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About me

I like to help people. The day I realized that was the day I hung up my developer hat and started my post-technical career. I am passionate about helping people achieve their goals and dreams, and about building a more diverse, inclusive workplace.

☎️ Contact information

📧 Contact • 🦋 Bluesky • 🐙 Github • 🐘 Mastodon • 🔗 LinkedIn

💻 Work experience

Recruiter

Ferocia , Melbourne - October 2024 to present

Leading recruitment for engineering and other senior roles.

Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

SKUTOPIA , Remote - January 2024 to September 2024

The first hire in talent acquisition, focusing on engineering and product hires. Made redundant along with half the permanent staff.

Talent Acquisition Manager

Linktree , Remote – August 2021 to June 2023

At Linktree I built teams in engineering, product and growth, communications, partnerships, and more, helping scale the team. Relocated from Melbourne to Boulder, CO to begin building the engineering team's US presence.

Talent & Culture Consultant (Fixed Term)

ANZ , Melbourne – March 2021 to July 2021

Part of a large talent acquisition team building out ANZ's "bank inside the bank" project, ANZx. I work in the strategic sourcing squad, finding amazing engineering candidates for recruiters and hiring managers.

Head of People (Contract)

Qsic , Melbourne – December 2020 to February 2021

I got Qsic set up with an efficient, candidate-friendly hiring process; set up and rolled out applicant tracking, people ops, and onboarding systems; and developed policies including a code of conduct, employee handbook, remote working policy, and gender transitioning policy.

Talent Acquisition Specialist (Contract)

A Cloud Guru , Melbourne – October 2020 to December 2020

A short contract role in which I owned six roles across engineering and design, from sourcing, interviewing, and candidate management to final offer.

Technical Recruiter

Automattic , Remote – February 2018 to February 2020

I was brought in as the first dedicated recruiter, and to own the hiring process end-to-end for software engineers (PHP/JavaScript, iOS, Android). I also assisted with non-technical roles and worked on sourcing, coordination, partner management, application review, screening, interviews, project management, and even a little coding.

Technical Recruiter (AKA Hiring Experience Wrangler)

Lookahead , Melbourne/Remote – April 2016 to February 2018

I made a career change to recruitment and never regretted it. Lookahead are technical recruiters who are actually technical. I hired developers for Ruby, JavaScript, iOS and Android roles, worked with some amazing startups, and drank a lot of coffee.

Solution Designer/Informatica Developer

Optus , Sydney/Melbourne – October 2014 to April 2016

Part of a $400 million transformation project across Australia and Singapore to consolidate 80+ legacy systems into one integrated billing and customer care application.

Development Manager

Optus , Melbourne – January 2013 to October 2014

Led a team of high-performing full-stack developers and owned the primary CRM platform for customer operations and retail.

Technical Lead

Hotglue , Melbourne – November 2011 to January 2013

Full-stack development of client websites, from simple five-page WordPress sites up to CakePHP/MySQL web applications.

Senior Solution Developer

Optus , Melbourne – August 2007 to November 2011

Full-stack PHP development, stakeholder management and LAMP server maintenance.

🛠 Skills

  • Technical recruitment
  • Screening
  • Interviewing (text-only, voice, and video)
  • Sourcing
  • Process improvement
  • Data analysis & reporting
  • Applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, Google Hire)
  • Candidate experience
  • Public speaking
  • Employer branding

💁🏼‍♂️ Volunteering

Ruby Australia

General Member 2016 - 2017
Vice President 2017 - 2017
President 2017 - 2018
Secretary 2020 - 2022

Ruby Australia is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the use and adoption of the Ruby programming language in Australia. Over the years I have served on the association's committee in various roles, and wrote our current Code of Conduct .

Conference & camp organiser

I was on the organising team for RubyConf AU 2019 , and co-hosted the 2024 conference . I also co-organised Rails Camps in Melbourne (2017) and Hobart (2018).

Meetup host & organiser

I was the co-organiser (and usually host) of the Melbourne Ruby meetup between 2017 and 2019.

📜 Articles and Talks

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