Tom Dunstan Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, Australia

• This was a project for a new software system for the EPA web-based Public Register, which takes records from multiple other systems and publishes them on the EPA website.Acted as project lead on this project to:
• Design system architecture
• Ran workshops with key business stakeholders to identify target users and use cases
• Introduced a Jenkins-based continuous integration server to the EPA for running automated tests to assure code quality, including retro-fitting an existing project to run integration tests on it
• Introduced a modern Gradle-based build system to replace the aging Ant-based system.
• Introduced a code artefact repository to the EPA for tracking of tested, known-good builds of the software

Adelaide, Australia

• The EPA had two new systems developed by an external developer that must integrate with an existing production system.Acted as a technical architect and developer to:
• Consult with relevant stakeholders as to their current needs and needs for integration between the systems.
• Regularly communicate with the external developer and manage outstanding work with regards to the integration with the existing system.
• Implement an automated end-to-end testing framework based on the Behaviour-Driven-Development framework Cucumber and Geb to test integration between the systems
• Introduce unit and integration testing frameworks to the aging existing system codebase
• Implement required logic for integration in the existing system's codebase

Adelaide, Australia

• Acted as a senior developer to:
• Evaluate the new geospatial infrastructure made available to SA government agencies by the Spatial Data Sharing Initiative (SDSI).
• Evaluate the existing geospatial functionality in the CARES application
• Consult with key stakeholders on desired functionality
• Replace existing geospatial functionality with newer, much improved functionality based on the open source Leaflet javascript library
• Develop a thorough set of integration tests and introduce supporting test infrastructure to the projectTechnologies Used: Leaflet, Javascript, Java, Oracle, ESRI web services, Groovy, Geb, Spock, Gradle, Cucumber.

London, United Kingdom

• Acted as an Innovation Consultant setting up a team inside Sky’s Product Development and Delivery section to help Sky to evaluate potentially innovative ideas quickly and cheaply. This included:
• Collaborating with key stakeholders to understand their needs and problems
• Designing a process by which ideas could be evaluated and prioritised
• Designing a team, i.e. which skills would be required for the team to be successful
• Developed technical infrastructure to support the team using technologies listed below
• Performed interviews of potential team members

London, United Kingdom

• As well as roles covered over this time period (see roles at Sky), I also worked at Energized Work on the BuyaPowa social e-commerce startup (full-time 2010-2011 plus maintenance and support later):Working very closely.
• Working closely with the founder designing customer flow through the site and appropriate user interfaces
• Working with a designer applying the required graphical designs to the site
• Implementing all core business logic in the app, with full test coverage and a constantly running test suite with supporting infrastructure
• Integrating with a number of third party services, including Facebook, Paypal, Twitter, Gmail, SendGrid, Mailchimp and Google Analytics. Maintaining separate integration test suites for all of those.
• Groovy / Grails

London

• Worked on maintenance of a codebase supporting several exising Sky web properties, the launch of a new one and the relaunch of a high traffic site.Acted as a senior developer achieving the above, including:
• Dealing with database migration as part of the site re-launch
• Leading efforts to make the re-launched site responsive on mobile devices
• Integrating with numerous external services, from providing metadata to Facebook to consuming external feeds for TV scheduling to providing an optimised JSON feed for Sky’s mobile applications team.
• Maintaining the custom CMS at the core of the websites
• Troubleshooting performance issuesTechnologies Used:

Adelaide, Australia

• Acted as a senior developer and technical architect across various Java-based systems at the SACE Board:
• Originally brought in to help the Board transition its Java-based systems to use the Spring framework in both web based server systems and Swing based GUI applications
• Wrote an Ajax-based web application for customers with heavy emphasis on good customer experience
• Integrated a Crystal Reports based reporting solution into the Board’s GUI framework
• Wrote new checker routines for changed core business functionality, introducing new automated integration testing infrastructure to deliver long-term quality
• Wrote a small Spring based portlet for integration of core business systems and the Liferay-based web portal that the Board chose to redevelop their site in

Development of Java-based web application showing localized news, weather, horoscope, gaming and sports content from local feed providers. Helped develop the build and automated deployment mechanism for the application, setup of team infrastructure and testing, QA, UAT and deployment clusters.Skills varied from unix system administration through to Java.

Software Developer and Technical Architect on a number of projects over a five year period. All were Java based applications, and most were web based. Some are public, such as TendersSA at http://www.tenders.sa.gov.au/.