Resume

I am a full-stack web developer or hybrid mobile applications developer. I work remotely from Whangarei, New Zealand.

Experience

Full Stack Web Applications Developer

2013 – present

Freelance

Remote

Building and maintaining web applications. Projects include:

Maintaining and developing a suite of web applications using ASP.NET MVC and knockout.js, with a SQL Server backend, hosted on Microsoft Azure (initially in team of two, then solo). www.iugo.co.nz, www.essentialresources.co.nz, www.fyndit.co.nz
Building and maintaining developing a web application using node.js, express.js, and knockout.js, with a postgreSQL backend, hosted on AWS. www.treehutvillage.com.au
Web applications build on top of WordPress and WooCommerce, with custom plugins and themes. Crafty Social Buttons Plugin and sigchinz.acm.org

Web/Mobile Applications Developer

2012 – 2016

University of Auckland

Remotely from Hyderabad, India

Responsible for designing and developing cross-platform mobile applications and web applications for research projects. Projects include:

Designing, building and maintaining a web application using MEAN stack: Mongo DB, Express web server, AngularJS front end and node.js backend. www.mediaflow.online
Hybrid mobile applications using Phonegap/Cordova, Angular and the Ionic framework, with a Firebase backend. www.livelysuite.com

Web Developer / Research Programmer

2012 – 2013

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for maintaining and updating the main public website (with summary in both a CMS and PHP pages) as well as an intranet for the Department of Computer Science. In addition, I developed new web applications using ASP.NET MVC & C#. I worked part-time as part of a team of research programmers whose role is to support research projects.

Lecturer in Information Management

2002 – 2012

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

My primary responsibility was to develop and teach courses in Information Systems using the latest Microsoft development technologies and industry best practices.

Topics I taught include web development using HTML, CSS and ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight, programming in C# and VB.NET, desktop applications development using WPF, WinForms, database design using SQL Server and Oracle, and systems analysis using UML.

I achieved consistently high student evaluations with a career average of 8.8/10 and most recent evaluation 9.8. In 2010 I received a Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Auckland Business School.

I trained, managed and supervised tutors and markers as well as supervising summer project students and postgraduate dissertation students.

I managed and administered 12 web and database servers used by 10 courses and thousands of students, running both Apache and IIS, and including SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 installations.

I have also modified and maintained a variety of systems written by others, including websites in ASP, ASP.NET and PHP, applications in WinForms and WPF and WCF web services.

I developed several software tools and websites to support student administration and marking:

Website AutoMarker (originally PHP & mySQL, later ASP.NET MVC3 & SQL Server)
Rubric Marking System (Windows Forms, VB.NET & SQL Server)
Shared drive permissions manager (originally VB6, then WinForms & VB.NET, then WPF & C#)
Software Download website (ASP.NET MVC, C# & SQL Server)

Course Coordinator and Tutor

2000 – 2002

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

Coordinated and tutored Stage 3 Information Systems courses in Systems Analysis and Design, Electronic Commerce and Decision Support Systems.

Developed and delivered labs, supervised tutors, marked assessments, and oversaw student administration

Analyst/Programmer

2000 – 2001

Greenwood Technology Ltd

Auckland, New Zealand

Developed thin-client web applications using Java and Oracle

Programmer

1999 – 2000

Greenwood Technology Ltd

Auckland, New Zealand

Developed thin-client web applications using Java and Oracle

Skills

Front End Skills

ASP.NET MVC

13 years
JavaScript

18 years
TypeScript

6 years
CSS

23 years
HTML

26 years
Vue.js

6 years
Angular

7 years
jQuery

13 years
knockout.js

9 years
Ionic

8 years

Back End Skills

Entity Framework

14 years
C#

22 years
Relational Databases (Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, mySQL)

24 years
noSQL Databases (MongoDB, CouchDB)

9 years
Devops (Deployment, hosting, monitoring on Azure and AWS)

10 years
PHP

22 years
node.js Express

8 years

Non-technical Skills

Requirements elicitation

22 years
Communication with non-technical stakeholders

12 years

Education

PhD in Information Systems

2008

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

Dissertation: “How Do People Manage Their Documents? An empirical investigation into personal digital document management practices among knowledge workers”

Certificate in University Teaching and Learning

2005

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

Two year program covering best practices of university learning and teaching

BCom(Honours) in Information Systems

2002

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

Honours Dissertation: “The Design and Implementation of a Flexible, Component-based Decision Support System Generator” (First Class Honours). Coursework included object oriented analysis and design, information security and decision support systems.

BCom, BSc (conjoint)

2001

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

Majors: Information Systems, Computer Science, Minor: Statistics.

Coursework included applications development, software engineering, systems analysis and design, information visualisation, databases and data warehousing and distributed systems design.