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Platform and delivery director for News Life Media’s digital portfolio (Vogue, GQ, Taste.com.au, Kidspot.com.au, BestRecipes.com.au) that attract more than 3.7 million unique audiences and over 48 million page views (Neilson) per month. * Flawless platform, security and support architecture powering circa 50 million page views per month empowering a continuous delivery process using world-class vendors such as Akamai, AWS, IBM.* Redeemed Kidspot.com.au from a download slope in traffic to a steady increase, securing it’s position as the number 1 brand in it’s category (Neilson Online Ratings).* Cultivating a development team to a high-performing unit with strong business-aware communication with other departments.During my stay, my teams have integrate a true devops, CI/CD model with an integrated Agile Scrum or Kanban management process connecting developers to product teams and other departments. NLM is capable of rapid releases many times a day on a single product alone, allowing full business agility and quick response to client needs.* Delivery of digital projects* Budgeting & project forecasting* Personnel & vendor management* Platform architecture* Corporate infrastructure infosec and security integration at the engineering level* Balancing business value and engineering standardsTechnologies employed are PHP 7, Python, Redis, Ansible, AWS, JIRA, Bamboo etc with vendors including Akamai, Ooyala, AWS, IBM, Pure Hacking, Outbrain, Google, ExactTarget, Automattic to name a few.

Joined Elan Media Partners to spearhead a leap forward in Australia’s Video on Demand industry, becoming the first Australian digital UltraViolet retailer and redemption portal in a single platform. A mammoth undertaking by a relatively small company, my technology team worked closely with every major Hollywood studio to create a Netflix grade video pipeline ahead of every competitor in today’s video market.* End-to-end architecture and construction of a world-class video pipeline from studio asset delivery, transcoding, encryption/DRM and streaming client delivery.* Used as a pilot retailer by Disney Studios and the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) to introduce new products to Australia.* Cultivated multiple development teams across Sydney, Melbourne and Shenzhen including the management of international business trips for vendor relations and staff training.* Developed products for a plethora of platforms, including Smart TVs, USB dongles, iPhone/Android, Windows and Mac.Studios directly involved with day-to-day business in this role include Universal Pictures, Paramount Studios, Sony Home Pictures, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Village Roadshow and ABC* Integration of human resources into a computer-controlled workflow* Fully scalable & redundant* Transcoding and DRM Packaging* Adaptive bit-rate and cross platform video outputs* Parallel packaging for many different streaming formats* Rights management* Point-to-point Internet delivery system capable of transporting 250gb mezzanine files around the world without an hourIn addition to the core digital video product, my technology team also built and maintained e-commerce web stores for many major Australian video brands including Video Ezy and Blockbuster, as well as its own physical medium brands WowHD, EzyDVD.Technologies employed are PHP 5, Redis, Ansible, AWS, Objective C, Java with vendors including AWS, Adobe, Aspera, Elemental and Akamai, etc.

A smaller company, BusinessFax made its profit capitalising in a market most assumed dead. Millions of faxes need to be sent daily for product recalls, legal dealing and even marketing. My role was created to bring a manual process into the automated world, reducing the personnel requirements of BusinessFax to a very minimal.A more hands-on role with only a very small supporting development team, this employment saw the construction of a new analytics and processing system including:* Spidering of business data, image processing and fax broadcasting* Capable of crawling millions of pages in hours* Avoid DDoS and spider detection systems* Integrated with government API’s to correlate business logistics* Automated Fax image processor* Rasterisation of client source documents (.doc, .pdf, etc) to bitmaps* Automated noise reduction for faxing* Automated fax broadcasting* Automatic voice detection and blacklisting of non-fax numbers* Real-time job success reportingBusinessFax’s primary tool-set included PHP5, C++ and C#.

Owners of the seo.com.au, Search iQ is a leading authority on search engine optimisation in Australia. My role at Search iQ involved creating systems acquire metrics used to aid SEO reports and optimisation techniques. There was a heavy amount of R&D for what was at the time a very experimental industry.Search iQ also doubled as a digital agency for clients, offering to refurbish or construct entirely new websites for SEO clients.* Development lead* R&D for SEO concepts used by marketing* Server & website management* Client web developmentSearch iQ employed tools such as C++ and C# for tool creation and used LAMP platforms for client websites.