Experience

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  IDIOM Limited

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Developer

    • Jul 2017 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Major Achievements:• I implemented the revenue and costing calculations for 7 hospital contracts for an Australian Health Care provider. This development was a continuation of the rules development that Idiom has submitted to the Business Rules Excellence Awards 2018. On completion the client commented “I just wanted to say a big thank you for your part in this as you were always extremely helpful and prompt in your replies, and the returned repositories were always very good to work with!”• The business rules of an actuarial application used by a major Australian Insurance company to project the insurance premium calculation for 11 products were reproduced in Idiom’s Decision Manager in only 3 weeks.• The 12 page specifications for job termination business rules of a government department were implement in Idiom’s Decision Manager in a single day. Provided the training and mentoring that allowed the department’s staff to implement these specifications in two days. • Received numerous commendations for consistently providing excellent support and service.• Ensured all work was completed to a high standard and complied with both industry and client requirements.Responsibilities:• Develop custom applications for a range of clients in the insurance and health industries.• Utilise a suite of applications to automate business policies and rules.• Carry out product demonstrations, both online and onsite.• Provide pre- and post-sales consulting, training and support in New Zealand and Australia.• Implement new products and manage the migration of legacy insurance platforms to new Policy Administration Systems as0.• Perform thorough tests on release candidates for all application, write and maintain internal and external manuals, training notes and product documentation.

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  AJ Park

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Database Support Analyst

    • Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    My main task was Inprotech support and development. Inprotech is a practice management system for Intellectual Property firms. I provide first and second level user support, develop and maintain Inprotech event driven workflows, create SSRS report for IPONZ Journal patent searches and client reporting, maintenance of Word templates for Inprotech letter and report generation, write T-SQL scripts and stored procedures for data management and validation.

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  Morgan Molloy Associates

  • Auckland

  • Actionstep Consultant

    • Oct 2015 - Oct 2016
    • Auckland

    Actionstep is a cloud legal practice management system. I supported new and existing Actionstep users. I wrote an Actionstep implementation plan for new sites and a Health Check plan for existing sites. My main tasks were general product configuration, workflow setup, document and invoice template development as well as nationwide onsite user and administrator training. I designed a web based document assembly markup utility that was used by Actionstep users worldwide. I also enhanced the Actionstep document assembly with singular and repeating optional clauses using Word content controls. Optional clauses were missing from the Actionstep document assembly until mid 2016.

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  First Mortgage Services

  • Auckland

  • IT Analyst

    • Jan 2003 - Sep 2015
    • Auckland

    Technical lead responsible for the product development of client and server document generation and document automation systems used for the production of loan documentation for New Zealand (Kiwibank and Heartland) and Australian banks (Advantedge, UBank, NAB and Resimac) and lenders using Word templates, MS OpenXML, XML and XSLT.Development lead for front-end and SQL database development and maintenance of mortgage processing applications.

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  Bell Gully

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • IT Analyst

    • Apr 1995 - Dec 2012
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    IT Analyst working in large project teams on the implementation of Interwoven (iManage), Inprotech and Elite 3E. System Integration using Intapp Integration Builder. QA and System Integration Testing Analyst for bespoke and large third party products. Technical lead for development of MS Word document generator for the production of correspondence, deeds, invoices and court documents based on precedents.

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  Various

  • Self employed

    • Jan 1993 - Nov 2012

    I worked as a contractor and I developed several business and educational applications after returning to New Zealand from Japan. I designed The Time Machine a time recording, budgeting an billing application used by lawyers, architects and IT staff, Assignata a Microsoft Word AddIn for the detection of plagiarism by writers of assignments and papers, Examinata a Microsoft Word AddIn for educational institutions that allows students to sit exams using BYOD or the institution's computers, a school detention management system, a school property maintenance system and the APT Assistant to support the Accelerated Planning Technique developed by Personal Effectiveness Consultants.

  • Software Engineer

    • Jan 1980 - Dec 1995

    I worked in a variety of technical roles after graduation developing software for data communication, Computer Aided Design, the simulation of sand dam construction, ship steering control systems in the Netherlands, Russian power plant control systems in Germany, a computer controlled Fire Detection system for the London underground, shipping container management software in Japan and a SCADA system for the Taupo Wairaki thermal power plant. I worked as a MS Windows system developer, C programmer for Windows and UNIX and Motorola 68000 assembler programmer.