Ross Trego Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Leading a team of ~10 Developers and Test Engineers, in an Azure DevOps agile methodology and landscape, to build out data-agnostic REST API to expose longstanding critical HRIS application business logic and processing, for integration via an Intelligence Platform as part of a HCM Cloud strategic offering.Additionally, performing ongoing Lead and Technical Development responsibilities, to leverage system-agnostic API methods, for use by Connectors developed using an iPaaS, to many industry best of breed vendors.Team leading with passion to mentor, build strong engineering ethos, team structure and processes.

Brisbane, Australia

Continuation of my existing role, with added responsibility for team mentoring as well as team deputation, and also management of large-scale software developments with coordination of team developers.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Responsibility for the Development lifecycle of software and services related to the ResourceLinkAurora HR/Payroll system, focusing specifically on bespoke development where clients require the vanilla implementation of ResourceLinkAurora to be tailored to meet their own business requirements.All aspects of the development life cycle are covered including; pre-sales estimates and analysis, quotation production and sign-off, detailed technical design specification for works, development and unit testing, release documentation, installation to clients site and post delivery support.Main development is carried out in ProIV, with supporting functions being developed where necessary in other forms such as Database PL/SQL (both Oracle and MS SQL), ActiveX Controls, DDE, Macros.Extensive documentation skills and authoring for the purpose of noting customer requirements for sign off and approval prior to commencing development.Scheduling and monitoring of own timescales and priorities. Sharing knowledge and experience with colleagues and providing assistance as and when requested.Having worked on Payroll and HR systems for 15 years, I have strong working payroll knowledge and payroll process knowledge... All of which is an asset when working with new clients on pre-sales items for new projects.With both general allround payroll knowledge as well as extensive NorthgateArinso product knowledge and database design, this allows to deal with nearly all situations from a development and support perspective. Being able to visit clients at their sites and advise them of solutions for their bespoke business needs is a fantastic pleasure. I love being to use my experience to advise clients as to how they might be able to achieve their requirements in the application and how we can both utilise the existing offerings of the standard product whilst at the same time introducing bespoke software solutions that will fit harmoniously alongside them to meet the business needs.

Bristol, United Kingdom

In this role in the CORE development team I was responsible for the full development lifecycle of product enhancements and features in relation to the International Payroll/HR functionality in the product. I worked as part of a new segregated development team whose prime aim was to enable the payroll/hr product to be fully functional in an international host country. This involved the requirements gathering for international legislation and the specification of software solutions to meet the legislation of a given country.I was instrumental in the software enhancements that enabled the product to be sold and deployed in South Africa, Hong Kong, Australia, and others. I worked alongside colleagues and shared responsiblity for a number of descrete projects to bring the product up to the required level to be compliant in a given country.Responsibilty still covered UK related regions such as Jersey, Republic of Ireland, and Isle of Man. In particular for Jersey I was able to use my application knowledge and software design abilities to introduce a new module into the product which enabled clients to produce their statutory year end information to the Jersey government via the internet. This involved designing and developing a software solution which interacted with a Third Party Web Service and DLL that enabled two-way communication directly with the Jersey Government servers for processing of year end files, and the handling of errrors and responses for the end user.

Bristol, United Kingdom

In 2002 I sought about making a transition between teams at NorthgateArinso to start working on the companies flagship Payroll/HR product (ResourceLink). I made this move by joining the Data Migration and Implementation Team where I was solely responsible for a number of clients and had to see them through from pre-sales stage to parallel running and go-live. The role entailed a number of responsibilities but the main day to day work was Data Migration and getting the clients payroll/hr data from their incumbant system loaded into the NorthgateArinso ResourceLink database. This role involved working closely with Project Managers and Applications Consultants in order that each new ResourceLink implementation went smoothly. I worked to tight timescales and ensured milestones did not slip, and was accountable for my own work. I took pride in delivering on expectations and seeing end results of a client being able to see their data in the new system and able to run payrolls.Having worked on Northgate Payroll products before I was knowledgable of the underlying database schema and also the front end application. This meant I had responsibilty for much more than data migration, and was able to advise and assist clients in the setup of their system and operation. Having a good understanding of the database enabled me to provide advice from a data cleansing & data preperation point of view for migration.In the Data Migation Team I was able to prove my innovative skills and make suggestions for changes and implement new ideas that benefited the whole team. I scoped, designed & developed a system which allowed the task of data migration to be performed more efficiently, cutting down the time it took to carry out daily tasks of data preperation and processing. I developed a front end application that allowed the data migration tools to be used through a graphical user interface, and developed a suite of Excel Macros which enabled quick & precise processing of clients data.

Bristol, United Kingdom

I first started working for NorthgateArinso (MDIS as it was then) in 1998, and enjoyed a role working in the Reality Payroll/HR Team, specialising in UK Commercial Payrolls. I was solely responsible for 10+ clients using the Reality Commerical Payroll/HR product. This role entailed looking after the clients day to day support needs as well handling any enhancement requests that they may have, as a bespoke solution just for them. This allowed me to provide expertise accross the whole support and development lifecycle.I was responsible for preparing the annual product upgrades for my clients and ensuring that they were brought in line with the statutory legislation and other product enhancements that had been carried out over the previous year. Part of this involved storing the upgrades on DAT tapes and taking to client sites to perform the upgrade in person. Upgrades were then followed up with a one to one with the client (usually the Payroll Manager) to go through the product Release Notes and explain what had been delivered in the upgrade.As part of ongoing developments throughout the year between upgrades I was involved in a number of large system wide development and legistalion enhancements. This covered things like software changes to cater for government changes to National Insurance calculation rules, as well as other statutory instrument changes. I also took a lead role in running a small team of developers in the changes required to bring the product in-line with government changes around Working Tax Credits. I had to work on the specification for the system enhancements and the coordinate the development team for this.Whilst working in this role I was also able to use my creativeness and initiative to scope out and develope an internal customer administration database and front end application written in Delphi. This was devised, developed, and rolled out solely by me and became an important tool within the team daily processes.