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Sector Experience

*         Banking and Finance

*         Government – Dept. of Education & Training

*         Resources/Energy (Shell)

*         Telco's - Telstra

*         Transport (Car Haulaways) - billing and operations

*         Utilities (Mercury Energy - NZ electricity retail and line)

*         Not for Profit Associations

 

Key Attributes

*         9 years full-time Application Delivery experience in various roles including: Team Leader, Systems Architect/Designer, Business Analyst, Reviewer/Auditor and Developer.

*         Business Focused with great Team Leadership, People Communication and Project Management skills.

*         Strong Analysis and Documentation knowledge for producing Technical and Function Specifications using UML and Data Modeling.

*         SQL Server DBA experience including Database Design, DTS, data migration, real-time reporting and OLAP Analysis Services on enterprise level databases.

*         Pre and Post Sales support experience

*         MSc. Honours (1st class) in Mathematics, and BSc. in Computing and Mathematics.

Skills

Skill Name

Skill Level

(« -Beginner,   ««««« - Expert)

Last Used

Experience

C# and VB.NET

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Currently Used

1 year

Web Services

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Currently Used

1 year

ASP and ASP.NET

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Currently Used

4 years

DHTML/DOM/HTML

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Currently Used

4 years

Javascript

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Currently Used

4 years

XML/XSL/XML Schema

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Currently Used

3 years

UML Documentation

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Currently Used

3 years

Visual Basic

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Currently Used

6 years

SQL Server and TSQL

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Currently Used

6 years

DTS (SQL Server)

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Currently Used

3 years

OLAP, MDX, Data Warehousing

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Currently Used

6 months

MS Active Directories

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Currently Used

1 year

IIS 4.0/5.0/6.0

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Currently Used

4 years

ADO and ADO.NET

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Currently Used

4 years

ORACLE 8 PL/SQL

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Currently Used

1 year

MTS, COM+, MSMQ

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1 year ago

4 years

Crystal Reports (VB.NET)

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Currently Used

2 years

Delphi

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3 years ago

2 years

Smalltalk

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3 years ago

2 years

C

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5 years ago

1 year

MQ Series (IBM)

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3 years ago

2 years

 


Professional Experience

 

Senior Analyst/Technical Lead, Department of Education and Training (Mar 2003 - )

In this varied role I provide Technical Analysis, Systems Architecture, “Proof of Concept” and Development services for School Administration and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) Applications.  With a team of 3 developers I support legacy VB6/SQL Server applications as well as enhancing and re-developing them using Visual Studio.NET Technologies.  The Application suite also includes a SQL Server OLAP Data Warehouse application.  I am currently developing a Technical Specification for a system which Captures and validates School data and delivers it to a central corporate repository using   a Rich Client (VB.NET) and ASP.NET Web Services.

 

Project

School Census

Responsibilities

Technical Project Leader, Systems Architect

Description

School data is captured, cleansed and sent to Head Office (Corporate) using a VB.NET rich client and ASP.NET Web Services. 

Size

5 month – 4 person team – 2000 users

Client

Rich VB.NET Client (n-tier)

Console Worker Processes (VB.NET)

Web Server

ASP.NET (VB.NET) on the Windows 2000 EDUWEB Web Farm

Database Server

SQL Server Version 2000 on Windows 2003 Server

 

Project

School Server Viewer

Responsibilities

Technical Project Leader, Systems Architect, Developer

Description

This An ASP.NET web application allows department support staff and school administrators to monitor progress of the processing of data which is sent to/from “Corporate”.  It also displays error and status information captured from school servers (2000 servers).  The summary page highlights key personalised status reports with real-time charts.  In addition, there is an on-line email notification service allowing subscribers to received personalised email alerts.

