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New Zealand

Northland, New Zealand

Northland, New Zealand

Planned and delivered approved projects to enable the Council to realise the benefits from its investment in IT. Achieved the project objectives while managing scope, quality, timeframes and cost for each project.

Australia And New Zealan

Developed strategic plans; elicited client requirements and determined site constraints for permaculture designs and projects; project managed implementations and events; developed, marketed, promoted, and ran workshops and events; developed marketing and promotional materials using Microsoft Office and the Adobe Creative suite; developed scale drawings.

Wollongong, Australia

• Educational Technology Manager, School of Medicine
• Led and managed the Educational Technology team to provide operational support, project support, technical assistance, and technology training services to faculty, staff and students of the School of Medicine..
• Member of a small team tasked with developing a learning analytics capability at the University of Wollongong. Responded to client requests quickly, thoroughly and professionally regarding data analysis using.

Wollongong, Australia

Performed business analysis and software development activities for Human Resources projects.

Christchurch, New Zealand

• Performed business analysis and software development activities for AMI Insurance projects.
• Established the Rational Unified Process as the standard software development methodology to overcome identified weaknesses in the analysis process.

Canterbury & West Coast, New Zealand

• Managed testware development and test activities for Census 2006 Evaluations project.
• Performed business analysis and software development activities for other Statistics NZ projects.
• Involved in incorporating the Scrum methodology into Stats NZ.

Brisbane, Australia

• Managed the Singl.eView R&D Test Team, consisting of 3 team leaders and 12 testers, across multiple projects. Key accomplishments:
• Set the strategic direction of product testing, incorporating modern tools and methodologies, such as automation (Rational Robot), a continuous improvement program, and risk-based testing. This will ultimately reduce.
• Planned, monitored, tracked, and reported on multiple concurrent projects in accordance with Project and Quality Plans. These projects consisted of various major, minor, and maintenance releases of the Singl.eView.
• Using own initiative and to ensure managed and repeatable successes, established the use of the IEEE/ANSI 829/1998 test documentation standard and currently guiding the testing processes toward CMM level 3.
• Established a separate maintenance test team to service an extensive and aggressive maintenance release schedule, allowing ADC to be responsive to its client base.
• Drove most test projects to completion on schedule with no loss of quality.

Brisbane, Australia

• Led the Customer Management client team, consisting of 8 developers, for Delphi client development of the Singl.eView Customer Management product across multiple releases. Key accomplishments:
• Participated in all aspects of client development of the Customer Management Delphi clients, including software requirements specification, design, construction, unit test, release, and maintenance.
• Initiated the use of the DUnit unit testing framework, which has provided the ability to quickly and automatically regression test Delphi code.
• Initiated and managed a major re-architecture of the client code, based on a true multi-layered object model, which has produce a more flexible, maintainable, and robust product.
• Championed the use of object-oriented analysis and design and the use of UML.
• Planned, monitored, tracked, and reported on projects.

Brisbane, Australia

• Acted as Project Leader and one of three lead developers for the re-development of the Lattice Human Resources Management Information System from a monolithic Progress 4GL system into a 3-tier client/server.
• Prototyped new Human Resources Benefits Administration software in Delphi for use by Sales and Marketing. Wrote specifications, designed, constructed, and tested parts of the Benefits Administration module for the.
• Designed and constructed Delphi client and Progress server modules for the Lattice product.
• Planned, monitored, tracked, and reported on projects.
• Provided input into direction and design for new product development and development methodology in senior planning meetings.
• Developed the team by establishing regular team meetings and informal training sessions on Delphi, client/server development, and object-oriented design.

Canterbury & West Coast, New Zealand

• Directed all aspects of daily operations in sole-proprietorship, including business development, bookkeeping, contract negotiation. Key accomplishments:
• Built a successful contracting/consulting operation from the ground up, providing technical and educational services to the client base.
• Analysed business requirements, developed and tested extensions to the MFG-PRO manufacturing package in Progress for G.L. Bowron Ltd. Performed performance analysis and developed Unix scripts. Project completed on time.
• Converted modules in the Symix Manufacturing package from version 2.6 (Progress version 6) to version 4 (Progress version 7) under contract to Eagle Technology for the Humes group of companies. Project completed on.
• Found and fixed faults in LINC code which were causing financial errors for the Computerland system under contract to Cardinal Network.
• Ran Introduction to Computing courses for adults in Community Education in Karamea.

Phoenix, Arizona

• Performed the business analysis, development, testing, technical writing, database administration, training, and client support when re-engineering the trademark and tradename registration system in Progress for the.
• Designed, developed, and tested the trademark and trade name registration and tracking system for the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona. Performed required data conversion. Project completed on schedule and.
• Produced user manuals and training materials, and trained the users in the new computerised trademark and tradename registration system.

Scottsdale, Arizona

• Performed business analysis, development (Progress and LINC), testing, project management, system administration, database administration, pre- and post-sales client support, and technical writing in this very small.
• Produced prototype software systems in Progress. Demonstrated systems and products to potential clients, resulting in sales.
• Designed, developed, and tested a complex railroad reservation system for Grand Canyon Railway in Progress that replaced an aging COBOL system.
• Enhanced and maintained a fund accounting and payroll system, a student registration system, and an academic advising system, and ported the software to new platforms.
• Enhanced and maintained an accounting system, written in LINC, under contract to Westinghouse.
• Led development standards incorporation effort, resulting in more maintainable software.

Christchurch, New Zealand

Conceived and initiated development of an automated test system that improved the quality of the LINC II 4GL and reduced the time required for certification. Managed the quality engineering of the portation of LINC II from Unisys A Series to Unix, leading to a reduced time in certification and an increased quality of the product. Maintained and extended.

Greater San Diego Area

Designed, developed, and tested three Ada code generators. Projects completed on schedule and under budget. Initiated and conducted a tools study for the TeleGen II product line. The tools study led to the development of a source code formatter and execution frequency analyser that became integral parts of the TeleGen II Ada Programming Support.

Greater San Diego Area

Maintained and developed two NCRL compilers and acted as Project Leader for a year. (NCRL/SVM/NVM)

Diploma, Permaculture

Graduate Diploma, Education

Certificate, Organic Growing

Master Of Education - Med, Secondary Education And Teaching

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Computer Science