CV

A fully remote role for Australia’s Leading Property Management company. As the sole technical person my role consisted of :

Liaising with 3rd parties to complete technical integrations in Power Automate for various systems including Entra Authentication and Provisioning, O365, DocuSign etc.

Liaising with internal stakeholders to automate manual processes to increase efficiency

Implement various Power Automate AI Features to assist in identity document validation.

Implement Azure Foundry where Power Automate did not provide the required functionality

Optimised Azure Data Factory pipelines to achieve over 90% savings.

Take ownership of Azure spend to ensure minimal wastage

Optimising data in various cloud apps to manage costs

Working on site at the Victorian Department of Health. My role consisted of :

Supporting a large microservices based codebase across over 40 applications using C#, .Net Core, Entity Framework, MSTest, Angular all hosted on Azure.

Analysing where business processes have changed and applications have not and putting recommendations forward to enhance applications to meet business requirements.

Full Software Development Lifecycle contributions. Collecting and discussing requirements with clients, providing estimates, discussing technical solutions, code reviews, working with testers and after hours Deployments. Using Azure DevOps to keep tasks organised.

Developer Mentoring. Sharing knowledge with other developers by taking part in pull requests, knowledge sharing sessions, best practice knowledge, promoting use of unit tests and CI/CD. Also softer skills such as internal documentation, wikis, customer documents and other tasks to improve efficiency.

Developer Advocacy. Representing the developers at a business level, passing on frustrations, concerns, and inefficient processes. Pushing for change to remove manual processes and other “time burglars”. Introduced the concept of tech debt and why proactively modernising applications help keep applications running well and developers working efficiently.

Fred IT Group builds software that exchanges prescription information and manages pharmacies all across Australia. My role consisted of :

Lead 2 Software Teams to deliver great software that is secure and performs as needed

Implementing Microservices based Cloud Technologies using C# .Net Core in Azure

Lead a project to rebuild the company’s largest application from On Premise based SOAP Services to Cloud based REST services using best practice coding, automated testing and design patterns

Onboard the teams to the SAFe Agile Framework and use the framework to assist in inter-team dependencies & communication

Breaking down silos to remove key person dependencies and encourage team collaboration

Pushing the team to increase code quality through open discussion in Pull Requests

Mentored junior team members on various Automated Testing frameworks including Selenium, NUnit, MSTest. Increased quality by ensuring test suites run in CI/CD pipelines.

Developer Advocacy. Representing the team at management meetings to ensure Tech Debt can be addressed and manual process removed

Assist Software Architects on choosing cloud-based software and infrastructure

Monitoring logs and Dashboards for performance bottlenecks

Triage escalations from internal stakeholders and resolve according to priority.

I was promoted to Head of Development at StarRez. My main responsibilities were:

Empower 4 development teams around the globe to self-manage and deliver great software using lean and agile practices

Provide high level context to projects and helping teams identify a solution to their problems

Lead escalations from internal stakeholders, customers, and 3rd parties

Evaluate potential partnership opportunities

Lead recruitment for the 4 teams

Ensure the software is secure to maintain the company’s PCI and SOC 2 compliance.

As Scrum Master of the Cloud Adoption Team I managed a scrum team of 9. My role was to:

Work in an Agile/Scrum environment with a Scrum Master and Product Owner to maintain approximately 350 ASP.Net C# integrations with 3rd party systems.

Used the Atlassian Suite of software, Jira, Bitbucket, Bamboo and Confluence as tools for delivering great software.

Work with product managers to identify the best enhancements to make for the user community

Working in the confines of a 15 year old monolithic codebase using .Net Framework and MSSQL I had to work with my team to find solutions to problems posed by Product Managers.

Developed a suite of microservices using REST to complement or replace parts of the monolithic codebase.

I was promoted to Development Manager at Innovation Digital. Taking on a more strategic role, I was responsible for the full software lifecycle in a waterfall environment for the company’s larger clients.

Leading the development team, I led a project to create a modularised codebase for our websites. Producing reusable and consistent code for developers and a standard platform for project managers to customise for clients.

Responsible for managing and monitoring public facing customer servers and backups.

Full project lifecycle of new websites and changes to existing websites utilising a variety of Content Management Systems such as Umbraco, Immediacy, and SharePoint mainly using a MSSQL database.

Worked on the biggest project in 4 years, building 37 new websites in more than 15 languages

Client facing role. I attend meetings to provide technical advice on new developments, including estimating costs and timescales for the developments.

Setup and maintenance of a MOSS 2007 server farm to use as the intranet, including a custom brand and Google Maps and SAP Business Objects integrations.

Ground up build of a backend to the bespoke MSSQL database giving editors basic CMS functions.

Developed several internal applications to remove lengthy manual processes.