Khamsouk Souvanlasy

Current

• Senior Ruby Developer at iProperty
• Lead Programmer (Self-employed)

Past

• Senior Manager, Applications Group at GulfNet Communications, Japan
• Systems Integration Consultant at Novell
• Senior Developer at Cambridge Technology Partners

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Education

• University of Melbourne

Connections

27 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Summary

A Software Engineer with over 10 years experience in Australia, Japan and the USA developing custom web and desktop applications such as property management, content management systems, groupware, forums, instant messaging and ordering systems.

A strong focus on meeting customer needs drives him to focus on usability and continually streamlining the development process.

Responsibilities have included leading projects, architecting systems, restructuring teams, and defining development methodologies.

Looking for contractor work or projects in the areas of Ruby on Rails, AJAX and Java technologies, Internet/Intranet, mobile phone or distributed applications.

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Specialties:

Programming in Merb, Ruby on Rails, AJAX,
Java (JSP, Servlets, Struts, JDO, JXTA, Swing),
Objective-C, C/C++, C#/.NET,
object-oriented design and development using UML,
distributed applications, Internet/Intranet applications, online communities, directory services.

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Experience

• Senior Ruby Developer

  iProperty

  (Internet industry)

  March 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

• Lead Programmer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

  Freelancer/Contractor developing standards based custom web applications.
  
  Interested in consulting and development work, or working with other entrepreneurs in a joint venture fashion, providing our technical services in exchange for a stake in the startup.
  
  Projects :
  - drinkmaven.com - cocktail recipe sharing community website with social networking features
  - AJAX/Ruby on Rails powered community forum, blogs, Email/SMS integration, and Google Maps integration.

• Senior Manager, Applications Group

  GulfNet Communications, Japan

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2002 — April 2006 (4 years 1 month)

  Lead developer/architect of the Applications Group building web and desktop software for the Japanese market.
  
  Projects:
  - Custom Intranet Groupware (web mail, forum, online file manager)
  - P2P distributed instant Messaging Server and Client
  - IE based tabbed and customisable Web Browser
  - Skylark food order system server and client, running at over 900 stores in Japan

• Systems Integration Consultant

  Novell

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NOVL; Internet industry)

  December 1997 — April 2002 (4 years 5 months)

  Technical Lead for the development of web applications using Java application servers, relational databases and search engines.
  Mentor and career coach to junior developers.
  
  Projects:
  - Australian Yellow and White Pages Online
  - University Portal

• Senior Developer

  Cambridge Technology Partners

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  1998 — 2001 (3 years)

  Design and development of several web applications.
  
  Projects:
  - Australian Yellow and White Pages Online
  - Call center implementation
  - Telstra B2B Extranet
  - Time tracking system

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Education

• University of Melbourne

  Bachelor of Engineering , Software , 1994 — 1997

Additional Information

Khamsouk Souvanlasy’s Websites:

• My Company

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