Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM)
Currently enrolled in the Master of Business Administration (MBA) course

Have completed 3 subjects in 2007 and looking to complete another 2 subjects in 2009.

• Achieved Honours
• Achieved Credit Average

• Created, updated and maintained the functionality of the travel.com.au and lastminute.com.au website content management system (CMS). This included a 2 month project to re-skin and re-brand the travel.com.au website.
• Responsible for maintaining the running of the travel.com.au and lastminute.com.au financial back office systems.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining web applications (using Java, Spring, Hibernate, JPA and EJB3).
• Responsible for the release of maven modules and production web applications.
• Was responsible for the investigation of production issues affecting the travel.com.au website, lastminute.com.au website and web applications.
• Mentoring other software developers by providing assistance to their questions and problems.

• Creating, maintaining and updating web content for OSR’s internal website (OScaR).
• Creating, maintaining and updating web content for OSR’s 4 public websites (Office of State Revenue [OSR], Infringement Processing Bureau [IPB], State Debt Recovery Office [SDRO], Hardship Review Board [HRB]).
• Collecting, analysing and publishing monthly website statistics related to OSR’s public websites (OSR, IPB, SDRO, HRB) through statistics collecting companies Hitwise and Neilsen//Netratings.
• During the land tax peak period, was involved in the load testing (consisting of scripting and analysing results) of server infrastructure. The purpose was to test how far the infrastructure would go before errors would occur, so necessary contingencies can be made and to make the website was working correctly while it was under pressure from people registering their land tax information.
• Involved in the load testing (consisting of scripting, correlating data, virtual load creation and analysing results) of the Infringement Management Processing System (IMPS) and Oracle Single Sign On (SSO), while its infrastructure was transitioning from the NSW police to Oracle 10g within the OSR network. The purpose was to confirm whether the new infrastructure was able to handle 200-300 users using the system simultaneously and whether further user increases would affect it.
• Involved in the website redesign and transition to Oracle 10g of OSR’s internal website (OScaR).

• Developed a submission box component that allows a group of people to submit their documents for a specific project, tender or deadline.
• Developed an event-tracking component that allows the system to monitor and track the behaviour of a user, which in the future would be used by Java-Agents for automation purposes.
• Developed a planning tool component that allows a user to have project management capabilities to organise tasks that are to be completed.
• Co-managed both the Live and Development J2EE server to make sure the system was running correctly without problems and to make sure all maintenance builds were correctly installed.

• Developed a HTML prototype (screen layout) of the website.
• Involved in the development of a working prototype of a collaborative system, which includes storing documents, discussion, message and administration components.
• Developed database components that allow the web application to communicate, retrieve and write records with the database.

• Researched collaborative topics to accommodate solutions of improving or creating ways for students to share their knowledge and information efficiently and effectively using a collaborative system.
• Development of a fully working collaborative system, which includes storing documents, discussion, message, administration (which includes roles, participants, workgroups and awareness parameters) and plug-in (which allow other components developed in Java Servlets to be used in conjunction with the system) components.
• Writing technical documentation specifically supporting the use of the collaborative system for users.

• The system being developed was able to be completed and fully operational within the 3 month period.

• Developing and maintaining a fare creation and fare search application.
• Developing a fare mark-up application that allows different types of travel fares to be marked up depending on their business rules specified by the consultant - for the purpose of use on the Internet.
• Developing customised reports detailing specific fare details and statistics.
• Developing shell scripts that allow some of the application's processes to be automated.
• Creating and maintaining relational databases for the storage of travel fare data.
• Responsible for updating maintenance builds of the fare creation and fare search applications on servers located throughout Australia and other international countries.
• Writing system documentation.
• Provided Level 2/3 system support for consultants using the fare creation and fare search application.

• Re-designed a web-based fare search application that was struggling with retrieving records from a database in a specified amount of time. After the database was re-designed the searching capability of the records was improved by over 40%.

• Microsoft Windows XP / 2000, SunOS, Unix, Red Hat Linux, Mac OS, MS DOS

• Java
• JSP
• JSTL
• JavaScript
• HTML
• XML
• Velocity
• CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
• CL4
• Visual Basic

• Servlets and Java Beans
• J2EE
• EJB3 (Enterprise Java Beans)
• Spring 2.5
• Hibernate
• JPA (Java Persistence Annotation)
• Jakarta Struts Framework (Java Framework)

• Glassfish (Java)
• Tomcat (Java)
• Resin (Java)

• SQL Server 2000 / 2005
• Sybase
• MySQL
• CL4 database

• FTP
• SQL

• IntelliJ
• Vi text editor
• Jmeter, Mecury Loadrunner
• Microsoft Office Suite (includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Macromedia Dreamweaver, Fireworks