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Our 40+ strong team of makers combine decades of experience developing mobile and web applications, cloud infrastructure, AI/ML systems, with deep venture design & fundraising expertise to offer clients an end-to-end digital business building capability. MakerX is available to lead and support ventures of any size, from self-funded startups to enterprise grade projects, anywhere in the world.As well as building exciting new ventures with clients around the world, MakerX incubates a number of ventures internally and has a portfolio of investments in some exciting Australian startups. MakerX offering clients and investors price certainty and guaranteed outcomes, and prides itself in a culture where our talented makers can unleash the full range of their creativity and skills to solve problems for brand new businesses.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Responsible for driving Professional Services strategy, partnering strategy, delivery models, reporting and project governance across Telstra Purple.Telstra Purple launched in 2019 as the largest Australian-owned team of technology services professionals – 1500 experts across four countries specialising in network, cloud, security, collaboration, mobility, software, data and analytics, and design.Built on a foundation of acquisitions (including Readify), we are a powerhouse of demonstrable experience and expertise. Technological developments have a purpose: serving people. That’s what Telstra Purple is all about.We believe it’s people who give purpose to technology, and it’s the power of purposeful technology that inspires people. We solve problems, we design, we listen, we learn, we share. Putting purpose and people at the core of everything we do brings a brilliantly connected future closer to your reach.

Docklands, Victoria, Au

Head of Readify Pty Ltd, a software application and data & analytics business part of Telstra - Business Technology Services Digital.

Docklands, Victoria, Au

CCO & Delivery Director on the Readify executive team, based in Melbourne from November onwards. Responsible for:Our contracts process, legal process, pricing and commercial models.Our delivery framework, including key steps for how we ensure all of our engagements are successful.Successful delivery and pricing models for our engagements.Ensuring our internal systems are continuously improving to improve both our processes and our customer experiences.Managing key external relationships around delivery.

Docklands, Victoria, Au

The Delivery Manager role at Readify covers a number of state management responsibilities, most importantly strengthening and growing the consulting and engineering practice for Readify in WA. The position encompasses sales support, people management, staff career progression, professional development plans, team skillsets, team selection for engagements, staff hiring and state leadership.

Docklands, Victoria, Au

Principal Consultants at Readify are the on the ground leaders of the consulting practice. This role ensures the successful delivery of major projects through providing oversight and support to consulting teams within a state, direct workshops and support for customer staff related to an engagement, as well as presentations and discussion with client senior management. Principal Consultants are also deeply involved in the sales process to ensure engagements get off to the best possible start both from a commercial and technical perspective.Developed experience with:Supporting multiple key projects in parallelTechnical expertise across a broad range of areasCommercial understanding of customer needsRegular presentations and customer workshops

Docklands, Victoria, Au

A Lead Consultant is responsible for leading a team of consultants on a major engagement, as well as providing direct oversight and support for a second engagement. In this role I was responsible for driving a major organisational change project for a customer that involved working with customer teams to improve their ability to rapidly deliver working software.Developed experience with:Cultural changeOrganisational transformationProcess optimisationKey projects:Continuous Delivery ApplicationDevelopment of an application to allow quick prototyping of new features with customers. Developed processes to allow product owners to control production deployments to users by empowering them with key information about changes to the system and automated testing of new and changed business rules. This project included identification of areas for improvement, followed by training and mentoring in DevOps and Continuous Delivery across several areas of the organisation.Collaboration Performance Measurement FrameworkDevelopment of an application to interrogate data from instant messenger / voice tools such as Lync and Skype for Business to provide statistics and troubleshooting information to both users and system operators.

Docklands, Victoria, Au

The Senior Consultant role in Readify is responsible for leading a single team of consultants on strategic engagements. In this role I further developed presentation and leadership skills while delivering great solutions for our customers. During this period I focused heavily on mobile application development and the delivery of a reseller web frontend for iiNet which leveraged new technology to empower designers and developers to work efficiently on further application development.Developed experience with:Public speakingTeam leadershipMobile application developmentTechnical interviewsKey projects:Internal Mobile ApplicationDelivery of an internal application for staff to improve efficiencies around timesheet and scheduling processes.Eagle Boys Mobile ApplicationProject to bring the Eagle Boys Mobile application up to date with the latest iOS standards under a tight deadline, due to issues caused by iOS platform changes.iiNet Reseller ApplicationDevelopment of an application to allow other organisations to resell iiNet services under their own brands.

