resume.json

resume.json

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  "basics": {
    "name": "Jason Snelders",
    "label": "Senior Software Developer | Software Development Lead | Educator",
    "picture": "https://jsnelders.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191026_165247-reduced-size-square.jpg",
    "email": "jason@jsnelders.com",
    "phone": "",
    "website": "https://jsnelders.com",
    "summary": "I'm a web application software developer. \nSolution delivery - design, creation and management - is my thing.\n\nBackground:\n- Full stack web application developer.\n- I've worked across all aspects of the development and delivery process.\n- Previous small business owner (software consultancy).\n\nNow:\n- Specialising in web front-end and JAMstack.\n- Focused on solution delivery, team leadership, and developer coaching.\n- Building a small-scale, privacy-focused social network to take on Facebook.\n\nTech Focus: \n- Modern JavaScript, Typescript, Vue.js, CSS/SCSS.\n- PHP, MongoDB, WordPress, MySQL, Microsoft .NET/C#.\n- Netlify, Miocrosoft Azure (App Services and Storage).\n\nInterests: \n- InfoSec; Password management.\n- Usability (UX).\n- Sustainable software maintenance.\n- Managing modern development tech churn.\n- Development learning and coaching.\n\nIdeal work: \n- Team leadership.\n- Bridging business and development.\n- Product development.\n- Product research/prototyping.\n\nWhat matters at work:\nFlexibility and a friendly team. Quality equipment and work environment.\n\nFind me at https://jsnelders.com/\n\nI have a Victorian Working with Children Card (April 2019)",
    "location": {
      "address": "",
      "postalCode": "",
      "city": "Melbourne",
      "countryCode": "AU",
      "region": ""
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "jason-snelders",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-snelders/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "interests": [{
    "name": "Professional",
    "keywords": [
      "Usability/UX design",
      "Information Security (particularly Web Application Security)",
      "Password management",
      "Sustainable software maintenance",
      "Software development leadership",
      "Software developer coaching and mentoring"
    ]
  },
  {
    "name": "Personal",
    "keywords": [
      "World travel",
      "Photography"
    ]
  }],
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "Freelance Software Professional",
      "position": "Freelance",
      "website": "",
      "startDate": "2019-11-01",
      "summary": "Not one to shy away from staring down a giant, I'm working on a 'small' side project of building a privacy-focused social network to take on Facebook. The disruption industry needs some disruption.",
      "highlights": []
    },
    {
      "company": "RMIT University",
      "position": "Part-time Software Development Project Manager",
      "website": "https://www.rmit.edu.au/",
      "startDate": "2019-05-01",
      "endDate": "2020-01-09",
      "summary": "",
      "highlights": [
        "Reported to 2 project owners (researchers).",
        "Coordinated with external stakeholders and project managers.",
        "Responsible managing budget and expenditure tracking, planning, software architecture, status reporting, recruitment, and team management.",
        "Recruited a 3 person development team.",
        "Managed 2 x 6-person student teams for 12 weeks to develop sub-components of the project.",
        "Exited the project before completion and delivery."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "RMIT University",
      "position": "Tutor",
      "website": "https://www.rmit.edu.au/",
      "startDate": "2019-07-01",
      "endDate": "2019-11-01",
      "summary": "",
      "highlights": [
        "Ran 2 tutorials per week for Database Applications course(approx. 50-60 students).",
        "The course covered relational databases (Oracle), MobgoDB and developing a web application with PHP.",
        "Learnt MongoDB for the course.",
        "Performed assignment and exam marking."
      ],
      "endDate": "2019-11-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "RMIT University",
      "position": "Support Project Coordinator / Student Mentor",
      "website": "https://www.rmit.edu.au/",
      "startDate": "2019-03-01",
      "endDate": "2019-11-01",
      "summary": "Assistant project coordinator for the Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course.\nWIL is a program of capstone projects by student teams creating solutions for industry sponsors.",
      "highlights": [
        "Supervised 6 project teams (~30 students) per semester.",
        "Provided guidance and coaching toward successful project delivery for each sponsor.",
        "Guest lectured on the topic \"Getting Started with Git and GitFlow\" with a 45 minute practical demonstration for students."
