About me:-

I am an Oxford University physics graduate with a passion for solving problems. I have been programming for over 13 years, 6 of which were spent running my own business.

I have been given development lead and architect roles developing a wide range of web- and windows-based software, from ecommerce websites to a clinical system holding patient records for over 30 million people.

I am an avid table football (foosball) player.

Strengths:-

• Communicating complex problems in an understandable manner.
• Finding issues before they arise and providing innovative, robust solutions.
• Understanding and always keeping in mind the requirements of the target market.
• Completing workloads well ahead of deadlines.
• Learning new or unfamiliar concepts extremely quickly, from a development, architectural and business perspective.

• To manage a large development team
• To be instrumental in developing cutting-edge solutions to real life problems
• To face constant challenges - never to feel bored with what I do

Prior & current experience:-

Senior Developer (Recent)

• Developed a solution to extend Sharepoint to create a Virtual Learning
• Environment, allowing collaboration between teachers, pupils, parents and governors in primary education
• Clinical Development dept. - Development Lead / Systems Architect (July 2008 - December 2009)
• Developed a system to cater for the GP Dispensary market as part of a 3-tier enterprise application holding the patient records of over half of the UK population.

Senior Web Developer (Previous)   

• Developed ecommerce websites in PHP and ASP.NET
• Carried out extensive remedial work and additional development on a back-end system written in ASP for the UK's biggest online pharmacy
  Designed and built a $60,000 data collection system in PHP for a government funded research team, tying up workflow between GP surgeries, microbiology labs and statisticians.

Web Design (from 1999)

• Bespoke corporate web and VB6 development

Working for a highly profit-driven company, with a relaxed but motivated team, providing innovative, complex and unique software solutions.

Technical strengths:-

• C# (9/10) - 4 years (current)
• Winforms (9/10) - 2 years (current)
• SQL Server (9/10) - 3 years (current)
• Sharepoint (8/10) - 1 year (2 years ago)
• ASP.NET (7/10) -  2 years (2 years ago)

• PHP (9/10) - 5 years (current)
• MySQL (8/10) - 5 years (current)

• ASP (7/10) - 3 years (intermittent)

• HTML/XHTML (10/10) - 13 years (current)
• JavaScript (9/10) - 13 years (when needed)
• CSS (9/10) - 10 years (current)

• VB6 (8/10) - 5 years, mostly personal projects (5 years ago)
• VC++ (6/10) - a handful of personal projects including a 3D engine (6 years ago)

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About me:- Born in Christchurch NZ in 1979, bought up in small a small predominantly farming community called Rakaia south of Christchurch.

Moved back to the city in 1993 to attend boarding school and completed high school in 1997.

Worked in Christchurch for two years before shifting to Wellington in 2000 to study design at Massey University.

In 2005 left New Zealand in pursuit of an itch that had to be scratched. After spending 3mths in Melbourne I then traveled to Europe where I spent the best part of 4mths sailing a yacht around the Med.

Then 5 long winter months in London before heading home to finish my degree and get my career started.

After working freelance in Auckland while finishing my degree I came to Sydney in search of more career opportunities and a stable, exciting work environment.

Now 2009 I am extremely happy with how my life in Sydney is turning out.

I have excelled working for great companies and clients that have given me every opportunity to grow and hone my skills as a producer. However it is time that I took things to the next level and pushed myself to further my career and journey as a creator.

I am a hard worker and have had a large variety of jobs across many industries. This has not only branded me with a broad range of skills but has also taught me exceptional interpersonal skills allowing me to work well within any sized team at any level, creative or otherwise.

Career objectives:- My main focus of study & work has been in Digital Media but I am just as at home designing for print as I am web and timebased media.

I have experience using most design software including all Adobe CS software with an advanced level of understanding in;

• AfterEffects
• Photoshop
• Flash
• Dreamweaver
• Finalcut
• Premiere
• Illustrator
• Freehand
• Indesign

Professionally I have allot of experience dealing with both my own clients in freelance capacity and clients dealt with through a corporate team environment.

Therefore I have no problem fielding, problem solving and translating any brief into final product that realises all communication objectives.

Technical strengths:-

• Digital Producer Video
• Audio Technician Editor
• Camera Operator
• Motion Graphic Artist
• Animator
• Audio Producer
• Digital Designer

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Bio:-

I have an extensive background in project management, account management and production. I am highly adaptable and have strong client management, project and event management, written and verbal communication skills. I understand design and can manage multiple projects simultaneously.

My skill-base is broad having worked across diverse contract, freelance and permanent roles.

I am proficient with many technologies and have successfully managed all aspects of large-scale development projects, including; tenders, strategy, scoping, budgets, timelines, client interface, content development, vendor elationships, technical and creative team procurement and management.

I am currently looking for 3 month contract position as a Producer or Project Manager and would enjoy a ‘client side’ contract should one arise.

Experience:-

Freelance Producer
Contracted for 3 months to delivery the public website for a large multi-player online game called Free The Goat for The Learning Federation, to be delivered April 2009 to all schools cross Australia and NZ.

This role is client side, working for the Senior Manager, Online Content Delivery and working with a small team contracted to design, build and deliver the game and the web site.

Contracted Visual Jazz to design, build and deliver the website for end of February 2009.

www.freethegoat.tlf.edu.au (go live March 2009)

Freelance Producer
Contracted on a freelance basis primarily to develop the Information Architecture for a financially based client’s two new websites. Also assisted with producing existing clients nternally within the agency.

