Project Manager | Engineering & Technical Writer | Published Author

I have worked as a software developer for over 14 years, project manager for over 3 years and technical writer for over 4 years, fostering my three primary and complementary skillsets to deliver excellence in my projects, solving problems and articulating solutions to stakeholders and audiences. With a product-mindset, any project I undertake I develop personas, empathy and journey maps to align the solution with the customer needs. 

I am a published author of Continuous Delivery for Mobile with fastlane, with technical skills that include Swift/Objective-C. Database design and more. I have been a technical writer for two of the most prominent journals, as well as working for numerous startups in San Francisco and Sydney. I graduated with a bachelors degree in Internet Computer Science, and a masters in Management, from the top computer science program in Australia, the University of Wollongong.

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) 

Scrum.org

Demonstrating a fundamental level of Scrum mastery. PSM I certificate holders prove that they understand Scrum as described in the Scrum Guide and the concepts of applying Scrum.  PSM I holders have a consistent terminology and approach to Scrum. Link

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) 

ScrumAlliance

As a Certified Scrum Product Owner® professional I have been taught the Scrum terminology, practices, and principles that enable them to fulfill the role of Product Owner on a Scrum team. CSPOs are typically the individuals who are closest to the "business side" of the project. They are charged by the organization to "get the product out" and are expected to do the best possible job of satisfying all the stakeholders. CSPOs maintain the product backlog and ensure that everyone knows the priorities. Link

MASTERS OF MANAGEMENT & IT

Charles Sturt University, AU (2006-2010)

A combination of management (MBA-style), and Microsoft technical subjects, such as C#, SQL Server 2000 and other technical units.

BACHELOR OF INTERNET SCIENCE

University of Wollongong, AU (2000-2004)

Part of an innovative and exclusive program, only completed by a handful of students who completed Internet Science, it included a focus on IBM curriculum subjects which was new at the time to Australian universities

Continuous Delivery for mobile with Fastlane

Competitive mobile apps depend strongly on the development team’s ability to deliver successful releases, consistently and often. Although continuous integration took a more mainstream priority among the development industry, companies are starting to realize the importance of continuity beyond integration and testing.

This book starts off with a brief introduction to fastlane—a robust command-line tool that enables iOS and Android developers to automate their releasing workflow.

Developing an iOS Edge

Apple's release of iOS 7 brought substantial improvements for both applications and application developers. This book attempts to highlight the features that will be most widely applicable, including upgrading from iOS 6 to iOS 7, making apps more accessible, refreshing content in the background, using the new transition and physics-based animations.

Whitepaper: The Rise of the PhD APIs

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have played a key role in business and commerce for more than a decade, giving rise to the new API economy. But it wasn’t until recently that APIs started to proliferate exponentially: Just about anything “as a service” has become available by way of a Web-based API.

Software as a service, infrastructure as a service, database as a service, platform as a service...

The list of “as a service” offerings is long and getting longer, enabling companies to effectively respond to rapidly changing market and customer demands.