      ],
      "endDate": "2019-11-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "Vylesk",
      "position": "Small Business Owner / Software Architect",
      "website": "https://vylesk.com",
      "startDate": "2012-01-01",
      "endDate": "2019-11-01",
      "summary": "Vylesk was a boutique software development consultancy that built web applications and portals for small businesses and educational institutions.\n\nIn 2019 we successfully launched a new Intranet for St Hildas College in Melbourne, designed from scratch with custom workflows and built on top of WordPress. We also developed and managed a custom student tutorial management system for Hildas for 6 years.\n\nVylesk consisted of 2 principal consultants in Melbourne and 2 full-time developers in India.\n\nDue to declining business a shifting in the industry, in November 2019 we chose to wind down the company to reassess and pursue new opportunities.",
      "highlights": [
        "Technologies & Tools: WordPress (theme and plug-in development), PHP, MySQL, jQuery, web application development with HTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScript/SASS, VueJS, Bootstrap, W3CSS, .NET/ASP.NET, Microsoft Azure"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Datacom",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer / Team Lead",
      "website": "https://www.datacom.com.au/",
      "startDate": "2016-09-01",
      "summary": "Datacom is a mid-tear corporate consultancy. I left the permanent full-time position in September 2018 to work for myself.",
      "highlights": [
        "Senior Developer (full-stack web/.NET) and Team Lead for automated development environment project with Australian Unity.",
        "Interim Technical Lead and ongoing Operations Lead for COBOL migration project with Bupa.",
        "Senior full-stack web/.NET developer on the Organ Match project with Australian Red Cross Blood Service.",
        "Worked with client business stakeholders and internal software teams to deliver requirements.",
        "Created technical and process documentation.",
        "Supported other team leads and assisted junior developers.",
        "Designed and developed an orchestration tool that manages AWS environment creation and automated the setup/linking of corresponding environments in Octopus Deploy.",
        "Technologies & Tools: Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Visual Studio 2015 & 2017, Angular 1.2 & 5, .NET 4.6, ASP.NET MVC 4.x, NUnit/Moq, AutoMapper, Entity Framework, SQL Server, Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 & CloudFormation, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Micro Focus Visual COBOL."
      ],
      "endDate": "2018-09-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "Belong - Powered by Telstra",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer (Web front-end)",
      "website": "https://www.belong.com.au/",
      "startDate": "2014-11-01",
      "summary": "Sub-Contract for Object Consulting. Belong was an Australian broadband provider and a division of Telstra.",
      "highlights": [
        "Front-end web developer. New feature development, defect resolution, and BAU development.",
        "A/B test development and management of website optimisation campaigns.",
        "Team support and mentor to incoming developers.",
        "Technologies & Tools: Adobe Target, Optimizely, Grunt, Middleman, SASS/CSS, JavaScript, Knockout.js."
