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Objective

To obtain a senior position at an industry-leading company. 

 

Sector Experience

•          Banking and Finance - Prudential (NZ and Aust), New Zealand Funds, Bank of America

•          Resources/Energy (Shell)

•          Telco's - Telstra

•          Utilities (Mercury Energy - Auckland electricity retail and line)

•          Transport (Car Haulaways) - billing and operational

•          Not for Profit Associations

•          Dept of Education (NZ).

 

Key Attributes

•          8 years full-time Application and Database Development experience in various roles including: Project Leader, Specification Analysis, Design, and Estimation, Programming, Reporting/Auditing and Delivery.

•          Focused on n-Tier Web Intranet/Internet development for the last 4 years using Microsoft Technologies: SQL Server, ASP, XML, XSL, Javascript and HTML, Visual Basic, COM+(MTS, MSMQ), and .NET.

•          Strong Analysis and Documentation skills for producing Technical and Function Specifications using UML and Data Modeling.

•          SQL Server DBA experience including data migration.

•          Pre and Post Sales support experience

•          Microsoft Architecture skills

•          MSc hons. in Mathematics, and BSc in Computing and Mathematic.

•          Project management and Team leadership skills. 

Target Job

Desired Job Type

Employee/Contractor

Desired Status

Full Time

Description of my perfect job

A job which has a mixture of Technical/Analysis and Communication Tasks. 

 

 

Target Company

Company Size

Medium 100-500

Category

IT Development

Desciption of the Company I would like to work for

An Organisation which has opportunity for promotion to various roles and provides regular training.

 

Skills

Skill Name

Skill Level

(«-Beginner,   «««««- Expert)

Last Used

Experience

ASP

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Currently Used

3 years

DHTML/DOM

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Currently Used

3 years

Javascript

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Currently Used

3 years

XML/XSL/XML Schema

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Currently Used

2 years

UML Documentation

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Currently Used

1 year

Visual Basic

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Currently Used

5 years

SQL Server

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Currently Used

5 years

MTS, COM+, MSMQ

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Currently Used

5 years

MS Active Directories

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Currently Used

1 year

IIS 4.0/5.0

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Currently Used

4 years

ADO

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Currently Used

4 years

DTS (SQL Server)

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Currently Used

3 years

ORACLE 8 PL/SQL

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Currently Used

9 Months

.NET (C#)

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Currently Used

6 Months

Delphi

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3 years ago

2 years

Smalltalk

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3 years ago

2 years

C

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5 years ago

1 year

Crystal Reports

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2 years ago

1 year

MQ Series (IBM)

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3 years ago

2 years

 

Professional Experience

 

Technical Project Leader, SMS Management & Technology (Method) (Aug 2001 - )

I am a technical leader for intranet and internet applications.  I have worked on a number of projects with Telstra (using Oracle 8), also assisting Account Managers in developing proposals (pre-sales), developing specifications, and maintaining applications (post-sales).  My pre-sales work includes:

 

*  Financial Planning Association – Content Management and e-commerce System

*  Australian Psychological Society - Content Management and e-commerce System

*  Department of Human Services – Data capture and reporting system

*  Telstra – International Directories system

 

I am currently leading a development for The FPA (Financial Planning Association).

 

Sample Project

FPA Web Site – Content Site Manager

www.fpa.asn.au

Responsibilities

Technical Project Leader and Systems Architect

Description

This Application allows FPA Staff to manage, publish, and moderate content on their website.  Content is stored in the database as XML and published to ASP files.  The site also interfaces with Membership data from their corporate database.  Members can also purchases products and renew their membership on-line.

Size

4 months - 4 person team – 2000 users

Client

Internet Explorer or Netscape (Plain vanilla HTML with Javascript)

Web Server

ASP/XML/JS Pages, Internet Information Server, SSL Security. COM+, XML, ADO 2.6

Database Server

SQL Server Version 2000

 

 

Sample Project

Telstra Intranet Site Manager

 

Responsibilities

Senior Developer – front and back end

Description

The Intranet Site Manager is a tool designed for Telstra Intranet developers and content producers to build and manage the hundreds of sites from across all business units and around the country that make up the Telstra Intranet.

Size

6 months - 8 person team – 10000 users

Client

Internet Explorer

Web Server

ASP/XML/JS Pages, Internet Information Server, SSL Security.

Application Server

COM+, XML, ADO 2.6

Database Server

Oracle 8

 

 

Contract eCommerce Developer, Sphere Business Group (Mar 2001 – Aug 2001)

I Developed their web based inter-bank business to business (B-B) reconciliation system.   This system is currently used by international banks including:  ING Barings, UBS Warburg, Morgan Stanley DW, Goldman Sachs\BGA , and Deutsche Bank. 

 

Sample Project

Esphere

Responsibilities

Front and Back End Development, Mentoring new developers, Maintain Documentation

Description

This is an intranet application for performing reconciliation’s.  This system is used by international merchant banks to settle financial transactions.

