Career Profile
I have spent my career working with and building software based solutions. There have been many different challenges faced as I have explored a number of industries including - Biotech, Financial Services, Membership Management, eCommerce, Event Registration, Real Estate and Wagering. All have the following aspects in common:
- Security
- Performance
- Governance
- Scalability
Most importantly a focus on customer delivery whether that be internal or external.
Experiences
Helped lead Australia’s most technologically progressive Bank to not only shift to the cloud but to embrace the cloud. Inclusive of the 3 major cloud vendors including AWS, Azure and GCP the technology stack is broad varied. Designed systems to provide automated and repeatable software at use within the bank. ( Watch the video: <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll50dAiKPoI” target=”_blank>Here</a> )
- AWS Community of practice organiser
- Facilitated NAB’s internal “Learn 2 Code” program
- Mentor developers and architects
- Build Proof of Concept architectures
Worked in a highly skilled agile team to support and bring to life new and modern products, technology and innovation to Life Insurance in Australia. Building with AWS and Azure Cloud providers.
- Implemented MLC Life Insurance’s first product to be placed in market with Salesforce CRM
- Led discovery to AWS within the enterprise
- Hackathon winner 2017 and 2018 - Best use of Technology
- Mentored the development team
- Led the integration between Digital channels and Policy Adminstration Systems
Leading a progressive team of developers servicing tens of thousands of wagering clients on Australia’s number one racing and sports betting platform, constantly revising architecture, technologies, infrastructure with a heavy focus on front end performance.
- 100% AWS Infrastructure
- Solution design and implementation
- Worked with head of architecture to design “Target State Architecture”
- Designed, implemented and ported existing legacy BackBone and PHP to ReactJS and C# microservices
- Mentored the development team
- Senior API designer
- CI/CD Pipeline designer and implementer
- DevOps and Automation
- Ansible
Working in a highly skilled agile team to support and bring to life new modern Products, Technology and Innovation to Life Insurance in Australia. Building with AWS and Azure Cloud providers.
- Brought on to port Legacy Real Estate CMS to modern architecture ( reactJS )
- Built Property Management Portal in C# and ReactJS
- High level system design and architecture
- Melbourne Techlead
- CI/CD Implementaion
- Introduced the AWS ecosystem working with Lambda, RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, Docker and ELK
- DevOps and Automation
Managed all aspects of Technology and Communications Managed a team of Developers, Designers and Software Testers ( QA ) Specialised in high performance high traffic web based Event and Membership Management software for some of Australia’s top organisations including AFL, NBL, NRL, Little Athletics, Cycling Australia and the RSL. eCommerce and payment integration - processing credit card transactions on average every 10 seconds 24 hours a day.
- Promoted from Technology Lead to CTO
Responsible for system architecture and design. Extended CogState’s USA capability in satellite office. Code in:
- Microsoft C#
- Adobe ColdFusion
- Apache Flex
- Microsoft SQL server
- HMTL / CSS
Responsible for delivery of CogState core software offering. Code in:
- Adobe ColdFusion
- Apache Flex
- Microsoft SQL server
- HMTL / CSS
Responsible for all Software testing and validation lifecycle. Hired and upskilled USA office Testing Staff.
- Configuration of software
- Automation Testing
- Manual Testing
- Load Testing
System administrator for a progressive Secondary College, one of the first schools in Victoria to roll out a fully wireless campus
- Migrated systems to virtual environments
- Managed a wired and wireless network of ~1700 machines
- Implemented the wireless network infrastructure to a previously non-wireless campus
- Managed multiple Windows and Linux servers
- Maintained and managed intranet ( classic asp ).
- Designed and produced several accounting/finance based tools in C#
System adminsitrator for a progressive Secondary College, one of the first Schhols in Victoria to role out a fully wireless campus
- Configureation and setup of Multimedia equipment
- Video conferencing over Dual ISDN link
- Technical Support for executive level
- Ensuring correct operation of multimedia devices including data projectors, telephone lines, network connections, video conferencing, audio conferencing, sound and visual setup)
Community
Co-owner and host of DevCOP Melbourne, Melbourne Developer Meetup ( bi-weekly ) Assistant in AWS Programming and Tools meetup Co-Host Melbourne DeepRacer Nights meetup