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Wellington, Nz

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington

Working with our talented team to deliver outstanding web + mobile solutions.

Sharesight is a joint venture between the directors of Abletech and two local entrepreneurs. Sharesight has built an online portfolio management application. My role as Technical Consultant is to design and implement the technical aspects of this business. This involves everything from developing the web-based Ruby on Rails application to tuning the MySQL database. Also leasing and administering the hardware; system integration with various vendors such as NZX, ASX and Google. This project has called for an extreme range of skills, which I have delivered.

Referrals and Leads ManagementA web-based application for gathering customer referral and lead information and sending it to various parties throughout the bank. My role as the Technical Lead involved management of both the people and the technologies involved in the project. I worked actively with the Project Manager in planning the project timelines, and directing the resources available to achieve them. The project was written using the Websphere Application Server, talking to DB2 for database, and MQ for Host services. The Struts Web Application Framework and Hibernate Object Relational Mapping tools were used. The Agile Development Process known as “Feature Driven Development” was used.Subject Matter Expert – User Interface DesignI was the designated Subject Matter Expert at Westpac for User Interface design. Specifically, this includes both the processes used to define the interfaces, as well as the technologies used.

Credit Application Tool My role was to provide architectural oversight and development for this J2EE and Visual Basic project. Loan Automation Project The diverse technologies used reflect the integrated nature of this application. Visual Basic is used on the client, and this communicates with both Weblogic and Tuxedo servers. XML is used as the communication mechanism between client and server. The Weblogic server communicates with an IBM mainframe application via an MTS gateway. The database is Oracle, and the OS is Solaris. We use JMS for asynchronous processes and scheduled offline tasks.My role was to design and develop new features for this application. Also, as a Senior Analyst / Programmer, I assisted in the development and mentoring of staff. We use the Rational Unified Process. Tools used include Eclipse, Ant, CVS, SourceSafe, and Log4j.

My Global Markets portal Responsible for the architecture, design and development of a portal framework which allows customers of Deutsche Bank to select and display customised information on a personal web page. We provided common functionality - for example, custom JSP tag libraries, and auto-save functionality for edit pages. This was successful as we ended up having portlets developed by other divisions - from New York and London. In fact, one of the other divisions was so impressed that they decided to stop their development with Weblogic Personalisation Server and move to our custom portal framework. The portal was based on "Model 2" JSP and Servlet technology. This ran under an iPlanet based server. We later added in support from Weblogic 6 for EJB Session Beans. The database was Oracle 8i. The operating system was Solaris. We used other technologies such as Ant, Log4j, and database connection pooling from the Apache group.

Media Tracker project for International Federation of Phonographic Industry IFPI / RIAA Responsible for the development of the Intranet based web application for managing the detection, enforcement and removal of illegal media on the Internet.The application managed various external search services through a Servlet / XML interface. It provided the information required for a search to take place, and received the results. The results were passed to an EJB Session for persistence in an Oracle Database.IFPI's staff around the world could view the collected information through a web browser. The findings would be grouped to create various 'cases' such as investigations, escalations, etc. Other features included user management, security, email generation, "whois" queries, reverse-dns queries, HTTP redirection detections, etc. We used JavaScript based client-side validation. In short, the application managed the client's entire business process in a highly automated manner.

History Data Viewer for Transpower New Zealand The History Data Viewer is an intranet application used for viewing historical customer data from a large Data Warehouse.The Orca Project for New Zealand Post The Orca Application is a Visual Basic based three-tier application that manages the productivity of Mail Sorting Centres. The client application runs on Windows PCs and the server / database components are hosted on Microsoft Transaction Server on Windows NT Server boxes.I implemented additional modules to calculate statistics about staff productivity for an existing application. The results were displayed in custom controls and graphs.Other tasks included the installation and administration of Oracle Databases, Windows NT Servers and Linux Servers. I mentored the graduate staff, and liased with the clients.

Java and C++ Framework Development IBM were developing C++ and Java based upgrades to an existing Customer Management application. The application managed many business processes at the call centres of Telecommunications Companies.Research Project I was sponsored by IBM to perform research into new Internet Technologies. This was the research portion of my thesis for the Master of Technology degree. I designed and developed two major proof-of-concept applications. The first application investigated how Java technologies could be used to harness information in an existing database. It provided electronic commerce capabilities over the Internet using Java Applets.The second application that I developed used CORBA to link an existing C++ based application to a Java Applet. This application made use of the existing functionality to provide new services.