Helping developers get the most out of their careers.

DDD Sydney is a community centric conference.I am one of the primary organisers for the event managing everything from venue hire, catering, website, speaker engagement, volunteer management and on-day logistics.

I'm a Pluralsight author with over half a dozen courses published covering topics ranging from JavaScript Design Patterns to Umbraco to Azure.

- Working with the sales team to qualify opportunities- Improving the technical skills of the sales team- Develop tools and practices to effectively respond to proposals- Create material that can be used by the sales team that speaks to the services Readify can deliver- Work with the Delivery team to ensure effort is accurately represented in the sales process and that there is a smooth transition from Sales to Delivery- Present internally on what is upcoming in the market- Keep abreast of emerging technologies to help position Readify in the market with them and foster discussions with clients on adopting emerging technologies- Operate across all three practices within Readify to look at holistic offerings, not just single practice- Build relationships with the broader BTS groups in Telstra to understand how to present Readify in the context of a larger opportunity- Work with our partner managers and partners to qualify opportunities- Completed a MCSA to elevate Readify's position with Microsoft as a partner of choice

This was the end goal of a 6 year journey I'd taken within Readify. As a Principal Consultant I:- Worked on Pre-Sales activities such as tender responses and lead qualification- Consulted to a multinational FinTech company with producing a front-end web architecture based on React- Consulted to a multinational services company to provide enterprise architecture services, process guidance and delivery capacity on a React web portal and a React Native iOS/Android application- People management involving career mentoring, conflict management and general coaching- Working with the heads of the organisation on the strategic direction of Readify- Collaborating with the other Readify Principal ConsultantsOver my first 5 years at Readify I worked my way from the role of Senior Developer to Lead Consultant. During this time I worked across a variety of industries from banking to mining and many technologies. Some highlights are:- Working on a new web portal for one of the big 4 banks in Australia, using a combination of ASP.NET MVC and a custom JavaScript UI framework- Team lead for a web reporting platform for IoT devices in the mining industry, using a combination of ASP.NET WebAPI2, React, MongoDB and Azure PaaS- Leading a number of CMS builds using Umbraco across government, health care and entertainment

I have been a contributor to the Umbraco open source project with features such as LINQ to Umbraco and Examine.I was previously involved with the Umbraco 5 development

Senior Development

Senior Development

Senior Development