Profile
I am a fullstack web developer with 10+ years commercial experience. I have an interest in visualisations, analysis and reporting.
I enjoy challenges and research, teamwork and collaboration. Exploring new technologies is a past time. My aim is to work with like mided companies or individuals that will challenge and utilise my skill set.
Job History
Digital Dialogue - Lead Developer
06/2016 - current
Digital Dialogue is an analytics driven web agency. Aggregating lead/sale data and consumer interest with web analytics.
Roles and responibilities included managing & mentoring a dev team. Working with the team to manage prioities and ensure deadlines were met. Scoping projects, reporting to managers and clients while developing and maintaing business applications.
Whilst here with the team we implemented a sprint workflow and a clear work load outline. Enabling account managers to maintain client expectations whilst allowing developers to realise and commit to deadlines.
Additionally I maintained web software that would transfrom GA data, leads & sales to give sale funnel insights. Using Tableau & D3js to build dashboards. And implemented annomoly detection with R for monitoring services and alerts.
Thesius — Senior Javascript Developer
11/2014 - 04/2016
Thesius is a start up company in Germany. Aiming to connect students to companies and students to other students. Offering academic internships, job offers and insights on current academic research.
My responsibilities included full stack development. From maintaining Cypher queries (Neo4j), implementing Solr 5.3 for full text search with search suggestion, updating the Nodejs API, optimizing Backbone components, builing Jquery plugins and making the site mobile compatible through responsive CSS and HTML.
Other duties included mentoring interns and students on work experience. And creating integration tests with Selenium and Nightwatch.js.
BJM Design — Full Stack Developer
06/2013 - 08/2014
BJM Deisng is a boutique web agency. With a strong design & frontend compoentent.
I was developing responsive, cross platform interactive websites. With a strong focus on UI, for both mobile & tablet devices. Also unit testing with PHPUnit, and qualifying functional integration.
During the time here I introduced new procedures into the company including morning stand ups, user activity diagrams, project scrum board, unit testing QA & built a procedure portal to document company process.
Salsa Digital — Senior PHP Developer
08/2012 - 06/2013
Salsa Digital builds enterprise level websites. Either custom solutions using Laravel or CMS managed sites with tools like Magento or Drupal.
Responsibilities included monitoring & maintenance of MySQL master/slave DB, optimising ETL import scripts to meet SLA targets and ongoing feature development of an enterprise level web application.
Other tasks involved setting up Solr full text search. Developing power admin UI features with Angularjs.
Dash Digital — Senior Flex Developer
01/2012 - 08/2012
Dash Digital being based in Perth has a strong relationship with the mining community. Providing business solutions such as training induction tools, managing web sites and other B2B marketing solutions.
My main task was building a desktop application to manage video, image, sound, animation & annotations. To enable exporting of compelling presentations targeted for mining inductions.
I was the sole developer on the project. Deploying to both Windows & Mac OS through Adobe AIR.
Activate Group LTD — Flex Developer
03/2011 - 11/2011
Building Nokia Kiosks for deployment in Dubai and across middle east Asia. Kiosks included proximity motion sensors. Device identi cation for the Symbian platform. Allowing the installation of popular apps straight from the kiosks, in areas where internet connection is limited. Interactive 3D models of the latest Nokia devices.
My main focus was debugging and optimising existing code for performance on handheld devices. And i18n updates, for English & Arabic compatibility.
Various Web Contracts 2010 Contracting I was receiving a lot of Flash/AS3 work, which is what lead me on to pursue further Flex development. But included Javascript and PHP contracts working with WordPress, Joomla, Magento and other eccomerce platforms.
McCann World Group — Web Developer
05/2009 to 12/2009 Contracting
McCann Worldgroup is one of the world’s largest marketing communications networks, boasting a roster of ve best-in-class companies.
I was responsible for converting PSD creatives into interactive media. Including small micro sites, Flash media & promotional registration forms. I was involved from concept to delivery. Helping to estimate and conceive viable business ideas.
While the scale of the projects were reasonably small, the deadlines were extremely tight.
Education
Diploma with Honours in Fine Arts - 3 years
The Learning Connection - Wellington
Side Notes
Hobbies: Boxing, Guitar and Dog training
Interests: Reading, Language learning, Architectual Visualisation, Cooking