David Rowe

Current

Director at Pavla Limited

Past

Solutions Architect at Percussion Software
Development Team Lead at Lloyds TSB
Senior Consultant at Andersen Digital Solutions

Senior Consultant at Xpedior
Technical Consultant at Oracle
Consultant at Speedwing Logica

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Education

Oxford Brookes University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

David Rowe’s Summary

David Rowe is a senior technical consultant and team leader with over fourteen years of experience who has worked in a number of major global organisations since graduating with a 1st Class Honours degree in Computing in 1995.

David Rowe’s Specialties:

During his working career, David has undertaken a wide range of assignments in the public and private sectors, the UK and abroad, specialising in Internet and intranet applications, more recently with an emphasis on Content Management Systems (CMS). With excellent customer facing skills and attention to detail, he is able to understand client/business requirements and effectively design, document and deliver successful technical solutions.

David Rowe’s Experience

Director

Pavla Limited

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

CMS consultancy and internet design, development and support.
Solutions Architect

Percussion Software

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

September 2003 — January 2009 (5 years 5 months)

Working directly with European customers including law firms, banks, museums and universities, managed the requirements gathering, data modelling, content design, system architecture and implementation based on the Percussion Rhythmyx Content Management System (CMS) platform.

Designed and developed custom Java components to extend the base functionality of Percussion Rhythmyx to solve complex customer requirements.

Worked closely with clients to design and implement multilingual websites and strong integration with front end systems including fully database driven front-ends and e-commerce integration.

Provided business user product training both in pre and post sales environments.
Development Team Lead

Lloyds TSB

(Banking industry)

September 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Led a team of Lloyds TSB internal staff through the development and implementation of the new customer facing business web site built on a Java JSP/Struts based BroadVision Portal platform. This involved working closely with external suppliers and services companies together with mentoring internal staff who were new to the technology.
Senior Consultant

Andersen Digital Solutions

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Building Materials industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

When Xpedior closed, the UK office was bought by Arthur Andersen and was renamed Andersen Digital Solutions. Continued working with the same technologies - Java, WAPTV, BroadVision.
Senior Consultant

Xpedior

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

2000 — 2002 (2 years )

Analysis, design and implementation of technical Internet based solutions for a variety of international customers. Technologies included Java, Oracle, ATG Dynamo and WML WAPTV development.
Technical Consultant

Oracle

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 2000 (4 years )

Technical Consultant developing mostly using web technologies (Oracle WebDB/Portal, Oracle Application Server) with some Oracle Forms and Reports thrown in for fun.
Consultant

Speedwing Logica

(Computer Software industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year )

Development in the C programming language on the British Airways IBM mainframe computer as part of a redevelopment of their passenger revenue accounting system.