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• BSc (Computer Science) from Waikato University
• MCSD MS 70-483 Programming in C# (2013)

• Senior Developer at Datacom, May 2017 - Now
• Technical Director at Starsoft Limited, February 2016 - December 2016
• Senior Software Developer at Starsoft Limited, January 2003 - February 2016
• Software Developer at Starsoft Limited, November 1999 - January 2003

As the Technical Director my responsibilities included

• Leading the technical design of software development
• Configuring and deploying new servers and software (IIS, TFS, Sharepoint)
• Troubleshooting any issues that may come up either during development or in production
• Helping other developers with any problems they could not solve themselves
• Evaluating and learning new technologies
• Training and guiding other developers in new technology
• Communicating with customers and helping to work out their requirements.

What I have used and can do

• Languages: VB.NET, C#, WPF/XAML, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, VFP
• Technologies: .NET 1.1 - .NET 4.5, ASP.NET (MVC and Web Forms), WCF, Web Services, jQuery, Windows Forms, Windows Services, Azure
• Databases: SQL Server
• Platforms: Visual Studio, TFS, IIS 7.5/8, Windows 7/8/10, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012
• Good communication skills
• Customer support

I am a software developer who has recently relocated to Hamilton from Auckland.

I grew up on a dairy farm in the north Waikato and completed a BSc majoring in Computer Science at Waikato University.
After completing my degree I moved up the highway to Auckland where I spent 17 years in the software development industry.

I started my career doing Visual Foxpro Development. When .NET was released we started migrating as many systems as we could across to .NET using SQL server.
As web technologies have progressed the majority of systems I have worked on have been moved over to web based systems using .NET, HTML, CSS, javascript and jQuery.
Of course web does not fit every scenario so I have done some work on windows forms and WPF as well for those that require offline/desktop functionality.

Developing websites and software is all lots of fun but there isn't much point unless you know why you are developing it.
Without knowing what purpose the piece of software is being written for it is often easy to end up going off on the wrong track and ending up with a solution that does not quite fit with the original idea.