WORK EXPERIENCE 

Digitech Corporation 2003 - NOW

• Creating an Accounting package in Ruby on Rails + AngularJS
• Converting AngularJS frontend over the Hotwire
• Fullstack development
• Communication with clients and management
• Product design and story boarding with proof of concept
• Documentation (client facing, development style guides)
• Test Driven Development

• Managed a small team including a developer and designer
• Training in companies practices, GIT and tooling
• Sharing tasks evenly between members of the team

• Report Craft app which displays financial reports from Quickbooks
• Fast performance displaying reports in 200ms
• PDF output, joining multiple reports with one keystroke
• Journal creation/editing/undo
• Multiple ledger switching using shortcut keys.

• Migration tool using Ruby/Informix to migrate 2+ million records to PSQL
• Legacy Informix 4GL + Ruby Accounting systems
• Building a custom API onto a legacy system
• Applying modern coding practices & Refactoring 865,000 lines of code

• Quickbook & Xero plugins for import/export into internal systems
• Building APIs & Testing (RSpec) for legacy and modern systems
• Document management ’PDFCat’ that stored thousands of pdfs
• Created Digital signage with uptime of 10+ years using Ruby + QT
• Invoice application for multiple organisations output.
• Asset Management mobile app using NativeScript,Angular,Rails

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Monitors EV Chargers around Australia and warns support staff when a charger is in error state via mobile and through a dashboard displayed on large screens around the office. This tool has saved the company lots of money and time and has made their product and support more reliable.

• This system provided members with listings of important areas and people of the church, history and search. This was a large system with many users. People could update their details via an emailed token system. The site was also used to output everything for a printed hardcover book.

• This is a site which still gets a lot of users (4000 hits/mth), it allows people to search and view venues from all around Australia and place booking for venue hire, food and drink. I created and maintain all the code for this website. This included a lot of mapping and email work.

• During COVID this system allowed record keeping of sign-ins per business. It ended up having a few hundred users and kept all of the records encrypted and removed entries after the required time (set by the government). I learnt a lot about encryption.

• This is a product for to keep track of your wine cellar. It’s a pet project which now other people use. It allows you to keep records of all your wine and makes sure it is never spoils. This Rails project has been upgraded from Rails 1.x to 6.x over it’s lifetime.

• Created commercial real estate web application
• Manage listings through an admin interface
• Display multiple images and mapping of locations

• Started a company to create digital signage boards
• Created digital signage software for use in retail and public places
• Worked in a team of marketing and trades

• Maintained an old accounting system in Thoroughbred Basic with plenty of interesting problems within the code focusing on bad connections with international locations and constraints with old systems.

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Education

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science at VUT

• TAFE Course in Turbo C++

Skills

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Hackathons
• Conferences
• Mentoring
• Code School courses
• Corey Haines Code Retreat (TDD)
• Programming Camps
  • Participated in over 10 RailsCamps and CampJS

COMMUNITY

• MLUG: Melbourne Linux Users Group
• (2003-2022)
  • Club President 2005-2018
  • Ran monthly meetings
  • Organised external presenters
  • Delivered regular presentations
  • Hosted website and email server
• Melbourne Ruby (2008-current)
  • Attended monthly
  • Presented once
• MelbJS (2013-current)
• Railscamp (2008-current)
• CampJS (2013-2018)
• RubyRetreat (2023-current)