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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Providing technical leadership across two cross-functional agile development teams: Lidar vegetation management and remote asset inspection.
• Architecting the new capabilities including cloud-based user facing application, and integration into the existing on premises corporate SAP system.
• Project managing the delivery of IT SAP integrations.
• Leading a development team with focus on increasing speed, agility and quality within tight project deadlines.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Invited back to manage, develop and deliver a complex systems integration project.
• Managed the relationship between an external vendor, corporate IT and the Vegetation Management business unit.
• Successfully delivered on time and without incident despite team restructure.
• As the most experienced member of the team I provided engineering guidance, advice and mentoring. Advising on architecture, testing processes and agile delivery.

Melbourne, Australia

* Brought in as a subject matter specialist to enhance business use of Clojure by running weekly dojos, pairing widely across teams, providing expert consultation to management and team members, mentoring peers and new staff. New staff became very productive members of a productive team. * Helped guide the delivery of a major integration project with very.

Melbourne, Australia

* Came on as first employee and was promoted to Principal when additional staff were engaged.* Proved my ability to deliver quality work for clients. This led to clients taking on larger engagements with the consultancy as long as I was involved.* Leveraged my networks to network, negotiate and secure the consultancy’s two largest paying clients. Allowed.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Commercial software consultant.* Instrumental in pivoting the direction of a large, failing integration project at Australia Post. Resulted in the successful delivery of essential functionality and the saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars.* Managed a difficult relationship with a public utility client. Deescalated the situation, proved my ability to.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Software Engineer in the Forecast Systems team, building software used to create the Australian daily weather forecasts.* Collaborated with scientists to develop and enhance fire weather forecasting capabilities. This allowed fire forecasts to be produced more efficiently in crisis situations increasing lead time. * Conducted usability testing. This led to.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Application Developer with the Aviation Forecast Systems team, building software to produce automated forecasts for the Australian aviation industry.Delivered an advanced thunderstorm tracking algorithm. This gave airport controllers greater insight into the probability and timing of storms. This resulted in shorter delays at airports Australia wide.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

* Automated the production of sales reports. This allowed reports to be generated in 15 mins instead of a whole day of manual work. * Developed an online purchase order system. This allowed purchases to become digitally recorded and audited.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Lecturer in the Faculty of IT* Instigated a new course major in game development by initiating and writing the curriculum for “Games Implementation and Techniques”.* Willingly undertook to rewrite and deliver an entirely new curriculum for “Programming for 3D Computer Graphics in C++”.* Organised a number of student tutors to conduct a trial of new.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Tutor in the Faculty of IT* Contributed to a faculty-wide review and rewrite of core bachelor-level subjects, “Faculty Core Java Programming 1 and 2”. These subjects were successfully rolled out across the faculty increasing standardisation and cohesion across the faculty.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Research Assistant in the Faculty of Art & DesignDelivered a fully functional real-time 3D video game, under tight time constraints and hard deadlines. Realised the artists vision with collaborating artist, Dr Troy Innocent. This resulted in a successful public exhibit of the work.The work may be read about here:“Artefact: Semiomorph”.

Master Of Information Technology, Information Technology, First Class Honours Thesis

Thesis title: "A Generalised Object-Oriented Model for Cellular Automata Applications in Spatial Complex Systems"

Bachelor Of Multimedia, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Golden Key Honours Society