Skills
SQL, Business Analysis, XML, Databases, JavaScript, Team Leadership, Web Services, jQuery, MVC, SDLC, Unix
Project history
Haydn Tawse - Prescribe Exercise Australia
Local Availability
Only available in these countries:
Australia
Sydney Australia - Australian Eastern Standard Time
Other
Contract
Ruby on Rails Analyst
09.2011 - today
I am currently working on contracts in Ruby on Rails
• Tools: JetBrains RubyMine EDI, Git, Rails 3.2, Ruby 1.9.4, Heroku, HTML 5, CSS 3, Twitter-Bootstrap, Devise, CanCan, Simple-Form, Wicked-PDF, Google Chart Tools – Gauge/Bar, Google Maps API, Simple-Navigation, , Google Analytics, Paperclip, pg (paging), Amazon AWS, Memcache, NewRelic, Devise, Amazon AWS.
• Prescribe Exercise Australia (www.prescribeexercise.com.au) –
- Phase 1 : Bulk entry of WH&S Sheets by PEA and a graphical representation of the results.
- Phase 2 : Entry of Single WH&S sheets. PEA monitor progress of the clients in improving safety .
- Phase 3 : reporting on results and entry.
- Current Work – Development of a “Job Entry” document, to show risks graphically and export to a PDF.
• Beatrijs Dewulf Psychologist – http://www.beadewulf.com.au
Key achievements and experience:
- Integrates with Google Maps. The latitude and longitude are passed as variables.
• RubyPhoto, a personal Ruby on Rails Project - http://evening-sword-2653.herokuapp.com
Key achievements and experience:
- First site solely developed in Ruby on Rails to show photos in a gallery style site.
• Currently in Progress
- Simple Practice Management (www.spman.com.au )
– Medical practioners track scheduling of clients and patients across various practices and. When complete the system will send and receive SMS and email and integrate with Google Calendar. Currently in testing and ongoing development.
• Erongo Minerals: http://hollow-spring-9080.herokuapp.com
Note: Incomplete as the company director who commissioned it has run into personal problems.
Key achievements and experience:
- Keeps track of order items through cookies.
- More than one address and redirect to an alternate address at the time of ordering.
- Integrated back end allows photographs of minerals, descriptions and prices and in more than one category.
- Status of orders are tracked through initial receipt to final despatch.
Financial Services
Computershare Technology
Analyst Programmer
03.2004 - today
The world's largest and only global share registry, providing financial market services and technology to the global securities industry. Australian owned, they operate in twelve countries, on five continents.
Key Tools used: Informix Online, Informix 4gl, Sun OS 8 (Solaris)
Key achievements and experience:
Responsible for design, programming, maintenance and testing of Computershare's own Fixed Interest System. This resulted in a decrease in the overall number of bugs in the system, and a corresponding decrease in the time needed in user support and data fixes.
Development of an XML based printing utility for the above system. This allows outside printing houses to easily process, format and print client related correspondence. The data can be accessed by a variety of means, web, ftp or e-mail.
Retained Asset Administration (RAA) - Responsible for key design and programming. Programs were designed in a modular fashion, which allowed key parts of the back end processing to be separated from the screen processing. The data processing section could then be used by web interfaces through database hooks.
Additional Responsibilities:
Liaison with clients, internal and external clients (eg Commonwealth Bank), on design and content of new reports.
Discussion with non-technical clients as to key upgrades to system design and functionality.
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Big W
Analyst Programmer
02.2000 - 02.2004
The discount retail arm of Woolworths Limited, an Australian company. The company has 100+ stores around Australia, with their Support office in Sydney.
Key achievements and experience:
End-to end development of a system to track expense invoices, involving:
Writing the specifications based on user requirements
Writing the program
Implementing the systems in the stores
Resulted process improvement by eliminating duplicate data entry, minimising human error, eliminating document transfer between offices and enabling timely payment of supplier invoices. This saved time, money and frustration.
