Resume_of_Damon_Rand.doc
Personal Details
Nationality: New Zealand
Age/Gender: 36 yr old male
Other: British and New Zealand nationality, drivers license, basic French and Chinese
Email: damon@cybermagic.co.nz
Qualifications
· Prince2 practioner project management certification (2007)
· Postgraduate degree in Environmental Science from Canterbury University. Completed courses in Ecology, Conservation Biology and Remote Sensing. (Graduated 2001)
· Bachelor of Science degree from Canterbury University. Double major in maths and chemistry. Also completed courses in computer science, history, english and physics. (Graduated 1995)
· (1996) Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in Windows NT and Internet Information Server (IIS4).
Career statement
Today is an amazing but very challenging time to be an application developer. Our industry is practically exploding with new ideas, new technology and new solutions to problems but user expectations are keeping pace. To respond to these challenges the best projects need to; first create robust team development processes, second focus the whole team on core user requirements, and third established a pattern of progressive releases. My preferred approach is to apply the SCRUM methodology with a focus on wireframing for requirement gathering. I look forward to working with your team to deliver results to your users.
Job History
Jan 2009 - Feb 2011 (Full time)
Technical lead and product designer on the Blinkmeter Project for Clean Energy Prospector. The company is a consumer electronics startup developing a hardware and software platform for home energy monitoring. I was a key part of the small development team. Work included developing a centralised firmware update system for hardware upgrades, implementing an online Zigbee PAN browser on Google app engine and developing a Tomcat energy monitoring web application with JQuery.
Skills used: C/JAVA/SPRING/LINUX/MYSQL/EC2/APPENGINE/ZIGBEE/JQUERY/JSON/RUBY
Feb 2010 – Mar 2010 (Full time)
Senior Java developer for the New Zealand Ministry of Justice on the Judicial Documents System (JDS) project. For this contract I helped port a legacy VB application onto the Java Alfresco CMS platform. My role included a mix of Java/Alfresco/CMS development and lots of hands-on Linux/Java/JVM setup and sysadmin of the QA/IAT/PROD server builds on Ubuntu/Oracle.
Skills used: LINUX/APACHE/JAVA/TOMCAT/SPRING/ALFRESCO/ORACLE
Sep 2002 – Oct 2008 (Full time)
Senior Java developer for the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. Designer & technical lead for Amnesty's digital asset management, document management and 'Individuals at risk' projects. This was a very broad role responsible for the delivery of centralised Intranet services to Amnesty sections in over 60 countries in four core languages. As the main java tech lead for the organization over six years I developed strong low-level Java/JVM skills. I also developed expert knowledge of Alfresco and the Lucene system.
Skills used: JAVA/TOMCAT/SPRING/HIBERNATE/ALFRESCO/MYSQL
Apr 2000 – Oct 2000 (Contract)
Development of a web based document management system for the Microsoft European marketing division. Designer & lead developer on the MSNEMEA extranet, a collaborative document sharing application for Microsoft's European offices.
Skills used: XML/XSL/DHTML/IIS5/ASP3/WIN2000/ADSI/WEBDAV/IE5
September 1999 – Mar 2000 (Contract)
Analysis, design & development of Intranet websites for Natwest PLC. Technical lead in a team converting internal processes into end-to-end Intranet based solutions.
Skills used: DHTML/IIS/ASP/JAVASCRIPT/WSH/RDS/SQLSVR/JAVA/ADSI
Website: http://www.natwest.com/
May 1999 – Jun 1999 (Full time)
Development, marketing and support for the Adonis Component Suite, Delphi/C++ Builder components for multi-tier database access using Microsoft ADO.
Skills used: ADO/DELPHI/ASP/DCOM/SQLSVR
Website: http://www.winsoft.sk/Adonis.htm
Aug 1998 – Apr 1999 (Full time)
Design and development (Delphi 4) of CVision for Clinical Computing PLC. CVision is a visual development environment for building multi-tier hospital database systems. Contributed significantly to system architecture of this visionary product.
Skills used: DELPHI/MTS/XML/DCOM/ADO/SQLSVR
Feb 1996 – Oct 1996 (Part time) Nov 1996 – May 1998 (Full time)
Web application development and Delphi programming for my company, CyberMagic Productions. Intranet/Internet consulting and development for many different clients/projects. Projects included a web-mail system, a merchant credit-card clearing system (with the Bank of New Zealand ), online pizza delivery, two e-commerce sites and a database of cyber cafes.
Skills used: HTML/ASP/MTS/CGI/DCOM/DELPHI/C++/JAVA/ISAPI/ACCESS/SQLSVR
Jun 1997 – May 1998 (Contract)
Consulting, development and NT/Intranet administration for Computerland New Zealand.
Skills used: HTML/ASP/DELPHI/TCP-IP/NTADMIN/TRAINING
Jul 1997 – Feb 1998 (Contract)
Development of a IIS4 Intranet application for graphing/reporting hydro-electricity production for the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand (ECNZ), now Meridian Energy. Progressed from a junior member of the team to the technical lead role by the end of the project.
Skills used: HTML/ASP/DCOM/DELPHI/ORACLE
Mar 1996 – Jul 1997 (Part time ~ 15 hrs/wk)
Established the business model and grew the web hosting unit within NetAccess Internet Services. Assembled a network of Windows NT servers, administrated multi-homed IIS web services and supported hosting clients.
Skills used: NTADMIN/IIS/HTML/FRONTPAGE/SSL/TCPIP
Mar 1994 - Dec 1995 (Part time ~ 15 hrs/wk)
Retailing CD-ROM software for Icarus Multimedia.
Skills summary and experience
Core Experience
· Frontend UI/UX development with HTML/CSS/JQuery
· Java development with Eclipse, JDK 1.6, Spring/Hibernate/JDO and Apache Tomcat.
· Implementing and developing content and digital asset management systems (CMS and DAM).
· Implementing object-orientated, multi-tier solutions in Java. In depth knowledge of XML, Hibernate, Spring, OSGI and Hessian/Burlap technology in a Linux environment.
Additional Experience
· Solution architecture and business process mapping
· Enterprise database development with MySQL, Sybase and Oracle.
· Internet protocols, XMPP, SMTP, HTTP and TCP-IP.
· Analytical software design, pattern methodology, UML and CASE tools.
· Accounting and business management.
Strengths
· Integrates into a team environment easily.
· Organised, enthusiastic and highly motivated.
· Attention to detail, precision and thoroughness.
· Efficient time management.
· Well spoken and presented.