Nov 2018 – Mar 2019 · 4 mos · Australia

• Author of Agile Solution Architecture training materials designed both to cross skill non-Solution Architects to understand the work of Solution Architects in their teams, and also for those taking their first steps in that role.
• Successfully delivered by a trainer to a major government client of Coder Academy as part of an extensive Agile bootcamp program
• Available for use with other clients

Jun 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Homebush West

• I was on the advisory board of this start up and I was previously the CTO/CIO of this EdTech company that provides a suite of software designed to support the Educator, Parent and Student in measuring, analysing and positively improving the use of digital technology in learning. The key current product is edQuire http://edquire.com/

Apr 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Sydney, Australia

• I helped the founder of this company with the complexities of scaling her awesome social media management app for smaller businesses who lack a dedicated social media manager so that it can reach even more happy users.

Apr 2017 – Jan 2018 · 9 mos · Sydney, Australia

• I provided an early stage Tech Advisory and talent acquisition role to this rapidly growing EduTech technology company in the K-12 education space. RagTagd is a company that makes the day to day lives of parents and school staff easier by managing lost property with smart tag based technology and providing logistics services to uniform stores.

Mar 2016 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · 1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont, NSW 2009

• Everyday in publishing is new and challenging. I joined Fairfax to drive simplicity and power into digital publishing and reduce the time from editorial or commercial idea to engaged audience.
• My team of gun architects built the solution architecture capacity for all Fairfax Digital Product Teams, with a focus on building an effective Agile Architecture Practice while assisting with practical expertise in areas of CMS, API, Video and collaborating with Enterprise architecture. Key themes of my role were:
• Developing new agile architects
• Lean architecture - YAGNI, The Simplest Thing that actually Works
• Hands on with software and product development.
• Refactor mercilessly
• No silver bullets or holy cows
• If it is obvious get on with it, if not test it

Jan 2013 – Apr 2018 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Sydney, Australia

• I was one of the directors of this social enterprise start-up and assisted with both technical and go-to-market activities.
• More good deeds was an app that allows people to be inspired by the deeds of others - you might call it "Moral Networking".

Jan 2013 – Feb 2016 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Sydney, Australia · On-site

• I was lead architect for Content Management and Delivery Platforms. I managed other architectural resources across multiple delivery and enabler projects. I mentored development resources at multiple levels.
• I was a key advocate of OpenSource solutions such as WordPress and ElasticSearch. I spoke publicly at WordPress community events, including Sydney WordCamp 2015.

Feb 2012 – Jan 2013 · 11 mos · North Sydney

• CloseBuys was a collaboration between an experienced group of entrepreneurs, including Luke Carruthers (founder of Magna Data and intertouch) and Kevin Dinn (founder of Zip Internet and intertouch), and oOh!media, one of the country's largest and most innovative outdoor media companies. As head of engineering I provided leadership and hands-on effort towards web scale deployment of this unique app and backend system and the all important analytics engine.

Nov 2011 – Feb 2012 · 3 mos · Sydney, Australia

• Worldnomads groups is one of Australia's quiet successes in the online commerce space, a leading travel insurance and travel information group that includes TID (travel insurance direct) and WorldNomads, top rated app language guides and AskANomad.
• I provided agile leadership for a newly formed mobile and content management team, encompassing iPad, Android and back-end publishing systems that provide content both to apps and to web based properties. Apps included the top rated nomads language guides (2m+ downloads) and "ask a nomad", a social community for people who love to travel and who love to share their passion with other travelers.

Feb 2011 – Nov 2011 · 9 mos

• Worldnomads groups is one of Australia's quiet successes in the online commerce space, a leading travel insurance and travel information group that includes TID (travel insurance direct) and WorldNomads, top rated app language guides and AskANomad.
• At World Nomads Group I acted as an analysis lead and coach across a range of activities, including agile delivery, online business needs analysis, testing strategy, content management and mobile apps. I was involved with product creation for the insurance aspects of the business, as well as marketing functions such as SEO.
• I managed the selection, trail and initial deployment of their New CMS - Microsoft Orchard. This exercise involved extensive evaluation of business requirements as well as financial and technical needs and the CMS is now in use across the organization.

Mar 2010 – Feb 2011 · 11 mos

• Vision and delivery of advanced, broadcast grade video technologies for Web/IPTV across both internal products and third party platforms.

Jun 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Strategy for Telstra Media in multiple horizontal functions, including Video, Search, Recommendations, Content Management and Aggregation, Hosting and Development.

Dec 2005 – Jun 2009 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• I assisted this client with online media strategy across many channels including music, online TV, news and shopping. Most recent launch shop.bigpond.com for which I was awarded a mini-hog - an internal Bigpond award
• Was the Technical Platform Manager for BigPond Music, single handedly running it for six months after the original admin left until it was handed over to Telstra operations.

Aug 2008 – Jun 2009 · 10 mos

• I wrote articles for DM about ubiquitous media technology and its impact on the industry.

Jan 2008 – Nov 2008 · 10 mos

• I was an adviser to this client on technology and go-to-market strategy around online media commerce. They are a Microsoft development partner, and one of the only companies in the world in 2008 to be able to build certified fully functional microsoft media player commerce systems (so called Type 1 shops).

Jul 2006 – Nov 2011 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• During this time I was the Founder of a Community Website Startup, developing Rails based products for PR, Marketing and General Public.