John Mee
Senior Computer Programmer
My Services
- Web application development
- Web API development
- Database design and data manipulation
- Lean Startup development
- Technical lead
John was a thoroughly enjoyable fellow to work with and an invaluable source of skill and knowledge. He vigorously works his way to the core of each task, thus ensuring a well thought out and efficient solution. His many years of experience are obvious in what is the most beautiful and readable code I have ever seen. I hope to work with him again in the future.
Daniel Bradley - Staff Programmer - Copyright Agency Limited
John would be an asset to any organisation.
Russell Ayling - Technical Manager - Roads and Traffic Authority
Education
M.I.T. (Web Technologies)
Macquarie University, Australia 2003 - 2004
B.App.Sc. (Computing)
University Of Technology, Sydney, Australia 1987 - 1991
Higher School Certificate
James Ruse Agricultural High School 1986
Awards
16th Annual Webby Awards
Religion & spirituality, Winner 2012
15th Annual Webby Awards
Religion & spirituality, Honoree 2011
High Distinctions
Database Applications Development
XML Technologies
Programming Principles
Computer Networks
Distributed Systems
Employment
Founder
Programmer For Hire Nov 2011 - Present
A menagerie of one-to-two person projects for clientele across Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne.
Senior Staff Developer
Dolby Laboratories Feb 2011 - Oct 2011
Rebuilt Application Programming Interface for the Dolby Axon (VOIP) Network in Python/Django. Maintained public facing website in PHP/MySQL.
Technical Lead
Youthworks Feb 2009 - Feb 2011
Startup a content and social networking website resembling Facebook but for youth just 8 to 17 years of age.
Backend Skills
Python
PHP
Ruby
MySQL
Postgresql
XML/XSLT
JSON/AJAX
FrontEnd Skills
HTML5
CSS3/Less
Javascript
Team Skills
Debian & Ubuntu
Apache Administration
Git
Requirements Analysis
Technical Communication
Portfolio
Rewrote the Dolby Axon API service sustaining 50,000 distributed VOIP desktop clients; also update and maintain the public (download & register) website.
Carlson Marketing
Sole technical responsibility for securing, maintaining, and publishing to the Commonwealth Rewards Website.
Event Ticketing
Event online ticket sales and promotional website for the "LOUD Event" playing at the Sydney Entertainment Center and periodic 'Rice' events at the Wesley Theatre.
Roads and Traffic Authority
Record live data feeds and publish direct to the public website; detect and raise alarms upon exceedance of court ordered pollution targets.
Programmer For Hire
Leveraged Amazon EC2 and S3 to brute-force the backtesting of stock market trading ideas.
Team Player
Key contributor in ten person $1.5M 'Valcentral' project. Business analyst and industry data exchange and transformation expert.
Employee Review System
A complete intranet application to review and track employee performance for a major road construction contractor.
StackOverflow
Authoritative participant with popular answers and pertinent questions.