Reduced Setup time for new stores from days to hours by streamlining the creation and roll-out of Suggested Ordering databases for new stores.
This resulted in a saving of time, resources and money for Big W.
Managing the maintenance, design and programming enhancements on the In Store Processor (ISP), a store ordering and stock control system used by all stores. This included:
Monitoring interfaces to a central system and to the Point of Sale (POS) at each store
Managing enhancements to the system such as the addition of a "Repairs System" and the replacement of the manual system for Expense Invoices and Internal Expenses.
Setting up the In Store Processor (ISP) software for new ISP machines at new stores
Managing programming enhancements for the Crossdock Delivery system
Training users and the help desk staff; guiding and mentoring work-experience students
Completing and testing the movement of the ISP system to a new version of HP-UX and a new version of Informix in preparation for a major upgrade of all stores systems.
Managing the installation of a new version of Gentran Electonic Data Information (EDI) software resulting in fewer bugs and a faster running system.
Additional Responsibilities: Consultation and discussions at all levels as to enhancements and new store systems.
Retail
10,001+ employees
Century Software
Project Manager
07.1997 - 02.2000
Australian based international organisation that develops and deploys technology based business solutions including full featured financial accounting and ERP software. Clients include Advance Energy, Northpower (New Zealand), Rockmans and Nuance (Downtown Duty Free).
Key Tools Used: Informix Online, Informix 4gl, 4JS, HP-UX
Key achievements and experience:
Successfully fixed a long standing bug in Century Software Accounting software, achieving time and cost savings and client satisfaction.
Programming and designing on Century's own financial software, written in Informix-4GL and runs on Informix-Online 5.xx and 7.xx.
Additional Responsibilities:
Design of the Fuel Card System in conjunction with Advance Energy.
Optimization advisor to Nuance on their database design.
Consultant on upgrades and enhancements to Northpower.
Computer Software
11-50 employees
Quantum System Integrators
Analyst Programmer
03.1996 - 06.1997
A small South African owned software house specialising in design and creation of tailored products for various corporate clients.
Key Tools Used: Informix Online, Infomix 4gl, Fourgen, Chameleon, SCO-Unix
Key achievements and experience:
Designing and creating the software and database to speed up the processing of medical health claims more accurately, through:
Consulting on client requirements at all levels of the project
Deciding on the best programming model, in conjunction with a team
Allocating resources and composing the programs.
Resulted in the project being delivered on time and achieving client satisfaction.
Working on a membership system for Medscheme Namibia, a health fund provider, in Informix-4GL and Fourgen Case Tools
Writing modifying programs to interface with the Chameleon Financials system, using Informix-4GL.
Additional Responsibilities:
Liaison with Woolworths (South Africa) on changes to existing application.
Discussion and guidance with Medscheme Namibia on new programs to record clients and claims.
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
ASAB Data
Analyst Programmer
01.1991 - 03.1996
A Namibian owned software house specialising in design and creation of tailored products for various corporate clients.
Key Tools Used: Informix Online, Informix-SE, Informix 4gl, Informix SQL, Fourgen (a 4GL based ERP System), PICK, SCO-Unix
Key achievements and; Maintaining and developing an in house system for Namibian Blood Transfusion Services. The system, written in PICK, tracked all blood products and tests done on them for the entire country.
Consultation and training in Fourgen Case Tools and Informix 4gl provided to the Bank of Namibia (reserve bank).
Training provided in Informix-SQL to Namibian Fisheries.
Training provided in Informix-SQL to Namibian Water.
Maintenance of PICK Financials for Nictus Furnishers.
Maintenance and development of Fourgen Financials for Namibian Breweries, using Informix 4gl and Informix SE.
Design and development of a system to trade shares and track the index for the Namibian Stock Exchange. The system was written in Informix 4gl and ran Informix Online.
Additional Responsibilities:
Guidance given to Namibian Stock Exchange on software platform and communications software for broker log in. I was involved with system design and enhancements from the ground up.
