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Capstory is an early stage, funded startup based in Columbus, Ohio that aims to bring privacy back to sharing with a private group photo/video sharing web app.The Capstory product is a highly scalable web application that utilises on-demand services to process user created content submitted via (including by not limited to) MMS, emails, Facebook, Dropbox.

• As a "full stack" Rails developer I enjoy working with clients on new and existing web applications. The technologies I work with on a daily basis are:
• Ruby
• Ruby on Rails 3+
• Javascript (including jQuery & CoffeeScript) and CSS
• HAML, SASS & Markdown
• Databases like Postgres & MySQL

• As the most senior Analyst at CMT (a company of 30+ software professionals) provided an opportunity to work on projects that spanned CMT's entire client base.Acting as a key liaison between key stakeholders including.
• Performing structured requirements analysis to produce business cases, functional specifications and other business technical material;
• Conducting systems analysis and document systems requirements for interfaces between systems, including definition of source and destination data requirements, data mappings, timings and associated business rules;
• Facilitating design workshops and interviews with business and project representatives to determine how to implement functional requirements, documenting as logical designs;
• Providing expert advice, tools and methods to the project staff relating business process designs,business rules, policy and procedural changes that may be required to support any new or modified business processes;
• Definition of key test scenarios required to demonstrate that the developed system satisfies documented requirements, defined functionality and system interfaces;

As a Software Engineer for The University of Melbourne I was engaged across a broad range of projects in support of academic research studies. These projects involved significant liaison between clients and technical staff, a large amount of responsibility, a heavy reliance on analytical skills and the ability to manage numerous and competing priorities.My.

• As a Software Engineer at Colorbus Australia I was part of a team designing, developing and testing software for the printing industry. During my time at Colorbus I was involved in every stage of the Software.
• Design and maintenance of the Colorbus software with Java, C/C++ and Perl
• Implementation of modules from detailed specification documents
• Participation in design and product direction meetings
• Module integration and testing
• Responsible for suitability analysis of new technologies

As a Technical Analyst in the Information Division of University of Melbourne I played an active role inall IT operations including system development, deployment, procurement, IT governance, websitedevelopment, user training and support within the University of Melbourne.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science

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