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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Summary:Provide solution design and direction for SME, university andgovernment client solutions usually involving API creation and integrationActivities included:Solution design, documentation and presentation to relevant stakeholdersPreparation of estimatesPlan and conduct client workshopsWriting API specifications & supporting documentsPrepare functional specifications and acceptance criteriaPlanning and risk management / mitigationQA testingDirecting of development teamsClient liaisonShowcase presentationsClient handoverInternal support handover

Sydney, Australia

Recruited initially and primarily to provide senior leadership, architecture and development for a new Laravel (PHP) + Angular (JavaScript) bespoke CRM for this dynamic sales oriented company, the role also encompassed maintenance of 3 Wordpress CMS sites. All of these LAMP company web assets were hosted on AWS.Completed migration of bespoke CRM to Salesforce CRM in February 2017 and have since been driving salesforce administration and development in Salesforce Apex (Java).In 2017 I migrated all 3 CMS Wordpress assets to new AWS Linux EC2 instance using Cloud Formation, with EFS & RDS. Utilised PHP 7 fast-cgi, Nginx (with micro-caching), OPcode caching & Memcache.

Sydney, Australia

Convey Pty Ltd (Mobile Embrace Limited) is a global mobile payments and mobile marketing company.Role:* Design, document and manage software solutions for internal stakeholders in frantically paced mobile payments & content application development environment.* Lead iterative & project solutions through to production release across multiple applications and environments* Manage local and international development teams.* Document and communicate best practices for SDLAchievements:* Re-platform to SOA strategy with RESTful API solution for content & mobile payments assets.* Delivered 1st Android App by Mobile Embrace.* Continual optimisation of web payments system in scalable AWS environment for improved UX, conversions & security* Championed constant internal improvements towards integrated SOA, data-driven & user manageable, systems & solutionsResponsibilities:* Solution & application architecture design & implementation.* Analysis and modelling of business logic in code and data* Managing multiple simultaneous developments through SDL.* Resource Planning & estimates.* Lead team of 3 local developers, up to 6 offshore developers.* Liaise with & present to stakeholders.* Prepare application designs & documentation.* Establish, communicate and maintain development standards & procedures.* Release management & SCM.* Optimise & improve scalable solutions on AWS platforms.* Code review & developer support.

Sydney, Australia

(Mobile Embrace Limited) is a global mobile payments and mobile marketing company.Role:* Maintain and improve existing web API assets (PHP Zend Framework, Perl)* Develop cutting edge mobile ads including JavaScript animation sequences, canvas zooming & scrolling* Design & implement new mobile payment & content solutions utilising Zend Framework, Wordpress & JoomlaAchievements:* Delivered hugely successful smartphone mobile subscription site on existing Joomla platform maintaining backwards compatibility with existing feature phone assets.

Sydney, Australia

Fuse Digital is a Digital Agency with leading automotive & travel clients.Key Achievements:* Designed & implemented internal SCM & project management system consisting of Git and Redmine integrated solution with automated staging deployment via Git hooks.* Designed & developed bespoke e-commerce property listings subscription website on Codeigniter (HMVC) platform and JQuery with PayPal, Eway, Google Maps and Campaign Monitor integration.* Designed & developed bespoke Competitor intranet for leading logistics company integrating with SOAP web services and LDAP authentication server. Built with PHP (Codeigniter) and Jquery.* Designed, developed & integrated PHP Codeigniter invoicing & reservations system w/ legacy ASP system for leading accommodation provider.* Optimised security and performance of legacy ASP applications running leading automotive sites.* Migration of MS Access & MSSQL databases to MySQL and MSSQL, and from MSSQL to MySQL, for leading automotive sites.Responsibilities:* Lead technical direction of agency.* Architectural design & development of commercial PHP web applications for clients.* Manage projects and junior developer.* Prepare estimates for quotations.* Determine internal system requirements and implement solutions.* Business & data modelling, database creation.* Integrated solution design, development and deployment.

Sydney, Australia

Finance Technology Partners is a provider of financial software solutions for leading finance companies.Key Achievements:* Provision of web based workflow applications (dealer finance applications through to approval and submission to legacy finance system) integrated with legacy BBX finance systems for leading printing manufacturer finance company.* Provision of PHP rate charts system for leading printing manufacturer finance arm to easily update, create and send PDF charts to dealer network.* Provision of PHP finance quoting system to replace legacy Delphi system.* Provision of variation quoting system to replace existing Delphi solution.Responsibilities:* Manage projects and junior developer.* Prepare estimates for quotations.* Determine internal system requirements and implement solutions.* Liaise with Financial Services clients to identify & determine business requirements.* Design, develop, integrate and maintain PHP web based finance systems for the leading printing manufacturer finance companies.* Design, develop and maintain PHP time-sheeting & web reporting systems for mining services company.* Design and develop BBX applications for legacy finance systems of leading printing manufacturer finance companies & medical finance company (part of "big four" banks).

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:* Design, manage and maintain internal IT systems.* Liaise with insured person(s) in relation to the scope and specifics of their loss.* Recommend or obtain appraisal or remedial services for the insured equipment where necessary.* Prepare replacement specifications and obtain replacement quotations.* Report outcomes to insurer & invoice client insurer.Achievements:* Converted whole of business to paperless office supporting many remote users.* Created MS Access database system for managing all aspects of workflow & communications* Implemented MS Terminal Services for remote office.* Integrated client insurers B2B systems into MS Access system for automated new business capture.