      ],
      "endDate": "2016-07-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "Object Consulting",
      "position": "Senior Software Developer",
      "website": "https://www.objectconsulting.com.au/",
      "startDate": "2014-09-01",
      "summary": "Short-contract role. Front-end web developer.",
      "highlights": [],
      "endDate": "2014-10-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "PageUp",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "website": "https://www.pageuppeople.com/",
      "startDate": "2014-08-01",
      "summary": "Short contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).",
      "highlights": [],
      "endDate": "2014-09-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "Village Roadshow",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "website": "http://villageroadshow.com.au/",
      "startDate": "2014-05-01",
      "summary": "Short contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).",
      "highlights": [],
      "endDate": "2014-08-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "Maurice Blackburn Lawyers",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "website": "https://www.mauriceblackburn.com.au/",
      "startDate": "2013-04-01",
      "summary": "Short contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web).",
      "highlights": [],
      "endDate": "2013-11-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "Transurban",
      "position": "Data Management Consultant",
      "website": "https://www.transurban.com/",
      "startDate": "2010-07-01",
      "summary": "Sub-contract role for Zenith Solutions (Aust) Pty Ltd. Data migration analyst.",
      "highlights": [],
      "endDate": "2011-07-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "eNett International",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "website": "https://www.enett.com/",
      "startDate": "2010-04-01",
      "summary": "Contract role. Front-end ASP.NET web developer.",
      "highlights": [],
      "endDate": "2010-06-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "City of Melbourne",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "website": "https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Pages/home.aspx",
      "startDate": "2009-08-01",
      "summary": "Contract role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web/Access database applications/SQL Server).",
      "highlights": [],
      "endDate": "2010-03-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "Prima Consulting",
      "position": "Software Developer",
      "website": "http://www.prc.com.au/",
      "startDate": "2008-01-01",
      "summary": "Permanent full-time role. Full-stack software developer (.NET/web/VBA/Access database applications/SQL Server).",
      "highlights": [],
      "endDate": "2009-06-01"
    },
    {
      "company": "ParagonIT",
      "position": "Software Developer / Team Lead",
      "website": "http://paragonit.com.au/",
      "startDate": "2002-03-01",
      "summary": "Permanent full-time role. Full-stack developer (Classic ASP/.NET/web/VBA/Access database applications/SQL Server).",
      "highlights": [],
      "endDate": "2007-12-01"
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Deakin University",
      "area": "Computing",
      "studyType": "Bachelors Degree",
      "startDate": "1998-12-01",
      "gpa": "",
      "courses": [
        "Bachelor of Computing (Multimedia Technology)"
      ],
      "endDate": "2001-01-01"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Project Management (small projects)",
      "level": "Proficient",
      "keywords": [
        "Prject Management",
        "Scheduling",
        "Budget Management",
        "Hiring"
      ]
    },
{
      "name": "Teaching & Leadership",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "University Teaching",
        "Mentoring"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Consulting",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "Requirements Analysis",
        "Business Process Automation",
        "Customer Support"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Web Development",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "API",
        "Websites",
        "Web Applications"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Programming Languages & Scripting",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "PHP",
        "C#",
        ".NET Framework",
        "ASP.NET",
        "JavaScript",
        "HTML",
        "Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)",
        "SASS",
        "LESS",
        "JSON",
        "XML",
        "Structured Query Language (SQL)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Software Frameworks & Systems",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "WordPress",
        "VueJS",
        "jQuery",
        "Bootstrap",
        "W3CSS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Software Development",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "Web Applications",
        "Database Applications",
        "Solution Architecture",
        "Software Documentation",
        "Technical Documentation",
        "Research",
        "Web Services",
        "Software as a Service (SaaS)",
        "Business Applications",
        "A/B Testing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Databases",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "SQL Server",
        "MySQL"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Software Tools",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "Git",
        "VSTS",
        "JIRA",
        "Clubhouse",
        "Trello",
        "Visual Studio",
        "Visual Studio Code"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "General Tools",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "Microsoft Excel",
        "Microsoft Word"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Previous Technical Experience",
      "level": "",
      "keywords": [
        "Angular 7",
        "KnockoutJS",
        "Visual Basic.NET",
        "Visual Basic",
        "VBScript",
        "Access database applications",
        "Excel and Word macros (VBA)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "'Connect': A platform for portals and business process automation",
      "startDate": "2017-11-01",
      "description": "'Connect' is a web application layer built on top of WordPress for creating portals/intranets and business process automation. Developed for a a customer and running live since February 2019, every feature is driven by real-world needs. It is designed for extensibility and customisation.  The client since cancelled the project half-way through, but we were successfully running live for 6 months and have since dissected and started re-working the project to be launched as a special service offering in the future.",
      "url": ""
    }
  ]
}