Mark Brisbane Email & Phone Number

Perth, Wa, Au

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Continuing to contribute code across Rails / Laravel codebases, managing feature migrations, upgrading interfaces, improving backend performance, and modernizing system designs.Leading a project team of mobile, mobile & QA developers, performing code reviews, supporting technical decisions, and enabling collaboration.Collaborating with external product owners to develop release roadmaps, shape technical requirements, coordinate estimates, and facilitate daily standups.Conducting research for clients exploring new opportunities, including new architectures enabling an international product launch, and several product overhauls.Providing fit-for-purpose Solution Design guidance, outlining API design, data modeling, implementation patterns, library evaluations, roll-out sequencing, and QA strategies.

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Contributed to full stack web applications & backend APIs in Rails 5.x through 7.x for major clients serving over 40 million users in high-impact, large-scale projects.Contributed to daily feature releases, rolling out new CRUD resources/interfaces, third-party integrations, modernizing legacy systems, and collaborating on front-end changes, working effectively in fast-paced, collaborative environments with a focus on rapid adaptation.Lead on implementation of several major features with a focus on BDD (rspec) & problem-solving common pitfalls via conventional design patterns that emphasize clean, SOLID, expressive code.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Responsible for chairing monthly meetings of the commission which oversaw the incredible work of the UCWA Social Justice Unit. Contributing to community organizing strategy across several campaigns for First Peoples, refugees, LGBTQIA+ people, and climate justice.Acted as representative for the national church on the Human Rights Act campaign steering group, as well as Synod spokesperson on Social Justice issues when called upon.Elected to the Synod Standing Committee in 2021, serving two consecutive terms. Chaired subcommittees responsible for developing the Synod's Net Zero Strategy for 2030, and the Synod's first Reconciliation Action Plan (internally: "UCWA Covenanting Action Plan 2023-2026").

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Working with civic organisations and research labs, contributing full-stack web development to Ruby on Rails applications spanning Rails 4.X - 7.X, and contracting on system design efforts unifying legacy data sources with new platform integrations.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Acted as key point of contact for activism & regular giving data science, specialising in sophisticated solutions leveraging R. Supporting the upskilling of the broader data team in R, Tidyverse & data science foundations.Internalized donor attrition reporting services, reducing "insights lag" from 5 months to near real-time, and collaborated with Fundraising to achieve a 25% reduction in attrition within 6 months.Developed in-house data infrastructure solutions, including API wrappers, an internal API framework, and a containerized Linux server environment, enhancing data accessibility, efficiency, and collaboration across the organization.Led a pilot program introducing a new "activist journey" framework based on analysis of rich longitudinal data & extensive review of Social Movement scholarship.Co-designed and conducted technical interviews for Amnesty Australia's first Data Engineering position, strengthening the team's ability to tackle complex data challenges and drive data-driven decision-making.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Facilitated collaboration across the organisation on key regular donor metrics, responsible for over $19 million in annual revenue.Coordinated national communication efforts, including the 2017-1018 EOFY receipt campaign, featuring individually personalised DM, EDM, SMS and Web messaging celebrating the unique legacy of each supporter’s giving.Lead proactive interdisciplinary campaigns teams addressing exigent (eg. financial institutions terminating card types) and emerging trends (eg. growing omni-channel requirements on cancellation requests).