I have been writing code for 25 years and working professionally in the software development industry since 2002. Since 2012 I have also run my own software consultancy.
March 2019 – Current
- Assisting the project coordinator of the Work Integrated Learning (WIL) program at RMIT University. WIL is student teams creating solutions with for industry partners.
- Providing guidance and mentorship to 5 student project teams (5-6 students per team) and assessing against course fulfillment requirements.
- 2 days per week, including face-to-face and Slack.
January 2012 – Current
Vylesk specialises in:
- Small portals and Intranets, primarily for education and small business.
- Web application development and business workflow automation.
Co-owner, development manager (2 full-time remote staff), software architect and lead developer. For the last 7 years I have both worked in full-time roles and managed the business.
Technologies & Tools: WordPress (theme and plug-in development), PHP, MySQL, jQuery, Bootstrap 4.x, Cloud9 (c9.io), Bash, Azure, Active Directory, ASP.NET.
September 2016 – September 2018
Datacom is a mid-tear corporate consultancy. I left the permanent full-time position in September 2018 to work for myself.
- Worked on 3 large client projects as a combination of full-stack .NET/web developer and team lead.
Clients include:
Red Cross Blood Service (Developer)
Bupa (Operations Lead / Developer)
Australian Unity (Team Lead / Developer) - Worked with client business stakeholders and internal software teams to deliver requirements.
- Created technical and process documentation.
- Provided support for other team leads, and assistance for junior developers.
- Designed and developed an orchestration tool that managed AWS environment creation and automated 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.
November 2014 – July 2016
Sub-Contract for Object Consulting. Belong was an Australian broadband provider and a subsidiary of Telstra.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
September 2014 – October 2014
Short-contract role. Front-end web developer.
August 2014 – September 2014
Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).
May 2014 – August 2014
Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).
April 2013 – November 2013
Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).
July 2010 – July 2011
Sub-contract role for Zenith Solutions (Aust) Pty Ltd. Data migration analyst.
April 2010 – June 2010
Contract role. Front-end ASP.NET web developer.
August 2009 – March 2010
Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web/Access database applications/SQL Server).
January 2008 – June 2009
Permanent full-time role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web/VBA/Access database applications/SQL Server).
March 2002 – December 2007
Permanent full-time role. Full-stack developer (Classic ASP/.NET/web/VBA/Access database applications/SQL Server).