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CAMERON ZEMEK

Software Engineer


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ABOUT ME



Confident and self-motivated professional.

I am a self-motivated professional, I take responsibility for achieving
outcomes, meeting targets, collaborating with others, leading by example and
devising ways to improve systems and procedures. I demonstrated this in my roles
at Capiscum Corporation, Bundaberg Regional Council, PreviousNext and
Instaclustr as I was personally responsible for meeting objectives and targets.
I would have a number of active projects and had to self manage my time amongst
the projects.

Throughout my career I have been involved in all phases of the systems
development life cycle, from inception to deployment and maintenance. I have
experience doing business analysis and gathering requirements. Then developing
and applying new workflows and business logic to business systems to automate
and improve business process and functions.

In design and development of systems I use object-oriented principles and design
such as:

 * GRASP (General Responsibility Assignment Software Principles)
 * SOLID (Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface
   segregation and Dependency inversion)
 * Design patterns such as Dependency Injection, Adapter, Decorator, Factory
   method, etc.

I have given talks and training on these topics, for example I spoke at
DrupalGov Canberra 2014 on the topic of object-oriented design and development
and how to migrate from procedural to object-oriented modules.

I am a proponent for automated testing and continuous integration and utilize
unit and functional testing. I have contributed patches to Mink and I spoke
about the future of functional testing in Drupal 8 at DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014.

I have extensive experience working with government clients and stakeholders. In
my 9 years working in local government at Bundaberg Regional Council I
collaborated with numerous departments and gained experience and knowledge on
domains such as:

 * Asset Management
 * Customer Request Management
 * Electronic Document & Records Management
 * SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition)
 * Payroll
 * Procurement
 * Costings
 * Financial budgeting
 * Rates
 * GIS (Geographic Information System)
 * Rostering
 * Human Resources
 * Workplace Health & Safety
 * Tenders and Contracts

In my role at PreviousNext I worked on projects including:

 * Australian Energy Regulator - Energy Made Easy
 * Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
 * Department of Communications
 * Information & Privacy Commission
 * Government Property NSW
 * Queensland Building and Construction Commission
 * Service NSW
 * NSW ANZAC Memorial
 * Brisbane City Council
 * Local Government NSW
 * Teachers Housing Authority NSW
 * South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau
 * Office of State Revenue
 * State Library of South Australia


SKILLS



Business analyst and Software Engineer.

 * Objected Oriented Design and Development
 * Java
   * Java EE / Spring - JSF, JSP, EJB, JPA
   * Maven, Ant
   * JBoss, Tomcat, Glassfish, Websphere
   * Java SE - Swing, XML, NIO, Concurrent, Threading, JDBC, etc
 * Agile development
   * Certified ScrumMaster
   * Unified Process
   * Feature Driven Development
 * Version control (CVS, SVN and Git)
 * Continuous Integration (Jenkins)
 * Distributed Computing
   * Cassandra
   * Spark
   * Kafka
   * Elasticsearch
   * DynamoDb
 * Accessibility (ARIA, WCAG 2.0)
 * XML, XSLT, XPath, XSD, XSL-FO
 * Web services (JSON, REST, SOAP, WS-*, etc)
 * PHP (Zend, PEAR, Drupal, etc)
 * Acquia Certified Developer
 * HTML 5, CSS, SASS
 * Javascript (jQuery, AJAX, etc)
 * Testing
   * JUnit, PHPUnit
   * Selenium
   * Mink
   * Behat
 * GIS (ArcGIS, OpenLayers, Leaflet, Google Maps)
 * Lucene, Elastic and Solr search
 * UML and ER modelling
 * Shell scripting (Bash, Powershell, etc)
 * LDAP and Active Directory
 * Advanced SQL
   * Stored procedures (PL/pgSQL)
   * Triggers
   * Window functions
   * Table inheritance
   * Data partitioning
 * PostgreSQL, MySQL, Informix, Microsoft SQL Server administration
 * Apache administration
 * Linux and Windows administration


EXPERIENCE



Over fifteen years of knowledge and experience in Information Technology. Over
ten years working in the Government sector.


INSTACLUSTR

Lead Technical Operations Engineer / Apr 2016 - Present

 * Cassandra expert
 * Development of Cassandra tools
 * Support of Spark, Kafka, and Elasticsearch

Duties included:

 * Responding to customer queries and incidents, diagnosing and solving complex
   technical issues including code-level debugging, and demonstrating the
   highest standards of customer communication.
 * Maintain expert-level knowledge of Apache Cassandra and other relevant
   technology concepts and operations.
 * Actively participate in the Cassandra community through mailing lists and
   contributing code to the Apache Cassandra project.
 * Investigate cluster usage patterns, data models and system logs and apply
   expert Cassandra knowledge and standard maintenance procedures to optimise
   the performance and stability of production systems.
 * Be a proactive, reliable and supportive member of the TechOps team, working
   in 24/7 rotating shift roster.
 * Provide training to team members and customers in Cassandra and Instaclustr
   operational procedures and concepts, and ensure these processes are adhered
   to.
 * Identifying and implementing opportunities to continuously improve TechOps
   activities through the development and maintenance of tools and procedures or
   feedback to the product engineering team.
 * Undertake cluster reviews and other consulting engagements.


