Joel
Dobbins

Senior Developer / Designer

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Joel Dobbins

Senior Developer / Designer
Profile
Intro

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.

Development

Angular, React, Typescript, JSX, JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS 3, PHP 8, npm, Gulp, GIT, MySQL/MariaDB

Design

UI/UX, Figma, Storybook, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe XD

Currently Learning

AWS, Node.js, GraphQL, MongoDB, Sequelize, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL

19
Years Experience
2
World Cities
13
Fortune 500 Clients
4
Awards Won

Work

Highlights I'm most proud of
Optus Total Business Cap
Optus Total Business Cap
ILG Training Induction Email
ILG Training Induction Email
Banksia SuperCellars and Bottler
Banksia SuperCellars and Bottler
CPM 6 Android App
CPM 6 Android App

Resumé

My education and experience
  • The Citadel Group / Front End Developer
    Aug 2022 - Mar 2025 (2 yrs 8 mos)
    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

  • Wax Interactive / Senior Developer / Designer
    Feb 2022 - Jul 2022 (6 MOS)
    SUMMARY

    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

    SKILLS

    PHP 7, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Less, Bitbucket, SourceTree, Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Litmus, Veeva CRM Approved Email, Premiere Pro

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    The sole Front End Developer for all the client projects Contributed a lot of Back End code using PHP such as the Shout Meeting Room Hire booking system Tutoring the Junior Full Stack Developer on Front End related tasks

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Co-designed, developed and launched the a major new version of The Limbic, which included a UK version Built a complex calendar inspired booking system that included repeated events in PHP, as well co-designing and building the Front End as well

  • DingGo / Senior Developer
    Aug 2021 - Oct 2021 (3 MOS)
    SUMMARY

    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.

    SKILLS

    PHP 7, CakePHP, MySQL, JavaScript, React, Gatsby, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Bitbucket, Composer, Docker, Google Charts, Gulp, MySQL Workbench, Postman, Power BI, GIT, SourceTree, TTD

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Managing a team that were building various reports in Power BI Front End Developer for the DingGo platform, adding various features and improvements

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Successfully added Xero API integration into the DingGo platform Oversaw the completion of the Power BI reports I was managing

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

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

  • Macquarie Group / Senior UI Developer Contractor
    Apr 2017 - Sep 2017 (6 mos)
    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

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

  • Sandstone Technology / Front End Developer
    May 2013 - Aug 2015 (2 yrs 4 mos)
    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, jQuery Mobile, 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

  • Clemenger Group (was Levo Group) / Web Designer
    Jan 2012 - Feb 2013 (1 yr 2 mos)
    SUMMARY

    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.

    SKILLS

    PHP 5, HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, jQuery, ASP, Tortoise SVN, Adobe Suite, Flippingbook Publisher Professional

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Was the primary Web Designer for the digital agency, contributing to a huge amount of large projects and websites, working closely with Back End Developers

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Upgraded WestPac’s intranet so to be compatible with IE 8, upgrading from IE 7, in a single day Added print CSS support for one of Dimension Data’s products Installed every JAX Tyres C# application on a machine for every JAX Tyres shop in NSW

  • EFI (was Online Print Solutions) / Technical Support
    May 2010 - Jan 2012 (1 yr 9 mos)
    SUMMARY

    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 training 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

    SKILLS

    PHP 5, ASP, HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, Tortoise SVN, ASP proofreading/testing, IIS, SQL Server Management Studio, Remote Desktop Connection, GoToMeeting, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash ActionScript 3

    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

    Conducted initial trainings and provided ongoing support customers all over the world including Singapore, America, UK, Australia and New Zealand, often being the only one online during certain times

    ACHIEVEMENTS

    Trained clients from New Zealand on-site over 3 days on the full product suite

  • SAE QANTM (was Qantm College) / Bachelor of Applied Multimedia
    2008 - 2009
    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

    PHP 5, ActionScript 2/3, HTML 4, CSS 2.1, MySQL, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, Maya

  • Illawarra Christian School / Higher School Certificate
    2006 - 2007
    SUMMARY

    Grade: 92% for Industrial Studies: Multimedia. Included in the High Achievers List which was published in the Sun Herald and Daily Telegraph newspapers

    SKILLS

    Adobe Master Suite, Opus Creator, Photography

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