Employment – Engineering

July 2015 – Present

Insured By Us

Engineering team lead (March 2018 – present)

Heading up the Insured by Us engineering team responsible for the rewrite of our travel insurance solutions into an API based suite of products.

Ruby on Rails Developer (July 2015 – March 2018)

• Member of the team building and maintaining a travel insurance platform
• Writing in Ruby, Rails, CSS, HTML, Javascript and Go

Employment   Jan 2009-July 2014

August 2014 – July 2015
Marketboomer

Ruby on Rails Developer

• Member of the team creating the Purchase Plus procurement system
• Writing in Ruby, Rails, CSS, HTML and Javascript

Community Participation

• Winner of the 2015 Sydney SheHacks Hackathon
• Rails Girls Summer of Code (Contributing to Open Source)
• Rails Girls & Rails Girls Next Organiser (student, then mentor, then presenter, now organiser)
• RoroSyd Organiser
• CS101 study group
• Development Hubs
• Rails Camp
• Ruby Conf
• NodeSchool
• They Vote for You (Contributing to Open Source)

Employment – Previous

Jan 2009-July 2014

MooMu Media

Digital Marketing Consultant/ Director

• Co-founded the agency to provide clients with digital strategy and search marketing advice.
• Specialised in paid search marketing, gaining Google and Microsoft Advertising certifications.
• Articles published in industry leading websites, including MOZ.com

Sep 2007 – Dec 08

Tamar.com London  & Shanghai

Head of Analytics

Providing clients, including Tesco Personal Finance and Lloyds TSB, with insights into their online performance using various analytics packages.

Jan 2006-Sep 2007

Crown Prosecution Service of England and Wales

Policy researcher on recidivism project.

Jan 2004 – Oct 05

Australian Department of Finance & Administration

Federal Budget Analyst for Family & Communities Services

Education

Jul – Oct 2013

General Assembly

Back End Web Development

1999 – 2003

University of Wollongong

Bachelor of Science (Chemistry)

Bachelor of Commerce (Economics/Finance)