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Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia

Epping, Sydney

As a Scout leader, I enjoy passing on my knowledge and skills in hiking and camping to the young kids of today so that they can go out and explore and enjoy what our country has to offer with confidence.

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Lead developer in Sydney working with development teams in Cairns and Edinburgh to support and enhance the company’s reservation systems and API services.Collaborate across the organisation to identify business needs and determine appropriate IT solutions to satisfy new business requirements and ensure ongoing functionality improvements.Evaluate and.

Sydney, Australia

• Lead a team of developers in enhancing and supporting a C# application suite to manage all elements of travel planning consisting of windows and web services and a main web application. Maintain over 400 SQL Server.
• re-engineering the software build and deployment pipe-line to allow single click delivery of changes and features to multiple test environments utilising Octopus Deploy and AWS EC2
• re-engineering core business applications to allow them to be moved to an AWS cloud environment with no sticky sessions and full auto scaling.
• improving the user experience by upgrading functionality, legacy controls, streamlining internal application processes
• creating virtual testing environments, establishing virtual servers and ensuring zero downtime for application upgrades

• The Home Power Savings Program is a State Government program to help 220,000 eligible households to save up to 20% a year on their power use. Every eligible household gets a Home power assessment by an energy expert to.
• a new web application based on the NABERS home web application enhanced to accommodate the new requirements of the Home Power Savers Program
• a windows forms field application using the same business objects as the web application
• a data synchronising web service to allow data collected in the field to be sent to the main server
• a data interchange web service to allow electronic lodgment of records.
• initial design of the architecture of the application and the framework used to handle screen navigation utilising a MVP pattern

• NABERS - the National Australian Built Environment Rating System - is a national initiative managed by the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water. NABERS is a performance-based rating system for.
• a standalone calculation engine, reversed engineered from the many complex equations and calculations contained in the spreadsheet, that can be reused by a variety of different applications
• initial design of the architecture of the application and the framework used to handle screen navigation utilising a MVP pattern
• application database backend using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with management studio, including system administration
• user interface in consultation with the NABERS key users using Microsoft C#, ASP.Net, Entity Spaces persistence layer and business objects, table views and reports using fyiReporting including ongoing testing and.
• optimised query processes through performance tuning, profilers and index management

• AMS 2, Aircraft Management System, is a web based application that is used to manage the EOI process for companies to provide aviation services to the RFS during the fire season. It is also used in the tasking of.
• application database backend using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with enterprise manager, including system administration
• application architecture using a MVC style pattern
• tools that use the database fields to generate large parts of the code
• data access web services using C#, complex T-SQL stored procedures and table triggers, these web services will allow other applications to share this data in the future
• user interface in consultation with the RFS key users and business analysts using Microsoft C#, ASP.Net 2 and AJAX processing including ongoing testing and quality control

• Icon, Incident Control Online, is a web based application that is used to provide the statutory reporting and planning documents that are required during the management of a bush fire.I was responsible for the design.
• application database backend using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with enterprise manager, including system administration
• web mapping user interface in consultation with end users and business analysts, using ESRI’s ArcGIS Server Web ADF, ASP.Net, C#
• client side JavaScript routines to perform the drawing and editing of features in the browser
• business objects to store, modify and retrieve spatial features using ArcObjects and C#
• business objects to modify and retrieve spatial attributes using T-SQL stored procedures

• The New South Wales Rural Fire Service, RFS, provides volunteer fire fighting services both rural and metropolitan communities. I have been involved in the design and development two core business applications, BRIMS.
• initial design of the architecture of the application and the framework used to handle screen navigation
• application database backend using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with enterprise manager, including system administration
• user interface in consultation with the RFS key users using Microsoft C#, ASP.Net, complex T-SQL stored procedures, table triggers, ADO and DataDynamics ActiveReports including ongoing testing and quality control
• optimised query processes through performance tuning, profilers and index management
• web based mapping using ESRI’s ArcIMS and Map Dot Net to provide feature editing

The Epping Twilight Market is a fundraising initiative of OLHC Primary School Epping to bring in additional funds from outside the school community. As a parent actively involved in the school community and a developer in the IT Industry I took on the role to build the market’s web site.I evaluated several CMS offerings, in the end choosing Dot Net Nuke..