Size

5 month – 3 person team – 2000 users

Client

Internet Explorer 6.0

Web Server

ASP.NET (C# and VB.NET) on the Windows 2000 EDUWEB Web Farm

Database Server

SQL Server Version 2000

 

Technical Project Leader, SMS Management & Technology (Method) (Aug 2001 – Mar 2003)

I am a technical leader for intranet and internet applications.  I have worked on a number of projects with Telstra (using Oracle 8), also assisting Account Managers in developing proposals (pre-sales), developing specifications, and maintaining applications (post-sales).  My pre-sales work includes:

 

*         Financial Planning Association – Content Management and e-commerce System

*         Australian Psychological Society - Content Management and e-commerce System

*         Department of Human Services – Data capture and reporting system

*         Telstra – International Directories system

I also completed a prototype Content Management System in C# using Visual Studio .NET.  This web application uses the advanced caching capabilities of ASP.NET as well as data driven N-Tier object orientated C# components. 

 

Project

FPA Web Site – Content Site Manager (www.fpa.asn.au)

Responsibilities

Technical Project Leader and Systems Architect

Description

This Application allows FPA Staff to manage, publish, and moderate content on their website.  Content is stored in the database as XML and published to ASP files.  The site also interfaces with Membership data from their corporate database.  Members can also purchases products and renew their membership on-line.  This also has a Course Administration Function which was developed in ASP.NET (C#).

Size

6 months - 4 person team – 2000 users

Client

Internet Explorer or Netscape (Plain vanilla HTML with Javascript)

Web Server

ASP/XML/JS Pages, Internet Information Server, SSL Security. COM+, XML, ADO 2.6, ASP.NET, C#

Database Server

SQL Server Version 2000

 

Project

Telstra Intranet Site Manager

Responsibilities

Senior Developer – front and back end

Description

The Intranet Site Manager is a tool designed for Telstra Intranet developers and content producers to build and manage the hundreds of sites from across all business units and around the country that make up the Telstra Intranet.

Size

12 months - 8 person team – 10000 users

Client

Internet Explorer

Web Server

ASP/XML/JS Pages, Internet Information Server, SSL Security.

Application Server

COM+, XML, ADO 2.6

Database Server

Oracle 8

 

Contract eCommerce Developer, Sphere Business Group (Mar 2001 – Aug 2001)

I Developed their web based inter-bank business to business (B-B) reconciliation system.   This system is currently used by international banks including:  ING Barings, UBS Warburg, Morgan Stanley DW, Goldman Sachs\BGA , and Deutsche Bank. 

 

Project

Esphere

Responsibilities

Front and Back End Development, Mentoring new developers, Maintain Documentation

Description

This is an intranet application for performing reconciliation’s.  This system is used by international merchant banks to settle financial transactions.

Size

5 months - 15 person team - 50 users

Client

Internet Explorer 5, using XML, Javascript and XSL

Web Server

ASP/XML/XSL/JS Pages, Internet Information Server

Application Server

MTS, XML, ADO 2.5

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0

 

Contract Consultant, NZ Funds Management  (Jan  2000 – Mar 2001)

In my role as Technical project Leader, I managed and assisted in the development of n-tier finance applications using ASP, Visual Basic, Microsoft Transaction Server, Site Server, and SQL Server.

 

Project

IPAC FundSource Web site  (www.fundsource.co.nz)

Responsibilities

Systems Architect,  Development Leader, Liaison with designer. Ongoing support

Description

This site displays the latest financial news and statistics for all Funds available in New Zealand .   It also has a searchable archive of historical articles.  Maintenance of News Articles, Fund statistics and also Users is also incorporated in to the Web site.

Size

4 months - 3 person team - 500 users

Client

Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.

Web Server

ASP/XML/XSL/JS Pages, Internet Information Server

Application Server

MTS, XML, ADO 2.5

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0

 

 

Project

Australian Unit Trust Management System

Responsibilities

Systems Architect, Specification of project, Development Leader, Assist permanent support staff.

Description

This application maintains client’s accounts including deposits, withdrawals, redemptions, rebates, reporting, statements, and correspondence.

