Profile

A young creative developer whose core skill involves building dynamic, rapid prototypes from innovate concepts.

Experience

 Senior Developer - MLC School 2008

Developing and Maintaining Online Learning using Enterprise Application Frameworks.

 Lead Project Developer - Redballoon 2006- Dec 2007

RedBalloon Days is a leading provider of gift experiences for the Australian and New Zealand markets, serving over 4,000 corporate customers and 90,000 individuals.

As Project Leader for RedBalloon Days I am responsible for development of my own projects as well as ultimately being accountable for weekly team releases via subversion.

My responsibilities include:

  • Managing the testing and release cycle
  • Managing the Integration of New Technologies into the site
  • Managing and Developing a complete redesign of the site
  • Analysing incoming traffic and SEO needs and requirements and making recommendations for future development
  • Development work for the project itself

Lead Developer - Kids-connect.net 2007

Kids Connect - Is an exciting concept that has already proven itself as a success in New Zealand and in Australia. This web development project is based on giving the power to the students and to the schools in creating these sustainable congresses.

Lead Developer - Quatrix.com.au 2007

Quatrix Communications - supply and install commercial and domestic communications solutions. Television and satellite systems, security and CCTV, data networks and smart wired systems plus professional project management services. They are based in the Inner West of Sydney but service most of Sydney and surrounding areas.

http://www.quatrix.com.au

Lead Developer / Consultant - Public School CMS Developer 2006 - Current

Northbridge Public School - December 2006

Berowra Public School - October 2007

Murray Farm Public School - January 2008

Learning Architect - MLC School Sydney 2003-2006

The main focus of this role was to promote, support, develop and implement an online learning framework that was aligned to the vision of the school. A major aspect of this role was meeting with teachers and students regarding their wants and needs for an online framework then putting these in perspective with the vision of the school and road map of development.

Achievements included development of three major systems that were completed integrated with each other:-

  • A Learning Management System (The Bluesheet) that is a hub for students and teachers to communicate and share information. It is also a gateway for their online learning framework, Pangaea.
  • An Online Learning Framework (Pangaea) that allows teachers to take complete management of student learning while delivering course content. Teachers can track student learning through a number of different mechanisms, which have been developed in coordination of research of current online trends as well as the requirements of teachers. Students can also focus on their progress as well as communicate with other students and discuss their ‘project’ with their teacher. This online framework has become the mainstream way of developing and distributing content at MLC.
  • A digital repository (MusicNet) for content that could be searched and added to by the entire school community. Content was organised and could be accessed from anywhere. There is also integration with the school’s online subscriptions such as Grove to allow students to seamlessly find what they were looking for without needing to log into numerous systems.

Presenter, Trainer - LearnCom 2003-2006

Presenter of course to staff, community and students in the areas of

  • Film techniques
  • Web Development
  • Graphic Design
  • Photography

Freelance Presenter 2004-2006

  • Kids Congress, Project Based Learning - Presenter 2005
    Selected from educators around Australia and New Zealand to present at Kids Congress 05 on the Gold Coast. Leading a workshop of 12 students from different ages groups and schools the role introduced the students into digital media from a journalism approach. Heavily focused on the Project-Based Learning model, students tracked the conference and conducted news breaks where they thought is was appropriate.
    http://www.kidscongress.org.nz/goldcoast/
  • Catholic Education,Melbourne 2005 - Conducted a workshop for teachers in the Victorian Catholic Education System to understand the concept of Project Based Learning in cohesion with Digital Media using Apple Computers.
  • Corporate Training, Short Film Production - Masterfoods 2005
    In co-ordination with Mad Cow Theatre the role included being a motivational workshop leader whose goal was to teach 10 Masterfood employees how to create a short film in one day. The role included everything from storyboard planing to editing the video for presentation of the short film that evening.
  • NavCon Conference, Digital Portfolios - Co-Presenter 2005
    The role involved a demonstration on how Ezedia (www.ezedia.ca) software could be used as a digital portfolio solution for primary schools. The workshop was for 20 teachers from all over New Zealand and Australia.
  • ITSC Conference, Project Based Learning- Co-Presenter 2004
    Selected to present at Australia’s leading education and technology conference run by Apple Computers. In co-ordination with Westley Field and Paul Shaw we presented the concept on Project Based Learning in different teaching styles. This workshop had a heavy focus on Digital Media and the Web.

Freelance Education Consultant - 1999-2003

This role included supporting technology with teachers and students in the classroom. The main focus was to instill confidence in the user to ensure they were able to feel comfortable with the technology. Other aspects of this role included:-

  • Speaking at staff meeting to introduce new frameworks for technology
  • Running various workshops with staff groups
  • Running a G&T Program with primary school students from Robina State School
  • Running a Digital Media Program with new arrival refugees from Sudan
  • lming various events and authoring to the web/video/dvd
  • Developed several frameworks for ‘helpdesk’ support
  • Developed several small scale intranets for primary schools
  • Supported many new initiatives of State Government


Professional Development

  • Completed First Year of Bachelor Arts at Australia Catholic Education
  • Coldfusion - Mentoring from Geoff Bowers (CEO of Daemon)
  • Coldfusion, CFC - Mentoring from Lucas Sherwood
  • Coldfusion, MVC model - Mentoring from Andrew Muller (Rocketboots)
  • Coldfusion - Mentoring Barry Beattie (Qantm)
  • Completed a 5 Day Mysql Developers Workshop
  • Child Protection Training
  • Attend Various Education Conferences (ITSC, NAVCON, Kids Congress, MXDU, WebDu)

Skills

Web Development

  • 6 Years Coldfusion Development including CFCs (MX/7/8 Beta)
  • 2 Years Subversion (SCM) Experience
  • 1 Year Coldfusion/Java Integration
  • 6 Years Mysql Development
  • 2 MSSQL Development
  • 6 Years HTML, Javascript Development
  • 3 Year Ajax/XML Development

Mac Environment

12 Years Digital Media Experience (iMovie, Photoshop, Flash, DVD)
6 Years Mac OSX Server/Network Experience
3 Years Quicktime Development (Streaming)

Referals

  • Lucas Sherwood - Lightmaker Australia
  • David Sirr - Senior Developer RedBalloonDays.com.au / Spark IT
  • Mark Lynch - Lynch Consulting
  • Duncan Blaine - Lead Developer - Godo.com.au
  • James Humberstone, Applications and Education - Sibelius Australia
  • Ian Munns, Head of Music - MLC
  • Westley Field, Head of Online Learning - MLC