Project Sales

Location:

Australia

Posted:

October 11, 2012

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Michael Rowe

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PO Box ****

Briar Hill, VIC 3088

Australia

Home Phone: +61 (0) 3 9461 4161

Mobile Phone: +61 (0-412-***-***

Home Fax: +61 (0) 3 8677 1881

Skype: michaelarowe

Email: abo2bz@r.postjobfree.com://mikerowecode.com

Professional Objective

To be an expert software developer. To share my expertise by mentoring junior developers

and publishing articles and books.

Employment History

Tech LeadREA Group (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

Dec 2012 - present

The consumer-facing web application that powers realestate.com.au is backed by

provisioning, messaging and search systems that have evolved over several years. Michael

leads a small team of engineers with responsibility for the long-term architectural

direction of these systems, and for undertaking project work in cooperation with line-of-

business teams to implement technical improvements.

Senior DeveloperREA Group (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

Jan 2011 - Dec 2011

Michael was currently employed as a senior developer on REA's mobile team, responsible

for development and maintenance of REA's iPhone and iPad applications.

Cogent Consulting (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

April 2009 - Jan 2011

Michael is an experienced consultant, developer and team leader with expertise in many

development environments and platforms. As well as cutting code, he is skilled at

configuring the systems and tools that support the development process.

Michael has worked on numerous projects for Cogent's customers, including significant

public Ruby on Rails and Java-based applications.

Projects:

REA Group - Michael helped REA Group implement continuous delivery to streamline their

software development and release processes. Starting from a chaotic and largely manual

release process, Michael and a small team developed tools and recipes to use Chef to

deploy REA's applications to a "virtual private cloud" in Amazon's EC2, enabling

development teams to more effective deploy and test core applications.

Lonely Planet - Over a period of 18 months Michael helped Lonely Planet deliver a number

of key improvements to their web site, including Contact Us, private messaging and their

re-launched online shop. Significant technical components of this work included:

Integration with Facebook

Integration with Zendesk

Migration of legacy customer support data

Delivery of a digital fulfillment service

Majitek - Michael spent six months in 2009 working with Majitek on their connected real

estate management product. Michael contributed to feature development in many parts of the

Spring and Hibernate-based system, and also undertook a major effort to skin the UI of

the application to allow Majitek to customise its look and feel for their customers.

In between customer engagements, Michael also spent some time working on Cogent's Getting

Things Doner product, Runway.

Senior DeveloperLonely Planet Publications (Footscray, VIC, Australia)

May 2008 - March 2009

Michael was engaged with Lonely Planet to join the major redevelopment of their public

web site. In the course of the contract Michael worked on many components of the site,

including the Drupal-based content management system and Java web applications.

Michael also acted as a technical team leader for much of the contract, being responsible

for the day to day management and technical output of five developers.

Senior DeveloperFast Search & Transfer (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

November 2007 - January 2008

Michael was employed by FAST on a short-term contract to help with a major release of

their AdMomentum product.

Tasks included fixing bugs and adding features in both the struts-based web front end and

the stand-alone Java back end.

Senior DeveloperNational Australia Bank (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

January 2007 - November 2007

Michael was contracted to NAB as a senior developer in a large project team developing

customer-facing J2EE systems.

Senior DeveloperCGU Insurance (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

September 2006 - January 2007

Michael was contracted to CGU Insurance (part of IAG) to work on a new programme of work

to develop a framework and end user applications that provide a modern user interface to

legacy policy management systems.

The initial project used J2EE application servers and a 3270 screen scraping tool to

deliver a browser-based end user application based on data managed by a legacy mainframe

system.

Projects:

Design and development of a J2EE application that provides a browser-based front end to a

legacy 3270 insurance policy management system.

Development and configuration of an integrated continuous build environment based on Ant

and Pulse that allowed new developers on the project to quickly become productive,

including comprehensive unit testing, coverage reports and static analysis.

Technical AnalystAustralia Post (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

November 2005 - August 2006

Michael's role in the Solution Architecture group at Australia Post involves performing

technical quality assurance for projects developed by Post's external service providers.

This includes document, design and code reviews, as well as general support and

coordination of development, test and production environments.

Michael engages with external lead designers and developers and internal technical teams

to provide specialist guidance, ensuring applications are designed, developed, tested, and

deployed properly and in accordance with enterprise standards.

Projects:

Compile a design and coding standards document for use by all Java and J2EE development

teams working on Post projects.

Development of a WebLogic authentication module for OpenLDAP. This module extended the

BEA-provided OpenLDAP authenticator to allow editing of user and group properties.

Senior DeveloperSensis Pty Ltd (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

February 2004 - October 2005

Michael was contracted to Sensis Pty Ltd to work on an enterprise-wide integrated content

management system. The work involved custom J2EE application development and integration

using Tibco and Sun components.

Key challenges in this project included development of components for high performance

XML data manipulation, and concurrent scheduling of inter-dependent work units.

Michael was engaged on various components of the system over the life of the project,

including:

Projects:

New design and development of a subsystem to convert legacy data in real time. This

component handles thousands of JMS messages an hour and performs updates to the central

content server, maintaining order and transactional consistency.

Development of additional functionality for the core server component including a

subsystem to publish content to downstream legacy applications.

Troubleshooting and resolving bugs in the end-user GUI application.

