Developer Project Manager

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Name Ben Hughes

Address ** ****** ****

Aranda ACT, 2614

Phone 04 0403 4843

Email ***@**********.***

Website benrhughes.com

LinkedIn au.linkedin.com/in/benrhughes

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Overview

I have been a professional developer for over 10 years, working with a wide range of

technologies. I am currently a senior developer at eWater, working on a hydrological modelling

application written a combination of .NET technologies (primarily WinForms, WPF and

nHibernate).

In my previous role I was a senior .NET developer at a small private company, creating a

complex multi-tier web application using ASP.NET MVC3, jQuery, SQL Server, Postgres,

nHibernate and WCF.

Prior to that I was a senior developer and technical lead at the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

I was personally responsible for delivery of the 12-person team's work program. I looked after

overall architecture and design, mentoring and team building, along with my own development

work. I was heavily involved in promoting best practice and actively involved in our internal

developer community.

I am the maintainer of a small open source application, and in my spare time I

work on it and other open source projects using C# and Javascript.

Key Strengths

10 years experience as a professional software developer in the private and public

sectors

Expertise in designing, developing and deploying large, highly performant business

critical applications

Experience in multi-tier web applications built on the latest Microsoft technology stack

Passionate about software development and learning new technologies

Significant development experience in C#, Oracle PL/SQL, SQL, Lotus Notes, Adobe

Flex, Java and Javascript

Some exposure to C, PHP, Python, Delphi, VBScript and bash scripting

Experience leading medium sized and virtual teams

Experience with many version control and continuous integration tools

Passionate about sharing knowledge and building capability in others

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Professional History

2012 - Present Responsible for:

Senior Developer development, modernisation and maintenance of

eWater a complex (1 million+ LoC) hydrological modelling

application

Community

continued lead of open source todotxt.net project

(~1000 users, 12 contributors)

release of and contribution to other open source

projects

2010 - 2012 Responsible for:

Senior Developer design and development of a complex (30k+ LoC)

VSoft Technologies multi-tier .NET web application

customer-facing support of an existing ASP.NET/

C# 2.0 application and Delphi, Javascript and C#

components

Community:

started open source C# project todotxt.net (~500

downloads/month, several contributors)

2009 2010 Responsible for:

Technical Team Leader, overall design and architecture of all systems

Senior Developer delivery of all the whole work program

Population Census my own development projects

Australian Bureau of Statistics mentoring and team building

Managed:

team of 12 in conjunction with the project manager

direct line management for half the team

$1.5million/year development program

Community:

peer-elected representative in staff/executive forum

continued work in the Communities of Practice space

and the developer forum

2008 2009 Embedded expert in the client-area website design team.

Senior Developer

Data Visualisation Project Researched, developed, designed and deployed:

Australian Bureau of Statistics Adobe Flex-based dynamic, interactive data

visualisation components for the ABS website

Java tier to feed XML to the visualisations

Community:

became involved in the Gov2.0 space

2007 2008 Research and development of the Eclipse-based Notes 8:

Senior Developer developing production-ready RCP plugins

Notes Futures Project wrote strategic papers, developer guides etc

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Managed:

small R&D team

Community:

started the Notes development Community of Practice

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2006 2007 Production tuning and development of systems developed in

Senior Developer 2004-2006:

Population Census deep SQL and PL/SQL tuning

Australian Bureau of Statistics 24/7 uptime, downtime cost of ~$200k/day

24/7 on call, 80+hr work week in critical periods

Community:

helped found the Communities of Practice program,

responsible for creating best practice

started communities in Testing, Collaboration and

Systems Architecture

2002 2006 Various roles involving programming, R&D and internal

Analyst Programmer community building

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Education

Tertiary Qualifications

2001 Bachelor of Information Technology

Australian National University

2001 Bachelor of Commerce (Finance, Economics)

Australian National University

Awards

Mashup Australia Transformation Challenge award (December 2009)

Mashup Australia was an Australian Government sponsored event designed to encourage

people to create new services based on government (and non-government) data sources. The

Transformation Challenge award was centred around making data sets more programmatically

accessible, and carried a $1,000 prize.

Technology Services Division Recognition and Reward award (May 2009)

For outstanding contribution to progressing professional practice

Certificate of Appreciation (June 2007)

For outstanding commitment and dedication to the delivery of the technical solutions for DPC

clients. This has often meant just in time redevelopment and tuning of Oracle applications at

the DPC to meet ever increasing performance requirements.

Ben has always been available to his clients and other members of his team, whatever time of

day or night. He has worked extremely long hours and on a continuous basis for many months,

often at a cost of significant disruption to his personal and family life.

Information Management and Census Division Recognition and Reward award (June

2007)

For your highly valued contribution to the success of the Census Data Processing Centre 2006/

07

Technology Services Division Recognition and Reward award (March 2006)

For providing excellent leadership and support in the development of Census applications,

thorough documentation at all times and for sharing his ideas and knowledge with the rest of

the ABS. In particular, Ben has weaved his magic on the Administration, Workload Delivery

and User Registration systems. Ben's leadership and absolute dedication to excellence has

ensured delivery of high quality work across all Census applications.

Ben Hughes 040-***-**** ***@**********.***

Referees

Contact details for referees are available on request.

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