daniel graetzer

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Digital consultancy, design and development specialising in tech start ups and SMEs.

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My role at igloo was both internal and external. I worked with our current and potential clients to devise a optimal technical strategy to meet their immediate and future needs to ensure the best possible outcomes for all stakeholders. I managed three development teams at igloo, its vendors and contractors and was responsible for the technical aspects of business development including pitching, estimating and scoping of several $mill of new business every year. I was also responsible for the internal technical strategy, development management, developer education and mentoring, deployment and infrastructure. Partnering with the strategist I developed and deployed an innovation program to aid in bringing new products, services and processes to igloo. The goal being to widen igloo's market base and product offering while providing exciting and engaging projects for both its staff and clients.

Urban Expression is a unique full service digital agency handling strategy, development and infrastructure for small to medium Australian businesses. Over the years I grew and managed a solid and diverse team capable of handling the most complex projects for both web and application development. Urban Expression was devised with a unique model, in that it was comprised of highly qualified freelancers who chose to work on projects that they felt most suited to - the result being an outcome created by individuals who believed in the end product.

I started working as a PHP developer and developed a multi-site deployable web cam community platform which was used on over 20 brands featuring live chat, forums, web cam chat and other social features. I made a transition to working on the company's flagship product and dramatically grew my skill set, working with technologies like J2EE, XSLT, OOJS, Spring MVC, Hibernate & GWT. I worked my way up to development lead and took over responsibility for managing the agile development process as the Scrum Master and also oversaw the maintenance of the web and database server farms along with the working with management on the direction of the product.

Contract role heading up the frontend development of the new Sportsbet website. Since the rebuild Sportsbet has gone from strength to strength and recently sold a 51% share for over $200m. Built in PHP using the Symfony framework, the major overhaul introduced a complete new UI and using AJAX we streamlined the navigation and betting process to allow for much greater usability.

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