Experience

CONQA

• New Zealand
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Engineer

  • May 2022 - Present



Xero

• New Zealand
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Engineer (Platform)

  • Jul 2019 - May 2022

  - Work on initiatives that span multiple teams to improve how Xero creates and delivers software- Focus on systemic and strategic prevention of issues by implementing practices and tooling that make world class engineering easy- Create and promote Engineering standards and frameworks- Recruitment for People Leader, Product Owner, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer and Front End Developer roles- Development of Principal and Lead Engineer recruitment process

• Team Lead (Platform)

  • May 2016 - Jun 2019

  - Design system architecture and development (JavaScript, React, SASS/CSS, unit testing, visual regression testing)- Management, recruitment and growth- Vision, strategy, product ownership

• Front End Developer (Platform)

  • Sep 2015 - Apr 2016

  Key Responsibilities- Design system architecture and development (JavaScript, React, SASS/CSS, unit testing)- Build, Test, Deploy (Webpack, nodejs, visual regression testing, TeamCity)- Customer supportKey Achievements (Along with the founding team)- Establish design system foundations including architecture, technology, delivery, documentation and community. - Establishing automatic visual regression testing with CI- Establishing continuous integration and deployment systems and practices Show less

• Development Team Lead (Product)

  • Oct 2014 - Aug 2015

  Key Responsibilities:- Managing humans- Recruitment- DevelopmentKey Achievements - Performance managed an underperforming report to a successful outcome- Evaluated emerging front end framework and built the case for Xero to explore and eventually adopt React as a core foundation in building user experiences- Launched Xero’s first production workload on AWS

• Frontend Developer (Product)

  • May 2013 - Sep 2014

  Key Responsibilities:- Development of new Xero Practice Manager User Experience- Scrum MasterKey achievements- Launched the Practice Manager “new” UI- Launched the “CSS refresh” for all experiences missed by the “new” UI- Mentored graduate developmers



Luumin

• New Zealand

• Co-Founder, Front End Hacker

  • Aug 2010 - Dec 2013

  Luumin's our baby and I get to work across the board getting the company off the ground. Most of the time it's spent on product development specifically front end Javascript hacking via the YUI framework. Luumin's our baby and I get to work across the board getting the company off the ground. Most of the time it's spent on product development specifically front end Javascript hacking via the YUI framework.



Gravitate Limited

• Javascript, PHP Web Developer

  • Jun 2010 - May 2013



World Vision New Zealand

• New Zealand
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contract Web Developer

  • 2010 - 2010



Spring Digital

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Technical

  • Dec 2008 - Nov 2009

  Over eight months of managing I instigated full use of source control, framework standardisation from bespoke-anything-goes, knowledge sharing via an internal wiki and built and migrated the development to a virtualised platform. I was the advocate for the developers at an upper management level and I fought for them for fair terms on projects. Over eight months of managing I instigated full use of source control, framework standardisation from bespoke-anything-goes, knowledge sharing via an internal wiki and built and migrated the development to a virtualised platform. I was the advocate for the developers at an upper management level and I fought for them for fair terms on projects.



IT Lab

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• ERP Business Analyst

  • Mar 2007 - Dec 2008

  I worked as a Business Analyst and the Technical Lead for IT Lab replacing Sage Line 50 and a bespoke CRM system with an end-to-end Netsuite ERP Solution.

• PHP/MySQL Developer, DBA

  • Oct 2005 - Mar 2007

  Development, Reporting and maintenance of a bespoke PHP/MySQL CRM system.



Datacom

• New Zealand
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• UNIX Consultant

  • Mar 2004 - May 2005

  UNIX System Administration UNIX System Administration