Size

4 months - 4 person team – 10 users

Client

VB Executable

Application Server

VB Objects on MTS/COM+

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0

 

Project

On-line Performance Monitoring Reports

Responsibilities

Systems Architect, Specification of project, Development Leader,

Description

This application generates a detailed performance monitoring report on-line.  Agents can log on and download their client’s reports at any time.  Some performance tuning was required to reduce the generation time to 4 seconds.

Size

6 months - 2 person team – 10 users

Client

Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, Crystal Reports.

Web Server

ASP/XML/XSL/JS Pages, Internet Information Server

Application Server

VB Objects on MTS/COM+

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0 – 2 GB Database

 


System Consultant, Datacom Systems Limited (Dec 1998 – Jan 2000)

As a senior developer I led teams of programmers in projects for various clients.  I was involved in all aspects of development process from initial scoping to delivery.  In this role I used the latest microsoft technology to provide IT application solutions.    

 

Project

Vehicle Handling System

Responsibilities

Specification of project, Systems Architect , Development Leader, Team Leader (2 staff), Reporting at regular meetings, Ongoing Support on and off-site.

Description

This is “Car Haulaways” core system. This system processes, dispatches and invoices the processing, storage and movement of vehicles. 

Size

12 months – 6 person team – 50 users

Client

VB 6.0  application on Windows Terminal Server

Application Server

MTS, MS Message Queue

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0

 

Application Team Leader, Mercury Energy      (Aug 1998 – Dec 1998)

Team Leader of Commercial Customer Information Systems.  My team of 3 people developed Visual Basic/SQL Server and Web Applications and also maintained an existing FoxPro database. 

 

Application Support, Bank of America (1997)

Short term MS Access developer for a data capture application.

 

Senior Analyst/Developer, Prudential Assurance NZ Ltd (Aug 1995 – Mar 1998)

(Promoted from Analyst/Developer in October 1997)

Project Leader for application development projects for Prudential Client Services in New Zealand and Australia .  In this varied position I provided specifications and cost estimates, developed and supported applications as well as manage projects and recruit contact programmers. 

Project

Requirements Management System

Responsibilities

Liaise with Business Analysts to derive a business Specification, Systems Architect , Technical Specification, Development Leader, Team Leader (3 developers), Reporting at regular meetings, Ongoing Support in New Zealand and Australia .

Description

This system manages new applications for life and investment products.  It automates all letter generation and keeps track of the various stages in creating a new policy.

Size

12 months - 6 person team – 500 users (in New Zealand and Australia )

Database Server

32-bit SQL Base Servers on NT Server  (NZ and Australia )

Interfaces

IBM DB2 Database (using MQ Series), MS Word (via OLE), Lotus Notes, Tower Imaging Server, Staffware.

 

Technical Project Leader, Shell New Zealand (1994 - 1995)

I Managed a 16 month project to migrate all sites and users from “dumb terminals” to Windows Office Products on a Novell LAN.  This included, preparing “request for proposals”, reporting to steering committee meetings, and managing staff.

 

Software Developer, Praxis Software Limited  (1993)

Programming and testing of Banking and Accounting systems.  Praxis Software develops systems in 'C' on UNIX Servers for many purposes including remittance processing, accounting and 'point of sale'.

 

Education

Masters of Science Thesis (Mathematics), Massey University                         (1992)

Path-following methods for Boundary Value Problems and their application to

Combustion Equations.

 

First class honours in Mathematics, Massey University                               (1991)

 

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computing, Massey University           (1988 – 1990)

 

Training with Work

Microsoft Security Summit                                 2004

OO Strategies & Patterns using UML                2004

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Overview           2004

AUSDEV .NET Conference                                  2003

Supervisory Skills for Team Leaders                1997

Object Oriented Systems Development              1996

Delphi Development                                                1996

Programming with Smalltalk                                 1995

Project Management Workshop                           1994

 

Citizenship

Australia , United States