Major consultant to Namibian Blood Transfusion Service as to new software upgrades and enhancements to the existing systems.
One of two on-site consultants with Namibian Breweries involved in design and discussion of the direction of the product.
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Ruby on Rails Analyst
09.2011 - today
I am currently working on contracts in Ruby on Rails
• Tools: JetBrains RubyMine EDI, Git, Rails 3.2, Ruby 1.9.4, Heroku, HTML 5, CSS 3, Twitter-Bootstrap, Devise, CanCan, Simple-Form, Wicked-PDF, Google Chart Tools – Gauge/Bar, Google Maps API, Simple-Navigation, , Google Analytics, Paperclip, pg (paging), Amazon AWS, Memcache, NewRelic, Devise, Amazon AWS.
• Prescribe Exercise Australia (www.prescribeexercise.com.au) –
- Phase 1 : Bulk entry of WH&S Sheets by PEA and a graphical representation of the results.
- Phase 2 : Entry of Single WH&S sheets. PEA monitor progress of the clients in improving safety .
- Phase 3 : reporting on results and entry.
- Current Work – Development of a “Job Entry” document, to show risks graphically and export to a PDF.
• Beatrijs Dewulf Psychologist – http://www.beadewulf.com.au
Key achievements and experience:
- Integrates with Google Maps. The latitude and longitude are passed as variables.
• RubyPhoto, a personal Ruby on Rails Project - http://evening-sword-2653.herokuapp.com
Key achievements and experience:
- First site solely developed in Ruby on Rails to show photos in a gallery style site.
• Currently in Progress
- Simple Practice Management (www.spman.com.au )
– Medical practioners track scheduling of clients and patients across various practices and. When complete the system will send and receive SMS and email and integrate with Google Calendar. Currently in testing and ongoing development.
• Erongo Minerals: http://hollow-spring-9080.herokuapp.com
Note: Incomplete as the company director who commissioned it has run into personal problems.
Key achievements and experience:
- Keeps track of order items through cookies.
- More than one address and redirect to an alternate address at the time of ordering.
- Integrated back end allows photographs of minerals, descriptions and prices and in more than one category.
- Status of orders are tracked through initial receipt to final despatch.
Financial Services
Computershare Technology
Analyst Programmer
03.2004 - today
The world's largest and only global share registry, providing financial market services and technology to the global securities industry. Australian owned, they operate in twelve countries, on five continents.
Key Tools used: Informix Online, Informix 4gl, Sun OS 8 (Solaris)
Key achievements and experience:
Responsible for design, programming, maintenance and testing of Computershare's own Fixed Interest System. This resulted in a decrease in the overall number of bugs in the system, and a corresponding decrease in the time needed in user support and data fixes.
Development of an XML based printing utility for the above system. This allows outside printing houses to easily process, format and print client related correspondence. The data can be accessed by a variety of means, web, ftp or e-mail.
Retained Asset Administration (RAA) - Responsible for key design and programming. Programs were designed in a modular fashion, which allowed key parts of the back end processing to be separated from the screen processing. The data processing section could then be used by web interfaces through database hooks.
Additional Responsibilities:
Liaison with clients, internal and external clients (eg Commonwealth Bank), on design and content of new reports.
Discussion with non-technical clients as to key upgrades to system design and functionality.
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Big W
Analyst Programmer
02.2000 - 02.2004
The discount retail arm of Woolworths Limited, an Australian company. The company has 100+ stores around Australia, with their Support office in Sydney.
Key achievements and experience:
End-to end development of a system to track expense invoices, involving:
Writing the specifications based on user requirements
Writing the program
Implementing the systems in the stores
Resulted process improvement by eliminating duplicate data entry, minimising human error, eliminating document transfer between offices and enabling timely payment of supplier invoices. This saved time, money and frustration.
Reduced Setup time for new stores from days to hours by streamlining the creation and roll-out of Suggested Ordering databases for new stores.
This resulted in a saving of time, resources and money for Big W.
