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Dover, Delaware, US

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

While contracting, I'm spending some time & money to do some R&D into potential new startup ideas.

Sydney, NSW, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Life's too short for mediocre food. Foodjitsu aims to reinvigorate the relationship between people and food by drastically improving the experience of shopping, learning, sharing and cooking through technology.

Cremorne, Victoria, AU

I was assigned to the Job Posting team to instill better engineering, code quality and efficiency practices in our daily lives. The challenge is to teach and cement this in our culture while still keeping high quality output of our product. Our team is responsible for a large majority of the revenue for SEEK and as such, our application needed to have 100%.

Bellevue, Washington, US

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

I was given a clear goal to improve developer efficiency and code quality across the board for 45 developers and 12 testers. After familiarizing myself with the tech stack, the processes and individuals, I identified some key issues and started tackling them, including:- Build & Test times were slow, made them 3x faster through parallelization of tasks.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

I was hired to inject some much needed front-end expertise and a different way of thinking to a very old and massive monolith application. I've spearheaded the use of Angular.js so that we can tackle the monolith issue page by page, while creating shareable components and services through a component library that can be reused across projects, helping us.

London, GB

My duty involved consulting the creative team on what is technically possible then implementing the idea within budget and on deadline, while juggling several projects at the same time. During my time there, I introduced responsive design by using Bootstrap and using a build server to help with larger development (Node, Grunt). The new Penfolds Global.

Helped develop flexible desking software that is currently being used by some of Australia's largest companies to save real estate, manage employees and collect data which ultimately saves money.

Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, DE

Built and deployed an online print approval annotation product called GMG CoZone that's currently being used by 50 worldwide companies including IKEA, JWT and Saatchi & Saatchi. The product helped upgrade the archaic process of annotating, reviewing and modifying an approval before being sent to the printers.

New York, NY, US

We identified a problem in New York around venue rentals; current venues (gyms, studios, pools, etc) is only being utilized about 40% of the time and yet there is an extremely large demand from people for more activities. Our answer was Tivity; AirBnB meets Kickstarter for sport activities. I was responsible for all technical, design and user experience.

New York, NY, US

Startup company trying to change how creatives work on a day to day basis by making them more efficient with business workflow automation, project time tracking and integration with Creative Suite tools.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Contracted by Accenture to help improve performance of TAB's online betting platform from a 20 second load time down to 3 seconds within 3 months. I accomplished this by re-architecting the whole product and using my in-depth knowledge of Flash and Flex to reduce the overall filesize and processing the application needs to do. Along the way, I also created.

New York, NY, US

In the fast moving financial industry, time is money. My job was to increase efficiency by fixing, integrating and improving web applications into one large Single Dealer Platform that can handle vast amounts of data and drastically cut the execution time for its users.

I started freelancing to get real world experience and touch new technologies. I soon discovered that most people needed websites for different reasons, which I would then implement using different techniques. This taught me how to handle customers and business expectations.

Reston, VA, US

Continue development on the home automation product (see below) and integrate with the rest of Gridpoint's services. For everything to function, the whole user interface had to be rebuilt from scratch using Flex. 2 years worth of work into the old product needed to be functional in a matter of 6 months, which we accomplished.

Created an online home automation product that can control your home from anywhere, record important statistics about your home and ultimately help reduce the cost of electricity to the user and the demand for it at the energy utility. Our division then got bought by Gridpoint (see above).

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Worked with a team of 12 developers to create a US/Canadian Air Force spy plane simulator for training purposes. I built the Instructor Operating System used to create, record and playback scenarios that the instructor would use to teach the recruits.