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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Worked on UI and related systems for an unannounced AAA game. Managed a small team and lead Agileplanning and retrospective sessions for our discipline, including coordinating feature work for externalworldwide contractors.• Developed and assisted in leading agile practices across my team, resulting in accurate time estimationsand reduced team stress.• Spearheaded efforts to incorporate Unit Testing and Test Driven Development principles to improve ourcode quality… Show more Worked on UI and related systems for an unannounced AAA game. Managed a small team and lead Agileplanning and retrospective sessions for our discipline, including coordinating feature work for externalworldwide contractors.• Developed and assisted in leading agile practices across my team, resulting in accurate time estimationsand reduced team stress.• Spearheaded efforts to incorporate Unit Testing and Test Driven Development principles to improve ourcode quality and prevent repetitive bugs.• Worked with multiple external studios cross-timezone to enable asynchronous co-working around theclock and up-skill new teams without delay.• Presented interesting development concepts to the company via planned talks, ensuring knowledgeshare, reducing ‘siloing’, and proving confidence in public speaking.• Participated in hiring efforts including vetting candidates and conducting technical interviews.• Planning UX design efforts with our design team for a seamless UX design feature to Engineerimplementation workflow.• Created a custom web ‘framework’ designed to take advantage of specific hardware strengths andminimise expensive actions, improving frame rates and reduce event related hitches.• Presented concepts and ideas within the games industry at formal events to students at local universities.• Related Languages/Technologies; C++, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Gulp, Jest (Unit Testing) Show less

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Developed production ready systems for stakeholders and assisted others in creating high performance services, mainly relating to logistics applications. Maintained production level services and worked on ongoing projects in teams.• Assisted ongoing efforts to up-lift legacy decades old database systems to modern platforms.• Participated in planning meetings around using a microservice architectures to deliver our projects in aflexible manner.• Directly handled… Show more Developed production ready systems for stakeholders and assisted others in creating high performance services, mainly relating to logistics applications. Maintained production level services and worked on ongoing projects in teams.• Assisted ongoing efforts to up-lift legacy decades old database systems to modern platforms.• Participated in planning meetings around using a microservice architectures to deliver our projects in aflexible manner.• Directly handled communications between development teams and our clients including pain points,feature requests, solving “on the ground” issues, resulting in better team dynamics and reduced delays inaction.• Actively developed solutions with Amazon Web Services (specifically SNS, SQS, CloudFormation,DynamoDB and IAM) for scalability and business cost benefits.• Related Languages/Technologies; Java, Angular, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, SCSS, Jasmine (Unit Testing) Show less

Melbourne, Australia

Interned as QA tester. Looked for software bugs both minor and critical, and reported their symptoms, locations and replication steps. Verified fixed bugs in future builds of the software. Also referenced for game designdecisions.• Raised bug tickets when issues arose while playing the game.• Worked to improve QA processes with other QA interns.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Offered IT services for an E-commerce store selling collectibles and pop culture items. Managed support lines and programmed inventory handling systems vital to the stores operation. Wrote management code in mostly Python, with some JavaScript and HTML.• Integrated the Ozzie Collectibles storefront with upstream suppliers and ensured parity of productavailability between warehoused stock and upstream stock.• Solved various issues for customers in regards to incorrect or broken… Show more Offered IT services for an E-commerce store selling collectibles and pop culture items. Managed support lines and programmed inventory handling systems vital to the stores operation. Wrote management code in mostly Python, with some JavaScript and HTML.• Integrated the Ozzie Collectibles storefront with upstream suppliers and ensured parity of productavailability between warehoused stock and upstream stock.• Solved various issues for customers in regards to incorrect or broken orders for goods.• Advised on different technologies that could help the business grow more sustainably.• Related Languages/Technologies; Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS Show less