Managing the maintenance, design and programming enhancements on the In Store Processor (ISP), a store ordering and stock control system used by all stores. This included:
Monitoring interfaces to a central system and to the Point of Sale (POS) at each store
Managing enhancements to the system such as the addition of a "Repairs System" and the replacement of the manual system for Expense Invoices and Internal Expenses.
Setting up the In Store Processor (ISP) software for new ISP machines at new stores
Managing programming enhancements for the Crossdock Delivery system
Training users and the help desk staff; guiding and mentoring work-experience students
Completing and testing the movement of the ISP system to a new version of HP-UX and a new version of Informix in preparation for a major upgrade of all stores systems.
Managing the installation of a new version of Gentran Electonic Data Information (EDI) software resulting in fewer bugs and a faster running system.
Additional Responsibilities: Consultation and discussions at all levels as to enhancements and new store systems.
Retail
10,001+ employees
Century Software
Project Manager
07.1997 - 02.2000
Australian based international organisation that develops and deploys technology based business solutions including full featured financial accounting and ERP software. Clients include Advance Energy, Northpower (New Zealand), Rockmans and Nuance (Downtown Duty Free).
Key Tools Used: Informix Online, Informix 4gl, 4JS, HP-UX
Key achievements and experience:
Successfully fixed a long standing bug in Century Software Accounting software, achieving time and cost savings and client satisfaction.
Programming and designing on Century's own financial software, written in Informix-4GL and runs on Informix-Online 5.xx and 7.xx.
Additional Responsibilities:
Design of the Fuel Card System in conjunction with Advance Energy.
Optimization advisor to Nuance on their database design.
Consultant on upgrades and enhancements to Northpower.
Computer Software
11-50 employees
Quantum System Integrators
Analyst Programmer
03.1996 - 06.1997
A small South African owned software house specialising in design and creation of tailored products for various corporate clients.
Key Tools Used: Informix Online, Infomix 4gl, Fourgen, Chameleon, SCO-Unix
Key achievements and experience:
Designing and creating the software and database to speed up the processing of medical health claims more accurately, through:
Consulting on client requirements at all levels of the project
Deciding on the best programming model, in conjunction with a team
Allocating resources and composing the programs.
Resulted in the project being delivered on time and achieving client satisfaction.
Working on a membership system for Medscheme Namibia, a health fund provider, in Informix-4GL and Fourgen Case Tools
Writing modifying programs to interface with the Chameleon Financials system, using Informix-4GL.
Additional Responsibilities:
Liaison with Woolworths (South Africa) on changes to existing application.
Discussion and guidance with Medscheme Namibia on new programs to record clients and claims.
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
ASAB Data
Analyst Programmer
01.1991 - 03.1996
A Namibian owned software house specialising in design and creation of tailored products for various corporate clients.
Key Tools Used: Informix Online, Informix-SE, Informix 4gl, Informix SQL, Fourgen (a 4GL based ERP System), PICK, SCO-Unix
Key achievements and; Maintaining and developing an in house system for Namibian Blood Transfusion Services. The system, written in PICK, tracked all blood products and tests done on them for the entire country.
Consultation and training in Fourgen Case Tools and Informix 4gl provided to the Bank of Namibia (reserve bank).
Training provided in Informix-SQL to Namibian Fisheries.
Training provided in Informix-SQL to Namibian Water.
Maintenance of PICK Financials for Nictus Furnishers.
Maintenance and development of Fourgen Financials for Namibian Breweries, using Informix 4gl and Informix SE.
Design and development of a system to trade shares and track the index for the Namibian Stock Exchange. The system was written in Informix 4gl and ran Informix Online.
Additional Responsibilities:
Guidance given to Namibian Stock Exchange on software platform and communications software for broker log in. I was involved with system design and enhancements from the ground up.
Major consultant to Namibian Blood Transfusion Service as to new software upgrades and enhancements to the existing systems.
One of two on-site consultants with Namibian Breweries involved in design and discussion of the direction of the product.
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
