Joel
Dobbins

Senior Developer / Designer

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Joel Dobbins

Senior Developer / Designer
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Intro

G'day! Based in Sydney, I've worked with some amazing clients such as AMG Australia, Tony Robbins, Longchamp, Air Asia, Optus, Lego, Westpac, Australian Government, Samsung, Ricoh, Oracle, Hewlett Packard, VMWare, Brother, American Airlines, Me Bank, HPM and Legrand. For 2 years, I worked in London with ICTS building airport self check-in software now used across 3 continents. Currently, I'm primarily focused on both React and Angular. Most recently I was the primary Front End Developer for CRIIS, GovPanels and AusTender Admin for the Department of Finance of the Australian Government

Front End Development

React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Typescript, JSX, JavaScript, HTML 5, Tailwind CSS, DaisyUI, Bootstrap, Sass, LESS, CSS 3, Storybook, Jasmine, Jest, Selenium, npm, GIT

Back End Development

Node.js, Next.js, Razor, PHP 8, Laravel, Wordpress, MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL

Design

UI/UX, Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Animate, etc), WCAG Accessibility, SEO

Multimedia

Audio Production, Print, Animation, 3D Modelling, Video Editing

10
Years Experience
2
World Cities
  1. Sydney, Australia

  2. London, United Kingdom

15
Fortune 500 Clients
  1. Air France-KLM Group

  2. American Airlines Group

  3. Best Buy

  4. BHP Group

  5. Canon

  6. CBRE Group

  7. Cisco Systems

  8. Delta Air Lines

  9. Kodak

  10. Samsung

  11. United Continental Holdings

  12. UPS

  13. Unilever

  14. Vodafone

  15. Westpac Banking Group

4
Awards Won
  1. 'Thank You' Award - Sandstone Technology

  2. Bonus for Excellence - Online Print Solutions

  3. 'One of Qantm's highest achieving students' written acknowledgment - Qantm College

  4. Distinguished Achievers in Higher School Certificate Course List - Industrial Technology: Multimedia

Work

Highlights I'm most proud of
Banksia SuperCellars and Bottler
Banksia SuperCellars and Bottler
Optus Total Business Cap EDM
Optus Total Business Cap EDM

Resumé

My Experience and Education
  • Senior Developer / Designer Contractor
    Joel Dobbins Designs
    Apr 2025 - PRESENT (7 mos), Sydney
    SUMMARY

    Various contract work as a sole trader with clients such as Urhere, Fieldex and WotsAppening

    SKILLS

    React, Angular, Vue, HTML 5, CSS 3, Tailwind CSS, DaisyUI, Sass, Bootstrap, BitBucket, Jira, GIT, SourceTree, Figma, WCAG 2.1 Compliance, PHP, Laravel, Wordpress, MySQL, MariaDB

  • Senior Front End Developer
    Citadel Edge (was The Citadel Group)
    Aug 2022 - Mar 2025 (2 yrs 8 mos), Sydney
    SUMMARY

    Starting off as the sole Front End Developer, I built and presented the original POC to The Australian Government which helped secure a series of large-scale contracts to begin work on GovPanels and later CRIIS. I worked on both of the large financial enterprise software systems which were built upon bleeding edge Angular driven web component technology. Together, the systems are anticipated to process over $100 Billion per year. This technology was then leveraged into AusTender Admin, with my designs ready to implement for GrantConnect Admin.

    SKILLS

    HTML 5, CSS 3, Angular, Sass, Web Components, TypeScript, NG Bootstrap, BitBucket, Jira, GIT, SourceTree, Figma, StoryBook, Razor, WCAG 2.1 Compliance, Jasmine, Docker

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    The sole Front End Developer Provided briefs and managed the workload of a second Front End Developer Providing assets such as logos and icons for Full Stack Developers in the team Coaching Full Stack Developers with Angular, TypeScript, HTML and CSS related questions and tasks Translate findings from usability testing from stakeholders and implement them

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Built and presented the original POC to The Australian Government which helped secure a series of large-scale contracts to begin work on GovPanels and later CRIIS Was either the only or one of two Front End Developers for GovPanels, CRIIS and AusTender Admin Contributed to designs in Figma for GovPanels and CRIIS Sole UI designer, using Figma, for AusTender Admin and GrantConnect Admin

  • Senior Developer / Designer Contractor
    Joel Dobbins Designs
    Jul 2021 - Jul 2022 (1 yr 1 mo), Sydney
    SUMMARY

    Various contract work as a sole trader with clients such as Rebel Playground, Camurus, The Limbic, DingGo, SFI Health, Seremind, 4xAdventures, Mundipharma and Arthritis Australia

    SKILLS

    React, Angular, Vue, HTML 5, CSS 3, Tailwind CSS, DaisyUI, Sass, Bootstrap, BitBucket, Jira, GIT, SourceTree, Figma, WCAG 2.1 Compliance, PHP, Laravel, Wordpress, MySQL, MariaDB

  • Senior Front End Developer
    Independent Liquor Group
    May 2019 - Jul 2021 (2 yrs 3 mos), Sydney
    SUMMARY

    Served as the sole Front End Developer for the company, often working with other departments such as the Design Studio and Networking & Infrastructure. Designed and developed the ERP system from scratch, created new and updated existing Banner Group websites such as Bottler, Super Cellars and Fleet Street, created an Events based management system that manages customer flights, accommodation and daily schedules, created an Internal Training Module Website and migrated all repositories from TFS to GIT (as part of a company recovery following a ransom security attack). Once all the front end tasks were completed in the sprint I'd start working on the Back End tasks. Also, I attended the AWSome Day Online Conference training course to learn more about AWS.

