David Brower Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, Gb

London, Gb

As Development Lead at Aon, reporting to the Web Development Manager, I lead the development of Aon's award-winning Tyche Pricing System (TPS) reinsurance product, managing a diverse and globally distributed team. Key accomplishments and responsibilities: • Being accountable for the overall delivery of the major releases and patches of the Tyche Pricing System • Functioning as technical product owner, collaborating with the product management team to ensure alignment between product vision and technical implementation, and ensuring that technical epics are appropriately prioritised • Managing time-sensitive production incidents, coordinating stakeholders and ensuring swift resolution and customer visibility • Engaging with senior stakeholders to convey project status, risks and timelines, enabling informed decision-making • Mentoring and supporting team members, cultivating professional growth and equipping them with the necessary skills and resources for success• Playing a key role in the hiring for Aon’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru, India and ensuring through coding interviews and competency interviews that technical hires align well with Aon’s culture and project requirements

As Head of Product Development at Civica, I oversaw the MultiVue product and the planned Master Data Management (MDM) cloud platform. Our products processed and integrated data from diverse sources, delivering an accurate, unified, and comprehensive view of customer data.My responsibilities included:• Managing the design, development, and testing of Civica's Probabilistic Record Linkage (PRL) products, ensuring optimal quality• Providing technical leadership for the continuous development, testing, support, and deployment of Civica's PRL products• Supporting, mentoring, and developing team members, ensuring they possess the necessary objectives, training, and skills• Contributing to the strategic business requirements outlined in Civica MDM's Business Plan for Development (BP4D)• Steering the technical strategic direction of the MultiVue platform, taking into account emerging and legacy technologies• Collaborating with senior leadership, sales, service delivery, support, bid management, and marketing teams to offer tender responses and support, guaranteeing transparent and effective market access for our solutions

In my role as Technical Project Lead for MultiVue, I not only led development on an enterprise-scale Master Data Management solution utilized by US/UK healthcare providers and local governments to deliver a comprehensive, accurate view of customer data, but also contributed hands-on to the development process.Key accomplishments and responsibilities:• Balanced hands-on development with team management, ensuring timely and efficient completion of project milestones• Enhanced project planning and release predictability by implementing Agile methodologies to monitor and manage the development workstream, while increasing visibility of unplanned work• Mentored the development team in software best practices, including code reviews and continuous integration (CI)• Established a company knowledge base using Stack Overflow for Teams, consolidating product knowledge into a centralized, searchable repository

London, England, Gb

As Team Leader for the Non-Domestic Renewable Heating Incentive online application, I played a crucial role in managing the portal for the UK Government scheme aimed at promoting renewable heating among businesses and non-profit organizations.Key accomplishments and responsibilities:• Oversaw the development and maintenance of the Non-Domestic Renewable Heating Incentive online application, ensuring its effectiveness and user-friendliness• Identified and raised awareness of critical technical debt issues within the UK Government online application, leading to the allocation of a budget to address these concerns• Implemented build and test automation, code reviews, work item tracking, and automated deployment, streamlining development processes and enhancing overall efficiency

Houston, Tx, Us

• Senior engineer in a team that researched, designed, and implemented the infrastructure for a microservices system, with my personal focus being on providing a platform for CQRS and event-sourcing. • Wrote an open-source ServiceStack plugin, which is available on Nuget, that enables ServiceStack services to publish and subscribe to Event Store event streams and populate read-models from selected event types. • Developed an event-sourced pricing service. This was written in F# • Maintained and enhanced the company's product catalogue website and image management application. Tools Used: C#, F#, ServiceStack, WebAPI/ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server 2014, Oracle 11g, RavenDB (2.5), Cake Build, Octopus Deploy

Bethesda, Md, Us

• Technical lead and architect of an R & D project working on Lockheed Martin's next generation Airport Operational System.• Technical project lead and solutions architect for a mobile phone app for assisting Passengers with Reduced Mobility which was developed as part of the bid process for a contract from a national European aviation authority. This was an Android phone app developed with Angular (1.3) and the Ionic Framework with Web API services and a RavenDB (3.0) database. • Assisted in the full-stack development of an online training and competency assurance application for National Air Traffic Services (NATS). This was a Single Page Application (SPA) written in AngularJS/HTML5. • Mentored and supported junior developers in implementing technical solutions and in software best practices as well as fulfilling line management duties. Tools Used: C#, AngularJS (1.3), HTML5, WebAPI, Entity Framework (Code First), SQL Server 2012, NServiceBus

London, England, Gb

• Key member of an in-house team that designed, developed, and supported an object-oriented rich-client software application on the Microsoft stack that, among other things, enables Coats dyehouses to process and track over 5 million customer orders annually and accurately predict dyeing recipes using colour physics theory. This system is regarded as being core to Coats’ competitive advantage.• Introduced the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) design pattern as the basis for all development using WPF as well as introducing the factory and repository patterns into an existing legacy codebase to facilitate loose-coupling and testability. • Implemented a Windows Service system that maintains the real-time synchronisation of order, recipe, and consumption data between the Coats’ propriety system and its SAP R/3 ERP system. • Proposed and designed a program to create local ‘power users’ at each Coats dyehouse to promote best practice, to provide a first line of response for troubleshooting, and to deliver continuous training in Coats’ software to other dyehouse users.• Developed and delivered training in Coats’ software to end-users around the world as well as providing training to power users on troubleshooting techniques and on how to train other users.Tools Used: Visual Basic.NET, C#, WPF/XAML, MS SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, Web Services, Subversion.

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

• Developed and supported www.visitscotland.com, the website of the Scottish Tourist Board.• Designed and developed an ASP 2.0 application to enable internal data logging. Tools used: Visual InterDev 6.0, ASP 2.0, TOAD for Oracle, and Visual Source Safe.

Paisley, Gb

• Developed, tested and supported both web-based and rich-client applications for a variety of customers ranging from McCurrach’s (business intelligence) to Howden (industrial fan manufacturer). Tools Used: Visual InterDev 6.0, Visual Basic 6.0, ASP 2.0, SQL Server 7.0, IIS, Visual Source Safe, and Active Reports.

Master'S Degree, English Language And Literature, General

Postgraduate Diploma, Information Technology With Software Development (Distinction)

Took Individual Modules Of Study, Translation And Simultaneous Interpretation