I’ve been working in the software development industry full-time since 2002.
Software Developer
Datacom
September 2016 – Present
I’m a resource for Datacom, a mid-size corporate professional services company originating in New Zealand. I joined the Software Australia division as a permanent full-time employee after 7 years contracting.
January 2018 – PresentDevelopment of a custom web application to perform registration and matching of organ donors and recipients.
I was attached to the team as a developer at the tail end of the project going into overtime.
Responsibilities:
- Full-stack developer (.NET and Angular 5).
Technologies & Tools: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Visual Studio 2017, Angular 5, .NET 4.6, NUnit/Moq, AutoMapper, Entity Framework, SQL Server
Client Project: Bupa (Operations Lead / Developer) (website)
March 2017 – January 2018
Migration of a core Bupa COBOL application from Unix to Wintel. Located on-site beside Bupa SMEs and another consultancy contracted to perform testing. Our team included leads and developers in Melbourne and developers in Vietnam.
A challenging project due to politics and poor delivery expectations, but the core delivery team was one of the most cohesive, supportive and capable teams I’ve worked with.
Responsibilities:
- Developer for 3 months (migrating COBOL files).
- Interim Technical Lead (then assisted the Technical Lead ongoing).
- Operations Lead – working with Bupa stakeholders in preparation for go-live and development/process changes.
- Team support, new developer onboarding and assistance.
- Identified, analysed, and performed de-duplication of duplicate migrated files (approx. 12,000 files).
- Technical Documentation.
Technologies & Tools: Micro Focus Visual COBOL, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Visual Studio 2015
Client Project: Australian Unity (Team Lead / Developer) (website)
September 2016 – February 2017
We designed and developed a set of patterns and tooling around existing .NET and Sitecore applications, allowing Australian Unity to rapidly create new AWS development/test and deploy application sets to them. Starting alone with a proof of concept, we finished with 2 other developers and I took the reins as team lead.
This project was a DevOps success and one of the most satisfying I’ve been involved in, showing the true value of scripting Cloud environments and application deployments.
Project outcomes:
- Ability to repeatedly and reliably create new “environments” (dev, test, production) in AWS containing multiple VMs from configuration files.
- Deploy applications to target environments using Octopus Deploy.
- Developed a custom orchestration to manage configuration and creation of environments in AWS and coordination with Octopus Deploy.
Responsibilities:
- De-facto team lead (3 developers).
- Design and development of an orchestration tool that managed AWS environment creation and automated setup/linking of corresponding environments in Octopus Deploy.
- Work with Australian Unity developers and stakeholders.
Technologies & Tools: Visual Studio 2015, ASP.NET MVC 4.x, Angular 1.2, Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 & CloudFormation, Octopus Deploy, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), TeamCity
Software Developer
Belong – Powered by Telstra
November 2014 – July 2016
Sub-Contract for Object Consulting. Belong is 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.
Software Developer
Object Consulting
September 2014 – October 2014
Short-contract role. Front-end web developer.
Software Developer
PageUp
August 2014 – September 2014
Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).
Software Developer
Village Roadshow
May 2014 – August 2014
Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).
Software Developer
Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
April 2013 – November 2013
Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).
Data Management Consultant
Transurban
July 2010 – July 2011
Sub-contract role for Zenith Solutions (Aust) Pty Ltd. Data migration analyst.
Software Developer
eNett
April 2010 – June 2010
Contract role. Front-end ASP.NET web developer.
Software Developer
City of Melbourne
August 2009 – March 2010
Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web/Access database applications/SQL Server).
Software Developer / Consultant
Prima Consulting
January 2008 – June 2009
Permanent full-time role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web/VBA/Access database applications/SQL Server).
Software Developer / Consultant / Lead
ParagonIT
March 2002 – December 2007
Permanent full-time role. Full-stack developer (Classic ASP/.NET/web/VBA/Access database applications/SQL Server).