PREVIOUSNEXT

Senior Developer / Feb 2014 - Feb 2016

 * Backend web development
 * Frontend development (HTML, SASS, Javascript)
 * OpenLayers, Leaflet, Google Maps API
 * DynamoDb
 * Elastic and Solr search
 * Google Analytics
 * Mailchimp and Mandrill
 * Integration with web services

Worked with clients such as:

 * Australian Energy Regulator - Energy Made Easy
 * Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
 * Department of Communications
 * Information & Privacy Commission
 * Government Property NSW
 * Queensland Building and Construction Commission
 * Service NSW
 * NSW ANZAC Memorial
 * Brisbane City Council
 * Local Government NSW
 * Teachers Housing Authority NSW
 * South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau
 * Office of State Revenue
 * University of Queensland

Duties included:

 * Technical Lead
 * Software architecture
 * Site building and configuration
 * Installing and configuring modules
 * Development and testing custom modules
 * Creating unit and functional tests using Mink, Behat, PHPUnit and Selenium
 * Scrum Master
 * Sprint planning and estimation
 * Backlog and requirement refinement
 * Code reviews
 * Mentoring junior developers
 * Site backup and restore
 * Creating releases and doing deployments
 * Creating documentation
 * Applying security patches
 * Troubleshooting and debugging issues


BUNDABERG REGIONAL COUNCIL

Business Analyst / 2005 - 2014

 * Web design and development
 * Used XML, XSLT, and XSL-FO to generate PDF documents
 * LDAP and Active Directory
 * Java programming
 * Database administration and report generation:
   * MySQL
   * Postgres
   * Microsoft SQL Server
   * Informix
 * Shell scripting (BASH, Powershell, etc)
 * Windows and Linux administration
 * Development and maintenance of intranet applications such as:
   * Leave Rostering
   * Document Management System
   * Risk Management System
   * Work Order Requests
   * Financial Budgeting
   * Hazardous Substance Register
 * Supporting and integrating with COTS applications including:
   * Customer Request Management
   * Electronic Document & Records Management
   * Human Resources & Payroll systems
   * Financial Management systems
   * Asset Management system
   * SCADA system
   * Enterprise resource planning

Duties included:

 * Analysis business requirements
 * Project management
 * Software architecture
 * Develop and apply new workflows and business logic to business systems to
   automate and improve business process and functions
 * Responsible for the entire system development life cycle of websites and
   custom intranet applications
 * Documentation of Council's business systems and configuration items
 * Business application performance monitoring, maintenance, diagnosing of
   software issues and resolution of application support requests
 * Assist with training Council staff on the use of business systems
 * Assist with the introduction of business systems enhancements and rollouts to
   Council staff
 * Work with internal IT staff or vendors/developers on introducing application
   updates for issues found with business systems
 * Troubleshoot and resolve business application issues located at the desktop,
   server or within the application layer


CAPSICUM CORPORATION

Director and Owner / 2002 - 2005

 * Java programming
   * Desktop applications
   * Websites using Java EE and/or Spring
   * Custom UI components such as grid and spreadsheet
   * SyncML server
 * Project management
 * Business Analyst
 * Technical director
 * IT Consulting
 * Provided training
 * Created software development processes and policies


BAY CONNECT

System Administrator / 2000 - 2001

 * Windows NT servers
 * Cobalt server appliances
 * 30 workstations and number of remote sites


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION



Passion for engineering and science.

 * Open source contributor
 * Contributor to HTML 5 specification
 * Speaker at DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014 on The Future of Functional testing in
   Drupal 8
 * Speaker at DrupalGov Canberra 2014 on Procedural to Object-Oriented Modules


JAVA


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C++


GO


BASH


POWERSHELL


PYTHON


RUBY


SCHEMA


HASKELL


EDUCATION



Thirst for knowledge and constantly learning.


UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND

Bachelor of Informatics with a major in Software Engineering - Graduated: 2002

 * Graduated with grade point average of 6.04
 * Received Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Achievement

Subject Grade Discrete Maths Computing Distinction Algebra and Calculus I Credit
Introduction to Professional Computing Credit Computer Engineering I Credit
Introduction to Electronic Commerce Credit Introduction to Business Programming
High Distinction Data Analysis Distinction Advanced Prodecural Programming
Distinction Algorithms & Data Structures High Distinction Object-Oriented
Programming Distinction Software Development Tools Ungraded Pass Data Analysis &
Modeling High Distinction Introduction to Software Engineering Distinction Web
Publishing Distinction GUI Programming High Distinction Communication &
Scholarship Credit Intelligent Agent Technology Distinction Computer Graphics
Distinction Computer Communication & Internet High Distinction Software
Engineering Project A Distinction Advanced Java Programming Distinction
Operating Systems High Distinction System Administration Distinction Software
Engineering Project B Distinction


PERSONAL PROJECTS




PHARBORIST

A PHP library to query and transform source code via tree operations.


FIBER

A cooperative lightweight thread library for Java.


ZEMSCRIPT

A toy programming language implemented in Java.


POKERLIB

A Texas Holdem poker Java library. Includes a fast hand evaluator.


POKER AI CHALLENGE

A server for Texas Holdem Poker AI Challenge.


RESISTANCE

Java server using Netty for AI bots to play The Resistance game.


PHP LDAP

Object Oriented LDAP wrapper for PHP.


PHP UTF-8

A UTF-8 library for PHP.


PHP STATIC REFLECTION

Implementation of Reflection API using static analysis.


PHP ANNOTATION

Annotation library for PHP.


MAGIC GATHERER

Tool for extracting card information from gatherer.wizards.com using node.js.