Experience

Modica Group

• New Zealand
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  I am one of the Technical Leads at Modica, leading a team of developers who work on Omni, Modica's SMS messaging platform.PHP, Symfony, Typescript/Javascript, PostgreSQL, Atlasssian Suite (Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence), AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, ParamStore), Go, Docker, PhpStorm, VS Code, Bash. I am one of the Technical Leads at Modica, leading a team of developers who work on Omni, Modica's SMS messaging platform.PHP, Symfony, Typescript/Javascript, PostgreSQL, Atlasssian Suite (Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jira, Confluence), AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, ParamStore), Go, Docker, PhpStorm, VS Code, Bash.



PB Tech

• New Zealand
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Full Stack Web Developer

  • Aug 2020 - Mar 2021

  Adding features and enhancing PB Tech's public facing e-commerce website; working with 3rd party APIs and integrations; working on other internal tools including a ticketing system; building a warehouse stock management web app on a handheld Android barcode scanner.Symfony 4 & 5, PHP 7, MySQL 5.7, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Apache, Ubuntu, REST APIs, JIRA, git, bash scripting, docker, Solr, Microsoft SQL Server, Facebook Apps & Messenger API. Adding features and enhancing PB Tech's public facing e-commerce website; working with 3rd party APIs and integrations; working on other internal tools including a ticketing system; building a warehouse stock management web app on a handheld Android barcode scanner.Symfony 4 & 5, PHP 7, MySQL 5.7, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Apache, Ubuntu, REST APIs, JIRA, git, bash scripting, docker, Solr, Microsoft SQL Server, Facebook Apps & Messenger API.



Running Events

• Events Services

• Event Crew

  • Apr 2018 - Feb 2021

  I worked as event crew at 27 events for Running Events between 2018 and 2021. The work for most events is over two days, with event base set up on the first day; and course marking, zone management (managing marshals, aid station volunteers, etc), lead cycling & event base pack up on the second day. I worked as event crew at 27 events for Running Events between 2018 and 2021. The work for most events is over two days, with event base set up on the first day; and course marking, zone management (managing marshals, aid station volunteers, etc), lead cycling & event base pack up on the second day.



Lactic Turkey Events

• Event Crew

  • Jun 2019 - Nov 2020

  I worked for Lactic Turkey a few weekends a year with my son Jamie as part of the event crew. They organise trail running and navigation events at regional parks around Auckland. As part of the event crew, I set up the event base, and worked as a course and finish line manager. I worked for Lactic Turkey a few weekends a year with my son Jamie as part of the event crew. They organise trail running and navigation events at regional parks around Auckland. As part of the event crew, I set up the event base, and worked as a course and finish line manager.



Self-employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Web Developer

  • Feb 2003 - Aug 2020

  I was a freelance website developer from 2003 to 2020, working on a number of long term and short term projects, including Personalised Plates, Healthy Online, Minerva Mail, GrownUps, Proximity ID’s email marketing tool, Jericho’s SmartMail / ecelerity mail delivery agent, and Online Republic’s internal booking system and blog; and my own Running Calendar websites from 2010.PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, Debian/CentOS/Ubuntu Linux, email server management & email deliverability, HTML, CSS, jQuery & Javascript, Node.js, website scraping, Smarty, WordPress, SilverStripe, web services, SMS integrations, AWS (SES, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Lambda, Lightsail), SQL Server, C#, VB.



WEBENZ

• Netherlands
• Technology, Information and Internet

• Full Stack Web Developer

  • Feb 1998 - Feb 2003

  I co-founded the web development company WEBENZ in the early days of the web in New Zealand, leading a team of developers and designers to build content management and ecommerce websites, along with Minerva Mail (an email marketing SaaS) which is still going to this day.PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Linux, DNS, email servers, webhosting. I co-founded the web development company WEBENZ in the early days of the web in New Zealand, leading a team of developers and designers to build content management and ecommerce websites, along with Minerva Mail (an email marketing SaaS) which is still going to this day.PHP, MySQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Linux, DNS, email servers, webhosting.