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Work Experience

• Freelance, 

  Nov, 2019 - Present

  Not one to shy away from staring down a giant, I'm working on a 'small' side project of building a privacy-focused social network to take on Facebook. The disruption industry needs some disruption.

• Part-time Software Development Project Manager, 

  May, 2019 - Jan, 20208 months

  • Reported to 2 project owners (researchers).

  • Coordinated with external stakeholders and project managers.

  • Responsible managing budget and expenditure tracking, planning, software architecture, status reporting, recruitment, and team management.

  • Recruited a 3 person development team.

  • Managed 2 x 6-person student teams for 12 weeks to develop sub-components of the project.

  • Exited the project before completion and delivery.

• Tutor, 

  Jul, 2019 - Nov, 20194 months

  • Ran 2 tutorials per week for Database Applications course(approx. 50-60 students).

  • The course covered relational databases (Oracle), MobgoDB and developing a web application with PHP.

  • Learnt MongoDB for the course.

  • Performed assignment and exam marking.

• Support Project Coordinator / Student Mentor, 

  Mar, 2019 - Nov, 20198 months

  Assistant project coordinator for the Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course.
  WIL is a program of capstone projects by student teams creating solutions for industry sponsors.

  • Supervised 6 project teams (~30 students) per semester.

  • Provided guidance and coaching toward successful project delivery for each sponsor.

  • Guest lectured on the topic "Getting Started with Git and GitFlow" with a 45 minute practical demonstration for students.

• Small Business Owner / Software Architect, 

  Jan, 2012 - Nov, 20197 years 10 months

  Vylesk was a boutique software development consultancy that built web applications and portals for small businesses and educational institutions.

  In 2019 we successfully launched a new Intranet for St Hildas College in Melbourne, designed from scratch with custom workflows and built on top of WordPress. We also developed and managed a custom student tutorial management system for Hildas for 6 years.

  Vylesk consisted of 2 principal consultants in Melbourne and 2 full-time developers in India.

  Due to declining business a shifting in the industry, in November 2019 we chose to wind down the company to reassess and pursue new opportunities.

  • Technologies & Tools: WordPress (theme and plug-in development), PHP, MySQL, jQuery, web application development with HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript/SASS, VueJS, Bootstrap, W3CSS, .NET/ASP.NET, Microsoft Azure

• Senior Software Developer / Team Lead, 

  Sep, 2016 - Sep, 20182 years

  Datacom is a mid-tear corporate consultancy. I left the permanent full-time position in September 2018 to work for myself.

  • Senior Developer (full-stack web/.NET) and Team Lead for automated development environment project with Australian Unity.

  • Interim Technical Lead and ongoing Operations Lead for COBOL migration project with Bupa.

  • Senior full-stack web/.NET developer on the Organ Match project with Australian Red Cross Blood Service.

  • Worked with client business stakeholders and internal software teams to deliver requirements.

  • Created technical and process documentation.

  • Supported other team leads and assisted junior developers.

  • Designed and developed an orchestration tool that manages AWS environment creation and automated the setup/linking of corresponding environments in Octopus Deploy.

  • Technologies & Tools: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Visual Studio 2015 & 2017, Angular 1.2 & 5, .NET 4.6, ASP.NET MVC 4.x, NUnit/Moq, AutoMapper, Entity Framework, SQL Server, Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 & CloudFormation, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Micro Focus Visual COBOL.

• Senior Software Developer (Web front-end), 

  Nov, 2014 - Jul, 20161 year 8 months

  Sub-Contract for Object Consulting. Belong was an Australian broadband provider and a division of Telstra.

  • Front-end web developer. New feature development, defect resolution, and BAU development.

  • A/B test development and management of website optimisation campaigns.

  • Team support and mentor to incoming developers.

  • Technologies & Tools: Adobe Target, Optimizely, Grunt, Middleman, SASS/CSS, JavaScript, Knockout.js.

• Senior Software Developer, 

  Sep, 2014 - Oct, 20141 month

  Short-contract role. Front-end web developer.

• Software Developer, 

  Aug, 2014 - Sep, 20141 month

  Short contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).

• Software Developer, 

  May, 2014 - Aug, 20143 months

  Short contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).

• Software Developer, 

  Apr, 2013 - Nov, 20137 months

  Short contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).

• Data Management Consultant, 

  Jul, 2010 - Jul, 20111 year

  Sub-contract role for Zenith Solutions (Aust) Pty Ltd. Data migration analyst.

• Software Developer, 

  Apr, 2010 - Jun, 20102 months

  Contract role. Front-end ASP.NET web developer.

• Software Developer, 

  Aug, 2009 - Mar, 20107 months

  Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web/Access database applications/SQL Server).

• Software Developer, 

  Jan, 2008 - Jun, 20091 year 5 months

  Permanent full-time role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web/VBA/Access database applications/SQL Server).

• Software Developer / Team Lead, 

  Mar, 2002 - Dec, 20075 years 9 months

  Permanent full-time role. Full-stack developer (Classic ASP/.NET/web/VBA/Access database applications/SQL Server).

Projects Experience

• 'Connect': A platform for portals and business process automation

  Nov, 2017 - Present

  'Connect' is a web application layer built on top of WordPress for creating portals/intranets and business process automation. Developed for a a customer and running live since February 2019, every feature is driven by real-world needs. It is designed for extensibility and customisation. The client since cancelled the project half-way through, but we were successfully running live for 6 months and have since dissected and started re-working the project to be launched as a special service offering in the future.

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