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History of leading successful development teams with nearly 30 years experience in leading, growing, and coaching software development teams
Experienced software developer that has been writing commercial software since 1995. Particularly experienced in the .NET ecosystem (C# / F#) with Azure and AWS cloud architectures
Accomplished technical speaker speaking at a variety of local meetings and international conferences such as the Agile Professionals Network, TechEd, and ForestTech Canada
Conference founder and Organiser
DevNxt, 2022-
Along with Phil Wheeler, creator and organiser with of New Zealand's premier boutique conference for technology people, DevNxt.
Principal Consulting Developer
Haumohio, Christchurch, 2005-present
Principal developer writing software and helping others to write and deliver software across New Zealand and eastern Australia. Centred on more effective, cleaner development that reduces repetitive drudgery that lead to mistakes and focuses the team on working the business solution.
Working closely with Double-O Consulting as a technical consultant and software development specialist, with a particular interest in Callaghan's Build for Speed programme.
Lead developer focussing on merging an offshoot programme for the farming community into the main product suite and leading the initiative to streamline the development work practices and modernise the product core.
Water Data programme, Environment Canterbury, 2020-2021
Developing world-class data management systems for everything that ECan knows about the water in Canterbury, NZ.
Creating from scratch the data ingesting systems, data models, GraphQL APIs, GIS topologies, and custom user interfaces using Snowflake and Azure,
that allows ECan's scientists, planners, and the general public to make more informed decisions when managing and using our water.
Part of a small high-impact team upgrading a quickly made pilot for the charity into a national offering for New Zealand schools,
in a short time-frame.
This involved everything from provisioning automation, adding new functionality, integration with services such as billing, and
structuring the Azure services to better fit the node-function and react applications.
Lead developer on the Monitor project, focussing on collating and reporting end-user product usage for
billing internally and reporting usage in presentable form to end users.
Part of the Platform Services team, with a bias towards reliability
and accessibility leveraging the AWS platform.
Joined the Xtend-Life team to help deal with the complexity of a multi-national sales website through such things as introduction of a continuous deployment system, and increasing the functionality of the system through to the back-end systems.
Fire Research group at Scion, 2011-
Production and maintenance of a simple mobile application for Scion Research's Fire team, that helps publish the scientific knowledge in a simple working calculator for rural fire fighters.
Contributor to the F# open source movement and developer of projects such as the Type Provider for Neo4j graph databases.
Practice Lead - Development Practices
Assurity, Christchurch, 2012-2015
Charged with building up the software development capability in Christchurch to complement the established BA, Test, and Agile practices. The specialist offerings included the creation of a DevOps offering, improving developer practices such as TDD and managing technical debt, and software architecture and design.
Team Leader
Emendo (now McKesson), Christchurch, 2008-2011
Responsibilities include day-to-day staff management, strategic technical direction of the product suite, project management of releases, architectural design, and software development. The personal focus during this time was in developing the strategic direction of the product suite's architecture. This lead to the development of frameworks, standards, and patterns that support the development team's efforts.
Product Leader
Atlas Technology, Rotorua, 2000-2006
Joined this fledgling business unit of Forest Research and established a role as a functional specialist in hand-held computing. Lead developer of the FieldMan product, which gathers a varied range of field data needed to feed the analysis products in the suite. The project management of each release included co-ordinating a cross-Tasman client steering group over 6-weekly sprints.
Research Scientist
Forest Research (now Scion), Rotorua, 1995-2000
Running both government and commercially funded research projects for the sawmilling industry. Typically, the 1-3 year contracts involved teams of up to 8 scientists and technicians. Also contributed to a number of related projects as a technical specialist in computerised data acquisition and measurement.