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Working as a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer presented me with many new challenges, skills to learn and ways to improve. During this role I was responsible for designing a new core system to facilitate key areas of the business. In order to achieve this I worked on a React JS front end supported by Nest JS GraphQL Apis and a postgres database. This required me to design the database architecture and the API structures to support the new tool, then integrate the backend with a functional React Interface. All the while ensuring the code was understandable, maintainable and following good practices. My time in this role also involved mentoring and working closely with junior developers helping them along their journeys. Not solving the blockers for them but helping them to understand why and how to overcome them in the future. My time working on this new system allowed me to do what I enjoy the most in understanding business problems and translating that to a solution design and finally a working system. It involved working on new tools and technologies in order to build something new from the ground up.Tools and Languages: React JS, NestJS, Typescript, GraphQL, Jest, Postgres, Reddis and Docker

Working as a backend .Net Developer allowed me to continue to hone and develop my strengths. I enjoy complex systems and working to improve the efficiency, maintainability and extensibility of them. In this role I worked on WCF services, restful api’s and database (mySql) updates to maintain, improve and introduce new functionality to an existing solution.

Australia

Working as a Senior Developer enabled me to expand on the responsibilities and opportunities I had developed while working as a .Net Developer. On top of building new features and maintaining existing functionality in a SmartCLient application, WCF services, API services and SQL databases I was responsible for the technical design, implementation and maintenance of core components within the larger system. I solved problems and devised business and system solutions, conducted code reviews and mentored junior developers. I needed to decide the work breakdown and responsibilities for the team’s developers. Ensure that we reduced technical debt and improved the proficiency of the system as well as help shape the future direction of it. I engaged with other technical resources to understand system limitations, design overarching solutions and encourage good design and best practices that went beyond my code and the components I was responsible for and helped improve the system as a whole. Tools and Languages: .NET, C#, Linked Entity, NUnit, XUnit, SQL, TFS, Azure DevOps, API, MVC, WCF

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

I was responsible for a team of roughly ten people that included Business Analysts, Developers and Manual and Automated testers. This team contributed to multiple projects across a wide range of functional areas. As the team lead I oversaw a technical team to deliver software features under tight time pressures on a circular release schedule to support policy programmes. I was required to act on behalf of the team as a subject matter expert providing meaningful information to business based on individual and team analysis. I managed the expectations and relationships of stakeholders and other development teams in order to balance the needs of concurrent projects. I successfully delivered projects using agile methodologies as the team's scrum master running scrums, sprint planning, retrospectives and the Kanban approach. I was responsible for the team's workload, task assignments and deliverables to ensure projects are successfully completed on time as well as estimating project costs and project delivery.

Tools and Languages: .NET, C#, Linked Entity, SQL, TFS, Azure DevOps, API, MVC, WCF

Canberra, Australia

Working as a .Net Developer I had the opportunity to work on a large-scale system used by thousands of users nationally. Applying a number of tools, skills and technologies to deliver technical solutions for complex systems. I maintained and developed new functionality for a complex system used nationally by thousands of users. I developed technical solutions to facilitate and integrate system communications to other large complex systems and third party software products. I developed functionality using C# .Net for a SmartClient application, WCF services, API services and worked on an .Net MVC Web Application and designed relational databases and tables and wrote stored procedures in SQL to support these solutions. In this role I was expected to work across all technical areas of the solution. Including designing databases, tables and writing SQL stored procedures. Designed technical solutions for business requirements and updated, integrated and tested these solutions in the service layers as well as the front end MVC web application. I achieved this while simultaneously managing my time with the analysts to ensure that technical solutions are efficient, maintainable and effective whilst still meeting the client’s needs and expectations.Tools and Technology: .NET, C#, Linked Entity, SQL, Visual Studio, SQL Server Manager, TFS, Azure DevOps, API, MVC, WCF, Smart Client, JavaScript,

Canberra

Working as a Business Analyst allowed me to improve on my analytical and interpersonal skills. In this role I was responsible for working with business partners to understand their requirements and ensure a technical solution to meet these needs was delivered. I was required to regularly communicate with stakeholders, gather requirements and take a multidisciplinary approach to designing technical solutions that meet business needs. I became a subject matter expert able to offer advice, conduct analysis and make decisions based on business needs, technical limitations and supporting evidence. To achieve this I needed to understand, assess and advise on the system impact required for a proposed change. This role also required technical documentation including business rules, system processes, UML diagrams and business process maps and to communicate complex technical solutions with business partners clearly and effectively. - Regularly communicate with stakeholders, gather requirements and take a multidisciplinary approach to designing technical solutions that meet business needs - Became a subject matter expert able to offer advice, conduct analysis and make decisions based on business needs, technical limitations and supporting evidence - Understand, assess and advice on the system impact required for a proposed change - Technical documentation including business rules, system processes, UML diagrams and business process maps - Communicate complex technical solutions with business partners clearly and effectively

I worked part time as an intern Business Analyst while studying full time in my third year and Honours year of University. - Actively contributed to the analysis, user interface design and functionality of a Smart Client application - Worked alongside stakeholders to understand requirements - Supported senior Business Analysts with business and technical problem solving and design - Wrote business rules to support solution design decisions

Canberra, Australia

• Work independently and under pressure, staff management, teamwork and training • Making coffees, responsible for full breakfast and dinner menus • Manage and perform in a kitchen unsupervised • Take on management role when Manager is unavailable, deliver high quality customer service for all patrons, manage revenue and reconcile takings • Ensure a safe work environment

Canberra

- Money management , maintaining OH&S standards- Customer service , teamwork and staff training

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Second Class Honours Division A

At the Australian National University I studied a Bachelor of Software Engineering with Honours. The structure of the degree had a heavy.

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