    SKILLS

    Illustrator, Photoshop, XD, HTML 5, CSS 3, Sass, MJML, JavaScript, TFS, GIT, C#, .NET, Razor

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    The sole Front End Developer for the company, who also designed the UI and themes Coached Full Stack Developers on Front End related items Translating findings from usability testing from users and update the designs to reflect those

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Designed and developed the ERP system, replacing the old system which had been in place for almost 50 years Maintained and upgraded all of the brands the company managed such as Bottler, Super Cellars and Fleet Street

  • Senior Digital Designer/Developer
    Success Resources Australia
    Oct 2017 - Mar 2019 (1 yr 6 mos), Sydney
    SUMMARY

    Lead designer/developer providing marketing deliverables for motivational speaker events for Donald Trump, Tony Robbins, Robert Kiyosaki, Gary Vaynerchuk, Turia Pitt and more. Such deliverables included websites, banners, bus wrap ads, SMS and EDMs. During my time I trained up other employees, defined new work practices and procedures, introduced Agile methodologies and set up Git version control for the global company to share assets between offices. There were 99 domains that co-managed which included increasing allocated space, resetting server cache and managing redirects.

    SKILLS

    HTML 5, CSS 3, LESS, Adobe Creative Suite, XD, Sketch, PHP 7, JavaScript, Svelte, MJML, Marketo, Canva, Homebrew

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Creating brands, designing and building websites, print and various multimedia pieces for upcoming events featuring famous speakers, often with very short turnaround times

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Broke monthly online sales records for the company after implementing learnings from A/B tests, boosted SEO, dramatically improved loading times and performance, improved WCAG Accessibility, etc

  • Senior UI Developer Contractor
    Macquarie Group
    Apr 2017 - Sep 2017 (6 mos), Sydney
    SUMMARY

    Building and designing the new intermediary portal allowing advisors to manage accounts and make payments on behalf of their clients. I contributed to the Advisor Initiated Payments that was released in July 2017, working within the Wealth Digital sector of one of Australia's finest companies

    SKILLS

    HTML 5, CSS 3, LESS, JavaScript, Angular 1/3, TypeScript, APIs, Grunt, Bower, Node, IntelliJ, SourceTree, Git, Karma, Jasmine, PhantomJS, Photoshop, Illustrator, XD, Atlassian suite

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    The sole Front End Developer for one of Wealth Digital sector’s development teams

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Worked with the UI Designer to optimize the designs Built the Front End of the Intermediary Portal

  • Front End Developer / Designer
    ICTS Europe Systems
    Oct 2015 - Feb 2017 (1 yr 5 mos), London
    SUMMARY

    Redesigned and built new user interfaces for the entire in-house managed ICTS product suite and check-in kiosks, a leading provider of software solutions for all major airlines and airports based in Europe, North America and Asia. Clients included four Fortune 500 companies

    SKILLS

    HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Gulp, LESS, XAML, WPF, C#, Angular 1, Blend, TFS, Git, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Premiere Pro

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Was the sole Designer and Front End Developer for all of the companies in-house products

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Was the sole Designer and Front End Developer of the airport check-in kiosk, which today operates in at least 3 continents

  • Front End Developer
    Sandstone Technology
    May 2013 - Aug 2015 (2 yrs 4 mos), Sydney
    SUMMARY

    Designed and developed hybrid HTML 5 iOS/Android banking apps using Cordova and Jenkins for banks like RaboDirect, IMB, Auswide Bank, BOQ Specialist and ME Bank. RaboDirect was downloaded 9500 times within the 1st week. As second longest serving developer, I was working from even before the first release of the product

    SKILLS

    HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, Backbone, RequireJS, Underscore, JSON, Jasmine, SonarSource, PhantomJS, Sass, Compass, Node.js, Ant, Gradle, IntelliJ IDE, Java, Groovy, Jenkins, Mule Studio, Eclipse, SourceTree, Git, Bitbucket Server, Tortoise SVN, UI, UX, Photoshop, Illustrator, GoToMeeting, Atlassian suite

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    The second longest serving Front End Developer who contributed many features and improvements to multiple banks by building for them their mobile banking app

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    As part of a successful sales pitch to a client, worked on a weekend with a couple other members of the team and hence awarded a formal ‘Thank You’ award in front of the company

  • Bachelor of Applied Multimedia
    SAE Institute (was QANTM College)
    Sydney
    SUMMARY

    Graduating with an accelerated two year Bachelor of Applied Multimedia at SAE Qantm, I received a grade point average of 6 during my final trimester, hence was acknowledged as "one of Qantm's highest achieving students"

    SKILLS

    JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS 3, PHP, MySQL, Adobe Creative Suite, Maya

  • Higher School Certificate
    Illawarra Christian School
    Wollongong
    SUMMARY

    Grade: 92% for Industrial Studies: Multimedia.

    Included in the Distinguished Achievers List of the Higher School Certificate which was published in the Sun Herald and Daily Telegraph newspapers: https://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/ebos/static/DSACH_2007_12_D10.htm

    SKILLS

    Adobe Creative Suite, Opus Creator, Photography, Videography

Let's Connect

I'm based in Sydney

+61 420 445 946
hello@joeldobbinsdesigns.com
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