Experience

Runthru Software

• Australia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  - Where we are going, we're going to need to document our Processes! - "Full stack" ASP.NET Core Web, Blazor, WPF, MSAL, DevOps, Architecture, Development - TypeScript, SVG, CSS and all sorts of client-side Web shenanigans - Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams integrations via Microsoft Graph & CSOM, CefSharp - Application and File-format level architectures - DevOps workflows - Contribution to Open source projects (Squirrel and SharpSimpleNLG) - Where we are going, we're going to need to document our Processes! - "Full stack" ASP.NET Core Web, Blazor, WPF, MSAL, DevOps, Architecture, Development - TypeScript, SVG, CSS and all sorts of client-side Web shenanigans - Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams integrations via Microsoft Graph & CSOM, CefSharp - Application and File-format level architectures - DevOps workflows - Contribution to Open source projects (Squirrel and SharpSimpleNLG)



Magneto Communications

• Australia
• Professional Training and Coaching

• Senior Software Developer

  • Mar 2015 - Sep 2020

  Software Development at Magneto Communications. Using the deep business communication experience of Magneto Communications, and some excellent UI/UX work -- I created the system which is Credosity. Give it a whirl https://www.credosity.com/ Experience with: Small teams, remote work, and building applications deployed both on the Web and Desktop of Enterprise customers. Responsibilities include: Software and Systems architecture, through DevOps (all code deployed via Visual Studio Team Services CI/CD to Azure cloud) and of course, development. Languages/Frameworks: C#, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Microsoft Office Addins (VSTO), Microsoft Azure deployment and management, SQLAzure (Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core) JavaScript, TypeScript, AngularJS, VueJS and KnockoutJS; Visual Studio Team Services, Slack, Stripe and Web services integration; Powershell for CI/CD customisation; Squirrel automated deployment for desktop applications; WiX installer customisation. Lots of cats to herd. Skills: building and maintaining a product in a Continuous Delivery mode; including pragmatic tests (Unit, Integration and E2E), re-architecting to reduce Tech Debt, written responses to Security Reviews from Enterprise customers Open Source Contributions: https://github.com/nickhodge/SharpSimpleNLG, https://github.com/ConfigInjectorContributors/ConfigInjector/pull/38 and https://github.com/unosquare/embedio/issues/170 Show less



Ignition Advice

• Sydney, Australia

• Senior Software Developer

  • Oct 2018 - Oct 2019

  Built a configuration-led platform for Financial Advice with a team of excellent Software Professionals. Built a configuration-led platform for Financial Advice with a team of excellent Software Professionals.



Runthru Software

• Australia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Apr 2017 - Apr 2018



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professional Geek

  • Feb 2007 - Aug 2014

  A recognised "face of Microsoft" in social media, my job primarily involves listening, conversing and listening to developers who also love technology, and what it can do to change the world. 2007-2009 : Enthusiast Evangelist Pioneered the use of social media as a mechanism for customer and enthusiast outreach during the early days of Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Flickr. The @NickHodge____ account is currently followed by over 6000 people (hopefully not too many are bots!) A technologist at heart, my early role at Microsoft involved contributing stories to http://on10.net/ and collecting Australia's "Geek Stories" (http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/nhodge) blogging (https://www.lalaninja.com.au/author/nick-hodge/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nickhodge/ http://www.nickhodge.com/) 2009 Project Managed the "Windows 7 Netbook" program for Microsoft's TechEd 2009 where >2500 netbooks were provided to attendees. Included solving deep legal, audit, logistical and technical details through to customer service on-the-ground. 2010-2011 Evangelising Microsoft open-source and web-related technologies to developers, partners and customers in Australia including presenting keynotes at PyCon AU 2010; presentations at Open Source Developer Conference AU (2008, 2009); various other PHP and Python sessions. Integrated into the existing .NET open source community & contributed to existing open source applications; now published on http://codeplex.com and http://github.com 2011-2014 More recently, deeply involved in the local launch of Windows 8 from a developer's perspective including the outreach to developers: both Microsoft-centric and competitive. This included the planning, organisation, road management & significant presentations at the Windows 8 Roadshows (April - June 2012). Including a deep change to a much purer technical evangelism with lots of more formalised cutting of code. Met App metrics for Australia as a part of the core "Breadth" team. Show less



Adobe

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Channel Sales Manager

  • Jan 2003 - Jun 2006

  Managed at >US$50m/year business with over double-digit growth;Negotation of distribution contracts, NDAs, and End User License Agreements;Responsible for hiring/developing channel acccount managers, contractors and external product managers; Implemented a data-driven account management style, and partner segmentation;Business management of "the business of selling software"; processes, licensing including assistance to head-office with program and systems design;Strong relationship building and with +100 channel/partner organisations across Australia and New ZealandContinued a "part time" role of technology evangelist including presenting to senior citizen groups/clubs and assisting customers who ask questions from my world-wide presence at http://www.nickhodge.com/ Show less

• Applications Specialist/Systems Engineer/Technical Team Manager

  • Aug 1998 - Dec 2002

  Responsible for presenting Adobe technology to audiences from 1 to 1000 across Asia-Pacific (India, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand and some others that I've forgotten but are in my passport) Responsible for the implementation of Adobe InDesign in Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) Assisted product teams in product development of InDesign (and other Adobe applications). My name appears in the InDesign 2.0, CS, CS2 about box. Hired/developed two Application engineers. Media spokesperson on Adobe technology: Radio, TV (CNBC Asia) and print. Online precense maintained via http://www.nickhodge.com/ started in 2001, although a personal "weblog" has been a hobby since 1996. Show less



Apple

• United States
• Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• National Systems Engineer

  • Apr 1995 - Jul 1998

  - Hired as a National Systems Engineer Roles included being a Systems Engineer to a Technical Marketing Manager for the Intranet. The job also encompassed technical management of customers including deciphering bugs with DHCP in original versions of OpenTransport to the initial days of Rhapsody (MacOS X) and determining a strategy for customer migrations. At Apple, I presented technology to our Enterprise customers; both from a technical perspective and business/ROI perspective. - Seconded to Fairfax for their Fairfax@Atlanta web site project in the pre-internet boom days of 1996. 21 days of sheer hell working from 3am to 2pm working on an automated web site production system. -Left Apple to pursue my passion for software. My last role at Apple was to engage with WebObjects -- including re-presenting the first training to Australian technical partners. Show less



Random Access

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Various Technical, Consulting Roles

  • Jan 1986 - Mar 1995

  - Various technical, sales and consulting roles - part of a successful "Duo" that won many State and National Corporate accounts for Apple in the late 1980s - Developed deep Networking and Communication skills - I consider this my 9 years of college; learning the ropes of business and the overall IT industry - During these years, I implemented an Oracle based accounting system; became a published author - a chapter in Tricks of the HyperTalk Masters - Various technical, sales and consulting roles - part of a successful "Duo" that won many State and National Corporate accounts for Apple in the late 1980s - Developed deep Networking and Communication skills - I consider this my 9 years of college; learning the ropes of business and the overall IT industry - During these years, I implemented an Oracle based accounting system; became a published author - a chapter in Tricks of the HyperTalk Masters