Will Metcher
Personal Info
Website
https://will-metcher.github.io
GitHub
Stack Overflow
Languages
Key Strengths & Skills
Technical Skills
Skillful user of the entire Office 365 suite for over a decade.
Advanced technical writing skills.
Photo editing & graphic design, using Photoshop
Libraries, Frameworks, Engines & APIs
Node.js, p5.js, Discord.js, jQuery, Google Apps Script
Unity, GameMaker, Android Studio, WordPress
OAuth 2.0, Google Maps API
Soft Skills
Strong work ethic
Communication
Problem solving abilities
Patient and kind
Punctual
Conflict resolution
Qualifications
Queensland Certificate of Education
Blue card
Yellow card
Interests
Programming
Chess
Genealogy
Animals
Aspiring software developer with 7 years of programming experience. Experienced working with children through various programs. Currently reading for a Bachelor of Information Technology at RMIT.
Professional Experience
McDonalds
Crew member: September 2014 - February 2018 (3 years 6 months)
- Trained to work in the kitchen and experienced customer interaction & service.
- Collaboration with other crew members to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the kitchen, specifically in food preparation and kitchen maintenance.
CoderDojo
Volunteer Tutor: Term 2 & 3 2016 (6 months)
- Assisting in the operation of a ‘Dojo’ (Classroom).
- Helping children learn & understand new programming concepts and ideas, while refining and cultivating current ones. Mainly in Scratch, but also HTML and Alice.
- Assisted in demonstrations involving the deconstruction of a computer and the explanation of its components.
Chess Mates
Teacher: March 2018 - January 2020 (1 year 10 months)
- Conducting chess lessons for primary school children.
- Experience in behavior management, childcare and public speaking.
- Current Blue Card holder.
Senior Teacher: January 2020 - present
- Responsible for training new teachers.
- Writing curricular.
- Writing progress reports for children.
Also performed various tasks in addition to regular Senior Teacher responsibilities
- Working on the Kajabi online program site and content.
- Created graphics and thumbnails.
- Created end of section assessments.
Administration Officer: October 2021 - present
- Customer service
- Graphic Design
- Website maintenance
- Creating various APIs to make working with the third party backend easier
During COVID-19 quarantine, responsibilities shifted due to school closures.
- Calling schools regarding advertisements, organising meetings and such.
- Wrote a custom Python script to automatically delete invoices from Xero.
- Suggested and implemented a master spreadsheet, combining all the relevant information for each school.
- Added extra functionality to the sheet using Google script and forms created using HTML & CSS.
- Gathering leads.
- Created a python script to automatically text parents regarding absentees. Scrapes data from the site, then processes it and sends texts using Twilio.
Maths Tutor
Tutor: 2019 - present
- Helped various high school students with maths.
Digital Assist
Tech: December 2020 - present
Helped elderly people with technology both over the phone and in person.
- Helped with mainly computers, but also iPads and TVs.
- Researched, purchased and picked up PC peripherals for clients.
Education & Training
Brisbane Boys' College: 2008 - 2017
- Participated in various fundraising events, including Red Shield Appeal Door Knocking & 40 Hour Famine.
- Leadership training in 2015 for mentor position.
- ICDL Certificates in: IT Security, Online Collaboration and Word Processing
- Graduated in 2017.
TAFE Queensland: 2018
- Semester 1 Dip. Website Development
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology: (2018 - present)
- Bachaelor of Information Technology
- Minor in Internet Communication