Engineer to Principal Software Engineer in 2009.Gained leadership experience in the role of ScrumMaster; responsible for facilitating the workings of a team of developers over the course of 2-3 week sprint cycles. Show less

Design, development, documentation and support of the University administration’s web applications.Administration of the University administration’s IIS web servers.Worked to improve the quality and maintainability of in-house-developed applications, particularly in the areas of code-reuse and object-oriented library development.Developer on the initial release of Pheme, the University’s LDAP-based single sign-on application.In co-operation with the Archives and… Show more Design, development, documentation and support of the University administration’s web applications.Administration of the University administration’s IIS web servers.Worked to improve the quality and maintainability of in-house-developed applications, particularly in the areas of code-reuse and object-oriented library development.Developer on the initial release of Pheme, the University’s LDAP-based single sign-on application.In co-operation with the Archives and Records department, designed and developed UReKA, a custom web-based front-end to Tower Records Information Management (TRIM). Show less

Worked as part of a team of software developers to implement, deploy and maintain line-of-business applications.Implemented and maintained ASP.NET applications written in C#, using a SQL Server back-end.Implemented new features for a financial reporting application.Re-implemented a Visual Basic Helpdesk application as an ASP.NET web application.Designed and developed an internal search engine application, including a web spider, content indexer, and user… Show more Worked as part of a team of software developers to implement, deploy and maintain line-of-business applications.Implemented and maintained ASP.NET applications written in C#, using a SQL Server back-end.Implemented new features for a financial reporting application.Re-implemented a Visual Basic Helpdesk application as an ASP.NET web application.Designed and developed an internal search engine application, including a web spider, content indexer, and user interface. Show less

Graduate Certificate Of Business, Finance

Bachelor Of Arts (Hons), Political Science, Philosophy