richard blackman

technical team lead

About

An IT consultant with over ten years in information technology and a diverse range of skills. Able to consult at all levels to produce the best solution. First class analytical and problem solving ability. Versatile and adapts quickly to new tasks. Committed to producing a high standard of work. Also able to: * lead a development team with a focus on improving their skills and interactions. * promote and integrate a test driven and agile approach to software development. * advise on system architecture to optimise for future reduction in costs. * open new business opportunities through good software design. * refactor systems that have become unmaintainable. * develop and implement software development processes to minimise developer over- heads. * gather business requirements and write functional specifications. * accurately estimate time required and complexity of projects.

Country

australia

City

perth

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

software development, web applications, asp.net, c#, agile methodologies, sdlc, asp.net mvc, data manipulation, git, subversion, continuous integration, requirements analysis, .net, oop, web development, c# 4.0, oracle sql, version control, php, visual studio, pottery, business process, sql, mysql, analysis, specifications, powershell, vim, microsoft excel, test driven development

Experience

senior developer

ajilon australia

2013-5 - 2013-7 · 3 mos

Ext JS 4 and Microsoft MVC development against WCF web services. Project for Notifications and Clinical discharge summaries for WA's hospitals.

technical team lead

department of health

2013-7 - 2014-11 · 1 yr 5 mos

* Lead a team of five developers to deliver in a complex and changing organization. * Introduced continuous integration and test driven development using xUnit.net and Jasmine. * Developed an integration testing system to effectively alert us to changes in our project’s underlying web service dependencies. * Introduced planning poker and other agile techniques to the team. * Encouraged the team to work in a style that maximizes throughput of business requirements to completion. * Improved the code structure and robustness while still meeting functional obligations. * Deployed the system into production and prepared for implementation readiness. * Conducted failure recovery tests and advised infrastructure team on recovery procedures. * Documented support processes and technical handover for reduction in organization costs. * Helped commission a new hospital. * Finalised the architecture document for the project and deployed to production at Royal Perth and Fiona Stanley.

analyst programmer

keystart country home loans

2012-1 - 2013-5 · 1 yr 5 mos

Developed and maintained back office systems for Govt owned home loans company. ASP.Net, LLBLGEN, Entity Framework, Oracle, JavaScript/JQuery. Developed Client Portal and other websites in ASP.Net MVC. Adhered to strict security standards.

analyst programmer

it vision

2007-1 - 2011-12 · 5 yrs

Developing and maintaining a popular local government system used nationwide. Integrating with EDAIS government SOAP standard for development applications. Java, Tomcat, PHP, IBM UniVerse, C#/Winforms.

analyst programmer

ingenuity systems

2004-1 - 2007-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

php/mysql webapps. edi and reporting. subversion VCS and system administration and automation of web apps.

programmer

method madness

2000-1 - 2001-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

Web programming, JavaScript, ASP/VBScript "classic". SQL Server. Developed web sites for clients nationwide. Mostly marketing based. Clients included ING, ebooks.com and WASO.

programmer and helpdesk and administrator

technical services management

1998-1 - 2000-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

IT allrounder, developed web site for Plunkett homes, created corporate intranet website for Newcrest Mining. Set up Microsoft stack and Citrix ICA networks for various small businesses around Perth. Helpdesk fill in for Newcrest mining at Telfer gold mine and Perth office.

technical team lead

department of corrective services

2014-11 - Present · 11 yrs 10 mos

* Participated in the establishment and transition of a new account for Ajilon * Was able to negotiate and establish a new framework for effective management of a ~2000 concurrent user system critical to the state prisons * Introduction of principles and practices to minimize business interruptions in production * Dealing with a back log of over 800 work items * Automated existing processes to allow easier analysis of impacts and changes made * Introduced statistical analysis of work items for reporting and targeting problem areas