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Auckland, Nz

Auckland, New Zealand

Leading the product design of the Ipiphany platform. This role also includes programme management (with no HR responsibilities), and software development where there's capacity.- Requirements gathering and solutions design, translating business requirements to product epics, feature specifications and UI designs.- Project planning, backlog grooming and acceptance testing.- Coordinate the product team to deliver on releases and features.- Refining the product team's development and release processes.- Represent the product team in the wider organisation, together with the product manager.- Facilitate communications between stakeholders to align knowledge, expectations and goals.- Software development work when time allows

Auckland, New Zealand

Ensuring the continued technical success of Touchpoint products, especially Ipiphany -- a text-analytic platform enabling businesses to efficiently identify key insights from massive volumes of customer feedback data.- Reimplemented Ipiphany's data import pipeline in anticipation of increased demand. The new design establishes clearer architectural boundaries between internal code components. Furthermore, the new data import service prioritizes resiliency and offers improved concurrency and resource management.- Implemented a data deduplication feature to prevent the doubling-up of records from third-party data integrations.- Provide miscellaneous bugfixes- Produce, maintain and peer-review product technical documentation- Manage product releases on a rotational basis- Provide technical support for usersTouchpoint Group is a leader in customer experience management. Touchpoint Group's solutions and services provide great reporting solutions backed by best-of-breed text analytics and industry expertise for customer feedback in banking, insurance, telecommunications and gig economy logistics.

Auckland, New Zealand

On a mission to create a delightfully modern platform where Go players across all skill levels can enjoy the game. Initially started as a vehicle to explore business development and different software tech stacks in my spare time, Sakura Go quickly became a long-term commitment after a like-minded software engineer joined.As a project co-founder, I do what all co-founders do -- a lot of everything!Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players. The aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 4,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.

Auckland, New Zealand

Part of a cross-functional software development team working on the company's flagship product, Geneious Prime.- Laid foundational work for the software's next-generation cloud service, up to its public beta release.- Substantially improved application usability by applying modern UI design patterns in the most commonly used features.- Advocated and led the re-design of the application's main user interface to give it a modern sheen.- Implemented a number of new features and improvements as requested by the product manager, such as the document metadata importer and the new virtual gel viewer.- Ensure software stays compatible with evolving macOS system conventions and standards.- Conduct peer code reviews.- Manage the product release process on a rotational basis.- Provide technical support for user enquiries.- Totally didn't add that pesky depulicate enzyme warning dialog each time you connected to a Shared Database 👀- Triage and fix bugsGeneious is part of Dotmatics, the global leader in R&D scientific software that connects science, data, and decision-making. More than 2 million scientists and 10,000 customers trust Dotmatics to accelerate research and help make the world a healthier, cleaner, and safer place to live. Learn more at https://dotmatics.com.

Auckland, New Zealand

Taught children between ages 4 to 8 how to play a board game called Go. I designed the business card, logo, and curriculum homework books for the then-fledgling Go school.

Dunedin, New Zealand

Main tutor for several holiday and term-based classes. Taught children aged 5 to 12 a selection of topics in the field of computer programming and electronics.Topics include programming with Raspberry Pi (Scratch and Python), Arduino (C++), Minecraft (Python) and web design using HTML/CSS.

Postgraduate Diploma - Pgdipbus, Business Development

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Go Club (2017)

Education record

Activities and Societies: Mechatronics Club Gifted and Talented Programme (2012 - 2013)