Size

5 months - 15 person team - 50 users

Client

Internet Explorer 5, using XML, Javascript and XSL

Web Server

ASP/XML/XSL/JS Pages, Internet Information Server

Application Server

MTS, XML, ADO 2.5

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0

 

Contract Consultant, NZ Funds Management  (Jan  2000 – Mar 2001)

In my role as Technical project Leader, I managed and assisted in the development of n-tier finance applications using ASP, Visual Basic, Microsoft Transaction Server, Site Server, and SQL Server.

 

Sample Project

IPAC FundSource Web site

 www.fundsource.co.nz

Responsibilities

Systems Architect,  Development Leader, Liaison with designer. Ongoing support

Description

This site displays the latest financial news and statistics for all Funds available in New Zealand.   It also has a searchable archive of historical articles.  Maintenance of News Articles, Fund statistics and also Users is also incorporated in to the Web site.

Size

4 months - 3 person team - 500 users

Client

Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.

Web Server

ASP/XML/XSL/JS Pages, Internet Information Server

Application Server

MTS, XML, ADO 2.5

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0

 

 

 

Sample Project

Australian Unit Trust Management System

Responsibilities

Systems Architect, Specification of project, Development Leader, Assist permanent support staff.

Description

This application maintains client’s accounts including deposits, withdrawals, redemptions, rebates, reporting, statements, and correspondence.

Size

4 months - 4 person team – 10 users

Client

VB Executable

Application Server

VB Objects on MTS/COM+

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0

 

 

Sample Project

On-line Performance Monitoring Reports

Responsibilities

Systems Architect, Specification of project, Development Leader,

Description

This application generates a detailed performance monitoring report on-line.  Agents can log on and download their client’s reports at any time.  Some performance tuning was required to reduce the generation time to 4 seconds.

Size

6 months - 2 person team – 10 users

Client

Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, Crystal Reports.

Web Server

ASP/XML/XSL/JS Pages, Internet Information Server

Application Server

VB Objects on MTS/COM+

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0 – 2 GB Database

 

 

System Consultant, Datacom Systems Limited (Dec 1998 – Jan 2000)

As a senior developer I led teams of programmers in projects for various clients.  I was involved in all aspects of development process from initial scoping to delivery.  In this role I used the latest microsoft technology to provide IT application solutions.    

 

Sample Project

Vehicle Handling System

Responsibilities

Specification of project, Systems Architect , Development Leader, Team Leader (2 staff), Reporting at regular meetings, Ongoing Support on and off-site.

Description

This is “Car Haulaways” core system. This system processes, dispatches and invoices the processing, storage and movement of vehicles. 

Size

6 months – 6 person team – 50 users

Client

VB 6.0  application on Windows Terminal Server

Application Server

MTS, MS Message Queue

Database Server

SQL Server Version 7.0

 

Application Team Leader, Mercury Energy      (Aug 1998 – Dec 1998)

Team Leader of Commercial Customer Information Systems.  My team of 3 people developed Visual Basic/SQL Server and Web Applications and also maintained an existing FoxPro database. 

 

Application Support, Bank of America (1997)

Short term MS Access developer for a data capture application.

 

Senior Analyst/Developer, Prudential Assurance NZ Ltd ( Aug 1995 – Mar 1998)

(Promoted from Analyst/Developer in October 1997)

Project Leader for application development projects for Prudential Client Services in New Zealand and Australia.  In this varied position I provided specifications and cost estimates, developed and supported applications as well as manage projects and recruit contact programmers. 

 

Sample Project

Requirements Management System

Responsibilities

Liaise with Business Analysts to derive a business Specification, Systems Architect , Technical Specification, Development Leader, Team Leader (3 developers), Reporting at regular meetings, Ongoing Support in New Zealand and Australia.

Description

This system manages new applications for life and investment products.  It automates all letter generation and keeps track of the various stages in creating a new policy.

Size

6 months - 6 person team – 500 users (in New Zealand and Australia)

Database Server

32-bit SQL Base Servers on NT Server  (NZ and Australia)

Interfaces

IBM DB2 Database (using MQ Series), MS Word (via OLE), Lotus Notes, Tower Imaging Server, Staffware.

 

 

Technical Project Leader, Shell New Zealand (  1994 - 1995)

I Managed a 16 month project to migrate all sites and users from “dumb terminals” to Windows Office Products on a Novell LAN.  This included, preparing “request for proposals”, reporting to steering committee meetings, and managing staff.

 

 

Software Developer, Praxis Software Limited      (1993)

Programming and testing of Banking and Accounting systems.  Praxis Software develops systems in Pascal and 'C' for many purposes including remittance processing, accounting and 'point of sale'.

 

Education

Masters of Science Thesis (Mathematics)      1992

Path-following methods for Boundary Value Problems and their application to

Combustion   Equations.

First class honours in Mathematics      1991

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computing     1990

 

Training with Work

Supervisory Skills for Team Leaders    1997

Object Oriented Systems Development  1996

Programming with Smalltalk         1995

Project Management Workshop   1994

 

Citizenship

Australia, United States

 

Interests

Music, movies, cooking, swimming, and hiking

 

Referees

References are available upon request.