Michael Dowling Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

I started with Telstra Health as a Senior Developer, bought on board to deliver a Data Warehousing solution for our clients. Then I moved on enhancements, bug fixes and the removal of legacy code from our core product.I then took on more responsibility for larger and newer projects doing everything from solution architecture to development. Most recently I.

I started with Object Consulting in October 2011 as a Consultant and finished as a Lead Consultant. Towards the end I was focusing a lot of attention on developing my leadership skills along with working with clients to deliver on projects. As a consultant, my focus for my clients was delivery - getting in there, understanding the business and delivering.

Melbourne, Australia

• I was a key member of the team creating a replacement for the Advertiser Centre for SEEK. The main focus for the team was quality with > 90% Unit Test coverage of quality tests achieved. They also had a range of.
• Early involvement in project planning, design and feature level brainstorming.
• Improved automation of the test suite allowing less code to be written by the testers and still maintain stability.
• Worked regularly with the solution lead to walk through ideas and solutions for critical components and complex problems.
• Worked closely with the Software Configuration Manager for the project to solve problems with deployments.
• Helped the team achieve a high coverage of unit testing (>90% over 3,200 unit tests) by enforcing a strict policy of test driven development and team discipline allowing us to maintain high quality levels.

• I was heavily involved in the creation of The Herald and Weekly Times’ Live Match HQ that provides live score updates about all AFL games within 30 seconds of them occurring on the field. This site was built using a.
• Built multiple key parts of the framework we used to produce our software solution. This eased the development of the project significantly amongst the team.
• Enforced a strict discipline within the team to obtain >72% Unit Testing coverage; ensuring the quality of the work we produced and reducing the number of defects overall.
• Worked directly with the Herald Sun development team to solve the issues they were having in development that they couldn’t solve themselves.
• Provided support for the Herald Sun project post launch on the weekend roster
• Worked directly with the team to help get the Herald Sun project over the line in the time frame required by the client.KEY TOOLS:Methodologies: Agile, TDDTechnologies used:.NET C#,.NET MVC, Azure Table Storage, Azure.

• As a Senior.NET Developer, I was responsible for designing and developing large scale applications along with mentoring / leading other.NET developers. I ran projects and ensured they were completed on time and within.
• Mountain Designs
• NAB Equity Lending
• Supercheap Auto
• BCF
• Goldcross Cycles

• In this role I built bespoke e-commerce websites to clients’ specifications, took on the larger and more complicated projects to ensure they were completed properly. I performed code reviews to ensure our standards.
• Send a Thought
• Stargazer Products
• Alex and Alexa
• Rebecca’s Jewellery
• Philip Pank

• Responsibilities:
• Adding new functionality to the ITAssets Database.
• Coming up with a Disaster Recovery Plan in-case anything happened to the server running the system.
• 1st Line IT SupportKEY TOOLS:Technologies used: PHP, MySQL, IIS, CSS, HTML

• Responsibilities:
• Fixing a wide range of PC, Server & Network problems throughout the entire Queensland network.
• Managing User Profiles to give appropriate access to different users’ dependant on their role in the company.
• Managing the backups of the Warehouse database.
• Managing the fixing of any of the Warehouse equipment that broke down.Technologies used: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000, Windows XP SP1 & SP2, Remote Desktop Connection.

Building an online system to run a taxi management company in PHP/Smarty to web standards. Integration of this system with accounting programs. Helping the Project Manager allocate responsibility for items & mentoring the less experienced team members. Liaising with the client to gather requirements, writing requirements specifications.

Bachelor, Information Technology; Software Engineering

I.T, Software Engineering, Web Development

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