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Experience

  1. Tally Group 2021 — Present

    Briefcase Key Responsibilities

    • PHP (Yii2, Laravel) application development, ensuring robust and scalable backend solutions.
    • Providing mentorship and support to junior developers, contributing to the overall growth and knowledge sharing within
    • React web application development, including frontend design, implementation, and optimization.
    • Actively participating in grooming sessions and contributing to the technical roadmap for new features.
    • Conducting regular client and stakeholder meetings, proactively gathering requirements, and providing timely project updates.
    • Designing and implementing APIs for both 1st and 3rd parties, ensuring seamless integration with a CRM.
    • Taking ownership of service uptime and reliability, implementing monitoring and proactive measures to minimize downtime.
    • Managing DevOps processes and overseeing the infrastructure to ensure smooth and efficient deployment and operation.
    • Continuous improvement of CI/CD processes, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing optimizations for faster and more reliable releases.
    • Dedication to reducing technical debt through refactoring and implementing best coding practices.
    • Managing and maintaining legacy systems, ensuring they remain secure and functional.
    • Actively pursuing application performance improvements, profiling and optimizing code for enhanced speed and efficiency.
    • Handling AEMO MSATS integrations, ensuring compliance and seamless communication with the energy market systems.
    • Collaborating with cross-functional teams for successful project delivery, fostering a culture of teamwork and innovation.
    • Staying updated on industry best practices, emerging technologies, and incorporating relevant advancements into the development processes of team.

    Checkmark Circle Key Accomplishments

    1. Zappy Open 2021

      Launched a turnkey, white-labelled React sales funnel for Australian energy retailers in the NEM. In 12 months, over 16 instances were deployed for 7 distinct retail businesses, with each instance customized for the unique features, themes, and integrations for each retail entity.

    2. Global Quality & Static Analysis Platform 2023

      Advocating for, piloting, and leading roll out a new code quality & static analysis platform for the global business across projects spanning 5 international markets, and 8 internal business groups

    Ribbon Awards

    Values Award – Ownership & Collaboration Q1—2022
  2. Click Energy & On The Move 2013 — 2021

    Briefcase Key Responsibilities

    • Creation and ownership of the vast majority of digital assets & processes for both Click and On The Move
    • Online sales funnels & quoting tools
    • Automation & integration of internal and external systems
    • API design and development for internal and external (public) use
    • AEMO MSATS integrations
    • Australian Government DVS integration for identify verification
    • Service uptime and reliability
    • Devops environment creation
    • CI/CD processes
    • Autoscaling & 12 factor applications
    • Growth & performance of online sales channels
    • Lead generation performance
    • Sales conversion performance
    • Integration adoption from 3rd parties and platform evangelism.
    • A/B testing, conversion optimization, and session recording
    • Stakeholder management internally and externally
    • Technical leadership and mentorship
    • Solution design and process mapping
    • Site reliability and fault tolerance
    • Serverless PDF generation & design

    Checkmark Circle Key Accomplishments

    1. On The Move Embedded Utilities Application Form Open 2020

      A new way for Real Estate Agencies to embedded a utility connection form within their website, where a new tenant or purchaser can connect all their utilities completely within the agencies site; with no offsite redirection.

    2. Melbourne Rebels Partner Site Open 2019

      A showcase of Click Energy's commitment to partner with the Melbourne Rebels and Rugby Union. A co-branded website specifically for the Rebels. We are your energy!

    3. On The Move Partner Portal Open 2018

      A portal for On The Move's Real Estate Agent and Property Manager partners to submit leads and integration with our rewards redemption platform. It also functions as a clearing house for external integrations with real estate software and CRMs.

    4. amaysim Energy launch Open 2017

      Technical delivery leader to launch the customer facing amaysim energy brand. From sales funnels, quoting tool, in addition to BAU functions - like paying a bill, or adding a concession to your account. White labelling and integrating Click's existing assets with amaysim's brand systems - resulting in tens of thousands of sales from a ~5 month project.

    5. Click Energy website redesign Open 2015

      A complete end-to-end process to redesign and implement a fresh new look for Click Energy main website - from initial design and static mockups to front-end development and deployment.

    6. Click Energy Quick Quote Calculator Open 2014

      An industry leading energy quoting tool, allowing customers to compare their current bill in a like-for-like comparison with Click Energy over the same period.

    Ribbon Awards

    Quarterly Values Award – Reliability Q2—2020
    Quarterly winners are nominated by peers, who represent reliability. We build reliable products full of fail safes and back-ups. Reliability is also about being committed to the amaysim way and being responsible and authentic in our behavior.
    Quarterly Values Award – Agility Q1—2020
    Quarterly winners are nominated by peers, who represent agility. Agility is about reacting quickly, applying mental flexibility when a problem needs to be solved and always holding on to the entrepreneurial spirit.
    Outside the Box Thinker Award 2018
    Awarded to an individual who finds creative and divergent ways of solving problems across the business.
    Above and Beyond Award 2017
    Awarded to someone who goes beyond of what's required of them and delivers exceptional value to the business.
    Manager Directors' Award 2016
    The "MVP" of the year, awarded at the discretion of the Managing Director (or CEO in other years) to the individual who has made the most impact to the business for the year.
  3. Natvia 2012 — 2013

    Briefcase Key Responsibilities

    • Responsive Web Design
    • WordPress Theme Development
    • SEO & SEM
    • eCommerce
    • i18n & l10n implementation
    • Server Management
    • Video Production & Motion Graphics
    • Digital Marketing
    • Social Media (competitions, management)

    Checkmark Circle Key Accomplishments

    1. Natvia 2012

      The brand website for Natvia. WordPress backed for easy updating by other teams, and translated into 6 different languages.

    2. Sweeter Life Club 2012

      A recipe website to promote and provide creative ways of using Natvia in food. WordPress backed with custom taxonomies to facilitate different requirements.

Education

  1. Bachelor of Design (Multimedia Design) 2011

    Swinburne University of Technology
  2. Advanced Diploma of Multimedia 2009 — 2010

    Swinburne TAFE
  3. Certificate IV of Multimedia 2008

    Swinburne TAFE

Skills & Proficiencies

Languages
  • PHP (5.x, 7.x, 8.0) - 10 years
  • Javascript - (ES5, ES6) - 5 years
  • CSS (SASS, PostCSS) - 10 years
  • HTML - 10 years
  • SQL (MySQL, SQLite) - 7 years
  • APIs (REST, SOAP) - 7 years
  • OAuth2 - 2 years
  • SEO / SEM - 10 years
  • A/B testing - 4 years
Frameworks
  • Laravel (4.x - 8.x) - 7 years
  • TailwindCSS (1.x, 2.x) - 2 years
  • BootstrapCSS (2.x -4.x) - 8 years
  • Vue.JS (2.x) - 3 years
  • Inertia.js - 2 years
  • AngularJS (1.x) - 5 years
  • Statamic (3.x) - 1 year
  • Zurb Ink (1.x, 2.x) - 3 years
  • Laravel Vapor - 2 years
Design
  • Web / UI Design
  • Identity / Logo Design
  • Poster / Brochure Design
DevOps
  • Server management
  • AWS autoscaling & redundancy
  • 12 factor applications
Professional
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Leadership
  • Project Management
  • Business Analysis
  • Project Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Performance Optimization
  • Solution Design & Architecture