Gary Brown Email & Phone Number

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Accountable for the technical design of the first initial digital transformation projects within the NHS BSA adhering to NCSC security best practices and accessibility WCAG 2.1 AA legal requirement for all Gov/NHS services; Maternity Exemptions (private beta phase), Prepayment Prescription Exemptions, Low Income Scheme, Am I Exempt exemption checking, Real Time Exemption Checking, Immigration Health Surcharge Reimbursement. Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Git, Maven, NPM, PostgreSQL, Oracle RDBMS, DynamoDB, Docker, AWS ECS on Fargate, AWS CloudWatch, AWS API Gateway, AWS Lambda, AWS RDS, AWS Aurora, LogStash, Kabana, DataDog, AWS Config, AWS Security Hub, AWS and Azure cloud platforms, Microservice and Event Driven architectures.Engage with business and technical stakeholders of various levels to gain buy-in of solution designs.Lead the migration of the UK Overseas Health Service from DWP (on-premises) into the NHS BSA as an AWS cloud solution under 3 months for business continuity and upgrading end of life Oracle 9 RDBMS and .NET applications.Setup and co-lead the Technical Working Group (TWG) community reviewing designs and discussing ways of working. TWG feeds into the Design Authority simplifying and improving the process for standards ratification within the NHS BSA.Setup and collaborate on standardised pipelines using Gitlab CI, Terraform, and Ansible.Act as a mentor to contractor, junior architects, and new starters encouraging a knowledge sharing culture.Expert in Agile scrum methodology supporting and leading teams to work effectively and regularly challenge and review ways of working. Proficient with Jira and leading agile teams.I am a Government and NHS technical service assessor having assessed internal and external digital deliveries against the Gov/NHS Service manual.

Supporting the NHS Prescription Exemption systems which are Prepayment Certificates, Medical Exemption Certificates, Maternal Exemption Certificates, and Tax Credits. Also, the team supports the NHS Asylum Seekers database, Low Income Scheme exemptions and the new European Health Insurance card system (aka E111). 5+ years experience in the setup and support of the payment systems which includes card payments and Direct Debits.In 2010 & 2011 I worked with an external company - Kainos based in Belfast to develop the NHS Student Bursaries system (also known as BOSS) using .NET technologies. I configured and supported the development/test environments on the Newcastle site on top of my development tasks.My current role since mid-2011 has been to work on NHS Pensions which is based in Fleetwood. * I am the technical and delivery lead for 2 Pensions projects (Valuation / Annual Allowance). * Currently work with a small number of external contractors who have zero knowledge of NHS Pensions and the calculations involved. * Document technical specifications and explain the business rules associated with the components to the external contractor(s).* Provide quality assurance on the work being completed by the external contractors.Some of my technical skills in this role have involved:* Oracle databases* PL/SQL* MS SQL Server 2005 / 2008* Java (J2SE and J2EE)* Spring framework* .NET C# and ASP.NET* Powershell* Visual Basic* ANT / MSBuild* CruiseControl* CVS / SVN / PVCS Dimensions* Virtualisation (VMWare / VirtualBox)* SSL certificates (generating and configuration, internal/external sites, BACS)* DNS* Unix / Linux* Ruby and PythonI also have skills in:* Development/task planning* Unit and performance testing* Liaising and working with external/partner organisations* Infrastructure configuration (Microsoft)* Networking

Provided 24/7 on-call support for clients and hosting of their web sites.Built and maintained MS IIS and Linux Apache web servers, Oracle RDBMS, and MS SQL.

Develop and maintain applications for the sales of pre-payment prescription certificates handling 1000+ sales per day, Develop report solutions for pre-payment sales using Oracle and Actuate. Maintain pharmaceutical database application PART VIII holding 20,000+ various prescription drugs and equipment used for Hospitals and GPs.

Maintain computer/network hardware. Distribute software applications to computers. Expand network to cover the entire school campus using wired/wireless technologies. Develop a web presence. Act as a technical consultant to other team members.

Set up equipment for sessions such as Presentation white board and projector. Install software for teaching tools. Help families learn about computers. Assist other team members with hardware/software. Develop familyelearning.org web site (June 2000 - Sept 2000).