About Me
After over 15 years in the IT and software development industry, I've decided to make the change and move into helping organizations find tech talent.
My extensive experience being in the hot seat all the way from SAAS startups to local government, in a wide array of roles, means I'm well placed to understand both candidates and organizations needs. We aren't recruiters who know IT, we are IT people who know recruitment, and we think that's pretty important.
Experiences
We help organizations find tech talent.
For the past 5 years, I have been working as a contract software architect and engineer across a wide array of businesses. From enterprise, to software consulting services, to local government. The roles below are summarized to make for easier reading, but I am always more than happy to dive deeper.
Projects included :
Maritime NZ - 1 year contract architecting an Azure Integration Platform, built on top of Azure Integration Services.
Auckland City Council - 2 year contract architecting a web replatform of public websites from Sharepoint 2013
Wenco Mining - 3 month contract architecting a smart mining solution using IOT/Analytics, and all built on the cloud
Leapthought / Auckland Transport - 3 month contract to build a bespoke ERP solution for a major NZ transportation provider
Provoke Solutions - 9 month contract/FTE to act as Development Practice Lead and set development standards across a team of 50+
Provoke Solutions / Hyperio - 3 month contract to architect a sales VOIP solution using .NET Core, Azure, Angular and Twilio.
Provoke Solutions / MPI - 9 month contract to build an agricultural management solution using ArcGIS, Angular, .NET Core and Azure.
Provoke Solutions / Microsoft - 3 month contract to build a self service content site using Angular Universal and Squidex Headless CMS.
Silver Fern Farms - 3 month contact to provide legacy support for technology that no one else wanted to touch (VB7, WPF, SQL 2005).
Silver Fern Farms - 4 month contract to build a mini self service portal SPA in Angular, .NET Core, and Azure.
Design, architect and build functionality and new product offerings for Timely's Saas product.
Took the lead for C#/Web API development of the mobile backend API, architecting and building Timely's Zapier integration built in .NET Core/NodeJS, and BAU development utilizing Azure Cloud Technologies such as Blob Storage, Azure SQL, Cloud Services/AWA and VSTS.
Technical lead on numerous projects for Provoke's bespoke development service offering.
Development on AI/Chatbot functionality for a large bank using Microsoft Bot Framework (C#), Azure LUIS NLP and Azure Cognitive services. Lead redevelopment of a major utilities provider self service portal built in .NET/C#.
Took on various 3 month contract roles predominately in C#/ASP.NET.
Highlight included building a wholesale self service portal SPA for large utilities (Vector Power) in .NET/AngularJS.
Lead a small team of 4 heading up the "Systems Team" working on Unleashed's Inventory Management SAAS product.
The systems team lead infrastructure and core systems development before passing it on for other teams to use. In particular, Unleashed's use of various Azure technologies such as Azure Web Roles, Blob Storage, and Azure Service Bus.
Worked as a senior software engineer on Findly's ATS/CRM enterprise product.
Extensive use of "next-gen" technologies that would later become common place in NZ Tech companies. These included Elasticsearch, MongoDB, extensive use of AWS/Azure services and tooling such as Puppet, Team City/Jenkins and Octopus.
Worked as a software engineer for various companies in Auckland including NZ's largest magazine publisher in Bauer Media.
Predominately worked in C#/.NET MVC solutions, with drops of .NET WebForms, .NET desktop development and PHP. This is where I really cut my teeth on the Microsoft stack
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