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• Development Team Leader | Mobile, 

  Sep, 2020 - Present

  I am currently leading Fruit Salad, a cross functional product development team focused on the Contacts experience in the Xero Accounting App. The team is comprised of iOS, Android and API engineers, a Product Owner and a Product Designer and we collaborate together to solve user problems and to build and deliver features on both iOS and Android apps. We work very closely with the other product development teams in Mobile and across Xero to ensure we can continue to scale and deliver new value sustainably.

  • Part of the FOMO enablement team, 'Supporting Teams in Owning Their JTBD'

  • Part of the Mobile Strategy working group

  • Improvements to how we create awareness, learnings and actions from incidents in Mobile

  • Part of team Xinder which won the Innovation category at the 2020 GSUP Hackathon

• Team Leader | Editorial Squad, 

  Jan, 2015 - Sep, 20205 years 8 months

  In my role as Team Leader of the Editorial Squad, I led a cross functional product team responsible for the Retail Editorial Platform at carsales. My team comprised of 4 Full Stack Software Engineers, a Product Manager, a QA Engineer and a part time designer. The Retail Editorial Platform enables carsales editors to deliver amazing content to users across all device types and 11 brands in Australia and Latin America including https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/, https://www.bikesales.com.au/editorial/, https://www.boatsales.com.au/editorial/ and https://soloautos.mx/noticias/.
  My team was responsible for managing the Wordpress based CMS that the editors use to create content and the associated publishing pipeline for distributing this content to downstream API's and retail applications. The platform was built for scale, resilience and performance and used a microservices architecture running in AWS.
  The responsibilities of my role included delivery, architecture, technical leadership, code reviews, mentoring, team, project and stakeholder management, cross team collaboration, system health and SLOs, SEO and web analytics. We operated with a build and own mindset and were directly responsible for over 40 separately deployable components.

  • Led the creation of a microservices based Editorial Platform

  • Led the team to internationalise the Editorial Platform including all customer facing experiences, publishing and the CMS

  • Led the team to rebuild Owner Reviews, a platform where carsales users can submit reviews of their vehicle

  • Owned engineering strategy for Editorial and got buy in at the C suite and with engineering leadership

  • Hands on development in ASP.NET Core, React, PHP, Wordpress, Node, Web Components, AWS ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/S3

  • Introduced Web Components to reuse components across experiences built in React, Angular or ASP.NET Core

  • SEO optimization of our editorial sites to grow organic traffic

  • Reduced operational spend by optimizing applications and architecture for the cloud and by moving from .NET Framework to containerised .NET Core applications

  • Managed suppliers such as our Wordpress hosts WP Engine

  • Recruited, onboarded and helped grow multiple highly talented engineers

  • Helped to champion the use of OKRs

  • Chief editor of the carsales Product & Technology blog - https://medium.com/carsales-dev/

  • Team Leader of team Carpay which won the overall prize at the carsales Hackathon July 2019

  • Part of the carsales team which won the Google AMP Hackathon 2018

• Senior Full Stack Engineer | Membership Squad, 

  Nov, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 2 months

  This is where I really learned my craft as a Software Engineer and where I learned to build applications that scale. I very quickly became expert at properly using SOLID principles, dependency injection, unit testing, design patterns and architectural patterns for distributed systems and the importance of culture to a team and an organisation.

  • Built features and applications using ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, SQL Server, Mongo DB

  • Built part of the web experience for Owner Reviews, allowing users to search and view car reviews written by other users

  • Used a microservices architecture

• Senior Analyst Programmer, 

  Apr, 2011 - Oct, 20132 years 7 months

  I worked on various Web, API and ETL projects, all using the Microsoft stack and mostly as a project technical lead.

  • Built features and applications using ASP.NET MVC 3, WCF, jQuery, SQL Server

  • Built data pipelines using SSIS, CLR

  • Introduced dependency injection, unit testing and CI/CD to new projects

• Analyst Programmer, 

  Jan, 2007 - Mar, 20114 years 3 months

  I worked on various ETL and web development projects for clients and became highly skilled at optimizing SQL for very large databases.

  • ASP.NET Web Forms

  • SSIS

  • ETL

  • SQL Server

• Software Engineer, 

  Jan, 2004 - Jun, 20073 years 5 months

  I managed the development of Lasercam, a hand held, laser based, mobile speed enforcement system and demonstrated this product to various customers around Australia and in the USA. I worked on various projects to help deliver enforcement systems for customers, including leading a team of 3 to successfully develop and deliver a new fixed site, laser based speed camera system for a customer in the USA.

  • ASP.NET

  • SQL Server

  • Visual C++/COM/DCOM

  • C

  • VB6

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