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Workers Friday: Elton from Bardon
B105 7 May, 2009 - 10:58 PM
Elton Scott from Bardon - BSc (Comp Sc) UQPERSONAL SUMMARY
I am a passionate IT professional with over 10 years of full-time experience across a wide range of web development technologies. Over the last 10 years I have owned and managed two web development companies providing solutions to some of Australia’s leading online retailers. I have employed teams of up to 15 people, simultaneously working across a variety of projects.
I thrive on working on complex applications and utilising the latest advancements in web technologies to achieve positive solutions. My vast experience with team and project management qualifies me as the perfect liaison for both clients and staff alike. I pride myself on my adaptability, effective communication and am extremely confident that I have the technical skills to make me an integral member of any company.
DEMONSTRATED ABILITIES
IT Management
- Enterprise wide architecture and system design
- Staff mentoring and training
- Requirements analysis
- Project management including budgeting and time management
- Software development process improvement (agile, object oriented, component based and waterfall models)
- Business client communication
- Search engine marketing and optimisation
- Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 system administration
- Linux and network administration
Development
- ASP / VBScript / Jscript (10 years)
- ASP.NET C# / VB.NET (5 years)
- PHP (10 years)
- DHTML / XHTML / HTML / CSS (10 years)
- XML / XSLT (8 years)
- T-SQL (10 years)
- Ruby on Rails/Ruby (4 years)
- Python (4 years)
- Java (4 years)
- Visual Basic (4 years)
- Perl (3 years)
Databases
- Database design and implementation (10 years)
- Microsoft SQL Server (10 years)
- MySQL (8 years)
- PostgresSQL (4 years)
- Oracle 8i (1 year)
DEMONSTRATED ABILITIES
Tools
- Visual Studio.NET 2005
- Eclipse IDE
- Subversion
- CVS
- Visual SourceSafe
- Microsoft Project
- CruiseControl.NET
- Web Content Management Systems (Joomla, Drupal, Plone)
- Windows Sharepoint Services
- NDoc/JavaDoc/RubyDoc
- NUnit/MbUnit/jUnit
Other skills
- Lateral thinking
- Versatility and adaptability
- Speed reading
QUALIFICATIONS
Tertiary Education
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
University of Queensland
Final Year GPA: 6.25
Areas of Specialty:
Website Development Technologies
Information Systems
Pure Mathematics
Secondary Education
Shailer Park State High School
Tertiary Entrance Score: 985 (OP 1)
EXPERIENCE
July 2004 – Dec 2008 Tangelix Pty Ltd
Director, Senior Architect, Developer
Key Achievements in this role:
- Developed the first completely online conference facility booking system for Asdoo.com allowing complete facility management with all food and beverage and audiovisual inclusion options.
- Integrated warehouse enterprise management system for 1st Fleet combining order processing, pick line management and dispatch for two of the largest magazine publishers in Australia.
- Company management
- Business development
- Project management
- Requirements analysis and prototyping
- Client liaison Staff mentoring and training
- ASP.NET / ASP web developer Java developer
- PHP web developer XML / XSLT developer
- Ruby on Rails web developer Systems administrator (Windows / Linux)
- MySQL and PostgresSQL implementation and administration
- MS SQL Server implementation and administration
- Budgeting and forecasting Team and individual performance monitoring
January 1998 – June 2004 Datacodex Pty Ltd
Director, Senior Architect, Developer
Key Achievements in this role:
- Provided all technical services to Wotif.com through to launch and their first 3 years.
- Launched Drivenow.com.au the first distressed inventory car and campervan hire website including web services integration with supplier backend systems.
- Developed numerous saleable online products including content management system, affiliate tracking system and site availability monitoring system.
