David Marek Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, GB

• Accomplishments
• Pro-actively performed the secretary role for the Group Architecture Board, responsible for ensuring meeting content was relevant and appropriate, including initiation of Group Architecture Board sponsored activities.
• Led the architecture work for the workforce enablement project, creating high level vision and architecture to define a modern workplace for greater mobility and collaboration.
• Led and coordinated work to support the Director of Technology Strategy… Show more Accomplishments
• Led and coordinated work to support the Director of Technology Strategy to create organisation wide IT obsolescence and risk papers.
• Contributed to central technology architecture function definition, setup and operating model.

• Accomplishments
• Led Standard Life’s technical community. Initiated and chaired ‘Show and Tell’ and ‘Deep Dive’ sessions across the IT division, with internal and external presenters. These created an engaging community which resulted.
• Collaborated and worked closely with IBM and operational architects to establish the future state of test environments. Led the work to determine… Show more Accomplishments
• Collaborated and worked closely with IBM and operational architects to establish the future state of test environments. Led the work to determine business and IT requirements, designed optimal solution to suit overall.
• Led the test data management initiative. Defined target state and processes to ensure that obfuscated test data was used in the non-production environments, and worked with IBM to produce a business case for the.
• Managed designers and developers working on infrastructure and environmental improvements. Used agile techniques to ensure that the highest business benefit changes were targeted.

• Lead Architect / Developer responsible for software development across the Commission, Quotes and Statements business areas. Final decision maker for software design and technical architecture of these systems. Worked.
• Established offshore team to work in the quotes area, ensuring standards and knowledge were transferred. Defined best practice for working with the offshore company, using innovative communication methods and.
• Selected to be part of a team of three people on a two-week exercise to India to evaluate four offshore software development suppliers for Standard Life.
• Established consistency in design patters used for solutions across the different teams in the area, as well as ensuring software governance for solutions delivered. Encouraged collaboration across development area.
• Designed and implemented a C# solution to mainframe COBOL generation for document composition programs. The solution saved 80% of development time by automatically creating the routines in a fraction of the time it.
• Initiated and lead the ‘Agile on the Mainframe’ initiative, to improve development tooling and practices to support mainframe developments.

Starting as a Graduate Trainee developer then quickly progressed through the grades with a strong appetite to learn, contribute to, and lead projects.

Bsc (Hons), Mathematics

Mathematics