Christchurch, New Zealand-https://www.john-daniel-bell.com/
JOHN DANIEL BELL
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Vision-driven change agent with career-long record of computer vision engineering, technology development,
and web application innovation success for leading organisations
Proven talent for aligning business strategy and objectives with established computer vision engineering and
web development paradigms to achieve maximum operational impacts with minimum resource expenditures.
Growth-focused thought leader with expertise spanning tool design, machine learning, DevOps, systems
integration, new technology development, data collection & analysis, augmented reality development,
application development, Agile development process, cross-functional team leadership, performance
assessment, and project management. Exceptionally dedicated engineer with keen interpersonal,
communication, and organisational skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BLUE HERON JETS, WYOMING, U.S.A., JULY 2017 TO PRESENT
Blue Heron Jets is a new startup looking to disrupt the travel industry.
LEAD BACKEND DEVELOPER
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Design and program the company’s core platform and create a development ecosystem for moving
forward into an incredibly competitive market.
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Utilise MVC5 .NET for web application development and streamline API web service integration.
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Unify software development and operations by employing CI, Unit Testing, and AWS.
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Oversee all back-end operations including coding, unit testing and deployment.
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AWS continuous integration and DevOp processes.
ARTOOLKIT, CHRISTCHURCH/SHANGHAI, NEW ZEALAND/CHINA, JANUARY 2016 TO PRESENT
"The world's most widely used tracking library for augmented reality,"the open source AR SDK ARToolkit.org.
COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER
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Supervise Computer Vision and Augmented Reality Engineering utilising C++ / C# / Objective-C / Java /
Javascript.
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Drive Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Unity development.
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Build effectively with Open Source development practices.
HARCOURTS, CHRISTCHURCH, CANTERBURY, JULY 2015 TO DECEMBER 2016
WEB DEVELOPMENT BACK-END ENGINEER
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Contributed to a development team operating with Agile Scrum.
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Researched and integrated modern web development technologies such as MVC4 .NET; Jquery and
AngularJS frameworks; Git, Git Extensions and Github.
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Conducted continuous integration with Team City/Octopus Deploy.
Tourplan, Christchurch, Canterbury, April 2013 to July 2015
The world's leader in inbound tourism software.
WEB DEVELOPER BACK-END ENGINEER
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Ideated and built new applications in an ever growing and changing international market utilizing
Asp .NET web applications; WCF web service applications; and SQL with Microsoft SQL Server.
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Administer continuous integration with Jenkins.
JOHN BELL
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EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS
MASTER OF SCIENCE (M.SC.) IN BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM BIOLOGY, 2003
The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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During this master's degree, I became more familiar with applied information sciences and learned the
power of multi-core machines on large generative data simulation applications.
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Relevant Courses: Systems Analysis and Bioinformatics; Graph Theory and Network Analysis; Matlab,
Python, Java projects; Cytoscape, BLAST and sequence analysis
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.SC.) IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, 2002
The University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
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My undergraduate studies were very experimental and hands on. Learning about neuroscience and the
human nervous systems has started me on a path to learn and investigate the applications of artificial
intelligence
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages: English, Spanish.
Technical Proficiencies: OpenCV and ARToolkit, C++, C#, Python, .NET, MVC, ASP, DevOps, Version Control,
CI, AWS/Azure hosting, Agile development processes
Hobbies: Personal fitness, music (guitar) and crafts (constructing robots & furniture), literature, film, current
events
References:
Philip Lamb – Employer/Supervisor at ARToolkit-Gavin Nathan – CEO Blue Heron Jets-Rob Burling – Colleague-
