Website development, social media assistance and technology coaching.

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.

* 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

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 included: * Behaviour Driven Development and Test Driven Development * Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration * Cross-functional teams, Retrospectives, Showcases, Daily Standups and other Agile practices.Projects have included: * Developing a system for transferring hotel images from a third-party repository into a popular hotel booking system. Java, Dropwizard, Micro-service architecture, RESTful APIs, Maven, JSON. * iBobbly, an Android app to help reduce suicide rates among indigenous youth:Android, Java, Robolectric, Jenkins, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, MongoDB, Heroku * A National Heart Foundation web application that uses social networking and gamification to encourage participation in a healthy lifestyle program: Ruby on Rails, RSpec, MongoDB, Heroku * A web page where customers of a major Telecoms company can track the progress of their orders, with integration to AusPost's tracking API: Ruby, Sinatra, Cucumber, RSpec, Micro-service architecture, JSON, SOAP * A life insurance quoting and application system with integration to mainframe and mid-range backend systems: Java, Spring, JavaScript, Jasmine, JUnit, Hibernate, SOAP, Service oriented architecture. * Online service portal for NBN Co: Java, Spring, Ruby, RSpec, SOAP, Service oriented architecture.

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.• Communicating with developers on features as they are implemented.• Demonstrating new product features to customers and staff.• Managing the R&D Division's SharePoint Portal.

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.• Creating automated test suites using JUnit and HTTPUnit.

• 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.• Managing an IT Support area (as a contractor to the Queanbeyan City Council).• GIS development.• Database design (SQL Server and Access) and data transformation.• Object oriented development (Java).• Writing tenders & proposals. • Managing contracts and subcontractors.

• 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• Technical writing

• 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