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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As a key leader at Independent Reserve, I oversee the development and enhancement of our website, trading portal, and mobile apps.What I do:- Leading the technical design and functionality improvements of our website, trading portal, and mobile applications.- Interviewing, hiring, and managing a team of highly skilled frontend developers across both mobile.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Outsourced as an Angular Specialist on a NSW Government Project. Contract extension was offered. However I declined it to pursue a role that better aligned with my passion.

Exited in 2020. Turned an idea into a working POC in a month. Raised over $100k. Built an MVP. Timing of our idea was too early, struggled finding product-market fit. Closed down at break even.#1 - Pioneer Tournament First place - NZ Finals, Entrepreneurship World Cup.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for redeveloping their financial desktop application into an Angular Web App with a.NET Core backend. As well as leading the frontend architecture for the rest of the organisations 10+ applications.

Hamilton, New Zealand

Delivering web and mobile applications for several clients on contract from Company-X, including Cisco Systems and New Zealand Transport Agency.The technology stack includes C# ASP.NET Core, MS SQL, Angular 2-8, Typescript, Azure, Xamarin, Android and iOS.

Delivering web and mobile applications for several clients on contract from Company-X, including Cisco Systems and New Zealand Transport Agency.The technology stack includes C# ASP.NET Core, MS SQL, Angular 2+, Xamarin, Android and iOS.

• Develop an intranet web application for a client to manage cabins, customers and cabin requests.
• Designing and developing the core functionality of the web application from end-to-end (including the front and backend development.
• Setup and SSO integration of Vanilla Forums with the web application.
• Developing a file manager with integration to the cabin rental agency Just Cabins' Dropbox account.

Auckland, New Zealand

GoSweetSpot is New Zealand’s biggest freight aggregator, it accesses and analyses freight options allowing clients to optimise through cost and efficiency as well as providing logistic tools to streamline the process. I developed integration with their system and several international courier companies including Yodel and USPS.

Tauranga

• Designing, maintaining and developing integration for various accounting/POS systems with our custom ecommerce platform. Each integration was tailored to our clients business needs Integration include: Xero.
• Designing and developing a project management system tailored to our client using ASP.NET MVC and industry standard N-Tier design and SOLID principles.
• Maintain, support and implement customised solutions into our ecommerce platform.
• Mentor junior developers to gain a better understanding of C# and the.NET framework.

• Freelancing work involving the development of several small programs and website development for an individual in the USA.Work included:
• Developing various bots for an online game called Puzzle Pirates which solved game puzzles efficiently.
• Developing a download manager desktop application in C#. This included integration into their website database and a web application to manage user licensing.
• Provide consultation on techniques to obfuscate.NET and Java applications.

Hawera, New Zealand

I was asked to develop Internet Cafe software for South Gate Catering in Hawera. The software was developed in Visual Basic 6. It was awarded second place in the Bright Sparks Competition.