Lance Gilmore Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

New Zealand

Led a small team of developers that managed the main customer website and ecommerce store.Worked on projects automating internal processes. Acted as scrum master. Developed reporting for the executive team. Interviewed candidates for new roles (including developers, team leads and testers). Worked with the executive team developing company values and mission. Managed a section of the company's objectives and key results (OKR).

Northland, New Zealand

Worked with the existing Shopify e-commerce sites making many improvements: Upgrading product collection and cart mechanisms to improve customer experience and maximise conversion rates and average cart value. Added custom built chat bot, size quizes and returns/exchange system to improve customer experience and reduce customer support workload. Improved site speed and SEO + built systems to help improve SEO across different site pages/regions. Built a number of internal systems that included… Show more Worked with the existing Shopify e-commerce sites making many improvements: Upgrading product collection and cart mechanisms to improve customer experience and maximise conversion rates and average cart value. Added custom built chat bot, size quizes and returns/exchange system to improve customer experience and reduce customer support workload. Improved site speed and SEO + built systems to help improve SEO across different site pages/regions. Built a number of internal systems that included scanning and courier label printing for order items that reduced shipping errors to near zero. Built systems to optimise processing of returns, manage seconds stock, an inventory location system and stock taking / stock management systems. Built a reporting dashboard. Automated various tasks in product management, stock management, customer service and accounting. Built custom promotion mechanics into the website. Built and AI driven product recommender. Show less

Hamilton, Nz

Management of all IT systems including improving existing website and creating a new improved UI/UX. Managed 4 regional Shopify sites updating templates and using an analytics based approach to implement changes to increase conversion rates. Continually audited IT security from a system and policy level and trained staff on best practices. Analyzed business processes and made suggestions on systems to use to increase productivity. Technologies used: Shopify, HTML, JS, CSS, PHP, AWS.

Hamilton, New Zealand

Took over management and development of all IT systems in the company. Migrated system from Magento to Shopify with Netsuite (ERP) and Peoplevox as our inventory management system. Integrated with each systems api to make data flow between the systems. Managed the roll out of new systems and helped train staff. Analyzed business process and created systems to automate and streamline work. Reduced IT spending by to a fraction by removing systems that were not adding value to the company… Show more Took over management and development of all IT systems in the company. Migrated system from Magento to Shopify with Netsuite (ERP) and Peoplevox as our inventory management system. Integrated with each systems api to make data flow between the systems. Managed the roll out of new systems and helped train staff. Analyzed business process and created systems to automate and streamline work. Reduced IT spending by to a fraction by removing systems that were not adding value to the company. Upgraded and modernized internal systems using PHP, Angularjs6 and Bootstrap css. Did support for users, maintained internal network and managed 3rd party integrations. Show less

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Working with the existing legacy system, upgrading the system to make it more maintainable and less buggy while keeping the system running and adding new features. I also added a large number of various types of automated tests to the system to prevent/find bugs and improve stability.The system is part PHP, part pearl with a postgresql db and a web front end. I worked mainly on the PHP side upgrading and standardizing the code and adding components of the Symfony framework. I put a lot of… Show more Working with the existing legacy system, upgrading the system to make it more maintainable and less buggy while keeping the system running and adding new features. I also added a large number of various types of automated tests to the system to prevent/find bugs and improve stability.The system is part PHP, part pearl with a postgresql db and a web front end. I worked mainly on the PHP side upgrading and standardizing the code and adding components of the Symfony framework. I put a lot of work into separating logic into a more MCV style of architecture using a more CRUD style Restful interface between the front end and server. I also worked on a few micro-services written in golang which served to speed up core components and break up the monolith.I spent quite a bit of time in this position helping juniors and new employees with tasks and upskilling. Show less

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Develop from scratch a new back-end system for their point of sale, website and business management systems. The system was written in PHP with an MVC framework on top of Mysql and Postgres databases. We used a service driven architecture to split up the massive system into smaller services that communicated across a Rabitmq message bus to the API layer that was accessed by Angular js front ends.This system manages the whole customer ordering and delivery process, eftpos integration… Show more Develop from scratch a new back-end system for their point of sale, website and business management systems. The system was written in PHP with an MVC framework on top of Mysql and Postgres databases. We used a service driven architecture to split up the massive system into smaller services that communicated across a Rabitmq message bus to the API layer that was accessed by Angular js front ends.This system manages the whole customer ordering and delivery process, eftpos integration, online cc payments, receipt/make-bench printer integration, caller id integration, cash-up/cash-flow management, staff management/rostering/timekeeping, stock-taking, reporting and many other functions. Show less

