David Peterson

2006 - 2006 | Graduate Diploma of Education (Senior School)

Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia

1996 - 1999 | Bachelor of Information Technology

Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Australia
Major: Software Engineering

Jul 2003 - Jun 2005 | Primary/Secondary Teacher

Bingham Academy
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Subject Areas: Computer, Mathematics, Physical Education

• Taught from Kindergarten through to Grade 10.
• Assisted the rollout of the CAT5/fibre optic network throughout the 8 acre compound.
• Installed and maintained the intranet, including Active Directory, firewall, anti-virus, email and website setup.

Mar 2003 - Jun 2003 | Analyst Programmer (Casual)

MU Systems
Brisbane, Australia

• Maintained and extended existing web applications (PHP/SQL).
• Consulted with clients regarding product enhancements.

Sep 2002 - Feb 2003 | Senior Software Engineer

WebXcentric Pty Ltd
Brisbane, Australia

• Improved the efficiency of a product which was taking two days to run to less than two minutes. (XML/XSL/Visual Basic)
• Assisted in the design of the next generation of the product. (.NET)

Feb 2000 - Jul 2002 | Senior Software Engineer

Speedwell Internet Solutions
Brisbane, Australia

• Implemented a reusable library of common functionality for both the server side and client side. (ASP/DHTML/JavaScript/SQL)
• Designed and implemented database-driven web applications for over a dozen clients (ASP/VB/SQL)
• Designed the web front-end framework of a legacy billing appliction for a major telecommunications provider. (Java/J2EE)
• Designed and built a browser-based website editing application allowing complex page content. (XML/XSL/Java)

Jan 1998 - Dec 1998 | Junior Analyst Programmer

Atlas Travel Technologies
Brisbane, Australia

• Wrote COM components that communicated with a Cobol-based application running on a Tandem mainframe (VB)
• Worked in the team creating the company's first web-based live ticket booking system. (ASP/SQL/VB)