Jonathan Captanis Email & Phone Number

Who I am?I was told by my first mentor that the best programmers are not made, they are born. From an early age I was pulling apart my toys, wanting to understand how they worked. When I got my first computer, everything I saw, I wanted to know how it was pieced together. Check out the "About me" image, it catalogs my journey.My philosophy?I continually strive to expand my toolbox and stay abreast of the trends in the industry. Learning is key to my work-life happiness, and i pride myself on being self motivated while maintaining alignment with business goals. My mentor was a stickler for abstraction, genersism, readability and maintainability, and i have absorbed these traits and worked most of my life in secure environments so i am acutely aware of code security. I dont like to pigeonhole myself to a signal language or technology, rather i pick and choose based on external factors. Being flexible when it comes to solving complex problems with inter-dependencies is a must. Given an 4GL API, past experience tells me it takes 2 weeks to be performing an an intermediate level of coding.That said, i am not your typical nerd. I have the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organisation as well as the end client. From leading discussions, presentations, meetings, liaising with users to story boarding sessions and hack-a-thons, i can switch swap between my guises in order to communicate my ideas effectively.My Trends?Recently i have embraced all facets of the agile development methodology, focusing on Scrum, TDD and have also been won over by UX / User Centred Design philosophy, they are, after all, the reason we are here.

Listed skills include C#, Agile Methodologies, Microsoft Sql Server, Sql, and 10 others.

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  University Of New South Wales

  Computer Science