G'day, I'm Joel Dobbins and am a Senior Developer / Designer in Sydney! Beginning with internships from 2005 such as at Channel Ten, I've been working full-time in the industry since 2008 in Sydney with some exciting clients such as Macquarie Bank, Tony Robbins, The Australian Government and ME Bank. Between 2015 and 2017, I worked overseas in London with ICTS building airport self check-in software now used across 3 continents and even visited Brussels to attend FOSDEM '17. Currently, I'm primarily focused on both React and Angular.
Angular, React, Typescript, JSX, JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS 3, PHP 8, npm, Gulp, GIT, MySQL/MariaDB
UI/UX, Figma, Storybook, Photoshop, Illustrator, Adobe XD
AWS, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, Sequelize, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL
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
HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/PHP development, UI/UX Figma design, building of Litmus tested EDMs, Wordpress backend support and testing and video editing for various clients such as The Limbic, Mundipharma and Arthritis Australia
PHP/JavaScript development including building customer reporting web tools including Xero API integration, liaising and managing C2C business relationships with external teams and project managing projects crucial to the business maintenance and growth.
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 migratee all repositories from TFS to GIT (as part of a company recovery following a ransom security attack). Once all the front end tasks were complete 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.
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.
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
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
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
Design and development for HPM, Samsung Learn & Earn, Vodafone, AMG Australia, Certior, Legrand, Oaks Hotels and Resorts, Sydney Aviators, Jobpac, Steamatic, Crossfit S. Remote installation/testing for JAX Tyres technical support to clients for basic HTML site content updates using WordPress and Levo's custom CMS. I also worked on-site with Westpac, Dimension Data and The College of Law in St Leonards, upgrading internal intranets, adding print styles and migrating Microsoft SharePoint.
Custom development (including negotiating quotes with clients)/site branding/login and the creation of corporate/demo sites, new feature/bug testing, ProPrint ad, technical pre-sales calls, on-site/WebEx trainings and 1st/2nd line customer support. Worked on projects for Kodak, Canon, Pel Hughes, Prism and Fuji Xerox including 6 Fortune 500 companies across Australia, New Zealand, America, Europe, and Asia
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"
Grade: 92% for Industrial Studies: Multimedia. Included in the High Achievers List which was published in the Sun Herald and Daily Telegraph newspapers