David Braun Email & Phone Number

San Diego, Ca, Us

Responsible for leading the Digital Transformation, Architectural Modernization, and AWS Cloud Migration of SaaS-based Wealth Management Business Solutions enabling Financial Advisors to better serve their Investor Clients. Delivering new products, features, and increasing the scalability of the platform has resulted in exponential growth and has accelerated LPL Financials into one of the fastest growing Wealth Management firms in the US with over $1.4 trillion in Assists Under Management (AUM).• Leader of multiple cross-functional teams responsible for the development and execution of integrated product and technology roadmaps to support the growth and increased scale of users, transactions, and data while improving operational efficiency and user experiences.• Delivered a suite of digital products and automated processes to facilitate Advisor Practice transitions to LPL Financials’ Platform. These products focus on reducing the effort and time required by Advisors and LPL staff to perform reviews, transition accounts, and ensure regulatory compliance while improving the overall Advisor and Investor customer experience. • Championed and drove adoption of modern Technology architectural patterns and techniques including AWS Cloud Architecture, Microservices, Micro Frontend (MFE), and Scaled Agile Practices (SAFe) empowering teams to deliver new product features to Advisors faster.• Managed all aspects of the Advisor Transitions Digital Transformation program including Budgets, Vendor Management, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Reporting, Compliance, Security, Production Operations, and Talent Management.

Roseland, New Jersey, Us

Senior Technology Leader of the ADP Marketplace Platform and Digital Storefront teams responsible for building and growing the tools and capabilities needed to enable a strong partnership-centric Client Human Capital Management (HCM) ecosystem of integrated products. ADP Marketplace is an API and Integration SaaS Platform that allows 3rd party partners to build, integrate, and sell their products directly to ADP customers.• Direct the Research and Development Engineering teams building new product features supporting ADP Marketplace growth and enabling new revenue streams through 3rd party partner integrations and sales. • Revenue from the ADP Marketplace and API traffic have doubled YoY for the 3 years since 2019 demonstrating the potential of the Marketplace Platform to become a billion-dollar business for ADP.• Delivering Digital Solutions enabling ADP and partner products to be subscribed, activated, and billed digitally through integration with the ADP Marketplace platform streamlining the sales process and improving the customer experience.• Creation of the ADP Marketplace Digital App Store (apps.adp.com) and ADP Product Integrated App Store sales channels which allow clients to try and buy new HCM products and manage their data.• Responsible for SaaS Platform operations serving over 1 billion API calls per year while ensuring security, scalability, and resilience.

Blockchain and AI experiments to create predictive algorithms for market analytics.Ceded Reinsurance (Beta US Only):Proactive automated identification of cedant Catastrophe and Treaty Reinsurance claims and recovery projections.Blockvix Orientation Indicators:Blockvix Orientation Indicators look at the really big picture and provide short and medium term projections combined with clear buy/sell signals for frequent trading/rebalancing within well defined confidence bands. Equity Markets:Volitility Orientation IndicatorInterest Rate Orientation IndicatorConsumer Orientation Indicator (US Only)Cyclical Orientation IndicatorCrypto/Fiat Currency Markets:Volitity Orientation IndicatorFlow Orientation IndicatorInterest Rate Indicator (Fiat Only)Catastrophic Risk (US Only):Hurricane Exposure IndicatorWind Exposure IndicatorFlood Exposure IndicatorEarthquake Exposure Indicator

Thames Ditton, Surrey, Gb

Reporting to the CTO, Head of Software Engineering, Data Analytics, and Technology Operations for SHL’s Talent Assessment SaaS products generating over $200 million in revenue annually. Leader of a team of 75 product managers, architects, and engineers working together to create new products and services. • Accelerated product growth by overhauling the existing Aglie methodology, implementing DevOps, and Test Automation which significantly improved velocity and software quality leading to increased customer retention and sales growth. • Transformed Product Architecture to take advantage of modern Architectural designs and techniques modernizing the platform, increasing scalability, and improving the end user experience. Transitioned from an on-premises monolithic Java and .NET platform to a platform built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microservice APIs, and Open Source UI Frameworks. • Overhauled SHL’s data assets transforming static data into compelling products utilizing Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Data Analytics technologies. Customer satisfaction with the quality of these data products is credited as the number one factor driving retention and contract renewal. • Expanded market reach by providing external Integration APIs allowing partner Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to offer SHL Talent Assessments directly through their platforms. The ATS partner channel contributes to over 70% of the delivered assessment volume and allows ATS customers to easily become SHL customers.• Hands-on Technology spokesperson working directly with customers responding to RFPs, completing Architecture and Security reviews, and closing large deals typically over $5 million. • Directed and inspired Engineers to engage with the Business to create strong and knowledgeable cross-functional teams with a shared vision. Recognized as an excellent manager and coach through the annual Manager Excellence Survey three consecutive years in a row.

Pembroke, Hm, Bm

• Reporting to the CTO, served as Head of the Technology Management Office responsible for providing all IT Application Maintenance and Development (ADM) Services and Business Intelligence solutions to the Insurance, Reinsurance, Accident and Health, Finance, and Corporate business segments • Responsible for all aspects of the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and the SDLC processes including Governance, Metrics, and Standards • Managed a 200+ member technology team supporting 150+ internally developed, COTS, and SaaS based applications used by the AXIS business community and customers • Lead the initiative to develop the AXIS i.4 Enterprise Technology Architecture and establishment of the Enterprise Architecture group and governance processes • Worked in collaboration with the business segment CIOs and the corporate CTO to develop strategic technology roadmaps to improve foundational technology offerings and new solutions aligned with the business strategy • Implemented strategic initiatives to automate and optimize business processes and functions increasing operational and organizational efficiency significantly reducing operational costs• Lead the design and implementation of AXIS’ Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to facilitate application integration and automation of business processes. Moved the enterprise from a monolithic approach to application architecture to an agile service-based architecture that allows services to act as reusable components enabling IT to quickly build applications or processes by orchestrating the interaction between multiple services• Improved overall code quality and reduced QA testing costs by introducing Test Driven Development (TDD) and Coded User Interfaces to the development process to create automated Unit Tests to be executed prior to delivery to QA. Using this approach, QA testing metrics showed first pass defect rates and retest failure rates improved dramatically

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Responsible for leading the design and development of large scale Enterprise Integration and Ecommerce Applications • Managed and lead software development teams though project life-cycles insuring that project goals were met and following the software development process• Analyzed requirements and business needs to align the design of development projects and to provide clear communications to project stakeholders• Identified areas of process improvement and implement changes that increased project performance• Enhanced, maintained, and performed troubleshooting of existing enterprise applications to ensure security, performance, and reliability• Lead a large project team to develop a new Online Ordering Application to sell bundled Cox products and services for www.cox.com The application was based on a new product catalog that allows for dynamic presentation of offers based on customer information such as geographic location, existing, and available services. This application has made the ordering process smoother and easier by presenting customers with specific offers based on their needs. In the first year, online sales increased by over 300% • Designed a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to extend the reach and increase the reuse of existing business components. Implementing a Service Oriented Architecture increased the ROI of new and existing development projects by allowing applications to quickly consume and reuse common data and business processes. The Web Services exposed by the Enterprise Service Bus are used to decrease time to market for several types of customer facing applications including Web, IVR, and Interactive Television applications

Bs, Computer Science

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