Currently a part of the team working on the new booking engine.

Software Engineer

Week to week website maintenance, management of SEO, advertising and supporting the team that write content with advice and guidance with CRM and CMS tools. Research and develop a plan for the adoption of replacement software as needed due to budget and feature choices. Plan and implement critical website improvements, along with a new data analytics approach that deeply integrates data from advertising, website, databases and Google cloud tools. Preparing a strategy for the next twelve months regarding content creation, website quality and audience focus.

Digital Marketing

Designed an Information Systems strategy and built momentum on key elements for a Brisbane based gym franchise along with communication of the plan to all stakeholders. Understanding key users across the franchise structure and how to outwork adoption of multiple technologies such as password management, internal wiki and project collaboration software. Assess the adoption and impact of these projects as they are implemented and adjust communication accordingly. Finish previously uncompleted projects which had been lagging before coming on team.

Information Systems Strategy

A diverse role with many key strategic technical projects involving disparate groups of people such as volunteers, paid staff and interconnected organisations. Oversaw the implementation, training and benefits of moving to a completely online accounting solution, building a CRM from scratch and ongoing adoption of G-Suite. Worked across the organisation to ensure we were streamlining our digital efforts, not doubling up on tools and sharing within the team on how to make the most of tools like Google Spreadsheets, Mailchimp, our CRM and Trello.
This role also involved the management of all finances, secretary to the board and reporting to the newly formed ACNC. Adapting to changing technology and governance accountability along the way. Notable projects involve implementing strategic payments platforms for point of sale and online events registrations.

Business Manager

Worked with various companies as a consultant, sometimes hiring additional team as needed. Client work included the research and implementation of online software alternatives to classic desktop install infrastructure. Oversaw the change management and technical aspects of companies moving to G-Suite, some to Saasu (accounting), Dropbox and also solutions on the Zoho collaboration suite (an alternative to G-Suite). Each company was a unique situation and I oversaw end to end adoption, including migration, problem resolution, training and support.
Worked with clients to deliver scoped out and agreed outcomes throughout the project life cycle. Assisting teams with their research of potential solutions and how to map their existing business processes and data management with the technologies brought in.

Consultant

Built web applications in many forms using a range of different frameworks, active core member of the Wagtail open source CMS project.

Confident with frontend Javascript, worked on ecommerce and business process solutions requiring both server and client integration.

Need help with some BigQuery SQL or how to integrate your data from several sources, I love getting involved in that space and have a passion to see things automated.

Elm is a great functional frontend framework, after a bit of a learning curve I have found this can solve browser UI problems like nothing else I have used.

Fullstack developer, passionate to create and improve systems.

LB (Ben Johnston)

Development of an internal intranet, discussion forum, training and shared contacts site using open source technologies. Seeing great adoption internally through training and continuous development on features.

Intranet Web Application

Developed an end to end marketing data integration system, bringing together all marketing data sources from the website through to CRM. The primary goal has been to save the marketing team time in generating reports and increase the ability to dig into attributions for leads from advertising and organic sources.

Marketing Data Integration

Built a multi-user and real-time incident management system for a community organisation offering a professional response to the crises, risks or needs of people. This involved working through detailed business process workflows with the CEO and out working an iterative development process.

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