Lee Butts

Current

Director/Consultant at Refactor Pty Ltd
Plugin Developer at Grails Open Source Project

Past

Contractor at Suncorp
Consultant at ASERT
Contractor at Suncorp

Developer at Golden Orb Technologies
Software Developer at Mobile Data Unit - Queensland Transport

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Education

University of Canterbury
Burnside High School

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Lee Butts’s Summary

10 years industry experience, most recently working on agile projects and really enjoying the environment and the professional growth it has encouraged. Strong Java and Groovy skills. I am a committer on the Grails project, an open souce, rapid web application development framework.

I am a strong believer in automated testing and the high level of quality it creates. I also am passionate about agile development due to the close connection between developers and customers and the fun, productive atmosphere it encourages.

Lee Butts’s Specialties:

Agile development, java, groovy, grails, hibernate, spring, test driven development, ruby on rails, python, web frameworks, eclipse plugins, pair programming, web services, enterprise templating and printing systems, open source software

Lee Butts’s Experience

Director/Consultant

Refactor Pty Ltd

(Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Plugin Developer

Grails Open Source Project

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Occasional core committer on the Grails project since June 2007.

Maintainer of the WebTest and Amazon S3 plugins.
Contractor

Suncorp

(Public Company; Financial Services industry)

December 2008 — March 2009 (4 months)

Worked as a Java developer on the Treasury System Replacement project, integrating Reuters Kondor Kplus and KplusTP products.
Consultant

ASERT

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 10 months)
Contractor

Suncorp

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

June 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Developer

Golden Orb Technologies

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2006 (2 years )
Software Developer

Mobile Data Unit - Queensland Transport

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year )

Lee Butts’s Education

University of Canterbury

Batchelor of Science with Honours , Computer Science , 1999 — 2001

Honours research paper: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=563993
Burnside High School