Development Manager

• May 2021 - Present

Software Development Manager

• Mar 2013 - May 2021

Software solutions enabling consistent sales growth. Delivered engineering system improving engineering productivity 200x. Built and manage development team of 10. Systems due diligence pre-merger and systems integration post-merger. Rapid feature delivery with managed risk using DevOps practices. Strategic planning for growth into new markets. Distributed systems hosted with Amazon Web Services (AWS). R&D for speculative projects. Structural engineering solutions. Analytics for data driven business planning. Delivered machine learning site analysis system with better than expert performance deployed industry-wide. Sale of software and IP assets. Systems migration on-prem to cloud. Show less

Senior Developer

• Oct 2008 - Mar 2013

• Senior software developer role responsible for premium funding application. • Client facing duties including requirement gathering, project management, production support and quoting. • Responsible for development environment integrity standards, tools and guidance. • Management of a team of offshore developers. • Technologies used: C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, svn source control, mantis, mstest test automation, custom continuous build and test environment. • Senior software developer role responsible for premium funding application. • Client facing duties including requirement gathering, project management, production support and quoting. • Responsible for development environment integrity standards, tools and guidance. • Management of a team of offshore developers. • Technologies used: C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, svn source control, mantis, mstest test automation, custom continuous build and test environment.

Lead Developer / Manager

• 2004 - 2008

• Development of trading applications for Morgan Stanley’s Securities Lending desk: working directly with traders and desk management to establish business requirements and being responsible for successfully delivering against these. • Technical leadership: providing the technical leadership to facilitate the rapid delivery of business functionality and maintaining a goal-focused development team; design of solutions with a focus on quality, maintainability and extensibility. • Desktop guardianship: responsible for the quality and coherence of the traders’ suite of applications provided under the securities lending trading system. • Server guardianship: responsible for the server application technology stack, prototype applications and reducing production management costs. • Line management: of developers ( onsite and offsite); coaching and career guidance. Show less

Lead Developer / Architect

• 2003 - 2004

• Development of an internet/intranet application for in-house tax, accounting and payroll businesses. This required integration with existing applications, banking feeds, interactive phone systems etc. • Technical lead / architect for outsource development team of 5. • Reform and apply in-house software development practices: requirement gathering, functional specifications, system architecture, database design, prototyping, technology research, version control, code review, testing, issue tracking, release environments (development, QA and production) and user interface design. • Technologies used: ASP.NET, SQL Server, Visual SourceSafe, Bugzilla, MS Access. Show less

Senior Developer

• 2002 - 2003

• Create custom industrial automation software for chemical, transport and public works industries integrated with existing enterprise systems. • Improve software development processes: requirement gathering, design, source control, code review, defect tracking, testing, code instrumentation and technical and user documentation. • Gather requirements from clients, including onsite visits both interstate and overseas. • Technologies used: Visual Basic, C#.NET Winforms, SQL Server, MS Access, Visual SourceSafe. Show less

Developer

• 2000 - 2001

Develop user interfaces and network logic for wireless devices, e.g. radio packet modems, pagers, mobile phones etc. Applications were developed for logistics and transport industries. Technologies used: C, C++, MFC, Visual Basic, Windows CE. Develop user interfaces and network logic for wireless devices, e.g. radio packet modems, pagers, mobile phones etc. Applications were developed for logistics and transport industries. Technologies used: C, C++, MFC, Visual Basic, Windows CE.

Developer

• 1999 - 2000

Develop a CRM internet application development using Microsoft ASP, SQL server, Oracle, T-SQL, PL/SQL, ADO/RDO and DCOM technology. Responsible for database design and web user interface design/implementation. Develop a CRM internet application development using Microsoft ASP, SQL server, Oracle, T-SQL, PL/SQL, ADO/RDO and DCOM technology. Responsible for database design and web user interface design/implementation.