Brisbane, Australia

Maintain existing credit card processing system written in Symfony1 and Doctrine1.Developing demonstration websites for product demonstrations with high profile clients.(PHP)Developing a new mobile payment product using Scala(Programming Language) and CouchDB for the server side. I also worked on the development for Android devices in Java.Developing a new mobile social application I worked on the server side using Scala and CouchDB. I also worked on the Android mobile side using… Show more Maintain existing credit card processing system written in Symfony1 and Doctrine1.Developing demonstration websites for product demonstrations with high profile clients.(PHP)Developing a new mobile payment product using Scala(Programming Language) and CouchDB for the server side. I also worked on the development for Android devices in Java.Developing a new mobile social application I worked on the server side using Scala and CouchDB. I also worked on the Android mobile side using Java and PhoneGap. The android app was designed to work online with the ability to work offline and sync when it was reconnected. Show less

Brisbane Area, Australia

Maintain and improve existing payment system back end.The PCI compliant payment system for the online poker network that handled a large number of deposits and withdrawals across multiple credit card processors and online wallets.While working on this system I upgraded the code from a mix of perl and procedural PHP to full OO php 5.3 system using Doctrine 2 and Symfony 2 with minimal disruptions and no downtime for the users. I also integrated with new payment processors and maintained… Show more Maintain and improve existing payment system back end.The PCI compliant payment system for the online poker network that handled a large number of deposits and withdrawals across multiple credit card processors and online wallets.While working on this system I upgraded the code from a mix of perl and procedural PHP to full OO php 5.3 system using Doctrine 2 and Symfony 2 with minimal disruptions and no downtime for the users. I also integrated with new payment processors and maintained existing ones.While working on this project I have been on call 24/7 in case of critical system failures, which I have all but eliminated with the improvements to the system.Technologies used in this system: PHP 5.3, MySQL, Doctrine 2, Symfony 2, SOAP, JSON RPC Show less

Hamilton

Project Risk Management Software (Flex/ Action Script 3/ Flex Charting)Research and development project cost tracking software (PHP/ Zend Framework/ MySQL/ Google Charts/ CSS 2/ HTML/ Javascript/ AJAX/ Dynamic PDF generation,)Content Management System (PHP/ Zend Framework/ MySQL/ CSS 2/ HTML/ Javascript/ AJAX/ Java/ Flex/ Actionscript 3)Internal time tracking and billing software (PHP/ MySQL/ Pear/ Smarty/ Google Charts/ CSS 2/ HTML/ Javascript/ AJAX)Real Estate Website - Lodge… Show more Project Risk Management Software (Flex/ Action Script 3/ Flex Charting)Research and development project cost tracking software (PHP/ Zend Framework/ MySQL/ Google Charts/ CSS 2/ HTML/ Javascript/ AJAX/ Dynamic PDF generation,)Content Management System (PHP/ Zend Framework/ MySQL/ CSS 2/ HTML/ Javascript/ AJAX/ Java/ Flex/ Actionscript 3)Internal time tracking and billing software (PHP/ MySQL/ Pear/ Smarty/ Google Charts/ CSS 2/ HTML/ Javascript/ AJAX)Real Estate Website - Lodge (PHP/ MySQL/ HTML/ CSS 2/ Javascript/ AJAX/ Google Charts/ Google Maps/ Dynamic PDF Generation)Real Estate Website - Lugtons (PHP/ MySQL/ HTML/ CSS 2/ Google Maps)Dairy company promotional website (PHP/ Zend Framework/ MySQL/ HTML/ Javascript)Online building project tendering / document repository (PHP/ Zend Framework/ MySQL/ HTML/ CSS 2/ Javascript/ AJAX)Local Council charity website (PHP/ Zend Framework/ MySQL/ HTML/ Javascript)Nutritional information website (PHP/ Zend Framework/ MySQL/ HTML/ Javascript)Camera store website (PHP/ Zend Framework/ MySQL/ HTML) Show less

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

Bachelor of Information Technology specialising in software development

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

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