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Te Awamutu, Waikato, NZ

Waikato, New Zealand

Hamilton, New Zealand

• Selected by CEO to lead the Solution Delivery arm of the business which included all development related activity.
• Established a Company Advocate programme which provided a structure for leadership to maintain regular touch points with staff.
• Served as a key account manager for a number of important clients and oversaw their programme of work.
• Worked closely with Solution Delivery Team Leads to help establish a sense of ownership for their teams and the clients they serviced.
• Responsible for establishing the commercial arrangement with clients which included putting Master Services Agreements and Statements of Work in place.
• Served as part of the due diligence team which led to the acquisition of a local web development company and subsequently assimilated the staff into the company.

Hamilton, New Zealand

• Selected by COO to lead a development team which included developers and business analysts.
• Responsible for guiding/mentoring the team and supporting their professional development.
• Responsible for the resourcing, project management, account management and execution of multiple web applications and projects.
• Managed the RFI/RFP process to select a Customer Relationship Management system. This led to additional project work to implement the chosen CRM system and integrate with a Laboratory Information Management System.

Hamilton, New Zealand

• Worked closely with stakeholders and product owners to gather and understand requirements for a number of web applications across multiple industries.
• Held workshops to elicit requirements and engaged with focus groups to understand user behaviour.
• Served as Scrum Master for multiple development projects which included all of the Agile rituals; running daily standups, sprint planning, story pointing, elaborations, retrospectives, grooming and maintaining.

• Managed a bright team of web developers and web content specialists.
• Responsible for maintaining key account relationship with US-based Fortune 500 company.
• Gathered requirements, analysed business needs, wrote specifications, and estimated complex web projects on a daily basis. Developed project plans and managed their execution.
• Maintained relationships with customers around the world and worked with them to implement their web projects. Project managed web content, web application development, and mobile development projects.
• Organised many web projects simultaneously and managed the team’s capacity to deliver on time and within budget.
• Directly reported to the CEO and company directors concerning the strategic direction of the company.

• Lead Developer for Xstream Content Management System (XCM2) and Xstream Email Newsletter Marketing System. These applications are two of Digital Stream’s core software products, which are the underlying technologies.
• Managed the direction of the aforementioned products to include major enhancements, bug fixes, and testing.
• Served as a mentor to junior developers and spearhead initiatives to make the development methods at Digital Stream more sustainable for the future.Accomplishments:
• Project managed custom built applications from the initial requirements gathering phase through to testing and deployment.
• Analyzed, diagrammed, and documented complex systems to identify new areas of development to existing products.
• Analyzed business processes to streamline the production process including requirements collection, estimating time, and quoting.

• Responsible for maintaining and enhancing the code base for a Microsoft Windows based application which is one of New Zealand’s leading le¬gal practice management systems.
• Worked closely with project teams to ensure appropriate and timely delivery of product for testing
• Developed innovative solutions for all tiers of the software to include user inter¬face, business logic, and relational database
• Technologies used: VB6, SQL Server 2000

• Lead developer, Web Master, Database Designer, and Database Administrator for the Psychology Department in the School of Science.
• Collaborated with staff and students in cross functional teams in order to ensure the integrity of the department’s online systems. Architected innovative solutions which enhanced student learning.
• Technologies used: ASP.NET 1.1, VB.NET, SQL Server 2000, Classic ASP, VBScript, XML, XSLT

• Contracted to governmental organization. Provided leadership on client engagements to include the development of classified, internal systems that increased workflow and access to internal information.
• Developed online application that can handle thousands of soft copy documents in multiple file formats. The application significantly increased the knowledge management efforts throughout the organisation.
• Created entire Intranet site from the ground up, which improved customer’s ability to access information. Coordination with all levels of the organization was necessary and led to the intranet’s ultimate success..
• Technologies used: CGI, Perl, Sybase, Java

• US Naval Officer
• Hand selected by senior officers to establish and lead a permanent support division with five direct reports, which improved the ability of intelligence analysts to obtain all-source intelligence.
• Built external relationships and consulted with key organisations in the U.S. Intelligence Community

• US Naval Officer
• Led 15 Navy Personnel. Responsibilities included writing performance reviews, career planning, and managing the concerns of a highly technical group of individuals.
• Briefed and brokered relationships with the Office of Naval Intelligence and US Strategic Command encouraging collaboration on projects.
• Strategically analysed and reported on computer network architectures and security vulnerabili¬ties to aide decision making

• US Naval Officer (1996-1999)
• Deployed with and led 10-15 sailors responsible for special communications on naval vessels.
• Responsible for writing performance appraisals, overseeing the professional development and training, and overall well being of the team members.
• Conducted daily presentations to high-ranking officers to aide in their strategic and tactical decision making.

Mba, Business

Obtained an MBA

Masters Certificate, Information And Telecommunications Systems

Obtained a post graduate diploma in Information and Telecommunications Systems

Bs, Computer Graphics

Obtained a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Graphics