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Surry Hills, New South Wales, Au

Hands on Head of Engineering role- People, Process, Tech- Data Platform

Richmond, Victoria, Au

As the principal engineer supporting teams building the performance management product my role has me working across the stack - everything from the infrastructure to the frontend interface. In this role I focused on building a community amongst the tech leads in the camp (Tribe) where they could support each other, and also be accountable to each other. Working with engineers in the camp, I established the technical strategy to drive us closer to the company’s technical vision and alleviate challenges we faced in the camp.

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Edinburgh, Gb

Joined as squad lead for a team migrating part of the Flight Engine to AWS. I progressed to Tribe Engineering Lead for the Flight Engine, where my tribe successfully migrated the Engine into AWS whilst serving 80 million monthly active users. My role had me supporting teams on architecture, provide them the space to required to get the job done, and also hold them accountable for the services we ran in production.After getting to AWS I switched over to looking at how we support our teams in production. This involved helping build out the common Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for all microservices. To further help teams with their microservices I successfully made the pitch to hire an SRE squad.

London, Gb

This was a hands on CTO role where I was responsible for the technical direction and delivery of The Markit Enterprise Data Management (EDM) platform. Talking with clients and consultants I shape the roadmap to fill gaps and take the product into different scenarios. Across the EDM client base the platform handles many terabytes of data daily, and provides a core function to many large financial institutions. Markit EDM is built in .NET and makes use of SQL Server, as well as supporting many message queue technologies.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I was relocated from Australia to join the London frontend team as a Senior JavaScript engineer. The engineering style of Yammer is very product focused and engineers are encouraged to play an active role in shaping the product. As a senior engineer on the frontend team I was responsible for mentoring others in the team as well as staying on top of the architectural decisions that are being made.I was part of the team that successfully rebuilt the main frontend feed to simplify the code and help team velocity. This was done incrementally and released with zero downtime as we progressed from old to new code. The success of this approach was shared in a Scotland JS talk, which was well received by the attendees.

Alphashack was an incubator for products, which suited my full stack skills. The primary product that I work on was Graphdat, a real time server and application visualisation platform. We needed to solve for a distributed system that needed to scale for a high volume of writes as data was streamed to our backends, and at the same time handle aggregations in real-time to power the visualisations. I worked in a small team jumping across the stack as needed.

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The product I worked on in this position was the iOS (iPhone and iPad) remote for the fetchtv set-top box. The application uses a comet system to communicate to the set-top box, some of the trickier aspects of this was ensuring that the communication would work outside the home over 3G as well as on WiFi indoors. We initial produced a prototype using sencha-touch but then elected to write in native Objective-C so that we could get as much performance as possible. My role had me doing most of the low level communications and API creation for use by the rest of the team.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

As a solution architect I was responsible for the translation of business requirements into functional requirements for the development team. It was my responsibility to ensure that the various products of the company meshed well together and that the appropriate technologies were used. As well as filling the role of solution architect I was also the team leader for the Viostream product team. The Viostream platform is the video streaming and asset management offering from Viocorp. I was required to both design and develop features for this platform to suit the needs of Viocorp’s clients.Amongst my accomplishments in this position, I filled in as team lead for the Viomedia Product team for the development of a catch-up TV solution for Malaysia’s largest broadcaster. This proved to be an incredibly difficult task as I was required to take an existing CMS and rework it to suit the catch - up TV requirements. The project was finished on time and has since changed the browsing habits for the viewers of the client.Prior to being a solution architect, I was a .NET developer for Viocorp. My primary job was to build and skin video portals. In additional to building and skinning video portals I rebuilt the interface to the core management system used for managing client media. This involved rethinking the usability of the existing system and introducing a “Web 2.0” feel to the site . In the space of three months the entire interface and workflow for clients was reinvented.My major accomplishment as a .NET developer was a Javascript embed framework that that supports the embedding of Adobe Flash, Windows Media and Apple Quicktime content onto a site whilst allowing the user to change between formats. The system makes use of a degrading tag system that allows for the embed system to also be used in an AJAX environment . The end result was that clients could paste an embed code into their CMS and serve online video to their viewers regardless of platform.

I was offered the position of associate software engineer in the US office and spent a year working on various projects. I spent a significant amount of time converting old ASP applications into ASP.NET in order to better meet changing business needs. An example of this was a generic document templating system that I built using XML and Xquery to replace the existing Knowledge Base system. The document layout and submitted data was stored in XML. On rendering Xquery methods were used to select and update the information stored in SQL.I was also part of the team that rebuilt DataBuffet.com from the ground up. Using a C# for the backend, and jQuery for the frontend, we created a responsive, robust chart and mapping tool for use with the company's data warehouse (FAME). For this project I wrote various jQuery plugins to streamline the frontend processes. On the backend various VB6, C++ and SQL pieces of code had to be rewritten. The project included creating webservices to store your own data, so that you could use the tools to chart and/or map your data against other economic data.Possibly the toughest project I undertook was adding a coupon to the existing shopping cart system. Due to the nature of the existing system I had to graft the coupon system using only SQL. This involved building all the pieces and slowly moving them into the live system so that there wouldn't be any disruption to service. This was tricky because of the system had been written over 10 years prior. At the end of it the company ended up with a robust coupons system that allowed for everything from bundles to bulk discounts.

My main responsibilities as a data specialist was to assist in data collection for the econometric data warehouse at Economy.com. I built various data entry macros using VBA(via Excel) with the aim of reducing the manual workload. I had created macros that could read a variety of data files produced by the Bank of Japan into our databanks. One os the more challenging aspects of this project was working through all the nuances of the datafiles. In addition to my daily tasks, I also rebuilt a range of internal tools used to manage data updates. One these tools was the data calendar, which at the time was run from an MS Access database. I redesigned the forms to adjust for timezones and day light savings. As well as this, I also redesigned the forms to ensure ease of printing. The result of which was improved productivity across the department.

New York, Ny, Us

Analytical skills in the analysis of Financial Information Systems used by companies. Aiding with audit work of information systems and processes. Creation and review of reports generated by the department for both internal and external use.

Ultimo, Nsw, Au

Managing online task allocation database; Time management skills; Administrative skills; Dealing with people on the phone; booking venues; negotiating with other parts of the university; presenting information to large groups

Ultimo, Nsw, Au

Database Admin, Office Support, User Training

Paid work experience in all aspects of insurance.

Bachelor Of Business, Economics, Finance, Information Technology

Student Exchange, Economics

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