Joel James
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Japanese Professional working proficiency
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LinkedIn User
It was a pleasure working together with Joel on a rails app. His numerous technical contributions on the front and back ends of the application meant that we were able to meet our tight project deadline. Joel is an amazing team player who provided our group with substantial contributions during the entire project including brainstorming, planning, execution and demonstration phases.
Jimmy Cann
Joel is a highly motivated technologist and a credit to any team he’s involved in.
LinkedIn User
It was a pleasure working together with Joel on a rails app. His numerous technical contributions on the front and back ends of the application meant that we were able to meet our tight project deadline. Joel is an amazing team player who provided our group with substantial contributions during the entire project including brainstorming, planning, execution and demonstration phases.
Jimmy Cann
Joel is a highly motivated technologist and a credit to any team he’s involved in.
LinkedIn User
It was a pleasure working together with Joel on a rails app. His numerous technical contributions on the front and back ends of the application meant that we were able to meet our tight project deadline. Joel is an amazing team player who provided our group with substantial contributions during the entire project including brainstorming, planning, execution and demonstration phases.
Jimmy Cann
Joel is a highly motivated technologist and a credit to any team he’s involved in.
LinkedIn User
It was a pleasure working together with Joel on a rails app. His numerous technical contributions on the front and back ends of the application meant that we were able to meet our tight project deadline. Joel is an amazing team player who provided our group with substantial contributions during the entire project including brainstorming, planning, execution and demonstration phases.
Jimmy Cann
Joel is a highly motivated technologist and a credit to any team he’s involved in.
Experience
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MentorMatch
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Australia
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Professional Training and Coaching
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1 - 100 Employee
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Mentor
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Oct 2022 - Present
Helping people with career changes into Web Development. Helping people with career changes into Web Development.
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Officeworks
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Australia
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Full Stack Developer
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Sep 2021 - Present
I specialise in building, maintaining, and extending modern and legacy websites hosted in AWS. My expertise includes React, Typescript, NGINX, Styled Components, Node, and various content management systems such as Contentful and Joomla. I am experienced in AWS DynamoDB, ECS, Lambda, CloudFormation, Auto Scaling, Load Balancing, Jenkins, S3, EC2 and containerisation using Docker. I am proficient in Scrum, CSS, Jira, Confluence, Redux, React query, Node, HTML, JavaScript, Linux, XML, SQL, and NoSQL database queries. With a strong focus on customer service and software development, I am committed to delivering high-quality solutions that meet business needs. 📝 I document everything and love sharing knowledge ✨ Show less
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Alloc8
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
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IRIA - Independent Racking Inspections
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Australia
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Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
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1 - 100 Employee
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Full Stack Engineer
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Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
The sole developer - and technical source - I drove improvements to the UI, UX, business analytics and infrastructure. Monitoring and maintenance of servers, SQL reporting, and Infrastructure. Development for existing and upcoming products. Front end revamp of web app/CRM · Development of mobile (Android) apps with the use of Xamarin forms. Web development using MVC and ASP.net, JavaScript/jQuery, Kendo UI and Telerik Reporting. Knowledge of modern web development tools · SQL Server queries for analytical data reports and automation of in house spreadsheet reports. Transitioning old projects to new technologies and leveraging Azure for availability and deployment flexibility. Prototyping UI / Projects to present to stakeholders. Relational database designs, new and upgrading existing databases. Show less
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Le Wagon
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France
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Professional Training and Coaching
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700 & Above Employee
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Teaching Assistant
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Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Guiding and teaching students how to piece together the parts to build full-stack web applications Guiding and teaching students how to piece together the parts to build full-stack web applications
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APT Travel Group
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Australia
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Travel Arrangements
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200 - 300 Employee
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Analyst Developer
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Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Maintained SOAP and REST-based APIs that allow hundreds of 3rd partner retail partners like Flight Centre and Global Journeys to fetch, book and query inventory data about APT's tour departures. Other supported APIs are those supplying our Sitecore website and mobile apps with the tour, passenger, and itinerary data.Troubleshooting, migrating, and updating critical application faults and features. This included a large suite of APIs, Salesforce, a tour reservation system, SQL stored procs or any of the myriad in-house built applications we have developed to automate business processes. Show less
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ICT Techincal Support Analyst
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Sep 2013 - Jan 2020
Responsible for the design, deployment & migration of our SOE Windows Desktop & mobile environment (Win7, 8.1 and 10) through SCCM.PABX/Telephony administration of a 150-seat call centre, primary support for the company's SharePoint site. While still largely customer facing, other responsibilities include system checks/maintenance, database and server backups through Veeam and I also administer the company's Crisis Management Response software.
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Service Desk Analyst
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May 2012 - Aug 2013
My experience in hospitality translated well to the communication based, customer facing role and enabled me to quickly build trust and rapport with the many staff at ATG.Being in a small team in the Infrastructure and Support services, I was tasked with a variety of responsibilities which ranged from day to day logging of support tickets, to more project oriented activities like the administration & issue resolution of the Telephony system anddeveloping sites and training departments in our new SharePoint 2013 instance. Show less
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Japanese Speaking Tour Guide
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Apr 2009 - May 2012
As a Japanese speaking Tour Guide for APT Travel Group I was responsible for:Looking after groups of Japanese customers from the moment they arrive at the local airport until their departure.Driving and guiding throughout the Uluru and Kata Tjuta National park.Providing commentary on passenger safety, local indigenous culture, local and Australian history, Natural and Cultural Geology and guided star talks after Sunset.Hotel check in proceduresFacilitating guest activities around the resort. Show less
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Education
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Le Wagon
Computer Programming, Full Stack -
freeCodeCamp
Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Developer -
Holmesglen Institute
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Japanese language institute
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Leighland Christian School