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Melbourne, Victoria, AU

North Sydney, New South Wales, AU

Contract developer working on CARM, MLC's new policy administration system. Used ASP.NET Core REST APIs to develop Orchestrator, the middleware that integrates CARM's different systems, including the web front end, Salesforce CRM and Tata BaNCS backend. Solely responsible for implementing critical workflows within Orchestrator, such as new policy creation..

Cremorne, Victoria, AU

Lumo Energy was taken over by Red Energy in 2014. In the short term, Lumo’s.Net systems are being tactically integrated with Red’s existing Java systems. My role is to design and implement these integrations. This has progressed well due to the.Net systems’ service oriented architecture, which I designed in my previous position as Lumo’s Development Lead..

Brisbane, QLD, AU

Role was a combination of managing a team of 6 developers and hands-on development.Management responsibilities included resource planning, task allocation and monitoring, developer interviews and performance reviews. Broader responsibilities included extensive engagement with other technical and business teams.For hands-on development, was solely.

Victoria, AU

• Development Lead managing a team of 4 permanent and 3 contract developers.
• Designed a multi-tier, microservice based architecture to give Lumo's.Net systems a consistent structure: presentation with MVC websites, processing with web services and persistence with SQL Server databases and other.
• Designed and implemented C# application blueprints, giving developers a “cookie cutter” to start every project with. Blueprints included websites (Bootstrap, MVC), web services (JSON services using WebAPI, SOAP.
• Lead the hands-on implementation of.Net systems using the above architecture and blueprints. Systems included public websites such as lumoenergy.com.au, internal websites for tasks such as customer complaint handling.
• Implemented Continuous Integration using JetBrains TeamCity and Continuous Deployment using Octopus Deploy.
• Key technical representative at project meetings and discussions. Extensive engagement with business stakeholders, PMs and BAs to set technical direction and ensure that the specifications passed to the development.

Placed into the development team at CPA Australia, building the new cpaaustralia.com.au website.

Docklands, Victoria, AU

• Acting team leader and technical lead on a project to merge three large business-critical websites (lotto.com.au, goldencasket.com.au and unitab.com.au) into a single Sitecore CMS website, tatts.com.
• Successfully lead a team split across two states, to complete a challenging project.
• As Scrum Master, resolved issues blocking team members’ progress, allowing them to be fully utilised.
• Defined website architecture.
• Implemented website with Sitecore CMS and C#.

Docklands, Victoria, AU

• Technical lead of a project to complete redesign the lotto.com.au website's.
• Successfully developed and supported a business-critical, high volume transactional website.
• Implemented the website with ASP.NET and C# with JQuery and AJAX.
• Mentored team and led code reviews, resulting in a faster, very reliable website with a clean codebase that was understood across the team and easily maintained.

Docklands, Victoria, AU

• Designed and implemented new middleware between the lotto.com.au website and a new back-end lotteries host system.
• Solely responsible for designing and implementing middleware that a business-critical, revenue generating website depended on.
• Implemented middleware as a C# Windows service that provided.NET remoting and MSMQ interfaces to the host system.
• In four years of use, the middleware never caused a transaction to fail, and it never limited the transaction rate of the website (sustained loads of 200,000 transactions per hour were routinely handled).
• The middleware's success led to its its use in unitab.com.au, one of Australia’s busiest horse racing and sports betting websites.

Docklands, Victoria, AU

• Along with another programmer, developed and supported the lotto.com.au website.
• Successfully developed and supported a business-critical, high volume transactional website - in 2006, the website had 106,000 registered players, sales increased 80%, while the website had 100% availability (apart.
• Implemented the website with ASP.NET and C#.
• Designed and implemented a CMS system for the website that replaced a problematic MS CMS 2002 system. The saving in licensing costs recouped the cost of development within the first year.

Glen Huntly, Victoria, AU

• Designed and constructed a large, web-based document archive: the MSDS Collection. It provided a searchable library of over 10 million Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), which describe the safe storage and use of.
• Established the website’s functional requirements, then its user interface by managing a website designer in India.
• Created a normalised MySQL (later Firebird) database with stored procedures. Managed 2 Indian programmers who created the data entry applications required to populate the database.
• Implemented the website with J2EE (Apache Tomcat, servlets and JSP), accessing the database through JDBC. Tested the website by managing 2 Indian programmers, who wrote unit and UI tests.
• After two years in production, horizontally scaled the website by implementing a RESTful web service that allowed updates from the Melbourne master server’s database to be incrementally mirrored to new web servers in.

Glen Huntly, Victoria, AU

• Lead programmer on ChemWatch, a large Windows desktop application for chemical OHS and inventory management.
• Responsible for the architecture and development of the company’s (at that time) primary product.
• Supervised offshore programmers, realising their benefits while maintaining application quality.
• Proposed and implemented changes that improved the development team’s workflow. For example, the scriptable report engine changed reports from hard-coded functions to simple scripts of their contents, saving a junior.

Munich, DE

• Maintained and enhanced DealerPoint, a website BMW dealers use to create car loans, leases and insurance policies.
• Solely responsible for the enhancement and support of a business-critical, revenue generating website.
• Re-implementing DealerPoint from a legacy, non-standard platform (NT4, IIS 4, ColdFusion, Interbase) to a current, standard platform (Windows 2003 Server, IIS 6, ASP, SQL Server).
• Provided personal, telephone and email technical support to 400+ users at 100+ dealerships Australia-wide.

Masters Of Information Technology (Research), Computer Science

Honours Degree Of Bachelor Of Computing, Computer Science