- Company management
- Business development
- Project management Requirements analysis and prototyping
- Client liaison Staff mentoring and training
- ASP.NET / ASP web developer Java developer
- PHP web developer XML / XSLT developer
- MS SQL Server implementation and administration
- Systems administrator (Windows / Linux)
- MySQL and PostgresSQL implementation and administration
- Team and individual performance monitoring
- Budgeting and forecasting
KEY ROLES
Hotel Accommodation and Conference Booking System
Client: Asdoo.com
Role: Software Architect
Technologies:
Ruby On Rails, Rails web services, PostgresSQL, XML/XSLT Open Travel Alliance integration
Asdoo.com sought out the services of Tangelix Pty Ltd because of my past experience with
Wotif.com. Asdoo.com needed technical expertise to assist them with extending the
distressed inventory model utilised by Wotif.com to provide conference bookings and
automatic room package management. I was responsible for the system design and
specification using Ruby On Rails and XML technologies.
Asdoo.com also utilises web services to integrate with numerous 3rd party accommodation
booking providers using the Open Travel Alliance (OTA) XML standard.
Warehouse Enterprise Management System
Client: 1st Fleet Logistics
Role: Software Architect
Technologies:
Microsoft SQL Server, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Biztalk Server, XML/XSLT
1st Fleet won a tender to provide an integrated warehouse pick and despatch system to
facilitate delivery of magazines for Gordon & Gotch and Australian Consolidated Press. Due
to difficulty integrating the disparate components, and their respective data formatting
requirements, Tangelix was engaged to produce a working solution.
The system design required extensive optimisation to handle large data volumes and included
complex route calculation algorithms for nation-wide delivery management.
Financial Data Entry and Reporting Application
Client: University of Queensland Business School
Role: Requirements Analysis, Project Management
Technologies:
Ruby On Rails, PostgresSQL
The UQ Business School were using an Oracle database system produced by an internal
developer for data entry of company financial reporting data. I was responsible for reverse
engineering the existing Oracle solution and overseeing the reimplementation of a new
solution utilising Ruby on Rails and providing functionality for extensive reporting in addition
to the existing data entry functions.
Online Company Registration Websites
Client: Incorporator.com.au / UKcorporator.co.uk
Role: Project Manager, Technical Lead
Technologies:
Incorporator.com.au – ASP (jscript), ASP.NET (C#,VB.NET), ADO.NET, XML/XSLT, MSSQL
UKcorporator.co.uk – PHP, XML/XSLT, Postscript, MySQL
Online facilities for incorporation of companies within Australia and the United Kingdom.
The Australian website utilises ActivePDF libraries to produce PDF documents based on user
inputted data. I was responsible for the specification and implementation of web services
facilitating real-time company registrations in Australia, utilising ASP.NET technologies.
The United Kingdom website uses a completely alternate development framework as it was
initially developed by the client’s in-house developer. Tangelix was asked to complete the
implementation which required extensive reverse engineering of the existing codebase.
Tangelix successfully launched the site for the client and I have since been responsible for specifying and implementing an online registration extension.
Car and Campervan Booking System
Client: Drivenow.com.au
Role: Software Architect
Technologies:
Java (Hibern8, Spring, FreeMarker), MySQL, XML/XSLT Open Travel Alliance integration
I managed a team of developers to produce back end data models and front end search and
booking facilities for a car and campervan booking website. This project required custom
data models to be created to manage distressed inventory hire of car and campervan
inventory. Implementation was done using Java technologies (Hibern8, Spring, FreeMarker)
under Apache and Resin.
DriveNow utilises the Open Travel Alliance (OTA) XML standard to query availability from and
to submit customer bookings directly into supplier back-end systems.
Hotel Accommodation Booking System
Client: Wotif.com
Role: Software Architect
Technologies:
ASP, Microsoft SQL Server
My company was responsible for providing web development services to Wotif.com from launch through the first three years of operation. I was initially the senior developer and later managed the entire team of ten developers responsible for the website’s operation. As Wotif.com’s traffic increased I was responsible for implementing complex optimisations to the search algorithms.
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