Senior ConsultantBearingPoint, Inc. (formerly KPMG Consulting) (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

January 2002 - January 2004

Michael held the position of senior consultant in the Technology Integration Services

practice of BearingPoint, Inc. He was responsible for and involved in a wide range of

consulting assignments covering design and implementation of complex information

technology systems.

Projects:

Establish an EAI infrastructure and initial integration processes for a state government

department using Tibco BusinessWorks 5.0 and Tibco Enterprise for JMS.

Design and develop enhancements to an EAI adapter between a Tibco Integration Manager

application and a legacy provisioning system.

Trouble-shoot and develop enhancements to a proprietary server process that extends Tibco

InConcert.

Maintain and trouble-shoot the data architecture for a large enterprise middleware

application, including updates to the physical data model.

Design and develop a Java testing framework for enterprise middleware applications,

including IBM MQ Series and Tibco Rendezvous, MessageBroker and Integration Manager

components.

Design and develop a test log analysis toolkit in Perl to measure and report on the

results of middleware interface testing.

Senior IT Specialist (Solution Architect)IBM Global Services (Atlanta, GA, USA)

November 1999 - December 2001

Michael was employed as a Solution Architect within IBM's Center for E-Business

Innovation, primarily as part of the content management/e-publishing team.

Michael's duties at IBM included: designing and developing web-based (Internet and

intranet) publishing, content management and portal solutions for IBM's customers;

managing small to medium development projects; providing leadership and mentoring to other

members of the development team; and architecting solutions with Domino/Lotus Notes, IBM

WebSphere, IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere CommerceSuite, Oracle, Open Market, Vignette and

Interwoven.

Projects:

In 2001, Michael planned, designed and implemented a content management system based on

Interwoven TeamSite, and integrated with WebSphere CommerceSuite, for a major manufacturer

of medical imaging equipment. This on-going project involved requirements analysis and

macro design, micro design, implementation and deployment. Michael's role included pre-

sales, technical design and lead development duties.

In 2000, Michael worked with the world's premier financial market to define requirements

and project scope for web user registration and personalisation system. For the same

customer, Michael contributed to the development of a prototype Java application for

institutional investors to track trading events and information.

Implementation of a Domino-based content management system for a major Spanish-language

television network. This included development of complex Notes forms and views, Java

agents, JavaScript libraries and HTML. In 2000 IBM filed a patent application for

Michael's design of a system to allow end-user control of site navigation via the Notes

application.

ConsultantPSR Software, Inc. (Atlanta, GA, USA)

March 1998 - November 1999

Michael was employed by PSR to perform pre-sales marketing and demonstrations, post-sales

implementation, project management, installation, training and support for the software

products that PSR develops and distributes.

Other duties included developing Domino-based e-commerce web sites for customers and

performing ongoing Notes/Domino development and maintenance tasks for internal and

external customers.

Projects:

JustWin Technologies: JustWin is an Australian software vendor that markets a Lotus

Domino-based production support system for the apparel industry. Michael was responsible

for pre-sales activities such as consulting and demonstrations, and post-sales

infrastructure design, implementation and training. Implementation of the JustWin system

included gathering requirements from the system's users, and working with the vendor to

design and implement customisations as required.

Visual Impact: PSR markets a Domino-based web query tool for relational databases, called

Visual Impact. As well as providing implementation and user support, Michael spent several

months updating and enhancing the product to streamline the user interface, utilise new

features provided by Domino R5, and ensure Year 2000 readiness.

Write "cookbooks" on use of the DB2 LSX to access DB2 data from Notes and Domino

applications.

Update existing Notes applications to ensure Year 2000 readiness.

Senior ConsultantSoftware Spectrum Inc. (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

March 1997 - March 1998

Design and implement Lotus Notes network architectures

Design, develop and implement Lotus Notes applications

Perform analysis and design phases of projects

Manage small to medium size projects

Pre-sales consultation and support for the sales organisation

Write project definitions, scopes and statements of work

Write reports and documentation

Projects:

While at Software Spectrum, Michael planned for and designed an enterprise Lotus Notes

email infrastructure for a large department of the Victorian State Government. This

included developing standards documents and administration guides, overseeing the initial

roll-out of the environment, and providing administrator and user support. As a result of

the new infrastructure, the Department was able to consolidate multiple disparate email

programs and systems, integrate with the rest of the Victorian Government's Notes systems

and take advantage of Notes' calendaring and scheduling capabilities.

In another project, Michael contributed as assistant project manager for a project to

implement Microsoft SMS for a major international chemical company. This project involved

working with the customer's project team to define application requirements and

installation procedures, then building and testing SMS installation scripts to support

these requirements.

Systems Engineer, Senior Systems EngineerBusiness Computers of Australia (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)

May 1993 - February 1997

Design and implement Lotus Notes systems

Design and implement LANs (Novell Netware, OS/2 LAN Server, SCO Unix)

Design and implement LAN and WAN communication solutions

Plan and manage upgrades of operating system & application software

Pre-sales consulting in above areas

Problem resolution and technical support

Lotus Notes, LAN and systems support

2nd level support for other engineers

Maintenance and support of internal Lotus Notes systems

Professional Memberships

Association for Computing Machinery

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

IEEE Computer Society

Education

Higher School Certificate, 1986 Banyule High School

About

Hi! My name is Michael Rowe and this is my web site.

Here I write about what ever is on my mind, which tends to be related to running and

programming computers, since that's what I do.

You can contact me by email, or follow my Twitter feed if you're so inclined.

Old posts are archived here.