Dale Freya

Experience

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  Celsius Tech Australia

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  Junior Software Engineer

  Worked on a defence project in the Networking & Data Security team using ANSI C, Solaris UNIX, OSI, TCP/IP and ISO 9000 certification processes.

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  QCOM

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  Software Engineer

  Worked on the School Management System for Education Queensland using C++ and Paradox Database.

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  Qantm College

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2004

  Associate Lecturer

  Teaching Game Programming and Project Management.

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  Halfbrick

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Project Manager

  Project manager for Barnyard (Gameboy Advance), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Gameboy Advance) and some work on Nicktoons: Battle for Volcano Island (Gameboy Advance).

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  Startup Indie Game Developer

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2011

  Programmer

  Game development using C# and XNA for Xbox 360 for an unreleased title.

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  SAE Institute

  Nov 2008 - Dec 2013

  External Member Academic Advisory Board

  External Member of the Academic Advisory BoardChair of the Interactive Media Program Advisory Committee

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  Halfbrick

  Nov 2011 - Feb 2015

  Cloud Engineering Manager

  Lead of an 8-10 person agile development team. Product owner for the user facing Halfbrick Profile, developer dashboard and backend platform. Manager of the infrastructure, cost and maintenance of the Halfbrick servers and the privacy and security of user data. Created and supported the login, backend and social features for Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride, Fish Out of Water, Bears vs Art, Band Stars and Colossatron. Founding member of the Halfbrick Sydney Office.

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  Aginic

  Mar 2015 - Sept 2016

  Manager

  Provide agile analytics consulting and training for clients in health, transport, mining, marketing and aviation industries.• Meet clients and iterate over prototypes and requirements.• Train clients in the use of Qlik View and Qlik Sense• Agile project management and leadership. • Connect to various databases and retrieve data directly or via VPN. • ETL, Data modelling and optimization.• Use Excel, Qlikview and Qliksense to build dashboards. • Administer Qlik View and Qlik Sense ServersProvision, configure and maintain secure analytics as a cloud service.• Set up secure hosting of analytics platform for clients on AWS Windows Server instances. • Manage relationship with cloud providers. • System Administration and development of internal infrastructure on AWS. • Recommendations on security and privacy best practices and procedures. Show less

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  AginicX

  Feb 2016 - Mar 2019

  Founder & Managing Director

  AginicX is a studio specialising in rapid development of accessible tools to automate inefficient or manual business processes and to improve analytic decision-making by streamlining the collection of new kinds of data and connecting together existing data sources in new ways.At the core of our service offering is the ability to rapidly implement low cost web and mobile applications that can provide immediate business value. We offer application prototyping, development and quality assurance with authenticated data source integration.We’re focused on building solutions by connecting modern frameworks and hosted services that allow us to get to a functioning application in minimal time. We use cross-platform technologies to minimise the amount of time and expense spent on platform specific development. We can provide our applications as cloud hosted software as a service or we can use your internal hosting.We follow an agile approach to development. This means identifying and prototyping the core features of your product quickly so you can start using it and providing continuous feedback as the product develops. We build applications that solve many different business problems and also assist in business as usual processes. Show less

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  Lamington Games

  Nov 2016 - now

  Founder & Director

  Lamington Games is an Australian independent game studio. I've teamed up with David Kilford to make great games. Our games Words Collide and Super Drop Land are available on the App Store and on Google Play.

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  Aginic

  Apr 2019 - Aug 2021

  Director

  Director of Quality & CISO

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  Aginic Ventures

  Aug 2021 - Nov 2023

  Technical Director
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  Journey Into

  Nov 2021 - May 2023

  Non Executive Director
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  Mantel Group

  Dec 2023 - now

  Technical Director