Brian Bird Email & Phone Number

Shannon, County Clare, Ireland

Senior Software engineer acting as Agile Product Owner developing a new vehicle wide ECU lifecycle (power) management solution - both the architecture and the implementation.The work involves liaising with vehicle feature teams at both high (functional requirement) and low (ECU implementation) levels to ensure our Vehicle Lifecycle Controller is architecturally flexible enough to encompass all ECUs in our vehicles, but also configurable enough to cater for the vagaries of specific ECUs and their hosted features.From these discussions my team formulated a design which I approved. Based on our team resources, along with the delivery schedules for the vehicle ECUs (both the hardware and the feature software), I as the PO determined, then managed, the feature release delivery plan for our product.

Gaydon, Warkwickshire, Great Britain

Software engineer supporting third-party software used in a new Vehicle Domain Controller for a new product line.JLR design and manufacture automobiles. Traditionally they outsourced software development to tier one suppliers (Bosch, etc), but with the realisation that future profit will come from software (and levering metrics from it), JLR has expanded its in-house software development & test.Am responsible for supporting a third-party middleware that enables silo’ed JLR applications (running in multiple VM’s within a single EDCU) to communicate with each other using a service oriented architecture.The work involves liaising with the various application teams (both local and remote) to a) help them understand the middleware and how best use it, b) assist with implementation issues, c) work with the test teams to understand bugs and possible causes, d) liaise with the third party company to explain issues and discuss solutions and release schedules, and e) manage the release processes, both from the third party, and into the VDC product.This requires a lot of communication to keep all parties updated, especially with fix and release dates. Worked with SDLC team to create VM’s in GCP to assist s/w development in a linux environment for engineers using Windows PC’s. This involved setting up access rights across multiple domains (for GIT & Artifactory).

Gaydon, Warkwickshire, Great Britain

Support and development of a service oriented architecture across the next generation of vehicle architecture.

Newbury, Berkshire. Rg14 2Pz. Uk

Team lead responsible for the technical support and development of 'legacy' customer products. That is, middleware, database and reporting systems using jboss & tomcat containers and MS SQL databases. Our product is used by delivery/repair companies to manage their mobile workers daily itineraries.My team also supports Transport for London, and gives them two systems. One to manage their bus operations, the other to manage their bus & train enforcement (prosecutions, etc).

Bracknell, United Kingdom

In charge of application development for our Android based smartphones, and iOS devices.Line Manager for 6 - 10 software engineers.Liaised with Operators to prioritorise their requirements and ‘must have’ features in order to create the stories that defined this work. Product Owner (and sometimes Scrum Master) for these projects.

Bracknell, United Kingdom

European liaison manager to Vodafone Global UE (User Experience or look/feel-UI) team based in Germany and to our Japanese based planning team.Responsible for a team of 8 engineers working on featurephone development for Vodafone (approximately 25% of my time was hands on development – C/C++).

Bracknell, United Kingdom

Worked on featurephone development (C based) for our European products.

Heathrow, London

Provided airlines with systems to analyse the data from their flight recorders.Developed a PC based analysis system, storing all the data in an SQL database. Responsible for the End User Apps to retrieve data and display trends in it. Supported our original system (CORAL-66 on MicroVAX) to provide new analysis packages (e.g. AutoLand).

Frimley

Developed training software (FORTRAN) for a battlefield communications system for the British Army’s artillery regiments.

Ealing, London

AGB was a large market research company providing the UK with its TV viewing figuresResponsible for development of real-time embedded software (assembler/C) for monitoring TV viewing.Developed a PC based system (C) to automatically collect the TV viewing data from the home.

Hayes, London

Member of the Electronic Warfare Group developing multiprocessor (Motorola 68020) based hardware and real-time embedded software to identify radar signatures.Seconded to the Royal Signals & Radar Establishment (RSRE) for one year to help develop ISAR.

Crewe, United Kingdom

Sponsored thick sandwich course student though universityWas the only electric/electronic student taken on (the other 9 were all mechanical engineering students)