Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Founded development company directly out of university. Grew it to 30 people.
• Identified, hired, trained, mentored, and led professional development of technical staff.
• Hired more than 50 staff, ran bi-monthly training presentations for 10 years, ran intensive on-boarding (esp pair programming).
• Staff engagement surveys showed in top 20% of industry peers. Average tenure of permanent staff almost 5 years.
• Directly architected, led and delivered over 30 major web applications.
• Largest greenfields project involved 10 devs, $3m total spend with a domain complexity reflected in over 200 (properly normalised) SQL tables.
• Largest work within an existing system involved handling hundreds of millions of records within an international team of 150 developers.
• Set technical direction (inc tech platform) and evaluated tech alternatives.
• Championed adoption of best practices (eg cross-project code reuse, cost-effective test coverage, Continuous Integration, Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management).
• Assisted with remediation of any projects that encountered difficulties. Never failed to deliver a project.
• Participated in sales cycle to win projects with up-front budgets over $1m.
• Engaged in strategic analysis of internal business opportunities and direction. Successfully moved expected new project size from $30k to $1m
• Sold ownership stake in 2022