Docklands, Victoria, Au

In January 2014 I joined Readify, a leading application development consultancy. In my first engagement I was responsible for being the local lead on one of our teams at iiNet, working on small high value projects for the customer facing sales and toolbox websites. Working closely with key managers, I was able to deliver a number of process improvements at iiNet which reduced barriers to fast application development.Developed experience with:Tibco EMSASP.NET MVCTeam leadershipConsultingKey projects:Integrated Purchasing ExperienceAssisted with the development of a number of fixes and enhancements to iiNet's customer facing web signup application, including removal of some dependencies causing barriers to fast development and the implementation of a continuous delivery pipeline to improve developer efficiency and reduce feedback loop times on deployed changes.

Bentley, Western Australia, Au

In this role I was responsible for leading the direction of the Rapid Application Development team at Curtin University, coordinating closely with the IT executive along with the other technical and development teams within the university. I was responsible for overseeing the delivery of a number of key IT projects during this time.Developed experience with:Career plans, promotions and employee welfareCross team coordinationCommunication with executivesStrategy and planningCandidate interviewingKey projects:SMS Alert SystemWorked closely with teams across the university to create an application which allows sending SMS and email alerts to students and staff in a critical incident using a wide range of selection criteria, even in the event of all other online university systems failing.

Bentley, Western Australia, Au

In April 2012 I took on the role of Team Leader for the Rapid Application Development team at Curtin University.In this role I have moved away from a focus on development and into a larger focus on recruitment, training and mentoring.Developed experience with:TrainingRecruitment / InterviewsBusiness analysisStaffing / resource managementKey projects:Travel Approval PortalOverseeing the development of an electronic workflow system for replacing the manual travel approval processes used across the university.

Bentley, Western Australia, Au

In March 2012 I was asked to take on a Senior Developer role within Curtin University's Agile .NET team. This role focused around providing technical leadership and mentoring to the other developers within the team, as well as taking responsibility for overseeing the architectures and solutions developed by the team.Developed experience with:Advanced .NET / C#TeamCity ConfigurationWindows Azure ManagementHighly scalable Azure web applicationsContinuous DeliveryClient and stakeholder managementKey projects:HR SystemsProduction of numerous custom HR systems for Curtin University which included close integration with the university's core off the shelf HR systems.Curtin Business ClubRedevelopment of an existing Microsoft Dynamics CRM application into a high performing maintainable system.OASIS PortalLed the team redeveloping the university's student portal, creating a highly scalable system using C#, ASP.NET MVC and Microsoft Azure. The new system delivered a highly engaging and contextual user experience and was well received, including recognition by Microsoft as one of the leading Microsoft Azure projects in Australia at the time.

Bentley, Western Australia, Au

Worked as a .NET developer within Curtin University. Initially worked on a contract basis developing a new web application, but stayed on afterwards and moved to the .NET Agile team (then only a few months old).Developed experience with:.NET / C#AgileScrumWindows AzureContinuous IntegrationUnit TestingGit

I have run a series of gaming related websites under the company Eternal Gaming since the age of 14. Throughout the years, I've developed strong experience with many aspects of business operation including strategy, planning, accounting, marketing, advertising, recruitment and leadership.

During 2012 I worked as a joint lead developer on a Melbourne based start-up. This provided invaluable experience in learning the best ways to operate a start-up, and providing feedback to the start-up leadership at every possible opportunity.

Bentley, Western Australia, Au

During this time I worked for the university developing a native iPhone application for the Humanities area, handling the display of news, staff information, videos, podcasts and other content.Developed experience with:Objective CXCodeiOS Application Development

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) (Computer Science), Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba)

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