Mary-Anne Cosgrove Email & Phone Number

Canberra

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Website development, social media assistance and technology coaching.

Canberra

On April 20, 2021 I was elected to the Board of Humanists Australia, and appointed by the Directors as Chair.

I volunteered to act as Chair for Humanists Australia while it was in its setup phase, through its public launch, and until its first election.

Canberra, Australia

* Maintaining and improving Envato's Market sites, one of the world's largest Ruby on Rails applications* Mentoring other Ruby developers* Providing advice and estimates on upcoming development work* Participating in the on-call roster for infrastructure support for the Market sites

Canberra, Australia

Sydney, Australia

As a Senior Developer Consultant for ThoughtWorks I have worked within client teams, promoting best practices in agile software development and solving difficult technical challenges while building quality software that delights our clients. Some of the practices I have used and promoted to our clients and the software development community in Sydney have.

IT Consultant assisting clients in the use and installation of IBM products such as Rational Build Forge, Rational RequisitePro and Rational DOORS

IT Consultant assisting clients in the use and installation of IBM products such as Rational Build Forge, Rational RequisitePro and Rational DOORS

• My activities in this role have included:
• Designing and implementing automated systems for building, testing and deploying the RMS software, using Hudson and Selenium.
• Managing software deployments to various environments, including managing database upgrades and constructing and supplying test data.
• Developing a framework for testing the RMS user interface using Selenium. Writing automated test suites using Java and Selenium.
• Providing advice on process improvement to the team leader and project manager.
• Ensuring developers and testers have access to information about what changes are in each software release, and which application version and database state is in every environment.

• Discussing product requirements with customers, sales and pre-sales staff.
• Presenting descriptions of possible new product features for discussion with all stakeholders, including developers.
• Developing functional specifications based on those discussions.
• Designing screens and writing use cases.
• Writing vision and scope documents for new product releases.
• Contributing to prioritization of new features.

This was the same position as Program Manager at Haley. The company name changed and my role name changed.

• Leading a team of web developers, including mentoring junior developers.
• Discussing and documenting customer requirements for new projects.
• Assisting customers with user acceptance testing of new product releases.
• Demonstrating new product features to customers.
• Web development (Java, JSP, Ant).
• Refactoring object oriented architectures.

• Project management, including developing work breakdown structures, and using MS Project.
• Eliciting requirements from customers using prototypes and interviews.
• Writing functional requirements specifications.
• Demonstrating project progress to customers.
• Leading a team of GIS developers.
• Software release management.

• Leading a team of developers
• Object oriented architecture, analysis and design using Design Patterns and UML
• Object oriented development using Smalltalk
• Configuration management
• Managing changes to an application framework to meet the requirements of several product teams who relied on the framework
• Writing automated test suites using SUnit

• Developed software for rendering generic forms based on table meta-data, using Delphi and Clipper
• Assisted with the development of GIS software for water resource mapping
• Discussed software requirements with clients
• Wrote automated tests

Grad Dip, Computing Studies

Bsc, Biochemistry, Maths