Senior Account Manager
Managed multiple blue chip clients including National Foods Ltd, MAB, Fremantle Media, Vanguard Investments and Loreto Mandeville Hall.
Responsible for new business procurement, existing client liaison, proposal writing for new development, functional specifications, estimating and project plans, budget management nd forecasting.

Managed multiple creative and technical resources to produce and manage multiple websites. Also developed video production of TVC for Vanguard Investments.

Websites:
www.mabcorp.com.au
www.nationalfoods.com.au
www.neighbours.com.au

Project Manager (contract)
Managed the development of a large-scale online bidding auction site for Lawson-Menzies Group. Project managed the site from development to delivery, managing all internal echnical and design resources, budget and all client contact.

Website:
www.empireauctions.com

Producer (contract)
Contracted primarily to help develop more effective internal processes and streamline the studio traffic methodology, however the role expanded to a more comprehensive role uring my tenure.

Responsibilities:

• Support all resources within the agency on a day-to-day basis to progress work from initial client contact through to delivery.
• Assist in establishing and locking down client expectations & requirements & agency eliverables & budgets.
• Work In Progress (WIP) management and studio scheduling.
• Constant evolution & improvement of internal agency processes.
• Attending initial briefings to understand client requirements and make ecommendations pre proposal development.
• Technical & costing management & input for new client pitches.
• Technical, costing, timings & scheduling input into Requirements Analysis documents.
• Determining budgets & general timing expectations.
• Managing all processes prior to job commencement and working with account management to develop forecast timelines.
• Scheduling & management of all creative & technical resources.
• Resource & review freelance creatives if & when required and briefing suppliers printers, creatives, copy writers, et al).
• Management of deliverables & print production processes.
• Post project reviews, wrap up, archiving jobs & back up of work in progress.

Senior Account Manager
Managing all marketing communications exclusively for NEC as client interface for the agency across senior levels of management both western and Japanese, for both NEC Mobiles business and their Business Solution area. Over the course of this period I managed the development of an overall business growth strategy, all marketing communications and mainstream advertising strategy plans and execution. This included media planning and placement and all creative development and execution.

I also managed all other aspects of the business including website development, promotional marketing, sponsorship, sales support, PR, POS, packaging, design and events.

My time at Patts B2B gave me a good understanding of the processes within a large mainstream agency and improved my management skills across complex client cultures, roviding excellent results for both the client and agency alike.

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Communications Manager (contract)
Six month contract extended to ten months, managing all marketing communications for a Change Management group established to support the integration of a large multi million dollar academic records management system (software) roll out within the University.

This contract provided me with a good understanding of a large-scale SDLC rollout (PeopleSoft) within a large organisation, which required extensive and often-complex stakeholder management, thus improving my communications planning and execution skills.

Senior Project Manager
The main focus of the appointment was pitch, procurement and management of the Libragirl website for Sancella Pty Ltd and YoGo Alley for National Foods, the largest website developments for Tequila\Melbourne since its inception. The projects involved extensive client liaison, scoping and time management with a small, highly skilled team.

Many months of strategic, technical and creative planning and development resulted in cutting- edge technological development and award winning design for both sites.

It also involved relationship building and management with a UK based development team - www.lightmaker.co.uk - to produce the innovative chat room used within the Libragirl site.

Libragirl involved extensive, formal concept and user acceptance testing through rigorous and strategic testing processes with target groups across the project and post testing reporting analysis and review. The site also underwent extensive technical testing.

Following the development of Libragirl and YoGo Alley I also took over management of the Nissan Australia site.

Websites:
www.libragirl.com (Awwward Winner - Best Online Creative Concept)
www.yogoalley.com (Awwward Winner – Most Strategic Integration of Online Creative - Best Online Promotion, Best Relationship Marketing, Best of Show)
www.nissan.com.au
www.tequila-ww.com

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About me:- I'm a coder with an artistic streak. I enjoy bringing projects to life with a variety of media types to make something that is both beautiful and enjoyable. Fully operational code is a joy to behold. In my spare time, I'm an artist, gamer, cyclist, collector and I love a spot of Office Nerf wars.

Career Objectives:- In an industry that's ever evolving, I strive to keep abreast of the latest technologies in order to create the most interesting and imaginative websites. As long as a project can evoke a thought or emotion, it's done its job. And to do it in the most elegant way possible - that's priceless.

Prior or Current experience:- Taught myself internet programming in the 90s while studying Computer Science at R.M.I.T. Since then I've been employed at a string of agencies as a Web Developer working on websites that grow ever larger and more complicated. These days, I'm as comfortable building large CMS back-ends and databases as I am working with Open Source frameworks in a variety of languages. I find working with cutting and coding front-ends and optimising newsletters can be just as satisfying as building server code and CMS applications.

Your Ideal Job:- The best jobs are the ones you're eager to go to in the morning. I thrive in a creative environment. I get along well with easy-going, open-minded, talented and geeky people like myself. And when you're against the pump, a team that works efficiently under pressure only increases the satisfaction of a job well done.

Languages   

• PHP    (4 year)
• CSS    (7 years)
• ASP (Jscript)    (3 year)
• XML    (6 years)
• HTML    (12 years)
• Javascript, DHTML    (9 years)
• Webpage design    (12 years)
• Database design    (8 years)

Applications

• SQL, SQL Server
• Cold Fusion Studio
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Fireworks
• Dreamweaver
• Microsoft Office

Operating Systems

• Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
• Mac OS

Interests

• Ajax
• Ruby on Rails
• ASP .NET

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