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Responsible for designing, building, implementing, and releasing CadetNet (https://www.cadetnet.org.nz) across the nationwide organisation.Includes all aspects from database design and optimisation, server configuration, backend PHP code, front end HTML, JavaScript, & CSS, security design & implementation, and best-practice adherence for a personnel management system for 2,700 personnel in 99 units across the country.Designed and built within the existing WordPress framework, as a custom plugin to ensure future support capabilities can be sourced.Currently sitting at over 45,000 lines of code.

Paraparaumu

Notable highlightsInstantiated a Change Advisory Board to de-risk changes to live systems and to share knowledge across the organisation.Implemented a weekly Peer Code Review meeting to encourage learning through others and reduce blame culture.Setup an organisation-wide GitHub for managing source code revisions, deployments, issue tracking, and upgrades.Ran successful Summer of Tech intern programme designing, developing, and releasing a customer-facing mobile app to display and report electricity and hot-water outages across the network in real time.Implemented Big Data Solution consuming weather data feeds (including temperature, humidity, rainfall, dewpoints etc) and real-time load metrics to perform predictive load analysis.Visualisations of Ripple Load Control to contact centre, which led to an approximate saving of $250,000 in reduced “truck rolls” in the first 6 months.Built real-time visualisations of Grid Exit Point loading across the network, and the load at the substations, to enable the control room to understand the impact decisions were having, in addition to providing forecasting load features for those locations.Scoped, developed, and delivered an Azure API platform, delivering information to customers, the public, other organisations, and internal departments, in a load-balanced, (D)DoS protected manner.Ensured that projects that were requested met all obligations under the Privacy Act, by undertaking Brief Privacy Impact Analysis, and full PIAs where necessary, and writing anonymisation code that passed independent security audits on first submission.Planned the COVID response for the ICT department, covering staff response and safety aspects.Automated reporting on legislative requirement data accuracy that had not been monitored previously.Oversaw project to rebuild website into new WordPress platform to close security vulnerabilities identified. Designed and built custom plugin to handle display of network outage information.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Student Job Search is a not for profit, charity and 100% student owned by Students’ Associations across the country. Established in 1982 SJS’s main purpose is to align the needs of employers looking for their ideal employee/s with the needs of all Tertiary students looking for work.The organisation is unique to New Zealand and represents the country’s largest pool of emerging talent. In the last year, SJS has filled over 25,000 jobs with students whom have collectively earned over $70 million. SJS is New Zealand’s Number 1 Employment Service for Tertiary Students seeking one off, casual and part time work.The website hosts over 3000 jobs at any given time and range in nature from low skilled manual labour to highly skilled technical roles.Major projects undertaken include:Migration of website to the AWS cloud for better peak performance.Contract negotiation & project management for ground-up website rebuild.Virtualisation of back-office systems.Data warehouse creation, providing business intelligence across entire organisation.Upgrade of active Contact Centre telephone system.

Acting as CEO between Oct & Jan before the new CEO could start, I faced a number of diverse issues, not least of which was the earthquake and storm that closed Wellington CBD for two days, during the busiest period of the year.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Acted as CEO for SJS during for 6 weeks while the CEO was in Europe.

Karori, Wellington, New Zealand

Mitcham, Surrey

Responsible for multiple project requirement gathering, project scoping and specification, planning, resource allocation and delivery – including milestone markers and other reportables. Also responsible for budgeting, ordering, interviewing & employing new staff, new supplier negotiation, server migration and upgrade projects, licence management, DPA & PCI-DSS legislation compliance, physical & digital security, backups and disaster recovery planning, asset management, due diligence reports and recruiting & managing contractors for specific projects. Also still hands on as lead developer for web content, SQL reports and bash scripts.Major projects include implementation of a new Learning Management System (based on Moodle), migration of email to new service, virtualisation of existing servers, Kindle product development, switching telecoms suppliers and managing line switch over..

Mitcham, Surrey

Managing departmental staff, responsible for interfacing with other departments to gather new project requirements and specifications, scoping the project, planning resource allocation, timescales, deliverables and monitoring performance against plan. New server specifications, managing security on websites, SSL certification, customer data protection, secure server design.Major projects include centralised login / licence management system, new e-commerce websites, development of streaming multimedia courses and digital download products, amalgamation of disparate resources into centralised data warehouse, reporting and accountancy software solutions.