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Head of Information Technology Development

World First Pty Ltd is a financial services company that specializes in foreign currencies and money transfer.

A motivated web professional and leader, with a wealth of experience across the full development lifecycle. Focused upon team structure and processes, product and people management, systems analysis, and technical architecture. Used to driving teams, departments, and projects forwards with the core values of code quality, performance, and flexible design. An advocate of modern coding techniques and development practices, including Agile; TDD; Service-Orientated Architecture; OO; IOC; Message-Queuing; and CI. Recently managed a large department through a process of change resulting from a merger, successfully navigating redundancies, cross-training, and recruitment of new talent to build a highly efficient and effective team in order to complete an 18 month project, aimed at redesigning and rebuilding the full pre-existing product suite from the ground-up onto a new technology stack. The new suite of products recently launched with resounding success, with the flagship piece being the new and responsive version of http://www.hostelbookers.com/ Passionate about problem-solving, with an academic background in AI. Used to working with high-traffic transactional systems, while balancing the need for timely delivery with technical considerations such as runtime performance, scalability, maintainability and reusability. Works to foster a collaborative culture of diligence and pride within the team, based upon group empowerment and a sense of ownership.