Matt Sullivan Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, QLD, AU

As a Principal Consultant I collaborate with client management and sales colleagues to understand clients' challenges, devise and propose solutions to improve their business outcomes.I assist and am accountable for the successful delivery of 4-6 concurrent projects and teams. I've held key roles and guided many teams and projects to success across a range.

• Achievements:
• Led team to analyse and upgrade Arrow Energy's suite of energy market applications to support changes in the National Electricity Market (NEM.) Negotiated with CIO and IT management to justify roadmap and budget for.
• Led software team and heavily influenced broader program team to successfully replace QLD Department of Education internet filtering systems. This project was extremely challenging both technically and politically.

• Achievements:
• Successfully led a number of consulting engagements across a wide variety of modern technologies and corporate environments.
• Performed several architectural and development process reviews for clients.Technologies used: C#, ASP.NET (core & 4.x), Entity Framework, Dapper, Angular, Typescript, Azure, AWS, IOC, Autofac, SQL, DDD, CQRS, MediatR.

Brisbane, Australia

• At LawMaster I established an in-house software development team to replace a previous outsourcing arrangement. I work to nurture and improve the team's productivity and performance.Achievements:
• Successfully recruited and ramped up software team to transition development in-house with no loss of productivity
• Clarified business goals and introduced a process to ensure the development team always has a clear roadmap & direction.
• Improved management's visibility of development progress through better processes, tools and reports.
• Improved LawMaster's ability to quickly publish critical updates and/or beta releases by automating the build and release process.
• Significantly improved development productivity through coaching of agile methods & processesTechnologies used: C#, ASP.NET,.Net Core, Angular 6, SQL, Agile, Scrum

• Software Engineering Manager (January 2013 - October 2015)Staff Software Engineer (March 2011 - January 2013)Achievements:
• Successfully managed software development project relying on teams from Australia, USA and France.
• Assumed ownership of a faltering, cross-functional, industry partnership project. Clarified project goals, tracked outstanding tasks and kept the project on track.
• Introduced a process for all projects to publicize their goals and progress, improving visibility within the business.
• Formalized and improved the test, release & support escalation processes, reducing released defects and developer effort required for customer support.
• Guided the team & participated in the development of multiple successful software releases.

• At Zap I led a small team developing a tool to automatically build an OLAP cube from a relational database.Achievements:
• Led a team of developers through multiple successful software releases
• Introduced dependency injection and 'view model' pattern to software architecture, improving design and testability.
• Created automated end-to-end integration tests, improving quality and allowing manual testers to focus on exploratory testing.Technologies used: C#, Winforms, SQL, SSAS, SMO, AMO, Postsharp, MSTest

Wendells developed and launched a profiling-based relationships website. I was the sole technical staff member, responsible for the co-ordination of all development and external contractor liaison. I gathered and defined all technical requirements, project managed the external development team and infrastructure provider, while personally implementing the.

Brisbane, Australia

At Leica I was a team lead and member on various projects developing embedded monitoring & navigation products for the mining and construction industries.Responsible for: requirements gathering; software architecture & implementation; team leadership.Technologies used: C++, Win32, boost, STL, embedded systems, GPS, radio interfaces, Agile